Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 85 qt cooler/ice chest?

There is always that brilliant bit of advertising that some genius came up with (and that people have been falling for, hook, line, and sinker ever since): "You get what you pay for".

I use Yeti’s. I had a soft side Rtic that I used quite often until the seal around the top lid came unglued. It was out of warranty and the company said “nothing they could do, buy another one”. I’ve only paid full price for one of my Yeti’s. Picked up the others as gifts or at yard sales. The only issue I’ve had with my yeti 75 happened this year. A rubber handle broke. I use that cooler daily. Filled with ice water for my crew. It’ll hold water cold for 3-4 days with one bag of ice and lots of opening and closings. Yeti’s and the likes are heavy but they work! If you have to carry the cooler for any length of time I suggest purchasing wheels or a buggy to help save your back.
I had a Gander mtn brand that was the worst cooler I’ve ever owned. I think I sold it for $10 at a yard sale. Funny how lots of people are bashing the Yeti but it’s also the cooler that everyone in the business is comparing theirs to.

The zippers and seams on their soft coolers were a disaster.

Ole Ham Hands Barnard....

6.5 creedmoors are twice the price as everything else? Hating an inanimate object is weird.

Boomer?

100-quart CaterGater $214.99

Link

Phil

Somebody needs to invent a zipper that actually goes around corners.

And doesn't grab your foreskin!!

I have bojth a Yeti and an RTIC 65 quart. The RTIC holds ice much better than the Yeti, but both are heavy and overpriced for what they are. They will be the last of either brand I'll ever buy.

About an hour ago, totally staged pic.....lol

Sammo do you have a flat bill Yeti cap too?

Negative, and don't give me any ideas!

Given my recent experience I have to agree on the warranty.

I have probably a dozen coolers in the shed as we speak. Some of the newer roto molded and many old school and several flexible dry bag types.

Used to dry camp at lake powell in the summer for 2 weeks at a time multiple times per year. 100+ temps

My opinion is the newer heavy super insulated cooler are not all that because they come with a high price in dollars, weight and capacity to exterior size. That said for shorter trips with just the truck a yeti 45 is good but it weighs 35 pounds empty and capacity vs size still sucks.

Before these new types became availzble we learned that car floor mats(rubber bottom with carpet on top) under the cooler prevented rock damage and kept cold from bleeding out through the bottom into the ground. Then if outside a small silver tarp to keep sun off the cooler. These 2 things trippled the old school cooler ice retention. Add a chunk of dry ice and everything below it stays frozen and above stays cold. Keep it dry and dry ice lasts. The other thing if you have an rv fridge I cycle a couple of gatorade bottles from tne freezer into the cooler and my cooler stays dry inside and as long as I have lp to work the rv fridge the cooler stays cold.

So in my rv I mostly use the older coolers because they hold more for the size weight trade off.

Go buy an ARB cooler and forget about ever buying ice again, they are the bomb. And no more soggy samiches either.

Had to google it...

63 qrt. $1300.

That’s a lot of $2 trips to Twice the Ice....

Old Heads always bringin in the price of ice to they rationale

Hahahaha

Matlock comes on at 2 now, …nap time or Matlock. 🤣🤣🤣

I think the Magellan comes factory equipped with a rack in the top.

You would be surprised at how much room a 48 quart will hold without having to put so much ice in it. And I can have a popsicle on a 100 degree day if I want to.

I tend to freeze used V8 jugs, washed out milk jugs and freeze water bottles.

All of this lasts longer than ice but not worth a damn for ice cold beers.

Yeah they're cold but nothing like if they had been submerged in good cold ice w a little water.

As said above, ice doesn't last long in any of them if you have a 30 pack in there and the lid gets opened every 5 minutes.