I’m in the market for a quality cooler. I don’t use them enough to go super expensive, just wanted something that wouldn’t warp or lose its seal after a few months. Think when I do buy (likely an Ozark Trail) I’ll send a pic of my purchase to Yeti with the comment “NRA member.”

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Yup. I have some tumblers. I won’t destroy them anymore than I would burn 20 dollar bills in protest, but they have seen my last business.

Destroying useful items you've already paid for is damn stupid. I would hope that no one who visits this forum is that dense.

Apparently Yeti issued a statement yesterday saying the NRA email was incorrect.

While expressing strong support for the 2A, they admit to ending one program to the NRA Foundation but only after they set up an alternate and wider one. They are rather torqued at the NRA for not telling the entire story.

Anyone have confirmation of the new plan?

Have you bothered to read the thread? It's mentioned only about a dozen times.

I agree that Yeti was trying to sneak this one by and got caught.

I frequently see people complain about everything being made in China now. RTIC and Ozark Trail may be cheaper but I'm tired of seeing US industries dry up. For anybody looking to buy a high end cooler this is a good opportunity to support a family owned US company like Bison coolers. As I mentioned before the ones I've bought from them have been excellent.

They have a webpage dedicated to what they mean by "Made in the USA":

https://www.bisoncoolers.com/b...-are-made-in-america

Lots of other good US made choices have been posted in this thread too.

If Yeti really wants to get back into our good graces let them finance pro 2a commercials and donate HEAVILY to the NRA and it's programs.

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
If Yeti really wants to get back into our good graces let them finance pro 2a commercials and donate HEAVILY to the NRA and it's programs.

...and not issue statements which say, half-heartedly, 'we support the whatchamacallit thingy'

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Originally posted by Leemur:
I’m in the market for a quality cooler. I don’t use them enough to go super expensive, just wanted something that wouldn’t warp or lose its seal after a few months. Think when I do buy (likely an Ozark Trail) I’ll send a pic of my purchase to Yeti with the comment “NRA member.”

I saw somewhere that Pelican will send $10 to the NRA for every cooler that you buy. Check it out. Not sure how it works but screw Yeti.

I’ve read a dozen artifles on the YETI debacle in the last day or so, including another one today posted by Fox News.

Same stuff we’ve all been reading except the last line....

“Last month, Yeti ended its plans to go public, citing “market conditions,” The Wall Street Journal reported.”

And right there my friends, right there you have it!

That’s the reason they torpedoed the NRA.

Market conditions.

IOW, the anti-second amendment corporate bandwagon.

Yup. Screw Yeti. Buh bye.

Hello Orca. Hello Orion.

Maybe it's just me...something I noticed right off looking at that picture for Pelican coolers (supporting the NRA)...the hunter, dressed in camo, is setting on the side of the truck bed holding a scoped rifle in one hand and what looks like a beer (Bud Light?) in the other...maybe that was a poor choice of props...

Or maybe it's just me.

YETI was bought by a holding company(Cortec) in 2012 so they're really not interested in anything other than the bottom line.
They don't care if their products are made on Mars if they could still charge a premium and not have an American manufacturing plant to soak up profits.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
Maybe it's just me...something I noticed right off looking at that picture for Pelican coolers (supporting the NRA)...the hunter, dressed in camo, is setting on the side of the truck bed holding a scoped rifle in one hand and what looks like a beer (Bud Light?) in the other...maybe that was a poor choice of props...

Or maybe it's just me.

I noticed that too and I agree.

Also read what they wrote...

We support the outdoors, hunters, etc blah blah blah. Typical leftist liberal hippie bullshit about the 2A being about hunting, etc.

Nowhere do they say we support the 2A 100% in all of its meanings, the right to protection, sport, hunting, and owing firearms just for the hell of it. And god bless the AR! USA!

They are trying to walk it back without pissing off the libs. Fuck them, I will not buy another, and I have bought a bunch that I have given customers with our logo. Ill find a new brand.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
Maybe it's just me...something I noticed right off looking at that picture for Pelican coolers (supporting the NRA)...the hunter, dressed in camo, is setting on the side of the truck bed holding a scoped rifle in one hand and what looks like a beer (Bud Light?) in the other...maybe that was a poor choice of props...

Or maybe it's just me.

Why is it poor? How many guys have a beer while hunting, or just out camping, hiking, whatever? A beer in your hand doesn't mean you are a drunken buffoon.

And I say this as someone who doesn't drink at all

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In a statement emailed to The Washington Post Monday night, Hammer said that it was “news to us” that Yeti dropped not only the NRA Foundation from the discount program but also other organizations.

“After three days Yeti issued a statement claiming they didn’t really drop the NRA Foundation,” she said. “They claim they simply eliminated the entire program affecting NRA Foundation and other unnamed organizations. Isn’t that like eliminating a job position so you can get rid of an employee?”

Boom,, Bumper! LOL

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the hunter, dressed in camo, is setting on the side of the truck bed holding a scoped rifle in one hand and what looks like a beer (Bud Light?) in the other...maybe that was a poor choice of props...

Ohh... c'mon, man!
We do that all the time when the hunt is over, we unload the guns and break open the cooler. The key is waiting until the shooting is over, IMO.

I don't want to hear one more word about this bottle of beer. Damn, guys. Lighten up.

Not another word about it

From what information has come out, it looks like both the NRA and the people at Yeti handled this way-wrong.

Blowing up a $20 cooler much less a $400 cooler to protest what may have been just poor communication from Yeti to the NRA makes “revenge porn” with a tranny Haitian hooker sound reasonable.

The NRA-ILA's retort to Yeti's pathetic, whoops we had no idea this shit was going viral response...

DATE: April 24, 2018
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President


If it wasn’t bad enough that YETI dropped The NRA Foundation as a client, now they’re calling us liars because we informed our members and friends of their actions.

The NRA Foundation has over 1,100 “Friends of NRA Committees” around the country. These committees host banquets and auctions that are attended by hundreds of thousands of guests each year. These events raise funds to support charitable causes and programs. The NRA Foundation supports the needs of youth programs for education, safety and training, as well as law enforcement needs, shooting ranges and conservation programs.

For many years we have purchased coolers from YETI for our auctions. We have auctioned off many thousands of YETI coolers each year. YETI recently dropped The NRA Foundation as a client. Not only would they not take our orders for more coolers, they forced us to cancel orders already in the system that they said they would not fill.

Three days after we notified you of YETI’s decision to drop The NRA Foundation, YETI issued their prepared statement in which they admit they dropped us but claim they simply eliminated the discount program and dropped other (unnamed) organizations as well. That’s news to us.

Perhaps the people writing YETI’s damage control statements are not talking to the people who enforced YETI’s decisions and refused our orders. We had even offered the YETI Roadie in one of our sponsorship levels for 2018 – which we’ve had to cancel.

We told you the truth.

YETI’s attempts at damage control is to say our statement is not accurate. Shame on you again YETI. You know you made a mistake. A big one. Now you must live with your mistake.