I had a very disappointing experience last year. I shot a bull in January in CO, quartered it, cooled it (not hard!), and took it home in a cooler in four big pieces plus two, long thick backstraps.
I was going to be very busy the next four days so brought it to a local butcher shop to have the quarters processed in the cuts and burger we wanted. But the backstraps were going home with me.
I cut them in about four lb. chunks, wrapped then tight in wax paper and double wrapped in regular butcher paper. They then went in our upright freezer in our garage. Not one escaped freezer burn, bad freezer burn, and within months. Each piece had to have the burned meat carved off of it before we could use it. I've not experienced this before and don't quite know what went wrong. The freezer was gone into only once or twice a week. I've gone this route with elk, deer, pheasants, etc. for years and at most have had small spots of freezer burn after a year and a half.
What went wrong?
