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Equipment & Gear => All Other Gear => Topic started by: WapitiTalk1 on October 15, 2019, 08:05:54 PM

Title: Double Down on Gear
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 15, 2019, 08:05:54 PM: What is the one piece of extra/double gear you always carry in your hunting pack? I’ll start :). I always carry two headlamps. You cats?
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: h20hunter on October 15, 2019, 08:08:01 PM: Buttwipe!
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Post by: Westside88 on October 15, 2019, 08:08:18 PM: I also double up on lights. I also have a knife in my pocket and one that never leaves my pack.
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Post by: jrebel on October 15, 2019, 08:09:53 PM: Always carry light weight rain gear.....always.

In colder conditions I always carry puffy pants and jacket that pack down to nothing and weigh nothing as well. If you combine puffy under rain gear you can live through very cold wet conditions.

Two lights are a must as well with extra batteries....though I can live without light.
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on October 15, 2019, 08:12:52 PM: Double down on lights, lighters, knife. But yea always have a down puffy and rain gear “just in case”
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 15, 2019, 08:16:36 PM: Quote from: h20hunter on October 15, 2019, 08:08:01 PM
Buttwipe!

Goes without saying. You never know when “hunting” food will rear it’s ugly head :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: jackelope on October 15, 2019, 08:25:16 PM: I am famous for always having way too much crap. My day pack is probably 25 pounds. Always have 2 knives, 2 headlamps and 2-3 lighters.
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 15, 2019, 08:27:30 PM: Quote from: jackelope on October 15, 2019, 08:25:16 PM
I am famous for always having way too much crap. My day pack is probably 25 pounds. Always have 2 knives, 2 headlamps and 2-3 lighters.

Sounds familiar ;) Do you also carry a couple of fire sticks for emergency fire starts?
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Post by: jrebel on October 15, 2019, 08:29:19 PM: Find a good fire starter and you will stop carrying that many lighters. Zip cubes are the shizzzznit. I carry two zip cubes a lighter and a striker. You can light anything on fire with the zip cubes. We use 1/4 cub for most of our fires so I carry enough for roughly 4 fires. They weigh nothing. :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: Alchase on October 15, 2019, 08:31:40 PM: Double lights, batteries, and 3 bic lighters in small ziplock baggies in three different pack pockets. What are the chances all three will get wet, and Fritos, they are great fire starter, when I don’t eat them, LOL.
Knives, one straight and one folder (Gerber Wave)
GPS and a compass.
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: lamrith on October 15, 2019, 08:32:03 PM: Quote from: WapitiTalk1 on October 15, 2019, 08:27:30 PM
Quote from: jackelope on October 15, 2019, 08:25:16 PM
I am famous for always having way too much crap. My day pack is probably 25 pounds. Always have 2 knives, 2 headlamps and 2-3 lighters.

Sounds familiar ;) Do you also carry a couple of fire sticks for emergency fire starts?
Can't think of anyone with a heavier than needed daypack.. :o
Title: Re: Double Down on Gear
Post by: Alchase on October 16, 2019, 11:07:57 AM: Quote from: jackelope on October 15, 2019, 08:25:16 PM
I am famous for always having way too much crap. My day pack is probably 25 pounds. Always have 2 knives, 2 headlamps and 2-3 lighters.

My pack is about 21 lbs, with loaded pistol and full 72 oz bladder.