back from the run across the border (WY) for antelope season.
tons of antelope this year, must have seen 400 in 24 hours.

as requested, I remembered to snap a few more pics of the cooler.

I had the 4 jugs in my chest freezer for a week or so, equilibrated to -27* F. I loaded it up Thurs a.m., adding a 10# block of dry ice in the center of the square and blocked it off with the spare pieces to eliminate dead space -- like so:

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had the first one in a bag by 10:00 Thurs a.m. , and the next by 9:00 a.m. Friday. I tooled on home Friday afternoon, and cut 'em up this morning (48 hours later)

the first was cold enough to be a little "crunchy" after 48 hours in there, the second was about 38* (after 24 hours in the cooler). The dry ice was gone but the ice in the jugs hadn't even started to melt yet.

( it'll keep them below 40* for a week or more)

here they are in the cooler, on the jugs. they're pretty much centered over a pair of them. It's easily big enough to hold 3-5 antelope-sized animals.

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not really much to clean up....

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takes a day or two in the sun to melt the jugs

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after 10 years, it's starting to break up but nothing a little more duct tape won't fix! grin