We date game and freeze it. I have kept deer for up to 3 years and if vacuum packed well is ‘fresh’ when thawed a sharpie pen is your friend. When I get a freezer burned piece I skin off the burnt part and cook the good part (sniff test) for the dogs. Haven’t lost a dog yet.
Been using a vacuum sealer for about a decade. But before that I had a trick using ziplock freezer bags. You fill a bucket around 3/4 the way up with cool water and submerge the bagged meat leaving a small end of the ziplock open. The water pressure will collapse all the air out of the bag and with the zipper at the waters edge have a helper finish the sealing. Watched Jimmy Huston do this with fish on TV. Works well
I have a four year old butterball turkey in the deep freeze.. gladly ship it to ya.. as long as ya sign a release for liability form first. I’ll kick in a 3 year old Oprah pie!! :-)