Shipping meat home when hunting out of state

[tas745]

Ok guys I need some help I have an opportunity to make a whitetail/pheasant hunt in southern Wisconsin this November with a chance to take several animals but the question is how to get the meat home. I have a 75qt Yeti I was thinking about packing my clothes in it then shipping them home and putting the meat in the ice chest. Suggestions?

 

[whitsend]

How are you traveling?

I get Styrofoam ice chest, in a box and with ice packs free from the lab in the hospital where I work.
If you are flying these would be perfect for shipping frozen meat home, overnight of course.
If you could get someone in Wisconsin to get some for you it would save the trouble of getting the chest there.

 

[tas745]

I am flying in and out of Minneapolis then riding in to Wisconsin with some family what to put it in is not really the issue its shipping it home do people buy an extra plane ticket or is it something you can fedex?

 

[whitsend]

You can ship it FedEx or UPS.

Or it looks like you can bring it as checked luggage.
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/frozen-meat-airplane-102157.html

The main thing is keeping it frozen/cold and sealed during the trip.
Freeze the meat first and it should be fine in the Yeti even with out ice packs.

 

[BrandonLSU]

Use dry ice pellets after you freeze the meat.

 

[Taiaut]

You might want to check with Wis. Fish and Game to see if they have regs about shipping game. Might have to maintain sex ID or a feathered wing or some others.
Maybe boxes have to be marked a certain way. I know many states have pretty strict rules about crossing state lines with game.

 

[deafdave3]

When my dad used to hunt in Wyoming, he would cut up the meat and put dry ice in the cooler with the meat. By the time he got back home to Louisiana, the meat was frozen solid.