How To Keep Ice In Your Cooler - Randy Newberg, Hunter

Randy Newberg, Hunter explains how to keep ice in his cooler during long trips in hot weather. Traveling hunters are always faced with how to keep meat from spoiling while flying or driving home. Start with a high quality Orion cooler, frozen milk jugs, and keep the cooler covered and in the shade and when you finally tag that animal you will have a way to keep that meat fresh for your trip home.

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[terrymitchell]

Randy, I put milk frozen milk jugs in my cooler 3-4 days before I leave to pre-cool them, then put new frozen jugs in when I leave on a trip. The pre-cooling really helps.

[warren]

Great advice for keeping ice in a cooler. If you have room, a medium or small chest freezer with a generator works great too.

[lancev]

We have an enclosed trailer and keep a camp freezer inside. We also have a small generator. Run the generator at night during dinner time for a couple hours and that’s enough to keep the freezer continually freezing throughout the hunt. We pull water bottles from the freezer to the food coolers and put any game we kill into the camp freezer. Set up costs about as much as 2 of these coolers but works well, especially if you have access to a generator already. One 5 gallon gas can will be plenty to run the generator for a week.

[lmmccord]

Milk jugs? Wow I never would have thunk it. Thanks for the idea!!! Love the latches!

[cgmislive]

Finally found a video on this subject the search is over!! Thank you

[benjaminbenedict]

Great advice. As a side note if you freeze milk jugs or any kind of bottles you should only fill it 7/8 to the top so it doesn't split the jug as ice expands as it freezes.

[joztunes]

Good tips. I was going to say if you can afford to, but the best quality cooler to keep ice and meat cool

[jsl]

Great information Randy. I know you understand this, but the secret to great wild game fare, is cooling it as rapidly as possible and maintaining that as long as you can until you can butcher and freeze.

[dougcoleman]

This is a good tip 4 even going camping

[joiseystud]

Another thing is to supercool the ice jugs. A couple days ahead of time, make your freezer as cold as it goes. If the ice starts off at -7F vs 0F it buys some additional time.

[MrWetrek]

Those coolers are awesome but I think I would need to take a loan out to get one.

[gagebrock]

This tip might tie in with the salt comment, but I had a friend show me to use full Gatorade jugs (the biggest you can buy) it does last a lot longer than ice does.

[trevorkolmatycki]

I’m soo done with coolers. Generator and chest freezer is vastly superior whenever it is feasible… ie) at any base camp with vehicle access. You only need to run the generator 4-5hrs per day to keep it plenty cold enough.
It is also kind of novel to have ice cream for dessert at camp 😊.
A separate cooler is nice to have with the freezer for things you want cold but not frozen. We swap milk jugs with water between the cooler and the freezer… perpetual ice supply.
Electric freezers cost substantially less than yeti coolers… which is comical.
I will never go back. Perpetual ice is so much more useful than melting ice.
A freezer takes up way less space than a bunch of coolers and a bunch of ice.
If you wish to completely debone, bag, and freeze your animals in the field you will need approx. 4-5 cuft of freezer space per bull elk.
Cheers!

[josephrogers]

Good system how ever most hunters already have a generator for $200 you can get a 7 cube chest freezer and make and keep ice generator can run while traveling does not have to run 24/7 but still have good coolers. At least one truck or trailer should be so equipped love your adventures

[videos]

*I use this as a lunch box and the removable hard liner is great to keep my sandwiches from getting crushed.*

[TheCondor]

You could fill up around your jugs with saw dust... could last a month. I know its messy but it works!

[Thetinebroken]

Another great video with the important info.
So you have a dedicated milk jug freezer? Get one big enough for the cooler to fit in it. 🖒

[texpatriot]

What sized cooler do you need for different animals? Deer? Elk?

[justiceful]

good info, going to try it in oct. thanks

[erichaskell]

Absolutely no doubt those coolers are out of my price range. I am wondering if I made a 1/4 inch plywood box, lined it with two inch closed cell insulation that was fit very tight on all six sides, put my cheap cooler inside of that, then followed your instructions how well would it perform? Worth a try. To know, at the end of ten days in September, what percent of the ice remains in your coolers using your methods? Secondly, what is the problem purchasing a block of ice?