When Gear shined

[fowl smacker]

Mystery Ranch Metcalf pack
Sitka Timberline pants
Prana Zion pants
Lowa Tibet gtx boots
******Body Glide******possibly the best product ever made!

[baker5150]

KUIU Attack pants

I have a Rivers West rain coat from the mid to late 90's that still looks and functions like new.
It's gotta have over a thousands days in the blind and on the river under it's belt. 

[fishngamereaper]

Im might be spending some money I hadn't planned on yet. Some cool stuff I never really looked at.

I wanted to add one thing to my list....

Basemap app...hands down the best app Ive used. A game changer for back country navigation. Heck my map and compass skills are getting a little rusty now. 

[vandeman17]

My crispi boots, once broken in, have been awesome

Both my timberline and mtn pants. Love them

[WapitiTalk1]

Good thread 

Lowrance IFinder Hunt-C GPS. It’s gotta be 15? years old and still works fine.
Russell Outdoors rain gear, top/bottom. It’s been great stuff for 10 or more years.

I’m sure I have more but these 2 are most noteworthy.

[7mmfan]

I think the piece of gear that I abuse the most that keeps on ticking, are my KUIU quarter bags. They've hauled out 10+ game animals in 4 years. Been hung in trees, tied around branches, stacked on rock piles, rolled down hills while loaded, washed in rivers, rinse dry repeat. Not a stitch loose or pin hole to be found. Heck the first year I used them I didn't realize my Dad was sawing knees off quarters until it was to late so they had sharp bone edge in them and still no issues. Definitely the best bang for my buck gear item I've purchased.

The KUIU Yukon and Chugach rain gear has been phenomenal as well. Two years ago I spent an agonizingly long day in the pouring rain on the high hunt. I covered 10ish miles that day, most of it in knee to waist high blue berry bushes, crashing through dog hair stunted fir thickets, and crawling on hands and knees up avalanche chutes. I was wet, but it was from sweat, and all I had to do was open the zippers in the few dry protected areas I encountered, for 10 minutes or so and I dried right up. Totally sold on that rain gear.

[vandeman17]

I will add another. I shot a Benelli Nova pump for years and it was good but had issues here and there. I upgraded a few years ago to a winchester SX3 and love it. It has been dropped in ponds, mud, used to break ice etc and still shoots/cycles like a champ. Not saying it hits everything I shoot at but at least it sends a shoot down the chamber each time I ask it to

[Ironhead]

First Lite Furnace Long Johns... If you are hunting in cold weather these are the warmest most comfortable LJ's I have ever warn.
I have a ton of bad arse gear and these come to mind 1st.

[Stein]

Darn Tough socks.  I get about 300 miles out of a pair then send them back and get a new pair for free.

[300rum]

Funny this came up, I just placed a Cabela's order yesterday and found a place on my login where my Cabela's purchases go back 10 years (not sure whey they don't go back longer?)  I looked at some of the purchases, boots, clothes, lawn chairs, etc.  I was pleased with every single purchase, many of the items I still have and are serviceable 7, 8, 9, 10 years latter. 

[pawpaw1934]

My Bravo wall tent, and cook shack. 30 yrs old on tent, 25 on cook shack. Stove jack wore out last year on tent. Zipper on cook shack failed at year 24. Damn good quality. Buy the best once, cry once. Buy cheap, cry many times.

[rainshadow1]

Rocky Cornstalkers.

Best mid-season boots I've ever had. I have a good relationship with gravity, and need quality. (I destroyed a pair of walmart lightweight hikers in ONE day of scouting in Montana, once upon a time.) I couldn't believe the life I got out of the Cornstalkers.

Upgraded recently when I happened to find the next generation of the same boot at a thrift store, but the old pair are still going strong. (Must be 12 or 15 seasons.) Not a thing wrong with them.

Fun to find a mid price range boot that gives you your money back several times over.

[buglebrush]

Surprised to see Kuiu Chugach on here.  I loved mine, but they're totally shredded after three years. 

- OR gaitors.
- EXO K2 3500
- First Lite Aerowool
- Springfield XD
- Jet Boil
- Marmot Sawtooth
-Black Diamond headlamp
- Gaia GPS app
-Slick Trick Broadheads
These are items I've used extremely hard for years.  They're irreplaceable, and have withstood the constant abuse of hunting thick country.  The real test of great gear is would you buy the same thing if you lost it, and these are an emphatic yes. 

[Shawn Ryan]

End-to-End alcohol stove
Go-Lite SL4 tent
Kifaru small box stove
Ti-Goat Omni Raven bivy
EE quilt
Kifaru paratarp
Swaro binos
Backcountry Navigator app
Go-Lite puffy

[huntnnw]

Kuiu rain gear best I have ever owned