What are your top 5 turkey hunting essentials?

[Brillo]

Not including your gun and calls what do you want/need to have with you?  I am not trying to think what more to bring but how little.  Less than 5 is OK too.  One of my essentials would be water.

[Paulmyr]

Besides water, it would be TP/baby wipes, brush clippers, map or software or both, and a compass for back up if I'm going way back deep in the woods.

[eggshell]

I am assuming camo clothing and shells are also not included in this list. The only other essential I have is my vest and toilet paper. I am a minimalist when it comes to turkey hunting. My entire list is :

Gun
Shells
two mouth calls
one slate call
Vest
TP

That's it and what you will find on me on 95% of my hunts, not including camo

[Tom007]

Good thread: not including gun and 3 shells

1) Kleenex pack
2) Lens wipes
3) 2 push-pins
4) 1 pot call with 2 strikers
5) mouth diaphragms

Honorable mention:

Trumpet
Turkey tote
Wing
Windy day boat paddle

[ChesterCopperpot]

Besides water, it would be TP/baby wipes, brush clippers, map or software or both, and a compass for back up if I'm going way back deep in the woods.

Me and you'd hunt fine together, Paul I wouldn't change a thing.

1) clippers
2) pocket pack of Kleenex for TP
3) water
4) map


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[GobbleNut]

Every time I leave the house, camp, or the truck, I ask myself and anybody else that might be with me,..."Do I/you have your gun, license, shells, and calls?"  I have said that so often that now the guys I hunt with will most of the time ask the question for me before I have the chance.   

...Only four things, but those are the four that, regardless of whether I forget anything else, I must have with me when I start out. Early in my turkey hunting life,...and before I started reciting that question,...I can't tell you how many times either myself or someone I was hunting with ended up without one of those four things, creating an occasional very awkward situation.   

[Happy]

Baby wipes, food, water, pocketknife, lighter, small multi-tool, small first aid kit. Other than calls and shells I am set.

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[Notsoyoungturk]

Agree with above.  Would add Thermocell to that list.

[wchadw]

Water TP shears snake bite kit thermacell. Gotta have thermacell in the south


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[Terry]

Water, license, compass, TP, and Thermacell.

Out to that list, water would be the first to go if I needed to drop it down to 4.


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[Brillo]

Alright Happy.  Why the pocket knife AND multi tool?  That seems to be overlap.  And why a multitool at all?

[TauntoHawk]

ThermaCELL late season
Phone with onX for maps
Waterbladder



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[Yoder409]

Wet wipes
Binos
Knife
Shooting/walking stick
Stool (to sit on....not for the wet wipes)   

[Sir-diealot]

Water
Something to safely clean my glasses/scope
Thermacell though I have never needed one since I started to use Permethrin I still have one in each blind. I use them more for fishing to be honest.
Scale & measuring Tape
Pain killer of some kind.
Small solar chargeable battery that I can set up to keep battery charged for phone in case of emergency.

[trad bow]

1. A well broke in comfortable pair of boots
2. Thermacell
3. A comfortable seat
4. Water
5. A good dose of patience