What Size Cooler Do I Need

[Hi5]

Yeti is heavy and thick walled. And expensive.

However, if you pay the bucks now, you will use it the rest of your life and have at least one good item to pass on to your kids. The insulation is superior and the strength of the unit is awesome. It's like any tool--buy cheap and buy often; if you buy quality, you won't need to replace.

[wildcatter]

You have plenty of cooler and more than you need, anything over 150 quart is a waste and will use more ice to do the same job. Bigger does not mean better! An empty cooler is harder to keep ice in than one that is cooled down and close to full!

Deboned except the necks from the ears to the shoulders, I had a 12 point buck, and 3 doe in my 160 quart igloo 2 years ago on me and my buddies end of the year hunt in public land, when we took 7 deer between us in 8 days, and they were not small doe either. I think you have plenty for anything a single hunter needs.


Last year on the same hunt I had 3 doe, one was only a 1 1/2 year old doe, but these fit with plenty of room for more, Like I say, deboned except the nech are always left whole!

Wildcatter!

That's a nice haul of venison

After deboning do you put the meat in game bags or plastic bags prior to going in the cooler?

Only if you are anal,, I am! I just like butchering each deer individually, and when we wrap them indicating which particular deer each package came from. I do it incase I find one deer that seems to be tough or different from our expected tender no game taste I know which packages are involved.

If we have a deer that for whatever reason was a little on the tough side, we can take the packages and grind it to breakfast sausage or summer sausage.

But if you do bag it, don't let the wife buy the garbage bags,, mine did once,,,,, yes after that I buy em, and make sure they are not "scented" nice for garbage,, but sucks when you go to use one and open the box 300 miles from home!! Sometimes a man just has to do it himself,,,

[galamb]

If you are trying to narrow things down, Pelican is a Canadian company that molds plastic stuff (coolers, Kayak's, canoe's etc).

They do all the molding for Coleman and even bought out the rights to the Ram-X namebrand (which was the plastic Coleman used for their canoe's for years).

So all else being equal whichever is cheaper between the two is the best buy. They most likely came out of the same plant, from the same production line and only got a different sticker before they shipped