What size cooler do you need to transport an elk home? I plan on using dry ice. I have read some day up to 300 QTs, others I read said they for it all in 120 QTs ?
Last year I was to get my entire cow and lots of ice in a 150 quart cooler, it was all de-boned packaged and frozen. it stayed frozen all the way home in the bed of the truck for 27+hours. Ithink a bigger cooler would allow more ice inside, but I found a 150qt plenty big enough.
I put a deboned bull that was cut and packaged (burger had no fat added) into a 150 cooler and a slab and half of dry ice. Duck taped the seams and headed home. The meat was frozen when I put in the cooler. Two days later it was still frozen with a baseball size of dry ice remaining.
It was a close fit and if I had a couple more packages, I could not have fitted it all inside the cooler. I plan on taking two this year and using them as totes with all my gear inside. If needed I have two and my gear will go into garbage bags or something for the return trip.
Thanks for the comments. The plan is to quarter them out and haul the meat back to our trucks where the cooler will be. We will not be in a place we can quickly get them packaged at a butcher. We will probably be able to get them mostly de-boned, and wrapped, but this would be us doing it, not a professional butcher.
