Car Chiller
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A chilled carcass ? as the core temp of deer holds a lot of heat so there is quite a lot of difference in the 2 types
No, a recently shot and gralloched carcass. Some of my ground is 2 hours from home, currently use a plasterers bath and frozen 2 litre bottles.
One critically important word whatever your approach to the mechanism for cooling the carcass holder:
Timing
K
Timing
K
I should say that your current arrangement is perfectly adequate. You're overthinking it.
Stick with what you have just add more bottles, as Tim said don't overthink it.
HonestJohn
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Or buy a few 12v thermoelectric cooler/peltier’s on aliexpress to pop under the lid, saves the freezing water fandangle
It's a balance between allowing carcass to cool naturally and getting it below 7c
As VSS says over thinking it and other gent suggests more bottles..... bang on
I'd be more worried about fly strike
..some kind suitable mesh coverr allows heat out your plasterers bath and bit of air circulation but keeps flying off
Coming into cooler temps as well anyway
Paul
As VSS says over thinking it and other gent suggests more bottles..... bang on
I'd be more worried about fly strike
..some kind suitable mesh coverr allows heat out your plasterers bath and bit of air circulation but keeps flying off
Coming into cooler temps as well anyway
Paul
paulbshooting
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Some of my ground is a drive and with the recent scorchio weather I bought a large Igloo ice box. Takes a couple of roe and fits perfectly across back seats of landy. Got some large freezer blocks off amazon and pop them in before I go stalking. Cools the carcass and keeps flies off
Leec6.5
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Why fix what’s not broke!
I use a very large chiller box that’ll take a full Roe, however it could have been hung in the larder for day or so before hand so need keep it below 7 degrees. If it’s freshly shot then will use the journey with ice blocks as cooling time before getting into the fridge at home.
As above I'd be concerned about enclosing a warm carcase too much. Strap it in the passenger seat and crank up the aircon. You can hold the head steady by closing the window on it gently! 
Rake Aboot
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I just chuck mine in the truck bed. My canopy is black so the inside heats up nicely, by the time I take it out a day or so later the meats already “ aged”
You remind me of the chap who phoned me a week or two back to ask if I thought he'd be OK to hang a carcass in his bathroom for a few days. "What's the temperature in there?" I asked him. "About 20°C" he replied "but it does seem to be cooling off now the sun's gone down".I just chuck mine in the truck bed. My canopy is black so the inside heats up nicely, by the time I take it out a day or so later the meats already “ aged”
Ffs mate, bring it over and stick it in my chiller!
(I should think his wife will be eternally grateful to me!)
For roe/muntjac I use a “Homebase” black storage box with the removeable top off an electric cool box let into the lid. The idea is not so much to refrigerate the carcass but to prevent heat build up in the closed transportation box and to allow a steady progressive reduction in temperature whilst I drive the 90 minutes home. Has worked well for me for a decade now. For fallow in my covered jet sled, my 7-seat DS has the second air conditioning chiller in the back so I whack that on to full.
See my media photos for the cool box:
For the DS:
See my media photos for the cool box:
For the DS:
There was a post on here once where a chest freezer was used on a trailer to transport reds back from Scotland. Maybe skin and break down in the field and use a big cool box ?
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