Thread: Day Hunt Gear?

daybags dont need to be flash...you can pick up a reasonable one for under $100 easy enough.....or get a string potato/onion sack and make a pikau
a lightweight waterproof coat that doubles to kill wind is a must carry (mine is cabelas with soft outer..trademe under hundy)
knife...well bacho pretty darn handy and a mercator folder is light and will do it all...so will the svord folder.
water bladders are all the rage but nothing wrong with a bottle of poweraid or h2go and refill will water.....mine seem to last me for about 3 years!!!!!
boots are a personal thing but for me its ashley lace up gummies...... the john bull range of work boots are great and at $200 you can get good leather boot without steel toe that will see you right.
try your cell phone out in area you hunt,and pinch mates cheap top up phone from other cell providers and try them out too as one provider will be heaps better than others. it may be ok to not need PLB in that area......I havent got one yet but with health issues it sounds like a "must have" for you.
binos......10x50 are great but heavy,compact 10x are good compromise.
food is again personal but hard to go past chocholate and nuts,muesli bars etc.
a small square cut off bottom of poofter pad/closed cell foam mat is great to plant you bum on when stopping to glass for game or having lunch.
hexamine cooker......light/cheap and if you leave it behind no biggie...just found the fuel tablets in H&F for $10 for 24 tablets...that should boil billy at least 8 times,maybe 12 or more so whole weekend, only need to take 4 for day trip giving you 2 hot cuppas...the vanilla chai latte tea sachets are a touch of posh out in the boonies and its amazing how much of a pick me up a hot cuppa or pack of 2 minute noodles will give you.