keeping dry ice tips

[zoellner25]

Do you guys take dry ice out with you before a hunt to keep on hand? What are some tips to make it last longer? thanks.

 

[dustin ray]

Don't open the ice chest
I have found that its better to make ice last longer than trying to make dry ice last longer. If you take a good ice chest and fill with blocks then fill voids with cubes put dry ice on top then paper it can last weeks

 

[buckbull]

I always just buy it when I get to where I'm going. Every walmart and packing house seems to sell it in the places I go. I just store it in a small cooler and then transfer to a bigger cooler if I kill something.

 

[Gr8bawana]

I have an Igloo 150 Qt ice chest that I fill with blocks of ice. We use it during August antelope and archery deer hunts when the temperature is in the 90's during the day. We make sure we keep it in the shade and don't open it until we need to ice down an animal. We have kept ice blocks in it for over a week and still had ice even after cooling a deer or antelope when the initial cool down melts the blocks down quite a bit. We just make sure there is always a layer of blocks in the plastic bags under the meat to keep it out of any water, keep the drainplug open.
One of the drawbacks is of course it is very heavy.

 

[Work2hunt]

Dont open the cooler until you have to. Keep it in the shade. Fill all voids with crumpled up paper to help insulate the ice in your cooler.

 

[missjordan]

There's a cool video floating around the Internet about how to pack a cooler with dry ice. Might even have been eastmans that made it but it's worth the watch

 

[JasonGNV]

I e been using dry ice the last few years for all my stuff. 1 cooler loaded with foods and 2 loaded with ice/dry ice. We have come up with a decent way to keep ice for about 10 days in the cooler we open often (depending on temps). We layer the bottom with 3/4" insulation styrofoam. Lay dry ice on top. Put foam just larger than the dry ice on top of it. Then load with food and ice. Then put one more layer of the styrofoam on top. These are just the 120/150qt white igloo coolers. Has worked very well. Do the same with the other coolers and let them sit until meat is put in. Will freeze solid

 

[zoellner25]

Great tips, thanks guys.