How do you transport your Moose meat home from the hunt ....?
How do you transport your Moose meat home from the hunt ....?
Cut, wrapped and fast frozen, in coolers. Two day trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfoldivandor
It depends a lot on the temperature,how far away your hunting area is from home and the butcher shop. If you're within a couple of hours,field dress it,load it in a truck or trailer and make a bee line for the cooler keeping the meat loosely covered to facilitate ventilation and keep it clean. If you're a long way from home,contact a local butcher and have it cut,wrapped and frozen and load it in coolers for the trip home. My friends who hunt north of Smooth Rock Falls take a trailer rigged with a large chest freezer and a generator. They quarter the meat,pack it in cheese cloth and burlap,fire up the gennie to make the 14hr trip home.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfoldivandor
There are a lot of variables involved and there's more than one answer. In my situations, the weather was always cold enough in October to hang the moose right at our camp for a few days, then quarter and throw it in the back of a pick-up and bring it home to process. Depends how far a drive, and how warm/cool the weather is.
One thing I will suggest if you plan to have a butcher do it, is making arrangements prior to showing up at his door.
Someone told me their group put a large chest freezer on the same trailer they haul their atvs and power it with a portable generator and you can sometime find those free or next to nothing on kijiji or FB marketplace.
I have made a waterproof bag to carry back my tag to make soup.
I bought a used 5ft freezer put in back of truck. We had access to hydro so plugged in freezer in barn for the week. we got a calf and several deer while we were there. cut them up and put in freezer. Last deer we got was shot the last morning, butchered that night and put in freezer, it wasn't quite frozen in morning, but close. Locked freezer for the 2 day trip home. All was frozen when we got back. Still use freezer at home for all my meat,
Don’t forget some duct tape in case the bag tears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ata83
Friends of mine use a trailer with a built in refrigeration unit. Nifty design. It has racks bolted at the top for hanging the quarters and tie down hooks at the bottom to secure them so they don’t swing wildly.
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Originally Posted by Ata83