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Anyone shipped a processed elk lately? I've used 2nd day delivery a couple times before but that was 6 or 8 years ago. Wondering what it would cost at today's crazy shipping rates?
 
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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.
 
WVHUNTER said:
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.
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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.
 
2lumpy said:
Is the elk dead already or are you planning ahead, in the event you kill one.
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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.
 
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.
RELH
 
WapitBob, I would have had too buy many Coleman coolers to transport 18 boxes of bison meat from South Dakota.:love:
 
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.
 
Nothing Is Reasonable anymore!

6.00 A Gallon Diesel Is Starting To Hurt!

DanMan said:
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.
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I 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.
 
RELH said:
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.
RELH
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Great system.
 
woodturner said:
I 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.
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Yep, buy or take a chest freezer and a dc/ac inverter
 
$198 from Walmart, if 7 cubic feets big enough you can fit in your back seat if necessary.

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Drive or fly it home. Fly elk home all the time, 5-6 coolers of meat. Need lightweight coolers or insulated boxes that are the correct size (not too large or heavy) and add 4-5 lbs of dry ice. Southwest has the best deals on extra baggage.
 
If you end up having to fly then take it on the plane with you. Ship your gear home UPS ground. Can you ship your rifle from yourself to yourself? My opinion is you can but convincing an 18 year old clerk at a UPS store that you can might be a problem.

Like nripepi said Southwest has two free 50lb boxes and $75 for the third. Probably $75 for each duffle bag you ship home UPS ground.

American and Delta probably $220-$250 for three boxes. Price increases exponentially the more bags you have.
 
elkassassin said:
Nothing Is Reasonable anymore!

6.00 A Gallon Diesel Is Starting To Hurt!
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You ain't just a chittin'! Hell I bought diesel yesterday for the first time in over a decade :eek: 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.
I got a little excited yesterday when I was changing the oil in my Tahoe and thought I'd struck gold but those little nuggets in the bottom of my pan didn't look quite the same as the ones in Todd Hoffman's pan. ?
It's got me worried now.
 

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