Yeti Size for 4 Quartered Whitetail Deer

[Ty17]

Does anyone on here have experience with putting several deer in a Yeti 250? We travel to a lease to hunt whitetail deer. Myself, my wife, and my kid all hunt, so sometimes we shoot 4-6 deer on a trip. I’m looking to buy one huge cooler that we can fit 4 quartered whitetail deer in. These would be southeast white tails, so no 250lb Wisconsin deer or anything, average does are 120 and bucks are 150-170ish. I have 2 105s now, and one of them will almost hold 2 deer. I’m thinking a 250 will hold 4 comfortably but I’m not sure.

 

[S-3 ranch]

In for the feedback from other people
As I have a 100qt pelican and can manage 3 deer in it ( hams , straps, forequarters , neck) with it layered in ice , drain open
This next weekend we will take 6-8 and I have a 200 qt in my garage but room in the back of my truck is limited

 

[Louro]

Yeah, the big cooler is a compromise, plenty of room for meat but limited room for gear. Specially for short bed trucks. For a one bone out white tail a 65 quart is good.

 

[KyleR1985]

Do you have power at the lease?

Bring chest freezer, debone meat and wrap or vacuum seal and freeze it before driving home.

Less money than a giant cooler and more versatile and remove time sensitivity from logistics.

Only works if you have power.

For what it’s worth I’ve quartered deer and left hide on and froze them in my big chest freezer and didn’t process till months later. Good as new when I did. Saying this to say you could freeze bone on quarters no wrap and get home just fine.

This is even a better idea if you have a truck with inverter powerful enough to run freezer.

 

[tt_johnsclist]

Not a yeti, but quarts are quarts. I fit 2 does or one mature buck into a Coleman 100 with a little room to spare. With some careful packing I think I could get 3 does in. Bone them out and you can fit a lot more.

 

[TSAMP]

I have a 125 and I've put 1 midwest buck and a doe in it with room to spare. But generally if im using a cooler I need room for frozen jugs. So that does consume space.

That said. Moving this cooler loaded is a chore. My wife can't lift her half so I've occasionally had to recruit my neighbor to help me unload a full cooler.

Cant imagine wanting a bigger one vs two smaller.

 

[Weldor]

If you de-bone them you could easily get 4 in a 150 with room left. We get 2 bone in in a 150. One bad thing with coolers that big is you can't load them up unless they are already in the truck bed, 4 deer and Yeti I'm not trying to pick that up We used to do the Roto-molded cooler went back to Coleman extreme's they take up less room and weigh way less. My Grizzly 60 qt weighs 30 lbs empty vs my Coleman 150 extreme weighs around 28 lbs empty. Texas trip a few years back we had 5 deer in a Orca and it took 3 ranch hands and 2 of us to get it in the pick-up.

 

[TSAMP]

If you de-bone them you could easily get 4 in a 150 with room left. We get 2 bone in in a 150. One bad thing with coolers that big is you can't load them up unless they are already in the truck bed, 4 deer and Yeti I'm not trying to pick that up We used to do the Roto-molded cooler went back to Coleman extreme's they take up less room and weigh way less. My Grizzly 60 qt weighs 30 lbs empty vs my Coleman 150 extreme weighs around 28 lbs empty. Texas trip a few years back we had 5 deer in a Orca and it took 3 ranch hands and 2 of us to get it in the pick-up.

 

[alexnelon]

I know for a fact that 3 will fit in a 160qt quartered out with block ice and not super cramped.

I'd bet 5-6 bone-in would fit in a 250.

I'm a big fan of fish kill bags over coolers though.

 

[S-3 ranch]

If you de-bone them you could easily get 4 in a 150 with room left. We get 2 bone in in a 150. One bad thing with coolers that big is you can't load them up unless they are already in the truck bed, 4 deer and Yeti I'm not trying to pick that up We used to do the Roto-molded cooler went back to Coleman extreme's they take up less room and weigh way less. My Grizzly 60 qt weighs 30 lbs empty vs my Coleman 150 extreme weighs around 28 lbs empty. Texas trip a few years back we had 5 deer in a Orca and it took 3 ranch hands and 2 of us to get it in the pick-up.

Yeah a 200-300 qt fish coffin, full of meat or fish will have to live in the truck bed
Even a 150qt is a hard deal for 2 guys to wrestle in to truck

 

[Ty17]

The cooler will stay in the trailer until it’s emptied and the deer are processed and in the freezer. I process everything myself so I’m not needing to get the cooler out of the trailer to drop it off or anything.

I don’t want to freeze the meat then have to thaw it back out to process it when I get home so the chest freezer idea won’t fly.

I do kinda like the fish bag idea. I bet I could get 4 of those and just put one deer in each one. How long will those hold ice once the meat is cooled down?

Sounds like if I go the Yeti 250 route, it should hold 4 deer.

 

[alexnelon]

I do kinda like the fish bag idea. I bet I could get 4 of those and just put one deer in each one. How long will those hold ice once the meat is cooled down?

Depends a lot on ambient temperature, but this time of year 36-48 hours easy.

 

[Hill Difficulty]

Many more advantages to have two 100+ quart rotomold coolers vs one 250 quart.

Half the time I'm using them for dry storage when traveling to destination. Other is 250 would be very limiting per mobility, use of space, weight burden, etc.

Can fit 2.5 adult whitetails quartered on leg bones per cooler (Engel 123 qt).

 

[BCsteve]

If you actually need a cooler that big I would build a plywood box with 2” pink styrofoam for a fraction of the cost of the Yeti and you can build it the size and shape you want.

 

[alexnelon]

If you actually need a cooler that big I would build a plywood box with 2” pink styrofoam for a fraction of the cost of the Yeti and you can build it the size and shape you want.

Especially in a trailer you could just build it into the side easy as you please.