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Post your scouting gear list.

Unread postby IkemanTx » Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:19 am

Well, the season is coming to a close and everyone's attention is turning to scouting. What items do you carry for your scouting trips? I know many of you pull double duty and scout while hunting other seasons, but I am talking about exclusively scouting gear. Here's what I've kind of decided to put together for the start. (Though I expect it to change after reading some of y'all's gear lists as well)

1. Water
2. Snacks
3. GPS (currently my phone with MotionX GPS)
4. Camera for documenting sign
5. Notepad
6. Hand Pruners
7. Small pruning saw
8. Trail Cam
9. Weather appropriate clothing/footware

Tell me what you carry, see if you can change my list.

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Unread postby whitetailassasin » Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:37 am

My first scouting trip to the area

Map/marker
Compass
Backpack
paper/pen
Light
Drink

Final scouting trip

Stand/sticks
Pruners/saw
Drink
Compass
Backpack
Map/marker
Paper/pen

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Unread postby oldrank » Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:42 am

Cell phone is all I bring.


On my phone I have
Compass
Flaslight
Topo app
Scoutlook mapping app
Camera
Note pad


When I get home I transfer info into a three ring binder of maps of all public areas I hunt. I also use hi-lite markers to mark beds n stands ect ect..

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Unread postby Crazinamatese » Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:50 am

Maybe bottle of water, can of copenhagen, and digital camera. Most of my areas are very small parcels, Im not out there all day long.
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Unread postby Dewey » Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:56 am

backpack with extra layering if it cools off or rain suit if rain in forecast.
water bladder
snacks
compass
gps
phone for pics and aerials

I keep it pretty simple. After hauling around stands and stuff all year it feels good to go light.
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Unread postby Stanley » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:01 am

Water, compass, binos.
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Unread postby IkemanTx » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:02 am

Dewey wrote:backpack with extra layering if it cools off or rain suit if rain in forecast.
water bladder
snacks
compass
gps
phone for pics and aerials

I keep it pretty simple. After hauling around stands and stuff all year it feels good to go light.


I feel ya on that, I am going to be trying to switch to a saddle for just that reason. My gear in last week ended up at 39lbs before counting my safety harness and all my winter clothing. I was probably pushing 50lbs total. Not next year.
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Unread postby DaveT1963 » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:13 am

For scouting, rubber boots, water, phone, notebook and pen. If I'm going all day then I'll take some jerky, couple protein bars, and an apple as well.

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Unread postby hunter_mike » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:36 am

All kinds of stuff

Backpack
Hip boots or hikers
Headlamp
Binoculars
Gps
Phone with camera and aerial photos
One lone wolf stick
Rock climbing harness
Trail cam with mounting bracket
Small container with sd cards and batteries
One baggie with Knife, medical tape, matches, batteries and whistle.
Blaze orange cloth to put in a bed when picking a kill tree
Water
PBJ sammich
TP (never without)
Milkweed too


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Unread postby Bbostrom » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:41 am

Three LW sticks with aiders (attached to Molle frame)
40cal S&W
Range finder
Gps
Izula 2 knife (always attached to Molle frame)

iPhone
One cat eye for kill tree
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Unread postby Jphunter » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:43 am

Milkweed
Phone for gps
Binos
climbing sticks
Hand saw

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Unread postby Bonecrusher101 » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:12 am

Sometimes I bring a backpack with added weight, mainly I carry my handheld gps, and a cane/walking stick. I've gone out in the snow strait from getting off work and walked for miles in my steel toes.

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Unread postby Hawthorne » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:22 am

Wicked tree saw
Climbing sticks
Maps and note pad
Smartphone
Compass
Bottle of water
Food if im out for more than 3-4 hours
Milkweed
Binos

If I know I can come back and prep trees I wont take the saw and sticks

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Unread postby mheichelbech » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:44 am

Anybody using the Trimble hunt phone app? I've marked a lot beds, rubs, trails, stand sites, etc but never end up using it.

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Re: Post your scouting gear list.

Unread postby Dewey » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:54 am

I forgot milkweed on my list. :doh:

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