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

[Hillbilly Hunter]

We used red fox pee back in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no way fox pee smells that bad!!! I went to stepping in cow piles and even deer crap to mask scent on my boots and rubbed cedar limbs on my clothes. I think cedar is a great cover scent. I started using the green liquid soap in the early to mid 90's and still do.

 

[Bone Collector]

cover scents are the main ones I recall.

 

[ronnycl]

Battery heated socks. I think it worked of a D battery up in calf area. The wires running down in the socks would burn your skin.

 

[Antler Daddy]

I used skunk scent,,, before I got in the vehicle,,,, on my boots and clothes....

i still have some synthetic skunk scent from probably 1984. You mix it to with a dropper to get the smell. When I was young, I used it all the time and my parents were very accomodating.

I still have it just in case somebody really ticks me off and need a treatment in their vehicle or shoes.

 

[TNRifleman]

My first "hunting" knife i bought myself at age 14.

 

[themanpcl]

My first "hunting" knife i bought myself at age 14.View attachment 210785

did you have the "rambo" with the compartment in the handle?

 

[redblood]

Scent a way

 

[Biggun4214]

I used skunk scent,,, before I got in the vehicle,,,, on my boots and clothes....

I heard rumors of some hunters using it on the car of the brother of a landowner. She didn't want hunters but wouldn't prosecute. The brother would walk around the property to look for trespassers. Don't think he ever found any. I'm not sure what he would/could do if he had. Some of them didn't have a good reputation.

 

[Biggun4214]

I never bought one but a friend did. They made this grunt tube type thing. It wasn't one that you blew. You held it in your hand and it had a little plastic piece. One piece was like a corrugated tube and the other was like a little curved scraper that you slid across it. If you did it slowly it would make a clicking noise, faster and it sounded kinda like a grunt. He said he thought it was worthless, until one time he was hunting and saw a buck making that clicking sound while tending a hot doe.

First grunt call I ever saw. Some guys from Hartsville were drawn for the first hunt ever on Henderson Island WMA had one.

 

[dsa5455]

I am laughing because almost all of the gadgets mentioned here from string timers to the butt out I have purchased through the years with the exception of Ozonics. I have always been a gadget guy thinking it would make me a better hunter. It didn't!! One item I spent lots of money on multiple times through out the years were the Monster Buck series and many more such VHS Video's. I was thinking why can't I figure out where these huge deer are at in Cheatam Wildlife. I look back now and think how could I be so naïve. The MB series was good for entertainment and probably set the stage among many hunters to let young smaller deer walk but at the time I was seeing small 4 pointers and spikes and nothing like they killed.

 

[Antler Daddy]

I am laughing because almost all of the gadgets mentioned here from string timers to the butt out I have purchased through the years with the exception of Ozonics. I have always been a gadget guy thinking it would make me a better hunter. It didn't!! One item I spent lots of money on multiple times through out the years were the Monster Buck series and many more such VHS Video's. I was thinking why can't I figure out where these huge deer are at in Cheatam Wildlife. I look back now and think how could I be so naïve. The MB series was good for entertainment and probably set the stage among many hunters to let young smaller deer walk but at the time I was seeing small 4 pointers and spikes and nothing like they killed.

I do believe those videos showed the type of bucks possible in different locations if they could just get some age on them.

 

[TNRifleman]

did you have the "rambo" with the compartment in the handle?

Nope but you can rest assured I had 4 full magazines for my Remington 760 in 30-06 in my pocket.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Cant believe I bought a trail camera that used 35mm film...I'd go broke developing film today....another item I didnt buy but got for Christmas one year...and I cant believe I used it was the Baker treestand...amazing how times have changed.

 

[Bell3wv]

I don't know about the dumbeat thing, but I'm going to testify a lil about this EverCalm witchcraft stick scent. I starting using it a few years ago. I'm a believer. I was in a stand a couoke of weeks ago and I turned to my right and a small buck had me pegged down wind of me. I pulled the top of the EverCalm and watched him just go about his business with no concern. I did this a few times this season. I put it on my boots and on the tree when I get on the stand.

Sex Panter...60% of the time, it works every time. #Anchorman

 

[muddyboots]

The drurys dog whistle for turkey hunting

Hey I bought this thing and i
Promise first time I used turkeys gobbled every direction everytime I blew it. I never got it to work again. Lol.

 

[rifle02]

I never bought one, but the cough silencer was a funny one.

I remember those. I thought it might have been the world's best germ collector! It must have been nasty after being coughed in 40 times.

 

[muddyboots]

I'll second the ever calm. Works 100 per cent. Only scent I use. I do wash all my clothes in no scent and no scent dryer sheets.

Things I've bought
Drury dog whistle
String arrow tracker
I bought a climbing stand once at local coop. It slid apart and back together around tree. It was impossible to hook up. I left it at the first place I tried it. lol
Sitka jacket. I couldn't move it was made so tight.
Single shot Nef 3 1/2 turkey gun. It was a dream to carry but when it broke the lens out of the scope I had on it I decided the kick was just too bad.
Powerbelt bullets. 2 buddies and I tried them first year. After tracking 3 bucks in 2 days with no luck we whirlybirded the remainder out through the woods.
I can't think of anymore so I guess that's pretty good for 40 years. lol.

 

[rifle02]

C'mere deer. A call made of two flat pieces of plastic with some kind of reed. It was whiny sounding. Bucks must have been turned off by it I guess.

 

[knightrider]

I'll second the ever calm. Works 100 per cent. Only scent I use. I do wash all my clothes in no scent and no scent dryer sheets.

Things I've bought
Drury dog whistle
String arrow tracker
I bought a climbing stand once at local coop. It slid apart and back together around tree. It was impossible to hook up. I left it at the first place I tried it. lol
Sitka jacket. I couldn't move it was made so tight.
Single shot Nef 3 1/2 turkey gun. It was a dream to carry but when it broke the lens out of the scope I had on it I decided the kick was just too bad.
Powerbelt bullets. 2 buddies and I tried them first year. After tracking 3 bucks in 2 days with no luck we whirlybirded the remainder out through the woods.
I can't think of anymore so I guess that's pretty good for 40 years. lol.

Fractured my cheek bone with a nef 31/2 shooting the old win supreme hv #5

 

[muddyboots]

Fractured my cheek bone with a nef 31/2 shooting the old win supreme hv #5

I can see it. I think I loosened some fillings.