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Guys,

Have some venison and piggie meat in a friends freezer and am invited to go down again in January. Would prefer to drive, but it's a long way from here and flying is always easier.

Is there a rational way to ship frozen game meat from the Houston area? Anyone have contacts and/or estimate of costs?

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Contact Midway Deer Processing in Katy, TX; 281 391-3101, www.midwaydeerprocessing.com. There is a shipper located in their strip center "Just Ship It" 281 391-9555. Don't know the shipping prices, but I'm sure they would be happy to give you a quote.
 
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I've shipped frozen elk meat UPS from Springer, New Mexico to Dallas, Texas. No problem.

I've hand-carried frozen Dall sheep backstrap from Dallas to Mumbai, India. No problem.

I've hand-carried frozen elk backstrap from Dallas to Ciudad Ojeda, Venezuela. No problem.
 
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Shipped @ 90lbs of frozen wild pig in a cooler with dry ice from Dallas to Baltimore last year for $100.


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fed ex is 1.80 ish a pound...


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I have had a bunch of frozen meat shipped from both Texas and Montana to California.

First thing is you don't need to ship overnite. If you pack it good and frozen in either an ice chest or a card board box with solid styrofoam at least 3 inches and it its packed tight...i.e little room for air and you seal it good two day shipment wil be fine.


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Posts: 10096 | Location: Loving retirement in Boise, ID | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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We used to ship a lot of buffalo from hunts on a regular refridgerated truck with a shipping company out of Omaha. We would send it on pallets and put as much weight on a pallet as we could to save cost. They would drop it off right at a guy's house but you would have to unload it box by box since there wasn't a fork lift usually. Cost was around $1 a pound if I remember right but we don't use them much anymore because they won't come out here and pick up. We have to take the stuff to Omaha which is 4 hours or Sioux City to a different company that is a pain. If a hunter needs his stuff shipped though this is about the only way to do it. It may be worth looking up refridgerated trucking companies in the area and see if they would pick up and deliver a pallet if you have enough weight.


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