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We will be hunting in West Tennessee at the end of the year and I unfortunately be staying in a motel. We will be 6 hours away from home and there's a possibility we will kill more than one deer per day and we will be there for 3 days. how do you suggest to preserve the meat before we come home to East Tennessee. If we were at a campsite I would feel mostly comfortable discreetly hanging the meat for the three days we are there but this will not be an option. I thought of a few options first one is field dress the deer,prop the cavity open,and put some ice in it rotate the carcass and leave it in the back of the truck, second trim all the meat off I can in the field and put it in the cooler with ice lastly we could drive more towards middle or East Tennessee and take it to a processor then drive back to the area we are going to hunt. really don't want to do that. the whole purpose of choosing West Tennessee what's to get a higher opportunity to harvest meat and hope to find an option that keeps us in the field longest.
 
bring a couple of big coolers..quarter deer and keep on ice,keep drain plug open ,coolers at tilt and continue to ice as needed.thats what i would do :tu:ive had deer iced down like this for up to 4 days
 
greygoose":dy5dnpib said:
bring a couple of big coolers..quarter deer and keep on ice,keep drain plug open ,coolers at tilt and continue to ice as needed.thats what i would do :tu:ive had deer iced down like this for up to 4 days
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That's how I always did it. Piece of cake!!
 
That time of the year processors slow down a little might be able to call them now and ask if you could just hang them for a day charge
 
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spoon":1kbb1mvi said:
There is a processor on hwy 18 not far from the park
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If you don't want to quarter the deer and put in a cooler full of ice try asking the processor to hang your deer in the cooker as Spoon suggested .In Giles They charge $5 a day to cool the deer , not to bad .
 
Hang the deer up and skin it out, then cut out the shoulders, hams, backstraps, t-loins and put any extra trimmings in a plastic bag. Put the quarters into grocery bags and put everything in the biggest cooler you can buy with lots of ice.


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a 75 quart cooler will hold 3 does as quarters and backstraps (just be sure to cool each one individually, not all 3 body temp deer in the cooler at one time, not enough ice to cool them fast enough). The 120qt offshore coolers will hold a LOT more.

I'd bring a 48 qt cooler just for icing down individual deer to 35 deg or so, then xfer the quarters and backstraps to the 75 or 120qt coolers, then fill those up with cold meat and fill the voids with ice. You'll be just fine.
 

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