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I can - I'm hoping to pick up two leftover antelope tags for WY when they go on sale.

failing that, I'll have late season elk and deer tags. Won't likely need the cooler then, but I could "stage" a pic in the back yard...

I wasn't kidding

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:



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.









not really much to clean up....



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

[img]http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x134/utahlefty/Hunting/cooler/DSC01465.jpg[/img]

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

Thanks for remembering to post the pictures. Thanks for the PM too. I hope to have a trailer version some day.

That is cool! (pardon the pun).

I am continually amazed at the abilities of the members here! Great photo-essay!!