Has anyone shipped antlers or meat home this year? With the excess baggage charges now in effect, bringing it back with me on the plane is not an option. Any suggestions?

have you looked into shipping 2nd day UPS? IT will easily cost you $2 a pound or more. Its still cheaper to take it on the plane in most instances. Ship your cloths if you have to.

I just broght back 200 pounds of elk meat, cost me $25 on Southwest.

On a recent hunt, Continential allowed a third bag (always call before) for $100.00 if < 50 lbs. If dry ice is included, it is an extra $35 for dangerous goods.

I ended up shipping UPS 2nd day for $160.00 for ~35 lbs of meat. No special provisions are needed if <5.5 lbs of dry ice is included. Make the packaging dimensionally small as possible. Unfortunately, it arrived after 4 days and thawed and warm . MIGHT get the standard $100 insurance. Antlers were of course OK. No capes.

If I had it to do over, I would do the plane, even with the aggravation of tring to wrestle all that into the airport. Or ship it UPS and insure it for the full price of another hunt

I think from now on I am goint to use an ice chest as my suitcase/duffel on the way there. After the hunt, buy a box and ship the clothes and everything back by ground or whatever is cheapest and carry the ice chest and gun as my 2 bags. They even make then now with pull handles and wheels Might get a few funny looks though

As an aside, has anyone ever tried the post office?

I seem to have better luck with them than UPS with small business packaging, although UPS is more convenient for me.

Folks,

I've shipped horns attached to clean skull plates via US mail several times with no problems. Meat and capes I'd send frozen via FedEx. That also has worked perfectly for me.

Mark

The wife and I came back from Quebec with two wheeled coolers full of bear meat and hide. We just paid Southwest the $25 per bag extra and checked it with no trouble (other than dragging all those bags through the airport and to the car...).