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Post by 76chevy on Aug 19, 2008 12:30:52 GMT -5
I get a kick out of the guys I see in the woods decked out in all matching $300 scentlok suits with $200 bucks in matching under armour under their outer clothes. Even the boots cost an arm and a leg today, seriously are lacrosse alpha burlies worth $130?
I have been bagging game for years in government surplus green camo BDUS I got for free no less than 10 years ago. I have a (lucky) flannel shirt that I have worn on warm days while wearing my BDU pants. On my feet I wear old (49 bucks when new a long time ago) lacrosse grange boots and sometimes in cold weather, thick socks. Govt issue polypropylene long underwear is dirt cheap and the best I have found.
Plenty of game has been bagged while wearing this combination.
I have to admit, I did go all out this year and spent $12.99 on a new/used liner for my M65 army surplus jacket at the army navy surplus store.
Please nobody tell the deer or turkeys though, I dont want them to think I am a better hunter because I spent this money on new gear this season..... ;D
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Aug 19, 2008 13:17:25 GMT -5
like everything else you can spend as much as the wife will let you on your hobby.
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Post by Hawkeye on Aug 19, 2008 13:57:02 GMT -5
Hey, I figure my Deer meat only cost me around Ten dollars per pound last season,Fun I had ,priceless.
We won't even talk about what that 27 LB Gobbler cost me.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 19, 2008 14:58:45 GMT -5
I don't even think of such things. Too scary!
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Post by mullis56 on Aug 19, 2008 15:20:36 GMT -5
Too each his own.....it isn't what you wear......it is how you hunt, etc. You can do it cheaply or expensive
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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 19, 2008 15:27:05 GMT -5
I grew up so poor that I made my first camo pants by dying an old white pair of pants with walnut hulls and using black markers to make a camo pattern. My first hunting boots were some old work boots of my brother's whose soles were so bald that I cut tread in them with a pocket knife. My first bow ( recently restored, BTW) was an entry level bear sold as kit that I got for my birthday. It retailed for $90, and I have no idea how mom afforded it. I killed my first deer with that bow.
We need to stress to new hunters that you can succeed with old, home made, or used equipment, and tell them not to worry about having the latest and greatest.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 19, 2008 15:32:15 GMT -5
Amen Sasquatch! I too have made my own camo, and my first "real" bow was an old used Bear Alaskan my Dad bought off of a guy he worked with. I never had anything other than a single shot shotgun until I saved the money and bought a Remington 870 Express. I still own and cherish that gun because I EARNED it!
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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 19, 2008 15:39:20 GMT -5
Amen Sasquatch! I too have made my own camo, and my first "real" bow was an old used Bear Alaskan my Dad bought off of a guy he worked with. I never had anything other than a single shot shotgun until I saved the money and bought a Remington 870 Express. I still own and cherish that gun because I EARNED it! Did you too squint down a shotgun barrel wondering where to put the bead? I remember when I bought that Ultra Slugster and a scope with my hard earned money. I felt like I had a ray gun. |
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Post by 76chevy on Aug 19, 2008 16:23:38 GMT -5
Nice!! my first bow was a bear whitetail 2 I bought for 45 bucks with my paper route money. my first shotgun was an 870 express I bought at Kmart. I was about 14 so my parents had to sign for it. you are right, it all means so much more when you earn it yourself. Amen Sasquatch! I too have made my own camo, and my first "real" bow was an old used Bear Alaskan my Dad bought off of a guy he worked with. I never had anything other than a single shot shotgun until I saved the money and bought a Remington 870 Express. I still own and cherish that gun because I EARNED it! |
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Post by 76chevy on Aug 19, 2008 16:26:16 GMT -5
I totally agree with ya I have seriously thought about breaking the old bear whitetail 2 out this season to prove you can still kill deer with a bow that old and slow by todays standards.... ;D .....We need to stress to new hunters that you can succeed with old, home made, or used equipment, and tell them not to worry about having the latest and greatest. |
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Post by Decatur on Aug 19, 2008 18:34:20 GMT -5
Amen Sasquatch! I too have made my own camo, and my first "real" bow was an old used Bear Alaskan my Dad bought off of a guy he worked with. I never had anything other than a single shot shotgun until I saved the money and bought a Remington 870 Express. I still own and cherish that gun because I EARNED it!
bead? I remember when I bought that Ultra Slugster and a scope with my hard earned money. I felt like I had a ray gun. Ahhhh, those were the days! ;D |
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Aug 19, 2008 19:01:46 GMT -5
I sure don't hunt to save on the grocery bill.
Hunting can be done on just about every budget. To each their own.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 19, 2008 19:26:48 GMT -5
I've seen bow salesmen belittle peoples equipment to pressure them into a new bow. Some guys, I think well he can probably afford it, and others, you just know they can't.
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Post by huxbux on Aug 19, 2008 19:43:32 GMT -5
I discovered many years ago that the amount of money one spends on accouterments has no correlation to success.
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Post by freedomhunter on Aug 19, 2008 20:08:35 GMT -5
I discovered many years ago that the amount of money one spends on accouterments has no correlation to success. Yep, well stated, and ain't it the truth? I remember the smooth bore days staring at a bead and shooting a hand me down Bear bow. All the new bows look great, but my seven year old Mathews still looks like something that doesn't need improved on, it was spot on the last two afternoons. Being a hunter and confident in your equipment and ability leads to success. |
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Post by danf on Aug 19, 2008 20:08:51 GMT -5
My first bow kill was three years ago with an Dad's old Martin Eagle Magnum that probably hasn't been made in 30 years.  Shot winter league all last season with that bow too. Didn't do very well, but part of that was me, part of that was the fact that I was using a back tension release for the first time..... |
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Post by oldrookie on Aug 19, 2008 23:01:06 GMT -5
I discovered many years ago that the amount of money one spends on accouterments has no correlation to success. Isn't that the truth and the sport of golf proves it. |
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Post by rivrbottmstalkr on Aug 19, 2008 23:19:27 GMT -5
There is a lot of latest greatest fancy gear that you don't need. I started hunting wearing Carhartt brownduck colored bibs-no camo just solid brown, my first gun was a Sears and Roebuck bolt action 20ga,with a bead, that was passed down to me and I think it was bent along the way down. I didn't even know what a grunt call was and why on earth would I have needed cover scents and lures and binos and cans and bleats and rangefinders and gps systems and scopes or rifle sites or climbing treestands and rattlebags and a new fast quiet bow, and really? Arrows made of carbon? And rubber boots and a cell phone and water and snacks and snort growl roar wheezes and lights on bow sights and broadheads that move and a release aid to shoot a bow with and then a back pack to carry it all in and don't forget the camera gear. Less can deffinately be more when you look at the whole picture. You don't need it to harvest nice animals. I think for me it's like OK I'm too old to play with hotwheels and GI Joes, so all these gadgets that come out are like my grown up toys. I just like to buy some of it and "play". But each to their own, I've taken deer in carhartts and my old bolt action and I take deer with my gadgets in my mossy oak camo. I think as long as one does what makes him/her happy, that's the way to go.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Aug 20, 2008 11:40:30 GMT -5
I think to each their own. I still shoot a Golden Eagle Mossy Oak Express bow that is about 6 or 7 years old and it does the job just fine. I have treestands and some other gadgets, but there are still times when I just like to go out with bow in hand and do a little still hunting and not use any of the gadgets or other things I usually carry to the stand with me.
If you want to go out and spend a fortune on all the latest and greatest then that is just fine, but if you want to use old equipment and buy used items, that will get you to the same exact end result as everything else.
It is the hunter that gets the final mission accomplished, not the gear being used.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Aug 21, 2008 10:10:01 GMT -5
There is a lot of latest greatest fancy gear that you don't need. I started hunting wearing Carhartt brownduck colored bibs-no camo just solid brown, my first gun was a Sears and Roebuck bolt action 20ga,with a bead, that was passed down to me and I think it was bent along the way down. I didn't even know what a grunt call was and why on earth would I have needed cover scents and lures and binos and cans and bleats and rangefinders and gps systems and scopes or rifle sites or climbing treestands and rattlebags and a new fast quiet bow, and really? Arrows made of carbon? And rubber boots and a cell phone and water and snacks and snort growl roar wheezes and lights on bow sights and broadheads that move and a release aid to shoot a bow with and then a back pack to carry it all in and don't forget the camera gear. Less can deffinately be more when you look at the whole picture. You don't need it to harvest nice animals. I think for me it's like OK I'm too old to play with hotwheels and GI Joes, so all these gadgets that come out are like my grown up toys. I just like to buy some of it and "play". But each to their own, I've taken deer in carhartts and my old bolt action and I take deer with my gadgets in my mossy oak camo. I think as long as one does what makes him/her happy, that's the way to go. LOL I love this post! I can remember my first deer (this one's a good one) I can't remember the year but I think I was 12 or 13. I had a camo army surplus jacket on, camo pants, and boots from cabella's (that I still have and will give to my son some day) they were the rubber bottom with canvas tops and that's when gore-tex first came out man I thought I was "it" in those boots LOL! Well it was raining real hard that morning at about 3:30 and Dad and I were in the truck getting ready to leave and dad get's this look on his face and turns to me and say's you don't have anything to sit on and you're going to need something so I opened up the truck door and ran for the boat that had a cover over it and found a seat cusion. I ran back and it started to rain harder. I got in the truck and was as MAD as I've ever been, I was soaked to the bone. Dad said don't worry I've got some stuff you can wear. Well, he had a pair of boots that were actually old chest waders that were cut off at the tops of the boot part, a pair of old carhart bibs a flannel shirt and I think a light camo jacket. It was Thanksgiving day and at about 7:30 a doe walked out and I shot my first deer. I will always remember that day for the rest of my life and I will always remember thinking I'll never get one wearing all this junk! |
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