wanderin39
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- Jun 29, 2019
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Thank you very much, this was one of my greatest concerns.no biggie, we've brought back fish, bears, moose and caribou. we've become "known transporters" with Alaska airlines and delta. This means we can use the freight desk and they guarantee the meat will be kept in freezer facilities in the terminal. And of course reasonable shipping rates and no size/weight limits (within reason I guess). Brooks range aviation has a hanger you can cut meat in, a meat cooler, and freezers. We ship up tape, knives, cutting sheets, fish boxes and freezer paper and plan to have a day to get it all cut and frozen. We've also rented a VRBO at the end of a trip so we knew we'd have a place to get meat processed before going home. We've used coolers before too but fish boxes are easier to deal with. We brought a 60" moose skull back whole, just wrapped it up good. Alaska airlines is pretty used to dealing with this. It just went in regular baggage. The caribou we split the skull plates in half (mine was very close to making B&C so we checked before splitting as this can cause trouble later if you want to get it scored for the book). Then we packed them all together in one big ball, covered antler tips with rubber hose chunks, wrapped it all in bubble wrap, went in regular baggage.