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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #105 on: December 11, 2018, 08:22:32 AM »
Karl. I hear you about the hat thing. I have a specific hat I wear. When I am out hunting and nothing goes together it’s cause I was wearing the wrong hat.! It’s a fact

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #106 on: December 11, 2018, 08:50:17 AM »
Karl. I hear you about the hat thing. I have a specific hat I wear. When I am out hunting and nothing goes together it’s cause I was wearing the wrong hat.! It’s a fact
it upsets the balance of the universe!
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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #107 on: December 11, 2018, 09:23:39 AM »
I'm an ex-athlete and have a few superstitions myself....I went through this scenario a few years back.

Now I'm a coach so I took a "coaching" approach to my new lucky piece of garb. I picked the new piece...for me it's my bottom base layer (weird I know). I gave it some work in the off season....maybe some coyote hunts or fishing trips. You know, nothing that is super critical but still live reps. I put that new base layer in situations where it could be successful without a ton of pressure. I didn't put it in the game when the stakes where at their highest. enough good things happen and you build some confidence in that new luck piece. Just an idea.

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #108 on: December 11, 2018, 09:29:21 AM »
I'm an ex-athlete and have a few superstitions myself....I went through this scenario a few years back.

Now I'm a coach so I took a "coaching" approach to my new lucky piece of garb. I picked the new piece...for me it's my bottom base layer (weird I know). I gave it some work in the off season....maybe some coyote hunts or fishing trips. You know, nothing that is super critical but still live reps. I put that new base layer in situations where it could be successful without a ton of pressure. I didn't put it in the game when the stakes where at their highest. enough good things happen and you build some confidence in that new luck piece. Just an idea.
genius!!!!! I did a similar thing with my new Turkey hat 2 years ago.  Started with youth season because I wasnt shooting obviously.  It absorbed some good mojo and Turkey blood and now it's a tried and true piece.  I've got a blue under armor base layer that I got my junior year of high school.  You couldn't burn the stink out of that thing  :chuckle:
It is foolish and wrong to mourn these men.  Rather, we should thank god that such men lived.  -General George S. Patton

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #109 on: December 11, 2018, 09:33:10 AM »
Karl, I will add from one chrome dome to another...  Lucky hat's can make or break a year and without one the risk of rain, sun and chill on ones head is very uncomfortable until this is achieved.  those fuzzy domers can't relate.  Good luck keeping the sun roof dry until then.

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #110 on: December 11, 2018, 09:34:34 AM »
I just hate to leave anything to chance...even luck.

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #111 on: December 11, 2018, 09:34:55 AM »
Im confused so your saying I need species specific lucky hats? If so that explains a lot...

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #112 on: December 11, 2018, 09:35:50 AM »
I'm an ex-athlete and have a few superstitions myself....I went through this scenario a few years back.

Now I'm a coach so I took a "coaching" approach to my new lucky piece of garb. I picked the new piece...for me it's my bottom base layer (weird I know). I gave it some work in the off season....maybe some coyote hunts or fishing trips. You know, nothing that is super critical but still live reps. I put that new base layer in situations where it could be successful without a ton of pressure. I didn't put it in the game when the stakes where at their highest. enough good things happen and you build some confidence in that new luck piece. Just an idea.
You can’t put the lucky into something! It’s just gotta be natural.  :chuckle: just like you can’t coach athleticism or coordination into someone. I would know there was plenty of coach’s that tried when I was growing up.  :chuckle:

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #113 on: December 11, 2018, 09:42:04 AM »
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Congrats on a fun year.

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #114 on: December 11, 2018, 09:46:26 AM »
I'm an ex-athlete and have a few superstitions myself....I went through this scenario a few years back.

Now I'm a coach so I took a "coaching" approach to my new lucky piece of garb. I picked the new piece...for me it's my bottom base layer (weird I know). I gave it some work in the off season....maybe some coyote hunts or fishing trips. You know, nothing that is super critical but still live reps. I put that new base layer in situations where it could be successful without a ton of pressure. I didn't put it in the game when the stakes where at their highest. enough good things happen and you build some confidence in that new luck piece. Just an idea.
genius!!!!! I did a similar thing with my new Turkey hat 2 years ago.  Started with youth season because I wasnt shooting obviously.  It absorbed some good mojo and Turkey blood and now it's a tried and true piece.  I've got a blue under armor base layer that I got my junior year of high school.  You couldn't burn the stink out of that thing  :chuckle:
Ha!  My wife still triggers on mention of the "blue shirt", my polypro base layer I tossed her when I returned from my 1998 sheep hunt.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #115 on: December 11, 2018, 09:47:50 AM »
I'm an ex-athlete and have a few superstitions myself....I went through this scenario a few years back.

Now I'm a coach so I took a "coaching" approach to my new lucky piece of garb. I picked the new piece...for me it's my bottom base layer (weird I know). I gave it some work in the off season....maybe some coyote hunts or fishing trips. You know, nothing that is super critical but still live reps. I put that new base layer in situations where it could be successful without a ton of pressure. I didn't put it in the game when the stakes where at their highest. enough good things happen and you build some confidence in that new luck piece. Just an idea.
You can’t put the lucky into something! It’s just gotta be natural.  :chuckle: just like you can’t coach athleticism or coordination into someone. I would know there was plenty of coach’s that tried when I was growing up.  :chuckle:

No doubt...some things can't be forced. I'm not manufacturing the luck, just giving it an opportunity to express its self. :chuckle:

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #116 on: December 11, 2018, 09:48:35 AM »
Im confused so your saying I need species specific lucky hats? If so that explains a lot...

#makehuntwagreatagain
it's a real thing man!!!!!  I'm freaking out right now about the mountain goat hunt!  Where do you even start with a lucky goat hat  :yike: :yike: :yike:
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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #117 on: December 11, 2018, 09:49:24 AM »
Hahahaha!!!!! I knew the hat thing would spark some good convo 🤣🤣🤣
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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #118 on: December 11, 2018, 09:57:26 AM »
Karl, you had a h3ll of a year..  That said, I think Kegan still holds bregging rights!!!!  Maybe he'll loan you a hat!?!? :IBCOOL:

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Re: 2018 season...Boot leather and backpacks
« Reply #119 on: December 11, 2018, 09:59:55 AM »
Karl, you had a h3ll of a year..  That said, I think Kegan still holds bregging rights!!!!  Maybe he'll loan you a hat!?!? :IBCOOL:
Ya that little turd wins the whole year! He deserves every minute of it too!

 


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