Hunting & Fishing Shipping meat cross country

[Bob Shaver]

Little brother and family flew in for Thanksgiving and Illinois opening slug gun deer season.

He dropped a doe and the meat locker just called to say that they were done processing his order. Of course they called the day after he and his family flew back to Colorado.

I picked up his meat today and dropped it in my deep freeze. I was just curious if anybody had any suggestions on the best way to ship it out to him? I'm not sure that UPS will just let me write his name on a cooler, duct tape it shut and send it out so any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[HOGGHEAD]

Re: Shipping meat cross country

Layer it with dry ice. Put it all in a very large bag and use a vacuum cleaner to suck out all the air once you layer it with dry ice. Pack it with newspaper both under and on top of the bag that is layered with meat and dry ice(or packing peanuts). You do not want air to get to the dry ice. That makes it last longer with no air. Tape the cooler good and shut so no air gets in or out. That will last close to 3 days in a good quality cooler. However just for that small amount of deer meat it probably would not be worth it. Dry ice is expensive. You can get it at WalMart. Last time I bought it, it was over $1,00 a pound.

UPS will take it. But I prefer FedEx. I find them to be a bit cheapear. We have done several elk in this manner. But my buddy went on the net and found a trucker doing a dead head through PA. My buddies wife went to Pitsburgh and picked it up. We are talking several hundred pounds of meat though. We did that a few times. No trucker will step over a couple of hundred dollars. Whether he is dead heading or not. I am just thankful we found honest ones. They could have easily driven away with our meat. Tom.

 

[Bob Shaver]

Re: Shipping meat cross country

Many thanks Hogghead. I just wasn't sure if I could slap a label on a cooler and ship it that way or of I'd have to find a box to drop the cooler in?

I also didn't know I could find dry ice at Wal-Mart. Nobody could think of a place to find any. Thanks again.

 

[patriotoutlaw]

Re: Shipping meat cross country

There may be laws prohibiting the shipping of cervid's, whole or in pcs., from state to state. There is a new law in Missouri pertaining to just that because of the CWD scare...I don't know, but you may look into it 1st.