Coleman 120qt Xtreme 6 Coolers

[cornfedkiller]

I dont have the 120qt 6 day Xtreme, but I recently bought a 50qt Xtreme with wheels - one of the new thin wall ones from Coleman, and I think the thing is absolute junk. I would sell it but I would feel bad about ripping whoever buys it off. I have several friends that have the older Coleman Xtreme 62qt with the thick walls (and crappy hinges), and I have a 120 qt in the old style (green with a tan interior) and those coolers work great and will keep ice for 5 days as advertised.

The last time I used my newer style, the cooler was in a hotel room, full of already cold beer and I had the cooler most of the way full. I put the ice in at 10am and at 6pm, at least half the ice had melted. I told my friend that was with about how disappointed I was with the cooler and he told me that he threw his away because it was junk.

I have also used a few cheaper igloo coolers as well and been fairly disappointed. Right now Im trying to decide between the older style 62qt Xtreme for my hunting trips and weekend camping or getting a yeti and being done with it.

 

[Archerm]

If you Jump up one model to the Coleman Extreme Marine Cooler you will have a great cooler. A few years ago they did a review on top coolers and it ranked right up there with Yeti and Icy tech coolers. I have two of the Coleman Extreme Marines on my boat and they have been great and 1/4 of the price of a Yeti.

 

[DWD]

Another advantage of the Coleman Marine coolers is they have stainless steel hinges. The hinge screws still only go into the plastic but at least the hinge has less chance of failure. Some of the older marine coolers had thicker walls and seemed to hold ice better. The Xtreme 58/82 quart still have thicker walls but it looks like Coleman has transitioned all other coolers to thinner walls. My new style 120 qt marine 6 has walls about 1 1/4" thick and my new style 70 qt marine 6 is 1 1/8". The 70 qt does not perform as well as my older Coleman's. Have not used the 120 qt enough yet to get an opinion as to whether its better than the older style. In any case, the Coleman Marine/Xtreme coolers are as good as it gets for the price.

 

[LitenFast]

I have been debating the same thing but in 2013 I bought a cheap Coleman 150 quart cooler at Walmart. When I went to Colorado from Wisconsin I stopped in the last town before I got to my hunting area I went into the local grocery store and bought enough bags of ice to fill the cooler and a few pounds of dry ice then I put all of the bags of ice at the dry ice on top I then closed the cooler, through it in the back of my truck which has a black cap/topper. I drove to my unit, and it sat under the cap with two blankets over the top for a 6 day backpack hunt in temps up to the 70s but mostly highs in the 60s. When i got back to the truck, unfortunately without an elk. I looked in the cooler and saw that not one cube of ice had melted and a bit of the dry ice was left. When I got back home in Wisconsin almost two days later the bags were still frozen solid.
I was amazed, I remember it was two small chunks of dry ice roughly the size of a Bible in paper bags.
This was without precooling, and with two army surplus blankets over it inside a black truck cap. I believe the big cooler was on sale for about 70$ and doesn't even have latches, so it is far from one of the higher end models.

I want a yeti type badly, but that for me as an every other year western hunter took away a lot of my reasoning.

I get the durability argument for sure as my igloo marine cooler on my salmon boat gets pretty beat up and patched on once in awhile.

Hopefully between the boat and a future increase in trip frequency, I can justify one in a few years, but I feel it is a tough sell for one trip a year.

 

[bbrown]

http://www.coleman.com/product/70-q.../3000001845?contextCategory=8581#.VddujflVhBd

Just got back from guiding a 4 day cow elk hunt using the Coleman 70Q Xtreme in the back of the truck for refreshments. Precooled/froze it first, then added (4) ice blocks (Simply Orange juice containers that were filled with water and froze). Filled it with a case of bottled waters, few monsters and some other odds and ends. The ice lasted thru the 3rd day and the drinks were still reasonably cold by the 4th.

Granted I was pretty much doing everything wrong by leaving the cooler uncovered in the back of the truck getting beaten up by the sun and 80*+ day time highs. I bet it was opened no less than a dozen times each day for drinks and the final straw was throwing in a bag of backstraps and tenderloins on top. Considering all of that I was fairly impressed.

I would opt for the marine all white coolers over any of the colors of the other lines they offer - especially the dark colors. My old blue wheeled Coleman is still going strong but seems to heat up much quicker. Also wheeled coolers seem like a great idea but those wheels eat up a ton of the space inside.

 

[5MilesBack]

Just got back from a scouting trip with my new Coleman Extreme 6 120qt cooler from Walmart for $57.33. In July I picked up the Igloo cooler that Costco sells for $99 and on a scouting trip my frozen milk jugs were completely melted by day 3. Took it back.

The Extreme 6 performed well. The same three days, and all the frozen milk jugs were still mostly frozen......I'd guess at least 75% still a chunk of ice inside. I tried squeezing a couple and couldn't squeeze much at all. Just some water sloshing around the top.

So.......looks like I found a good cheap alternative when I don't want to haul the 200qt IRP Marine beast around.