Day hunt pack list

[Bmcox86]

Here's what I plan to wear and carry on my day hunts this year, won't be able to do multi day trips due to not having a partner to hunt with. I plan to leaving my truck before daylight and return right after dusk, probally cover 6-10 miles each day depending on sign and pressure.

Please let me know if you think I have to much or am missing something. Plan on gutting and dragging the deer out due to not having any experience boning out in the field.

Day Hunt Pack List

Badlands Diablo
Ruger 270
10 rounds

Mountain Hardware Rainshell
Vest
Spare orange vest
Baclava
Gloves
Extra Pair of Socks
Small pack towel
Binos
Range finder
GPS
Camera
TP
Matches
Spare Glasses
Small first aid kit, with quick clot, gauze, medical tape, Advil, hand warmers
Headlamp
Surefire defender with spare battieres


Food and Snacks
64oz camelback
16oz water bottle
Trail mix
Jerky
Pepperoni Rolls
Payday
Apple
Hammer gel

Kill Kit
Havalon knife and 4 blades
Fixed blade knife
Drag line
Rubber Gloves
Hand sanitizer
Trash bag


Wearing
Merino tops and bottoms, core4 element pants, core4 soft shell and gaiters
Orange vest and orange cap

[pashok23]

Get more rounds.never know what can happened in the field.ure alone

[Bmcox86]

Forgot to mention I'll have my glock in a thigh holster with a full mag also

[jackelope]

20' or so of 550 cord.

[coachcw]

for sure ad on's , lighter, led headlamp , a roll of sports tape and some game bags , the rubber gloves and towel aren't necessary. one good knife and maybe a pocket knife (lighter ) , I carry a life straw and 64 oz should be plenty . ad some parachute cord maybe a trash sack ( to carry first meat out ). have a pack frame in your truck  . make on trip out with horns and back straps tenderloins.then grab pack frame . you can carry a hind and front quarter in one trip easy if you don't wanna bone the whole thing should be easy for you to pull quarters and the straps out. If I was more than 1/4 in I wouldn't drag a deer . I last deer I drug out on my own was one of the dumbest thing I've ever done , three miles two down hill and one flat mile , I was so exhausted that I couldn't get him in my truck and i'm a big dude.

[Skyvalhunter]

Guess next time you will be boning him out

[j_h_nimrod]

for sure ad on's , lighter, led headlamp , a roll of sports tape and some game bags , the rubber gloves and towel aren't necessary. one good knife and maybe a pocket knife (lighter ) , I carry a life straw and 64 oz should be plenty . ad some parachute cord maybe a trash sack ( to carry first meat out ). have a pack frame in your truck  . make on trip out with horns and back straps tenderloins.then grab pack frame . you can carry a hind and front quarter in one trip easy if you don't wanna bone the whole thing should be easy for you to pull quarters and the straps out. If I was more than 1/4 in I wouldn't drag a deer . I last deer I drug out on my own was one of the dumbest thing I've ever done , three miles two down hill and one flat mile , I was so exhausted that I couldn't get him in my truck and i'm a big dude.

I agree with all above. A LED headlamp is a must. I drug my mature mulie out only 200-300yds uphill last year and it was all I could do, I am also a big guy and pretty strong (100lb pack is not difficult) but all the dead weight and drag is tough. Boning is not difficult, I am not sure why people are scared to do it. It just take a few minutes longer, take your time to keep the meat clean though. I prefer to get the animal out whole or in bone in quarters but that is not always a good option.

Not sure why you don't want to do a multi day hunt because you don't have a partner.  I prefer it that way and plan on heading out on my own tomorrow evening for two nights.

[Skyvalhunter]

Had a buddy who shot an average sized 3 point last year 1000 ft below the road. In just a short time he had it up to road with his chainsaw winch.

[JJB11B]

IMHO thats not enough water. especially if you knock something down a long ways from your truck. I would at least have more at your vehicle

[coachcw]

drag a big buck 300 yards up some of those Chelan slopes and you will wish you cut him up.

[coachcw]

I always have a case of water in my truck , a life straw weighs a couple ounces and is good to have if you blow through your water. in the warm weather a 100 oz gets me between hunts most days

[washelkhunter]

Your pack alone weighs 3lbs. Dump the camelback and the hand sanitizer. Extra pair of skivies and emergency bivy sack, compass, map and firestarter. 50ft of paracord, an led headlamp with bu light, plb is highly recommended if you are hunting alone; to only be used if you're severelly injured! Hammer gel? WTH? Dump the glock, get a 5-6 shot revolver. Jerky, pepperoni, payday, trail mix, apple," what are you a 7/11? Try half a ziplock bag of trailmix and just the apple with maybe 1or 2 mini snickers. 1 or 2 hardboiled eggs go a long way. Get rid of the havalon, go with a  3 blade folder that has the gut hook  and a saw blade. I carry 2 fixed blades and every kill ive had ive always needed and used the 3 blade folder.  2 one gallon freezer bags for the heart and liver. Dump the range finder, learn how to eyeball distance.

[coachcw]

my daypack weighs 20-25 lbs . keeps you in shape to pack meat !

[JLS]

I would jetison the following:

Glock
Hand sanitizer
Spare orange vest
Extra socks (wear wool and you don't need dry ones)
Extra knife

I usually carry at least 70 oz of water, more if it's hot and no water is readily available for filtering.

Make sure you have compass and firestarter, your GPS can fail you.  Carry at least two sources of fire ignition (i.e. matches AND lighter).

Hammer gel is good emergency item, I always carry a couple, they are light.

A good fixed blade will easily do a critter.  My KOA Alpha Wolf did an elk and a deer this year without even touching the blade.

I hate dragging deer.  I'd much rather make them into pieces and put those on my pack.

Good luck on your hunt.

[Slimdog350]

for sure ad on's , lighter, led headlamp , a roll of sports tape and some game bags , the rubber gloves and towel aren't necessary. one good knife and maybe a pocket knife (lighter ) , I carry a life straw and 64 oz should be plenty . ad some parachute cord maybe a trash sack ( to carry first meat out ). have a pack frame in your truck  . make on trip out with horns and back straps tenderloins.then grab pack frame . you can carry a hind and front quarter in one trip easy if you don't wanna bone the whole thing should be easy for you to pull quarters and the straps out. If I was more than 1/4 in I wouldn't drag a deer . I last deer I drug out on my own was one of the dumbest thing I've ever done , three miles two down hill and one flat mile , I was so exhausted that I couldn't get him in my truck and i'm a big dude.

Definitely the para cord and game bags. I would get rid of the extra orange. Good choice on the havalon, super sharp and light weight. Throw in a few extra batteries for your headlamp! Good luck on your hunt man. Enjoy the pack!

[jackelope]

Your pack alone weighs 3lbs. Dump the camelback and the hand sanitizer. Extra pair of skivies and emergency bivy sack, compass, map and firestarter. 50ft of paracord, an led headlamp with bu light, plb is highly recommended if you are hunting alone; to only be used if you're severelly injured! Hammer gel? WTH? Dump the glock, get a 5-6 shot revolver. Jerky, pepperoni, payday, trail mix, apple," what are you a 7/11? Try half a ziplock bag of trailmix and just the apple with maybe 1or 2 mini snickers. 1 or 2 hardboiled eggs go a long way. Get rid of the havalon, go with a  3 blade folder that has the gut hook  and a saw blade. I carry 2 fixed blades and every kill ive had ive always needed and used the 3 blade folder.   2 one gallon freezer bags for the heart and liver. Dump the range finder, learn how to eyeball distance.

You're losing me here. You're saying lose the havalon but carry 2 fixed blades and a 3 blade folder? What do you need the saw for? You can easily break down a deer with a Havalon and some elbow grease. Then you say to get rid of the rangefinder, presumably to save weight? I don't disagree about learning how to eyeball distance, I just don't see the logic in carrying 3 knives yet dumping the rangefinder. Odds are he's not going to learn how to efficiently judge distance in the next 24 hours.
What's the difference between having a Glock and having a revolver? He's got a rifle already, I say lose both.

[jackelope]

my daypack weighs 20-25 lbs . keeps you in shape to pack meat !

I'm with you, coach.

[runningboard]

my daypack weighs 20-25 lbs . keeps you in shape to pack meat !

I'm with you, coach.

I would disable the battery powered stuff especially flashlights with cardboard over the end of the batteries and carry extra batteries.
ditch the extra orange? what's it weigh 2-3 ounces? keep it and put it on your buck for YOUR OWN safety.
I don't carry a towel but have 3-5 blue shop paper towels that go a long way, I put them in a Ziploc cuz they will soak up moisture

[lostbackpacker]

I have never understood the need to carry a side arm when you are rifle hunting. 

[Special T]

Some of you may not have read the story on here about the guy in the ID panhandle that got surrounded by  a dozen wolves with his rifle that was a 4 shot gun! He shot one cause he had a tag, and tried to "haze" the next closest one 12 yards with a shot in the dirt, and none of them flinched... Take the glock, and you can never bring too much ammo. 

[lostbackpacker]

Some of you may not have read the story on here about the guy in the ID panhandle that got surrounded by  a dozen wolves with his rifle that was a 4 shot gun! He shot one cause he had a tag, and tried to "haze" the next closest one 12 yards with a shot in the dirt, and none of them flinched... Take the glock, and you can never bring too much ammo. 

why not just take more ammo for the rifle? 

[Special T]

If you don't have a clip fed rifle and/or you have wolves in close proximity that have no real fear which would you prefer to carry? OR how about 3 tweekers that are giving you trouble?

[jackelope]

I carry a single shot rifle.
 

Sometimes I carry my pistol but usually only if I'm bowhunting or if I'm spending the night in the woods or something like that.
I'll wait till all the wolves are in a line then kill them all with 1 shot just like the guy with the 2 mountain lions this year.
 

[Broken Arrow]

We call day packs "going slick willy". Just depends on how you hunt i guess. The stuff you have listed is more like a spike camp to me. I actually carry two packs in my camp. My day pack is is a shoulder strap fanny and my regular pack at Badlands 2800. To me you have WAY to much stuff for a day hunt.

[Bmcox86]

So I've taken some opinions and revised my list, I'm going to be carrying my eberlestock now when I'm more than an mile or two from the truck. I added paracord, game bags, zip ties,  and a lighter. I will have a few gallons of water in the truck and I forgot to mention my water bottle is a filter bottle so I can dip it in any stream and have purified water. I do wear wool socks, probably the best wool socks made, but it doesn't help you if you cross a stream and go in over your boot and wet socks equals blisters.

I'm not worried about weight, I just weighed my pack and it's only 13 pounds loaded full. Glocks on the thigh so I don't even notice that.

[fastdam]

Along with your compass I would also take a map.