Chewing the Fat 2

Freezer setups for storing Game/Forage

Chest Freezers

Pro:  lots of room, energy efficient, cold for a day if power goes out

Con: organization is difficult, items can get smashed, shuffling can injure seals

Upright Freezers

Pro:  Organization solution with tubs/crates, lots of room, efficient, easier on packaging and seals

Con:  Not as efficient as chests, potential to injure cooling filaments

Garage DIY Meat Chillers ideas

*Disclaimer*

Due to recent changes in Michigan Regulations to combat CWD, what can be transported over county and state lines may have changed.  PLEASE! check out the regulations on transporting carcusses, bone, hide and meat along with checking in your deer in your hunting areas.  We as hunters have a responsibility to the animals we pursue and the people we feed.  See page 39 in the Michigan Deer Hunting Regulations Digest

Tips on Cooling and meat care of field dressed deer

Hanging deer:  keeping hide on, split pelvis and split ribcage.  Cool dark places (shed, barn, shade tree)

Cooling deer in hot weather:  Bags of ice in the rib cavity, ice on the pelvis.  Keeping meat off direct contact with ice is preferred, and not submerged in water.

Archery Setups

Crossbow

Compound

Longbow (Goal of Hunting 2019)