Save your meat in a power outtage

[tasaman]

I didn't know where to post this but I have a suggestion that may help some people. I saved up about 20 2 liter soda bottles and filled them most of the way with water. I screw the cap on but not tight. I squeeze the bottle till all the air comes out and the water is about to the cap and then screw the cap on tight. This prevents the bottle from splitting. I put these in my chest freezer and if I ever have a power outtage like we did last winter and during lighting storms there is no way that as long as the freezer stays closed you should be fine for days using this tip.

Also, if I shoot a deer on a hot day I will put 4 or so bottles in the deers cavity and that will help keep the meat cool. I've even resorted to laying the deer in the bath tub when it was 95 deg outside and placing 10 bottles around the deer and inside and the meat stayed cold and just rotated the bottles out when they began to melt. Works real good.

[rossman40]

My grandfather would pack his fish in 1 gallon milk cartons (some of you younger guys may not have even seen one) and fill them with water and freeze them. Besides no freezer burn and stacking nice if the power went out they stayed frozen a long time

[zakjak221]

Trying to imagine what my wife would say about a deer in the bathtub?
Also where I would go to get peace & quiet after that.
Good tip though.

Mark

[deadon]

Nov 11, 2010 14:40:03 GMT -5 rossman40 said:

My grandfather would pack his fish in 1 gallon milk cartons (some of you younger guys may not have even seen one) and fill them with water and freeze them. Besides no freezer burn and stacking nice if the power went out they stayed frozen a long time

Half gallon milk cartons worked pretty good too Now the juice cartons with the D@#$ screw tops, I can't even get open enough to get a minnow in

[stubblejumper]

Where I live we are lucky to get the hide off before its frozen solid

[tar12]

Nov 21, 2010 21:38:41 GMT -5 zakjak221 said:

Trying to imagine what my wife would say about a deer in the bathtub?
Also where I would go to get peace & quiet after that.
Good tip though.

Mark

The dog house silly boy!

[minst7877]

Wife finding deer in bathtub is bad medicine. Beleive me I know about that one.

DC

[danielbrothers]

I carry a folded up white feed sack in my fanny pack. I then bone out the deer on the spot... 15 mins later I'm carry it out.... meat only... plus I cut off the antlers if it's a buck. Later at home I throw it in the cooler... add ice for a period of 5-7 days.... and the meat is tender as can be. Then I cut if up into steak or roast sections. I use to sell a DVD on ebay on how to bone them out. The strange things is that I use to drag the remains far away after the boning out... but after watching some of these piles from a distance, i noticed other deer going right up to them... the same day as the kill, and up to several days. They just had to check it out. It's also amazing how fast the remains... don't remain. I Muzzled down a 7 pointer back in Oct and did this quick process, but after arriving to the truck I realized that I had forgotten the rack, left it hanging on a branch... so next morning as i was carrying out a spike that was forced to sleep from my cheap 230 gr T/C slug, I stopped by the 7 pointer to get the rack and found it hard to find any of the remains... only the head, hide, rib cage, and stomach pouch. It doesn't take long for things to dissappear. But if you like dragging them out for showing off or taking to the processer... great.. but if your 59 and tired of dragging.... then Bone'em Out. But of course... that's just my opinion....LOL Thanks....Dan

[pposey]

+1 on boning out in the field if it's a hike,,, just be sure you can re assemble a deer from the remains and it pays to have the whole head with ya so you can prove antlered or non antlered,,, the Game wardens tend to be a little sensitive about such things around here,,,

[danielbrothers]

The head does not matter if it's an either sex day. I boned out a spike last week.... carried the bag of meat out on my bicycle and meet 3 game wardens at my truck and they all just looked at the meat and remarked about their wonderment on how I was going to get that deer out from behind that locked gate and from such a long distance down that road. They just shook their heads and said good job... never meantioned the carcass... but if they had... i would have told them that it was better to get the meat out now and that I'd go back for an easier drag if they really wanted it out. Either way.. it would have been easier than dragging the whole thing out. I only do that when I have too.

[ourway77]

Have to field tag the deer in my state then check it in over the phone I just get on my cell phone call the deer in and recieve my ckeck in number. DONE DEAL. Then plug my freezer into my gererator Lou

[pposey]

well here we have very few doe days, only one in ml season and all of bow season,,, and you pretty much have to have the head,, they figure you are saying a buck is a doe on doe days to save your buck tag,,,,, at least the ones I have ran into,,,, I have brought a couple on a bike,,, hams in the rear paniers, and everything else in a backpack

[spaniel]

I love the bone out method, use it all the time out west. Unfortunately in Indiana you must check in the deer INTACT. There are very good places I have permission to hunt that I would need to see a B&C buck to shoot it due to the pain that would follow. I was dumb enough to shoot a doe in one of those places last year, never again!

[whopperstopper]

Nov 8, 2010 19:14:40 GMT -5 tasaman said:

I didn't know where to post this but I have a suggestion that may help some people. I saved up about 20 2 liter soda bottles and filled them most of the way with water. I screw the cap on but not tight. I squeeze the bottle till all the air comes out and the water is about to the cap and then screw the cap on tight. This prevents the bottle from splitting. I put these in my chest freezer and if I ever have a power outtage like we did last winter and during lighting storms there is no way that as long as the freezer stays closed you should be fine for days using this tip.

Also, if I shoot a deer on a hot day I will put 4 or so bottles in the deers cavity and that will help keep the meat cool. I've even
resorted to laying the deer in the bath tub when it was 95 deg outside and placing 10 bottles around the deer and inside and the meat stayed cold and just rotated the bottles out when they began to melt. Works real good.

Add 2tbls of salt for each 1gal of water and watch how long that last. We make ice this way when Walleye fishin and usually the fish that actually touch the ice have to be thawn out before filleting. Used this method for a trip to Alaska and it lasted a week. Find a cake pan about the same size as the cooler then just fill with the water/salt mix and freeze, remove and place in a plastic bag. Wyoming we pack Antelope this way (mounts also) and it works out great.