Archery Deer Trip?

If it's close enough, I'm in. January for sure December, if necessary...

 

As much as I would like to I am done for the year, I got my deer in Jan. Now that I have my first one out of the way I won't take a little deer in Jan. Takes away half the anticipation of the draw and leaves you scratching your head wondering if it was worth it. Now should I see some of those goodies Creed gets on to there is no doubt about tagging out in Jan.

 

I drew a December Coues deer hunt, so I don't get to bow hunt this year. Otherwise it sounds like fun.

 

I'm not sure about that Ron. I did see you carrying a Hand Cooler and running up a hill when we went fishing and you never let me see in side of it. :lol:

 

Ok it's settled.........archery deer hunt at Creed's!!

 

That desert country doesn't open up until Dec. I got the impression from the posts that folks wanted to hit the early archery hunt in the pine tree units. It is a nice time to get out of the heat.

 

Dutch, here is what I do for hunting in Az. I freeze a case of 16 oz drinking water bottles and a couple of gallon jugs of water, 3 for deer & 4 for elk. I try and get them froze long before the season so they are hard frozen. Then once you have game, get it back to camp and skin it, hang the gal jugs in the carcass and cover with a game bag. Then wrap that with a tarp and put up another tarp to shade the whole thing. Since I do most of my butchering in the field I pack along freezer paper so for getting everything home I will lay down a layer of drinking bottles, cover with a layer of freezer paper, then stack in my meat packs or qtrs. I will add in more drinking bottles as space allows. This keeps your meat cool and not soaking in water, as close to a dry box as I can come. I carry a couple of coolers, one for chow and the other for meat. I keep the frozen bottles in the meat cooler and never open it until I have meat for it. A standard 48 qt gooler is large enough for deer and I have a 166 qt cooler that I use for elk. The 166 will hold all 4 qtrs of a cow without boning out, a bull needs to have some boning done to fit. I also have an old refrigerator on my back porch that I use as a meat locker. I pull out the racks and age my hind qtrs before I cut them up. Since we seem to eat more burger than anything else I turn the front qtrs, neck & brisket into grind packs and get my steaks from the backstrap, tl's and hind qtrs. This method works great, I have never had any meat go bad using it.