I' m looking for suggestions on how best to keep your kill when your on a 5 day hunt in the back country and you get the big one on the first day. All I have available are coolers and ice. My butcher says storing meat in a plastic bag for a long period is not a good idea. Any seggestions?

Need a bit more info, when and where is this 5 day hunt?

Tazman,
I' m talking early season in West VA. The cabin we stay in dosent have a frig or freezer but we can make a run to town every few days for ice.

Well I have never been in that spot, but if you hung it in the coolest spot you can find, and wrap it in some insulating material and kept the body cavity full of ice that might work. I was hoping some one from the warmer climes on the board may have some experience with this and tell you what to do. Another suggestion would be to see if the gracery store in town may let you hang it in their meeat locker for a fee.

Skin and quarter it - put it into coolers with ice on bottom and plastic seperating meat

Ditto what Rack said, you will want to turn it a couple times a day so the same side is not on the plastic the entire time.

Just don' t let the meat sit in the water, maybe keep the drain plug open a turn or two.

if the town is big enough i would try some dry ice that is if you are quartering them up.. i had my bear in dry ice and it will last three days with a good cooleer

The dry ice is good, real good as long as it has something between it and the meat. It is pricey, but it will last a long time if you don' t open the cooler. Also, de-bone the meat, bones hold heat longer and take up space in the cooler.

I quarter mine and throw it on ice here in SC. After a couple days, I' ll cut it up and wrap it. I' d rather have a fride/cooler though. That way the fat and silver stuff hardens and is easily trimmed off before freezing. But hey, you gotta do what you have to work with.