If it takes you less than three hours from the kill to get the meat home you will be fine. On the other hand you also could take one or two cooler boxes with you loaded with a few ice packs that you can purchase in any grocery store and most gas stations. Cut the deer up and load it into the cooler boxes on top of the ice packs.

In4TheHunt. Some hunters use vinegar and, or pepper with which they lightly cover the carcass to keep flies and other insects away from it. The vinegar is mixed with water and then the carcass is rubbed down with that solution. The pepper is lightly sprinkled all over the carcass inside (if skinned) and out.