Day hunt pack list

[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.