Archery Talk

I wish I could break my habit of a backpack, but I can't break my habit of having an extra layer(rain gear) and room for when I shed a layer hiking out.
Plus h2o, snack, first aid, drag strap, and a couple Ziploc bags.

 

Everybody’s situation is different. I only hunt private land and I have several stands set up on every farm I hunt, which I leave up all season. All of my stands are set up on roadways and old logging roads that I’ve been mowing for several years. In my case, I really don’t need a pack...Yes, I have forgotten one thing or another and had to go back to my truck.

 

I've gotten all the way to a tree and left my bow in the truck
Side note:
I've also gotten to a tree and left my treestand in the truck. More than twice.

 

I’ve forgotten my release several times and my quiver a time or two but never my bow!!

 

I'm an idiot!

 

As long as you guys don’t forget yourselves I think you can figure out
A work around.

I carry a backpack as well as my fanny pack.
I have backups of essentials.

so far my only “ oh shit “ is my cocking rope.
So used the one in my fanny pack. Then found my primary in
The backpack under my sandwich....

so cocking rope
Licenses
Flashlight
Compasses
Are a few things I have double of in two different bags.

better to have it and not need it...

 

No pack?

From the bottom up:

Kill Kit - Zip Ties for attaching tag, gloves for field dressing, paper towels, extra knife, small first aid kit.

Safety Harness

Clothing layers - varies as the season progresses. May be just a light jacket and a First Lite long sleeve wick tee shirt, or several other layers depending on temps.

Gloves, facemask, release in a lighweight beenie.

Small pocket inside main compartment - License, rangefinder, two grunt calls, Primos Doe Bleat can call

Outside bottom pocket - small saw and clippers, two bungee cords, 50' paracord. Thats helpful for when the deer dies in an inconvenient location and a leg needs held out of the way for field dressing. Bungee cords are for attaching my sticks and stand if I want to move it. Saw and clippers are for if I do.

Small Upper Pocket - Flo orange ribbon, Headlamp, flashlight, compass, whistle, (2)extra tree hooks, (1)extra carabiner for safety harness.

 

me going to my stand with the bare essentials

 

Jacket pockets:
Top right; phone, reading glasses
Top left; compass, tags, truck keys
Bottom left; gloves, sock hat
Bottom right; chew, small bottle
Cargo pants pockets:
Left; seat attachment strap, small knife (in case I have to cut my harness; believe me...it's a possiblity.)
Right; grunt call, small flashlight
Right side cargo pocket; limb saw

I leave my field dressing knife in the truck; when I shoot one I always take my bow and treestand back to the truck before I retrieve the deer.

 

I'm going to Illinois to look for my tags in a minute. If I don't find them (which I'm confident I won't) I'll see about getting replacements from an OTC vendor. If that happens I'll get in a tree this afternoon. It's cold and breezy today, a little breezier than I like, but whatever. I go back to work Wednesday after 35 days off. Good luck to those of you that are still bowhunting.

 

Good luck finding your license

 

Thank you. My guess is that as I was emptying my jacket contents into my hunting bag I dropped them. I checked the parking lot yesterday and no luck. There was a truck parked there so I didn't walk back to the tree I was hunting from, doing that today. I also left a note and phone # on his windshield in case he found them but no calls as of yet.

 

Snowing and 20 mph winds here. Hopefully it stops and deer start moving around me soon. Nothing yet

 

Took my son hunting weds. afternoon. I have to take my glasses off to look through the binoculars. At last light I was giving one last look and laid my glasses down on my leg like I always do but since it was dark I forgot to put them back on. I can see good up close, can't see far off. We got to the truck, I started it and turned the lights on and realized I couldn't see. We drove to the blind, one of us stepped on them on the way out. I straightened them out and they fit better than they did before

 

I still have never found a pair of binos I don’t have to take my glasses off to look through. It’s miserable

 

I wore glasses for years. Switched to contacts awhile back. But I would either roll the eye cups down, or as with my Nikons or Vortex's rotate the eye cups inward.

 

I have a pair of Nikons and Bushnells, have tried rolling the eye cups down on both and still can't get a good view. I can't wear contacts with all the metal work I do and grinding dust.

 

I use vortex crossfire binos with glasses and it works pretty well for me.

 

Yep same for me. I’ve tried vortex, Nikon, and tried a friends Leopold binos and none gave me a good picture

 

I looked under my seat last night. Twice. With a flashlight.
Just saw this little feller 10 minutes ago.