A thermally protective storage cooler with a plurality of hardened material walls. The cooler also has at least one aperture formed in a first wall of the hardened material walls and at least two apertures formed in a second wall of the hardened material walls. In the cooler, the second wall is adjacent the first wall so that each of the at least one aperture and the at least two apertures is for receiving a respective portion of a body of game when a portion of the body of the game is stored in an interior of the cooler.