What's something unique or personal you bring on hunting trips?

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  1. entropyfx

    entropyfx Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Packing for Canada, got to thinking, what is something unique or personal you bring on every hunting trip?

    For me I bring a small knife given to me by my father, separate from my skinning and dressing knives. Just for luck.


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    My CPAP machine. I SNORE like a bear
     
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    Parker70 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    I always take a buck 110 in the woods/on trips with me. It was the last Christmas gift my brother gave me.
     
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    My binky.
     
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    SAME!!! My marriage has been much better since I started using one almost three years ago...LOL!!!
     
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    My lucky deer hunting socks!
     
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    Fitz Legendary Woodsman

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    I bring Awesomeness.


    ... doesn't do me any good though.
     
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    A 5 leaf clover, that I found years ago.
     
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    I got nothing that I bring with me in the stand. I do have a 4" rappala presentation filet knife that I have used on every fish I have caught and game I have gutted since 1989.
     
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    I always take my buck 102 knife. It was given to me when I turned 8 on Xmas by my father. Some how I've managed to never lose it over the years (27). I think when my nephew turns 8 I will pass it down to him since my daughter could careless and I'm not going to have any more kids.

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    Best laid plans...at 27yo dude, I wouldn't be too quick to give that heirloom away, lol. Fate may have something to say about "no more kids" yet.
     
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    Nope. No more kids for this guy. I'm almost 35. My daughter will be off to college when I'm 38.

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    Ah, I see what you meant now on the age, I didn't account for your age when you got the knife, I thought you meant you were now 27, lol.
     
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    I have a small stuffed bear i bring on my canada bear hunts. It stay with me til i shoot one. Then i give it to someone in camp tgat hasnt shot one yet. When i leave camp at the end of the week, i leave it with the outfitter to give to someone in the next weeks camp. Everyone who has received the bear, has shot one & recovered it. Have done this the past 4 yr & bear has always comes back home!

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  16. Dogfish

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    Can you overnight it to me? Leaving Friday for a 4day bear hunt... lol

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    Lol Sounds like fun! Good luck!!

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    I will be carrying my handgun in a holster my grandfather made for me, its leather with an elk engraved on the side. I also like tying different feathers I find to my Marlin 336. So far I have turkey, goose and a few others.
     
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    I carry a medicine bag...which was a must have item for the hunt many years ago...but seems to be unique in today's world.
     
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    I do this as well, it has, Oxycodone, advil, cotton, bandages, wrap, antiseptic, a scalpel and a couple of mini bottles of Jack.
     
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    I always bring two things.
    1. An old handmade knife that my dad gave me a few days before my first deer hunt. I didn't know that he was going to take me at that time. I figured I'd have to wait another season or so. The conversation went something like this.
    Dad: What to you think of this old knife?
    Me: It's cool.
    Dad: You can have it... You're gonna need a good knife if you're going hunting with me this weekend.
    Me: Really??? WooHoo!
    2. Peanuts in the shell. I love sitting around the campfire or on the cabin porch eating peanuts and telling stories with dad and my brother in law.
     
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