What’s the one thing you have with you every hunt?

Besides the normal calls, shotgun decoys etc. I’m talking about something that’s either sentimental or that one thing that you HAVE to HAVE.

Toilet paper. Just in case.

Coffee. An absolutely must.

This and paper towels

HONEYBUNS

Leather belt with scrimshaw Mallard drake emblem on the belt loop. The belt had to be replaced after about 25 years but the belt loop is more than 35 years old and was bought at The Peabody hotel in Memphis, TN. The Peabody is the hotel that is famous for having ducks swimming in the fountain in the main lobby.

Fruit cups.

Grizzly wintergreen and coffee.

My dog

3 things

Snuff
Coffee
TP

in no particular order but, if either of the first two are missing, the hunt is a bust...

coffee

diet dr pepper

Don't see this on the list yet, but an extra little LED flashlight.

No more coffee before hunts for me. Plenty amped up so don't need it, but mainly cuz once I put my waders on I don't wanna take them off till the hunt is over.

Yep.

Redman Gold, a good flashlight, usually peanuts.

A case of buschhhhh

walking stick and goggles.

goggles?

Copenhagen. flavor varies with my mood. Currently it's wintergreen.

My son... Unless he out shot me on the last outing, in which case his cell phone so he won't call me asking if I had seen anything.

Also, the first duck call that my dad bought for me in 1973. It's cheap, wooden and sounds like a chain smoking hen but I try to use it at least once each hunt.

Yeah, I've gotta hear this.

If your eyes blurred from the cold like mine I guess you could get a pair of goggles or slow the boat...which is already going pretty slow. And CLEAR goggles.

I would say gun...but I have forgot this.

Push pole
Decoy retriever
Coffee and smokes. (They are packaged together)

This and some cold beer for after the hunt while cleaning birds.

Breakfast tacos. I get hungry in the blind!

Maybe a scarf to go with it??

My eyes don't water in the cold as bad as most. I have one buddy that ALWAYS gets snot running out his nose if we're running in temps under 40 degrees.

He also keeps goggles handy for when we take his boat, which isn't often now unless the weather is really bad.

I did buy one of these a few years ago for the boat ride on really cold days.
Rusky Hat

Where I hunt, it is my Thermacell!!! It's a must on almost every single hunt!!!

My Buddy to pickup Decoys

Ive tried closing the eyes quickly to get rid of the blur and liquid but I decided at that moment is when a stump would magically appear....better to wear a pair of goggles and see 100%. I got that tip off U tube from a duck guide. Most places want to sell you a fancy dark glass for skiing...no beuno. Keep looking until you find the clear goggles.

Coffee and TP

You're talking about goggles for driving a boat, got it. That wasn't clear at all in your original post.

I have something with me that goes on every hunt. A memory of how duck hunting used to be. #5 and #6 2 3/4 inch pellets, 105 point system and pintails out the hinder at 10 points a piece. We always hoped for the 9 pintails first and a canvasback for the 10th bird. I remember cutting my teeth on duck hunting at the coast. The days when the guy across the pond, whom you never met, saw you working birds wouldn't dream of firing a shot and vice versa. Reminds me of the old Bellamy Brothers song "He's an old hippie and he just don't know what to do".

Flush wipes, Aloe preferably, shell gun and the dog

Cell phone to rub it in your buddies face @ the office

That’s insane. We have limited on pintails last 4 hunts. 3,2,2 and 1. Of course the limit went to one this year. Normally don’t see any until mid January and we have been covered up in them

I have one of those, I got it in 1963, that hat is the best and warmest hat I have ever worn. 3 years of duck and goose hunting in North Dakota made me a believer in those hats.

I never dreamed there would be a 1 bird limit on the pintails. We hunted south of I-10 off of Pin Oak road. We used hay bales for blinds and sat on 5 gallon buckets. Typically we would have three buckets full of ducks on the way out. My dad didn't allow us to breast them so we would have to pluck 30 birds before we could go home. There are houses in that rice field now. I remember lead #5 at 30 yards would just slam the ducks out of that old A-5.