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I scratch horizontal hash marks in my scope lens and call it...
The runningshot'no'guess'a'meter...
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Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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Money, it gives you everything but attitude and can even help with that.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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Common sense, plus as noted above, attitude, motivation and moral compass. jmho Tim
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein
At Khe Sanh a sign read "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected never knew".
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I used to use a sharpie to apply graduated marks... but would end up wiping them off while using my T shirt tail to clean my lenses... It's way easier than turning the windage turret while swinging... Kent
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Money, it gives you everything but attitude and can even help with that. Time?
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Hi-resolution, Geosynchronous satellite with infrared capabilities. Saves A LOT of time!
It ain't what you don't know that makes you an idiot...it's what you know for certain, that just ain't so...
Most people don't want to believe the truth~they want the truth to be what they believe.
Stupidity has no average...
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This used to mean something......it used to be step #1
Maker of the Frankenstud Sling Keeper
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I'd say the things that have most enhanced my hunting experience are as follows:
Attitude
Confidence in your rifle and yourself (this may go under number 1)
Good enough physical shape
Good boots
Good clothes
Hunting with a partner, I really enjoy being in the outdoors with others. Nice coming back to camp and swapping stories, also nice having help if you need it.
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legs and lungs boots and binos and, I hate to admit, LRF and Hunting GPS maps.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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Blind asss luck in my case. It trumps pure hunting ability any day.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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My cat like speed and reflexes.
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Whiskey, or Whisky
always helps with the attitude.
I find that the attitude is everything when hunting.
"It's not the arrow, it's the Indian."
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Handheld GPS When hunting a new area I used to backtrack my way back to the truck.Now I never backtrack so I cover twice as much terrain. Also it's invaluable for marking game sightings, kill locations, trail locations, etc. and then transfering all those locations to google maps.
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Boon Companions.
They are the hardest thing to locate. You cannot buy one for trying, and great ones magnify the hunting experience immeasurably.
Was surprised to read this far and be the first one to mention it.
You can recognize them by their high quality, well worn boots, and banged up trucks.
Ignorance is not confined to uneducated people.
WHO IS JOHN GALT? LIBERTY!
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A good knife and a good pair of field glasses.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Archibald Rutledge
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Out here in the west, good optics, LRF, and hopefully a good, skilled, dependable hunting buddy.
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time, money, friends you can trust to hunt with.
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Drone with camera.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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"What would you consider the best tool to help in hunting?"
reasonably low cost out of state elk and deer license fees so I and anyone else wishing to perfect their skills actually hunting game, can spend all the time required actually hunting and not facing huge monetary concerns due to the costs involved, NOTHING BUT NOTHING BEATS EXPERIENCE and you can,t get that limited to a hunt every few years at todays prices when I started hunting fees were low, I could afford to carefully schedule two or more out of state elk and deer hunts on a single trip with one ending just before the next started, I rarely had problems finding 4-6 guys and two trucks willing to make those trips, but with to days license fees that's a thing of the past
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