I'm thinking about building myself a cooling/hanging house. It's so warm here in Oklahoma in early season, that you just can't hang an animal unless you have a cooler. I'm not thinking big.....just enough to get 1 - 2 deer in. Just curious if anyone out there has one so I could get some ideas.

We are blessed to have one that is commercial grade. We hang deer for up to 3 weeks and sows for one week.

I know a guy that just bought one with a window air conditioner an a coolbot system. Works amazing hung my deer at 38 degrees for a week till ready to cut.

Any old restaurant equipment shops nearby? Old pop (soda) coolers can often be had at good price.

I have a small refrigerator (the one with the tiny freezer) out of a mobile home. Have had a quartered 6 pt. Bull elk in it. Will freeze the meat if I want to.

Yep if you just want to do one deer I'd just buy a used fridge and put it in the garage or somewhere. Works like a charm and all you have to do is unload it and plug it in.

I have a fridge in my shed I put game in until I'm ready to process it. Works perfect for me.

Instead of a large cooler, I use large a large ice chest. Hanging is for the purpose of keeping the meet cool over time. Cutting up the deer changes nothing but the size of the container needed to contain it. Water filled frozen milk jugs are rotated daily for as long as you please.

Connecticut today is 56degrees, and heat can happen anywhere.

I use a chest freezer that I gutted the motor out of like a huge ice chest. I quarter up the deer and use ice jugs or I'll put ice in leak proof plastic bags to pack around the meat. I use to use this same method to get elk meat back from Colorado.

If you have an area that remains shady or a cool basement area, all you need is a tarp, plastic storage containers like Sterilite, and some bags of ice. People aged meat before regrigerated lockers were invented.

I bought a big cooler, holds 260 cans so it will certainly hold a deer quartered up, or small deer whole. I'm my warmer weather put deer in add ice and done. Oh yea, open drain plug lol. This coming week the weather is going to the 30's so hanging will be the mood, now I just have to get a deer lol.

We built one at our hunt camp. Structure is 4' X 8' inside dimension with 8' walls. Very well insulated with a commercial pop cooler compressor installed in the "attic" space so the cool air drops down through a hole. We installed a screened inlet vent in the roof space with a small hinged door that we open when the compressor is running to keep the unit cool. Ages the meat wonderfully in the warmest weather...did not cost much at all.

It's nothing fancy but it works ..built a closet put a window unit ac in it with a thermostat control for the compressor allowing the fan to run continuous and even in the hot days will cool to below 35 degrees...hung many a deer in it

I've got an external thermostat that I plug my chest freezer into when I want to age meat. Just put the thermostat element in the freezer and set the temp to 38 deg. Works great and when you want to use the freezer just unplug and go straight to the outlet again.

I use a fridge, in the garage. Beer fridge in the summer, meat cooler in the fall.

I use a fridge, in the garage. Beer fridge in the summer, meat cooler in the fall.

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