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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: chalet] #7321023 10/20/18 10:50 PM
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321239 10/21/18 01:57 AM
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My golf cart- Man, I never realized how loud and uncomfortable a 4 wheeler was until I got my cart. I absolutely love it. I slog through lots of mud, and pretty deep water with it. Have driven up on plenty of animals with it.

Thermacell- these things are life savers.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321248 10/21/18 02:03 AM
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The best purchase by far is the hunting acres I bought years ago. It is now worth more than 6 times what I paid for it plus all the enjoyment of the good times spent on those acres.

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Originally Posted By: Old Shakie
The best purchase by far is the hunting acres I bought years ago. It is now worth more than 6 times what I paid for it plus all the enjoyment of the good times spent on those acres.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: Old Shakie] #7321328 10/21/18 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted By: Old Shakie
The best purchase by far is the hunting acres I bought years ago. It is now worth more than 6 times what I paid for it plus all the enjoyment of the good times spent on those acres.


^^This and a bottle of 16 year old Lagavulin paired with a cohiba.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321449 10/21/18 06:29 AM
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321546 10/21/18 01:52 PM
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I have 2.

Probably the best buy I ever made was on a Mannlicher Schoenauer Model 1903 in 6.5x54MS. I was in a gun shop in Norfolk VA when I was on active duty helping my buddy who is left handed get a decent rifle. I saw this one at the back of the rack and asked to see it. They had no idea what they had and it had a $300 price tag on it. I tried to get my buddy to buy it but he wanted no part of it since it was a right handed rifle. I snapped it up since I new the rifle would sell anywhere in the nation for $2K. Here it is in the field:



The 2nd great deal I made was on a set of Lieca 10x42 binos. I found a camera place that was having an inventory reduction and I got them for just a little less than $700 which is a steal on top end glass.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: onlysmith&wesson] #7321586 10/21/18 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted By: onlysmith&wesson
Rifle: Tikka CTR in .308. For the $ best buy I ever made on a rifle
Scope: Leupold VX5-HD. Creates light.
Gadget: T-handled Gerber pelvic bone saw, with a blunt end. When I gut one on the ground makes it easy, also cuts through sternum.
Boots: North Face (with Thermacell battery powered insole heaters) Single digit temps my feet are comfortable all day.
Heater: Leather covered stainless steel flask filled with Woodford Reserve Double Oak. If any of this stuff fails I don't care as long as I have this.


You misspelled Knob Creek 120

Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321637 10/21/18 03:29 PM
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Outdoor Edge Razor knife with quick switch blades. Makes field dressing and skinning so much easier especially on hogs.

BogPod shooting sticks.

Meopta Meopro 8X32 Binos

Sig Kilo Rangefinder

Danner Crater Rim boots

Trijicon Accupower 3-9 X40 scope



Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321758 10/21/18 05:32 PM
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7321868 10/21/18 07:38 PM
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My Son, cost me $2500 to get him on the ground. But that's my best purchase or money well spent.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7322293 10/22/18 01:25 AM
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7322598 10/22/18 12:25 PM
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Cabelas euro HD glass (Meopta)
Safari rifle sling.
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Bog Pod 3leg shooting sticks
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7323082 10/22/18 05:52 PM
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Sitka gear for waterfowl hunting hands down. It's a total game changer when the bottom falls out on those cold hunts. No more being cold, wet and miserable.

Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7323325 10/22/18 08:35 PM
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Gotta add Honda Foreman, straight axle, manual shift with power steering 4 wheeler to my earlier post. Between that and my Tacoma I could get stuck in some very hard to get to places but haven't, yet.


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7323890 10/23/18 04:39 AM
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A Mr. Heater Buddy heater
A Havalon Baracuta Knife with extra 115XT blades.
A Thermacel
Pair of 800 Gram Thinsulate hunting boots


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7324002 10/23/18 12:18 PM
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Browning 25-06 boss system Composite stalk and matte barrel. Got it from Sporting good store in Dallas they also had other locations when they went out of business about 20 years ago for $270.00 + tax up


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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: mattyg06] #7327554 10/26/18 06:09 AM
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Re: Your BEST hunting or shooting related purchases [Re: fouzman] #7327604 10/26/18 11:39 AM
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Swarovski EL Binoculars, by far.


up love my 12x50 EL



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If I had to pick one thing that I have bought for hunting I never wished I did different it would be my rifle. Remington Sendero in 270. Best shooting rifle ive ever shot.


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Originally Posted By: QMC(SW/EXW)
I have 2.

Probably the best buy I ever made was on a Mannlicher Schoenauer Model 1903 in 6.5x54MS. I was in a gun shop in Norfolk VA when I was on active duty helping my buddy who is left handed get a decent rifle. I saw this one at the back of the rack and asked to see it. They had no idea what they had and it had a $300 price tag on it. I tried to get my buddy to buy it but he wanted no part of it since it was a right handed rifle. I snapped it up since I new the rifle would sell anywhere in the nation for $2K. Here it is in the field:



The 2nd great deal I made was on a set of Lieca 10x42 binos. I found a camera place that was having an inventory reduction and I got them for just a little less than $700 which is a steal on top end glass.


You almost stole that rifle! That's definitely on my bucket list.

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I think that the one purchase that has had the most impact on my hunting is my Leica binoculars. Rubber armored 10x40 Trinovids that I bought in the 80s. Light, rubber armored, and built like a tank. Surely the newer generation binoculars are better, but Im not so sure. The BiLs swaros dont seem any better, and they are larger and heavier.


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