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Yes and it gave me moor pain than any hunt. Kawi
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The penguins got into the pickled herring again, didn't they?
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Got no freezer, that must suck.
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blackberries are red when they are green.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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We had afreezer in my Dad's garage that gave up one summer. I had a few bear skulls, half a dozen silvers, about 200 pounds of deer meat. When we opened it up, about a third of the freezer was a liquid of some sort. I pushed vick's up my nose and then wore a swimmers nose plug and I was still gagging.
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Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. - Robert Ruark
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Brother-in-law had his kids knock the plug of his huge chest freezer out of the wall. He was fretting about the clean up and then I suggested plugging it back in and freezing the rotten goop. After it froze we took it out and dumped it in the burn pile and torched it.
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Yep, that's the best way to cope with it!
I've been lucky, the one time one of our chest freezers went bad I found it just as the stuff on top was starting to thaw. Lost maybe a dozen packages, but several hundred pounds was still OK.
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I had a bunch of good stuff stored in my (now ex) father in law's freezer. Caribou, atlantic salmon, wild turkey breasts, venison.......and some how he unplugged it and forgot to plug it back. About a month later, during a very hot summer, he noticed a smell coming from the basement that he couldn't find. Couldn't even save the freezer. I think the word for that odor is "cadaverine". Guess why.....
Golden............
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Living at the end of the line, yeah, we have had several. Not lately, though, the Electric Co-op seems to have its act together--finally.
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I had a bunch of good stuff stored in my (now ex) father in law's freezer. Caribou, atlantic salmon, wild turkey breasts, venison.......and some how he unplugged it and forgot to plug it back. About a month later, during a very hot summer, he noticed a smell coming from the basement that he couldn't find. Couldn't even save the freezer. I think the word for that odor is "cadaverine". Guess why..... Imagine 100 lbs of halibut.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Yes, it sucks I lost 3/4 of an elk, some deer, and a real nice bobcat.
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Is moor pain worse than more pain?
To answer the question. My freezer burned out this year, but I was almost out of elk, and just put what was left in the fridge freezer.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a hunting license and that's pretty close.
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Never had one wreck, but I had one where the 4 year old liked to play with dials and turned it off.
I caught it about a week later when the oldest opened the door and said something stinks. I ended up loosing a deer.
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Yes, the compressor over heated caught fire and burned my house down.
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I had a bunch of good stuff stored in my (now ex) father in law's freezer. Caribou, atlantic salmon, wild turkey breasts, venison.......and some how he unplugged it and forgot to plug it back. About a month later, during a very hot summer, he noticed a smell coming from the basement that he couldn't find. Couldn't even save the freezer. I think the word for that odor is "cadaverine". Guess why..... Imagine 100 lbs of halibut. That would make me cry!
Golden............
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I had been outside for about 6 weeks. Housesitter never said a work, just took off when I got home. I could smell it from a closed freezer - they HAD to notice.
Month-old putrefied halibut protein is.....unique.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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One time.....but I was lucky and just happened to catch it mid-thaw
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My father in law or one of his two brothers left ours open overnight and part of a day in the late AL summer. There were probaby 2.5 to 3 deer left in there. Most everything was thawed but no stench...probably could have saved some of it but didn't want to chance it. It was only a couple of months until it would be time to fill it again. At least the freezer was ok....
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