1200 mileshow far?
Or take another vacation/trip to pick it up and bring it home. I’m sure you can find something to do along the way. Fish, scout for next year, sight see and enjoy the trip.When you get into two day delivery it gets expensive. Probably $8 to $10 per pound.
It would be a lot cheaper if you wanted to risk UPS ground. But there is a risk it would thaw out and spoil.
Donate the elk and buy beef.
Haha nope, just thinking about future possible situations. At this point I have no intention of having to ship one home but thought I'd try to get the information to insure best planning.Is the elk dead already or are you planning ahead, in the event you kill one.
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Thanks for all your suggestions.
I've brought many animals home in coolers with dry ice and never had a problem. Usually I just bone it out and drive it home. The times that I had shipped before was once when I flew to hunt destination and the other was when I had another place to visit before going home a week later. Actually that was 10+ years ago now that I think about it and the cost wasn't so bad.
Sounds like shipping is not a reasonable option anymore.
Now you guys know what paying California prices are like. ???Nothing Is Reasonable anymore!
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Great system.DanMan if you are driving to your hunt location, build a cooler box to transport the meat those 1200 miles. I built a box that was 4 ft. wide and 7 ft. long and 24 inches high out of 3/8 plywood. Perfect fit in my truck bed. I lined the box with foam boards that have the alum. sheathing cover on both sides. Use the foam on the box bottom, sides, and lid. load the meat in and use a cheap foam cooler loaded with dry ice. Put the cooler in the box and no lid on it and close the main box lid. Will hold the meat cold for 3-4 days.
I transported a lot of game meat from Wyoming, Utah, and Montana, South Dakota that way and never had a problem even with over night stop overs coming back to CA.
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Yep, buy or take a chest freezer and a dc/ac inverterI had a boss one time who used to go to Wyoming for antelope and deer hunting with a group. They would take a utility trailer and it had a chest type freezer on it. Cut and process the meet of all the animals they got and put it into the freezer. Plug it in at night. Everything made it home just fine.
You ain't just a chittin'! Hell I bought diesel yesterday for the first time in over a decade I'm just lucky I only had to buy a gallon and a half to flush the crankcase of that old Chevy.? Been flushing the cooling system as well. I figured how bad can it be I've got the receipt showing the radiator is only four years old but I'm thinking somebody must of made a dexcool/prestone milkshake in there sometime in the last four years. Tomorrow I'm going to give that tranny a flush and filter. I just hope it won't be her first one.Nothing Is Reasonable anymore!
6.00 A Gallon Diesel Is Starting To Hurt!