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Warm dry clothing and boots. Much more important than the firearm used.
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Not sure if it fits your definition of a "tool", but persistence is my best hunting tool.
If you're referring to something tangible, then high quality glass is tops. More so than boots and rifle as far as I am concerned.
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A bar is cheaper, and you can piss away the advice....
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Time. "Hunting", takes as long, as it takes.
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
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Ditto .. What is (or is not) between the ears is always the most important
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attitude compass (I`m old school) a good friend and a match(for the firewood)
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Warm dry clothing and boots. Much more important than the firearm used. This.
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A boolit.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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A topo map and compass of the area. Saves alot of walking if you can pin point likely hotspots.
I don't drink or Smoke. I spend my money on gunpowder and gasoline.
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^This^ The one thing each individual has only a limited amount of and seemingly always, too little of.
Gloria In Excelsis Deo!As far as gear goes.. The poorer (or cheaper) you are, the tougher you need to be. gpopecustomknives.com
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For me it depends on what I'm hunting. For big game I'd say a quality laser range finder that can also be used for glassing instead of binoculars. Shooting sticks are a close second. For ducks I'd say a roto-duck decoy and a good call a close second. For turkeys I'd say a good set of camo clothing. For pheasant and quail I'd say a good pointer dog. For dove I'd say a good cigar. YMMV.
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) d.v. Musings on TDS
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I think top physical fitness will make any equipment you can buy work to it's max efficiency.
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Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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Attitude.
When you need to go out and kill something to eat or go hungry, you can find what you're looking for and get the job done. When that need is not present, you need other tools like luck.
A nice battery powered Dremel is probably second.
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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”. Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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Bingo
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I'd have to say a good rifle scope changed the world of hunting.When I started hunting in the early 1960's,open sight rifles and shotguns were the arms people packed in the whitetail woods.It was bucks only those days and a buck past a hundred yards was usually fairly safe.Then along came the scope craze,although a lot of those scopes were pure junk,it gave you a precise aiming point and you were able to hit the target at longer distances.
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~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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The state of mind to be successful is definitely number one.
The most difficult part of hunting a new big game species is finding a hunt location and the best way to scout locations is from an airplane. It is cheaper to use maps, Google Earth, internet searches, calling contacts, etc. but nothing is as fruitful as actually seeing the country.
Once you have a location you need access, motorized to get you close, two or 4 wheel ATV or animals to get you there.
If you don't have good equipment and stay in during bad weather then that is another thing.
Quality optics greatly increases your success be it binoculars or scope.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
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