fairchaser
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I still have a container of camo dust somewhere. It's completely full too!
Most OVERRATED hunting gear?
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BSK
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Pee bottles you attach to the tree or your stand. Just pee on the ground. Deer find it fascinating. And if you pee out of your stand, you can call deer to you.
That reminds me of a story a hunting buddy told me. Several years ago - probably 20 - my buddy was all about scent-free hunting, including peeing in a bottle (he now knows better). A friend of his who had very little hunting experience told him he wanted to go with him and try to get his first deer. My buddy gives him the rundown of all the pre-hunt stuff he needed to do/bring, including the bottle for when nature calls. They hunt separate stands that morning and afterward my buddy goes and picks him up. He asked how the hunt was and the guy said he sure was glad he brought a big gatorade bottle because sure enough he had to go while up in the stand - except he misunderstood the concept and POOPED in the gatorade bottle! Then he put the lid back on and had it in his pack! I have no idea how he pulled it off.
BSK
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Too funny!
Racknquack
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No question, deer piss for me. It has NEVER worked for me. Scares em off every time I see a deer cross it. Swore it off.
Rakkin6
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I pee in a bottle so I don't get it on my stand and boots lol. I bring 4 or 5 bottles of water with me for an all day hunt and just use them. Once I climb down they get emptied.
It may be little but it's cute.
It may be little but it's cute.
BSK
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Pee bottles have shown me how old I'm getting. Back in my late 20s and early 30s, I could nearly fill a 20 oz Mellow Yellow bottle to the top in a single piss. Now, when I REALLY have to go, I barely cover the bottom of the bottle!
I always wondered if the cough silencer might double as a silencer for my 22??? Probably would have worked better than it did at silencing a cough!
jag1
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I only laugh cause I'm getting to that stage in life. I actually think about how long I'll be driving and whether or not I should go before I leave. Getting older sucks.
RobDooley
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Dang skippy. Dangerous but they were the best we had in the day. Still have two in attic.
WanderingNomad
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Had a guy in our deer camp use a big funnel and a length of garden so he could pee in his deer stand and it would run into the ground..
Rakkin6
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Not that dedicated, but I guess to each their own. Like I said I just don't want there to be an accident and especially when bundled up in December on all day sits it's hard to adjust lol.
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Butt out
There's only one thing that comes to mind that I'm passionate about hating. Rage broadheads. Out of all the crap I've tried, they are the only thing I am 100% confident in saying they cost me a deer. I hate them.
A funny/nostalgic one… guy we used to hunt with was semi-wealthy (way more so than the rest of us) and he'd show up often with some new stuff for us to try out or play with. One time back in the late 90s he showed up with a heat seeking tool that was supposed to help find a deer over the hills and through the trees by picking up on it's heat signature. It was pretty expensive and came with a vhs instruction/demo tape. It was handheld, you slowly scammed back and forth and watched the indicator, similar to a metal detector but you scanned it like a radar. That thing was absolutely USELESS. It couldn't pick up a live guy in the middle of a snow covered pasture.
A funny/nostalgic one… guy we used to hunt with was semi-wealthy (way more so than the rest of us) and he'd show up often with some new stuff for us to try out or play with. One time back in the late 90s he showed up with a heat seeking tool that was supposed to help find a deer over the hills and through the trees by picking up on it's heat signature. It was pretty expensive and came with a vhs instruction/demo tape. It was handheld, you slowly scammed back and forth and watched the indicator, similar to a metal detector but you scanned it like a radar. That thing was absolutely USELESS. It couldn't pick up a live guy in the middle of a snow covered pasture.
^^^also remember the same guy showing up with the predecessor to the trail camera. A timer with a trip wire, you would set the time and put the trip wire across a game trail. In theory it told you what time of day/night the deer came through. In reality, absolutely anything could trip the wire and the info you gained was, at least to us, absolutely useless lol
Yes, I bought one of those…
Rakkin6
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Lol, but I won't lie when you do an all day sit and everytime you hear what might be a deer behind you it's a squirrel. Then exactly when you think it's a squirrel you turn to fast or at the wrong time and boom busted.
jag1
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Not sure if it's still on the market OR what it's name is but it was a spray that you would use to help show a blood trail in the evening time. Bought some over 20 years ago to use if needed during bow season but never used it. Anybody ever use it and was it any good?
Rakkin6
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No I never used that but my buddy had a light that detected blood and it worked decently. Doesn't glow like on the crime shows since you need luminol but it definitely puts off a contrasting appearance.
