Shipping deer from BC to Ontario

I suppose you could freeze it and express ship coolers or the freezer pack boxes home but I think it would be expensive. Last November I donated my 4pt muley buck to an old buddy near Pemberton with a young family. He was so happy I thought he was gonna cry. The pictures and memories and friendships made during the hunt are worth far more than the meat. I managed to take an Ontario buck as well to put in my freezer at home so it was win win. Maybe good karma.
 
Good cooler, pre-chilled, dry ice. Assuming you are driving of course. Some airlines allow dry ice, some don't so check ahead. Frozen meat in a pre-chilled cooler should last a flight no problem though. No need to get things soaking with normal ice.
 
I've flown with meat frozen in coolers and also just in my luggage (short flights, well wrapped then in plastic then in sleeping bags). Unless you are using a cooler you can expect some friction from the airline as they will anticipate 'leakage' in their baggage room. :redface: This tends to piss them off!

Last winter I drug dead Sika deer from Ireland through two airports- its starting to become a hobby! :d
 
ive brought back moose, deer, salmon, prawns, crab etc always just froze, wrapped in newspaper, and wrapped in a jacket in my luggage... always stayed frozen, and thats flying from Nanaimo to Vancouver first.

if i were to do larger amounts, id use dry ice


best option would be not to come back to Ontario!
 
I just spent 3 days after a hunt in Texas with a Yeti cooler full of meat that was frozen, on ice and vacuum packed. Got home late at night opened it up the next morning and all was good. I flew American Airlines and they will not allow dry ice. Yeti coolers are great, but costly.
 
I had mine cut, wrapped and frozen at a local butcher, then sent it Fed EX overnight, 9 am delivery to my home.

Expesive , but tasty, so it was worth it
 
Pro tip- freeze the meat in the cooler you will use or a good box so that the packages fit like bricks and don't leave huge weird gaps. One of my first 'shipments' was butchered and wrapped during a rather boozy post hunt celebration in Hawaii and my cooler coming home was 30% air......:mad::mad: Never made that mistake again!!!
 
shipping Deer? heck, ship over some Moose, Muleys and may aswell throw in the Whitetail too for P.O Box 123 Australia. Mr W.L Lad. thanking You!!

WL
 
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