Hunting items that you sorta can’t believe you purchased??

[Antler Daddy]

I swear I hear people with these things on public often. That's when you know it's time to relocate

That can will call in deer. For sure, it will call in does and sometimes bucks.

 

[Biggun4214]

The whole thing in a nutshell is that most of these products "worked" for enough people that they made money for their companies.

I watched Bill Dance catch bass after bass on the Dance'n Eel. I must have threw one close to a half million times and never got a hit.

 

[Laserman1]

Not a hunting item but I stiff have never caught a fish on that Budweiser lure.

 

[Smo]

Not a hunting item but I stiff have never caught a fish on that Budweiser lure.

If you do it'll probably be a sucker…..

 

[Smo]

The whole thing in a nutshell is that most of these products "worked" for enough people that they made money for their companies.

I watched Bill Dance catch bass after bass on the Dance'n Eel. I must have threw one close to a half million times and never got a hit.

I did the same with a Dance's Craw…

 

[Iglow]

I didn't buy it , my brother gave to me but it was a bow sight that had a sliding trigger thing that you bracketed the deer in to adjust for distance. That was about 1980.

 

[Spurhunter]

The whole thing in a nutshell is that most of these products "worked" for enough people that they made money for their companies.

I watched Bill Dance catch bass after bass on the Dance'n Eel. I must have threw one close to a half million times and never got a hit.

Same! The difference is we weren't throwing it in Bill's stocked pond where the bass rarely see an artificial lure and would hit a shiny pair of fingernail clippers tied to a line.

 

[tdt5446]

Old school range finder where had to turn a dial and get the mirrors aligned right and it would tell you the yardage lol.

I still have one, it is actually pretty accurate.

 

[DMD]

That can will call in deer. For sure, it will call in does and sometimes bucks.

I've called in MANY deer with can call. Probably well over a 100 over the years, including probably 10-15 in one day at Catoosa several years ago.

 

[Spurhunter]

I stand corrected. The Can is the most effective deer call ever invented. I just don't have the proper technique for flipping the can over.

 

[Smo]

I'm a two can Guy….

Both have worked in certain situations for me…

 

[DMD]

I stand corrected. The Can is the most effective deer call ever invented. I just don't have the proper technique for flipping the can over.

It's all in the wrist!!

 

[TN Song Dog]

Squirrel Calling kit with VHS instructional video.

Also had a survival kit, including a string/strand i pulled out of the middle of para-cord and a fishing hook, in case I got stranded out on the back 40. Had some emergency drinking water in a mylar pouch and some canned GI peanut butter from Hugh Wade's Army Surplus store. Could of survived a few days out there!

 

[Bucket]

Woods Wise Game Calls, owned by Jerry Peterson made those in the 80s. He was based in Franklin, TN. I still have one somewhere.

I have a Pileated woodpecker locator call he made that I carry turkey hunting. Great call. Hate that he closed up shop.

 

[Lost Lake]

"The Can". I flipped that thing over so many times I probably have carpal tunnel and arthritis in my wrist and never called in one deer.

It's all in the wrist!!

I had a buddy accidentally fall, couldn't get stopped, and did a slow roll down a ridge. He had one of those cans in his small pack, and when he hit bottom, it let out a drawn out "BLAHHHHH."

I can't swear to it, but I thought I heard it bleating each time he rolled down that ridge.

Coulda just been the commotion from arms and legs flailing about. Can't swear to it.

 

[Spurhunter]

I had a buddy accidentally fall, couldn't get stopped, and did a slow roll down a ridge. He had one of those cans in his small pack, and when he hit bottom, it let out a drawn out "BLAHHHHH."

I can't swear to it, but I thought I heard it bleating each time he rolled down that ridge.

Coulda just been the commotion from arms and legs flailing about. Can't swear to it.

I'm sure the deer were running towards him from every direction!

 

[Lost Lake]

I'm sure the deer were running towards him from every direction!

They could've been! But, I was laughing so hard I'd never have seen them!