Top 10 Bowhunting Essentials.

[Jonathan_S]

I'd rather dry scrape with a shop towel.  But every girl is different, I guess.

It's an acquired taste.

[elk247]

I'd rather dry scrape with a shop towel.  But every girl is different, I guess.

It's an acquired taste.

It's only weird in the wintertime. 

[Jonathan_S]

I'd rather dry scrape with a shop towel.  But every girl is different, I guess.

It's an acquired taste.

It's only weird in the wintertime. 

Sounds terrible.

[JJD]

Ten things? We going hunting or camping? 

Windicator
TP
Rangefinder
Knife
Tags/ID
Pack board
Paracord/mule tape
Elk calls
Copenhagen

Pretty close to mine
No elk calls or chew
shop towels, cloth type
pair of reading glasses  (we'll talk about this more after you turn 60) 

[SGTDuffman]

Sure I'll bite. Probably not much, if any, different than most though.

- TP...in a ziploc bag.
- Wind indicator, either one of the unscented talcum powder types or something like milkweed seeds (usually a better indicator, they go a LOT farther than the powders and show a lot more about the wind).
- Fire kit, with backups for my backups. A fresh Bic, waterproof matches, and a magnesium stick.
- Rain jacket and pants. Haven't needed it the last few years, but from the previous item, you can see I'm no fan of cold and wet.
- 550 cord/paracord
- Flashlight. I use a headlamp. And with different colored lenses if possible. I always preferred blue in the military. Most folks prefer red. I find that if you like to highlight things on your map, blue works MUCH better. I use different color highlighters to mark different things on a map. It's up to you what you want to mark what color. Maybe boundaries are yellow, water features are blue, unique/identifiable landmarks are orange, etc. Green, pink, blue, and especially orange and yellow show up great with a blue light. Red light never made anything "pop" out, and depending on the map, can actually cause the contours lines to disappear.
- Rangefinder. I actually have 2. One is an analog type in my bow sight. It uses pins spaced out to range things if I can't use the electronic one.
- Spare batteries for all electronics (rangefinder and headlamp).
- Navigation tools. For me that's a map with a 1:50,000 scale, a protractor in a matching scale, and a lensatic compass. The batteries never die and storms don't interrupt the satellite signal, and around here you better take the declination into account, or you're gonna miss your destination...by a LOT. Much harder to get lost with if you know what you're doing too. It won't just unexpectedly die on you, and it shows the broader area you're in.
- A comfortable mattress. This applies if I'm "car" hunting out of a big fixed camp on day trips, or if I pack myself in.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I'm Joining the 50 club, so heres my revised list.

1. comfortable tent
2. comfortable cot
3. comfortable chair
4. nice fire
5. young guns to cut and carry wood
6. young guns to cut and carry meat
7. young guns with big expensive pickup trucks
8. chow (lots)
9. beer
10. knife
almost forgot my Bow....guess thats eleven. whoops.

My choices would be ( my bow- arrows -broadheads - my chew - water - snickers -Flashlight - fire starter - knife - butt wipe 

[dreamunelk]

I'm Joining the 50 club, so heres my revised list.

1. comfortable tent
2. comfortable cot
3. comfortable chair
4. nice fire
5. young guns to cut and carry wood
6. young guns to cut and carry meat
7. young guns with big expensive pickup trucks
8. chow (lots)
9. beer
10. knife
almost forgot my Bow....guess thats eleven. whoops.

My choices would be ( my bow- arrows -broadheads - my chew - water - snickers -Flashlight - fire starter - knife - butt wipe 

Don't forget a good camp cook!

[adamR]

Two bottles of water
My sawyer mini water filter
Toilet paper in ziplock
Havalon piranha
Glow sticks
Small flashlight
Pink marking ribbon
Rhino gps
Lighter
Lots of snacks

[snarkybull]

haven't heard this yet, so AA battery powered cell phone charger and spare batteries for it are on my must have list for all hunting.

early elk season...I always bring a book.  I do a lot of sitting and listening.

[RadSav]

haven't heard this yet, so AA battery powered cell phone charger and spare batteries for it are on my must have list for all hunting.

early elk season...I always bring a book.  I do a lot of sitting and listening.

Most of the areas we hunt a cell phone is only good as a backup camera

[LeviD1]

haven't heard this yet, so AA battery powered cell phone charger and spare batteries for it are on my must have list for all hunting.

early elk season...I always bring a book.  I do a lot of sitting and listening.

Most of the areas we hunt a cell phone is only good as a backup camera

 

[Jonathan_S]

haven't heard this yet, so AA battery powered cell phone charger and spare batteries for it are on my must have list for all hunting.

early elk season...I always bring a book.  I do a lot of sitting and listening.

Most of the areas we hunt a cell phone is only good as a backup camera

 

It's funny, on the way in to a spot, sometimes my cell will "hold on" to coverage but then it will drop and I won't get it back until I get back to the highway 

[RadSav]

There are two spots where we hunt elk that if you hop on one foot, spin counter clockwise, open you mouth slightly with a 20 degree tilt to you head you can get a pulse of coverage when you fart.  Sometimes that's enough to send a text on a clear day

[pd]

There are two spots where we hunt elk that if you hop on one foot, spin counter clockwise, open you mouth slightly with a 20 degree tilt to you head you can get a pulse of coverage when you fart.  Sometimes that's enough to send a text on a clear day

Sans the flatulence, we must hunt in the same place.

[kentrek]

Im Amazed at the places il get coverage...and it seems to be only getting better

A cell phone pretty much goes everywhere but mostly cuz  I take way more pictures when I have one and you can never take enough