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What are some unusual aids or tools? you carry in your vest.

Mine is a 3 inch mirror, for times a black gnat might fly in your eye. I know before carrying one, I got one in my eye I couldn't get out which worked behind my eye and ruined my hunt for the day. So now when it happens, I get the mirror out quickly and remove it before blinking, hate them things.

Pack a firecrackers and a air valve remover


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40 gallon industrial garbage bag.
multiple uses.
mostly for crossing deep rivers and waterways

Explain please.  My guess if for knocking a rude hunter in the head. 

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Here are a few items that I guess are unusual to  some that I carry in my vest.

2 light sticks
space blanket
whistle

I've carried these items with me for many years primarily due to hunting the mountains a lot especially in my younger days. I have the space blanket which is about a 1/2"x3"x3" size in case I get hurt and I have to stay in the woods over night. The breakable light sticks for emergency lighting at night which can be seen for a long distance if someone is looking for me and the whistle because someone looking for me can hear the whistle way further than they can hear me yell. Now that I'm older I also carry an iPhone tag in my vest which will let my family find me regardless of where I am even with no phone signal or if my phone is dead due to it bounces off of any type signal that can be available.

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Turkey hunting is half luck?

Oh, and I don't have a vest so there's nothing unusual in it.   

I don't have any super cool answers for this but I do have a tourniquet in my vest. I guess that's about the only non hunting thing I've got in there.


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I carry a cork to hold push pins and rubber bands. The rubber bands silence box calls and anything that's loose and rattling around and I use the pins to hold up camo netting.

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Georgia Boy I may add a whistle to my vest.  That's a good idea if you are lost.  I haven't been lost, but I could see that happening.

Quote from: aclawrence on April 03, 2022, 09:56:33 PM
I don't have any super cool answers for this but I do have a tourniquet in my vest. I guess that's about the only non hunting thing I've got in there.


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That's different. although a good one, something you hope you will not need, but better safe than sorry. Never thought of that, I like the idea., good one.

In my vest, I carry a stone spearpoint from ~8,000 B.C. that I found on a turkey hunt about 25 years ago, just to remind me how hard it used to be to hunt turkeys.

Jim

Straw from an orange sherbet push-up.   Makes a great yelper.

Quote from: Tail Feathers on April 03, 2022, 08:42:41 PM
Explain please.  My guess if for knocking a rude hunter in the head. 

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Its half a horseshoe. I was turkey hunting and it was one of those dead quiet days. I was slipping around trying to find some sign or get something going when I found this. As soon as I picked it up and was looking at it a turkey gobbled. I put the horseshoe in my vest and a short time later I had a turkey to tote out as well. I have been carrying it ever since. I would love know the history behind that horseshoe as it was in the woods. Guessing its from back in the day that horses were used in the timbering industry. Probably a good thing I don't have the second half.

Quote from: Georgia Boy on April 03, 2022, 09:16:26 PM
Here are a few items that I guess are unusual to  some that I carry in my vest.

2 light sticks
space blanket
whistle

I've carried these items with me for many years primarily due to hunting the mountains a lot especially in my younger days. I have the space blanket which is about a 1/2"x3"x3" size in case I get hurt and I have to stay in the woods over night. The breakable light sticks for emergency lighting at night which can be seen for a long distance if someone is looking for me and the whistle because someone looking for me can hear the whistle way further than they can hear me yell. Now that I'm older I also carry an iPhone tag in my vest which will let my family find me regardless of where I am even with no phone signal or if my phone is dead due to it bounces off of any type signal that can be available.

Tie a piece of rope to the end of your chem lights and make a buzz saw out of them. Twirl them around in front you, using bout 2 feet of Paracord. You can see it forever, that's what we used in the Army when coming back to rally point after an ambush at night. We used the infrared ones so the enemy couldn't see them but we could through our NVG. Obviously you don't have to worry about this.

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I have a little corner store jack knife with wild turkeys on it,a made in china dull blade that one of my best friends in life(is not a hunter) gave me about 12 years ago, because he knew I was obsessed with turkeys, I'll never use it for anything, It's just a keepsake that I have carried in either my vest,backpack or sling pack on every hunt since he gave it to me.

Quote from: Tail Feathers on April 03, 2022, 10:07:11 PM
Georgia Boy I may add a whistle to my vest.  That's a good idea if you are lost.  I haven't been lost, but I could see that happening.

Have one on my duck call lanyard and my turkey vest.

Empty 20 gauge hull from my son's first turkey. 

Quote from: WV Ridge Reaper on April 03, 2022, 03:02:22 PM
Pack a firecrackers and a air valve remover


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Remind me to never hunt near you!!!

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I carry a roll of Tums. I don't often get indigestion, but having it for hours while you're trying to hunt is not enjoyable. I also carry cough drops just in case.

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I'll second the cough drops, I also carry gum and brown paper napkins, a lot better than waving white ones around if you nose is running.

Small pruners for cutting small limbs and such. I like to tuck back in the bushes to hide and snip out little shooting lanes.

I carry cough drops
Oatmeal cream pies
Pruning shears
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Thermacell
And a snake bite kit


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I also carry a garbage bag...  As well as a couple gallon zip-lock bags.  I have used those bags for a variety of unexpected uses.

I carry a decent pocket camera with a small (4" total length) wire tripod I can wrap around a small tree-limb so that I can take a picture with my timer.

Usually I carry some hand-wipes...

I wear a diaphragm necklace wallet that is not attached to my vest...  Many, many times I have ditched my vest for quick, silent, short moves to get into a better position, and I will always have a couple calls on my person that are quickly accessible.

Whistle
Granddaddy's old broken compass, just for a little extra luck

I take along some type of snack. Jerky or peanut butter crackers
Water bottle
I always have Fisherman's Friend with me. They are extra strong menthol cough suppressant lozenges.
Hand wipes and something to recondition my calls if needed.

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In VT the only kind of whistle you would find in someones vest is a hippie whistle.

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I almost forgot my buddy, Cletus! Just an old ( 4"X 3" ) wall magnet I rescued from a flooded out abandoned cabin while on a hunting trip several years ago. Since then, he has always been in my hunting vest for whatever reason.

Aside from normal hunting tools I carry paracord.  It has all kinds of uses.   

I don't smoke, but I tote a full Bic lighter with the child safety ring removed and a few wraps of duct tape on it, and a length of paracord.

Today I had to tote a bottle of Robitussin. Got a bad sinus infection. Had a bird coming in and I had to cough. I dug a quick hole and shoved my face into the ground and somehow or another he didn't hear me.


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Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on April 07, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Today I had to tote a bottle of Robitussin. Got a bad sinus infection. Had a bird coming in and I had to cough. I dug a quick hole and shoved my face into the ground and somehow or another he didn't hear me.

Just roll your tongue and make a gobbling sound when you cough.... ;D

Sneezing is a crow sound (instead of Ha-CHOO it is Ha-CHAW). :smiley-char092:

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Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on April 07, 2022, 11:08:45 AM
Today I had to tote a bottle of Robitussin. Got a bad sinus infection. Had a bird coming in and I had to cough. I dug a quick hole and shoved my face into the ground and somehow or another he didn't hear me.

Just roll your tongue and make a gobbling sound when you cough.... ;D

Sneezing is a crow sound (instead of Ha-CHOO it is Ha-CHAW). :smiley-char092:

He was close enough he probably would've shock gobbled if I'd just coughed out loud


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Epi pen

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I carry 4 Benadryl tablets in my vest.  Would hate to get in a honey bee/Yellowjacket nest and be a ways from pick up.  Doesn't take up any room either.


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Quote from: Hwd silvestris on April 07, 2022, 06:33:35 PM
I carry 4 Benadryl tablets in my vest.  Would hate to get in a honey bee/Yellowjacket nest and be a ways from pick up.  Doesn't take up any room either.


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I was with my son getting his allergy shots the other morning. They were doing a new dose where they just barely stick the needle under the skin and shoot some in to see if there's an allergic reaction. It looks like a bee sting and it was really itching him so the doctor gave us a few little packs of some kind of cream. I was thinking of throwing one in my vest in case I get any stings.


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I've got 3-4 packages of tissue that's come in handy when my tummy gets the rumblings and regardless of the gobbler that's coming in, you've got to go! I also carry a pee bottle when hunting in a blind, but I don't pack it back and forth to the truck.

I don't have a vest but wear one of those Fanny pack belt deals.  Several odd things in it or attached to it.  The Velcro strap from the back off my most successful turkey hat ever that suffered a tragic ending is safety pin clipped to the belt.  Inside contents include The String, Key To Success and a buckeye that my Dad always carried in his turkey pack.