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iccyman001

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What is the worst hunting tool or item that you have ever purchased?

Did you read it in a magazine? See if on tv? or just fall for your buddies \"YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT THIS?




My answer doesn\'t help the purpose of the thread at all, but I don\'t believe I have made a bad purchase yet.
I don\'t buy often and I don\'t fall into hunting advertisement gimmics.



My buddy bought the ozonics thing though and to me I think that was a VERY silly buy.......

Hunt the wind, save a bunch of money...... :dk:
 
Probably a cheap spotting scope. I was always told buy the best optics you can afford....well in college that didn\'t amount to Steiner, Zeiss or Swarovski. lol
It sucked. :mock:
 
easy. my Mathews Z7.

let me preface it. i had the best shooting bow of my life. a Mathews Switchback XT. any arrow, any target. just point the bow at it..and plunk. bullseye. the bow had \"retard strength\" it was amazing. perfect bullet holes. ALL THE TIME.

new Z7 comes out. waaahhhh!! i want a new bow. \"no limb pockets!\"\" i want it!!!! it was the worst bow of my entire life. i killed a single turkey with it. i think i hit 50% of my shots. it was that bad. i almost threw it into a pond once. the ONLY thing that saved it, was my spot hogg sight on the bow...i was in mid swing of my roman grecco (hammer throw) heave into the pond when i thought..\"oh, my bowsight!\" this one time. montec broadhead. my rhinehart target at 30 yards. missed that target by 8 yards. my arrow could be shot around a corner. it was a cuss-fest.

true story.
 
I\'m sure I\'ll come up with more items as I think about this, but one that comes to mind is cheap cots. You know, the metal frame cots that have the springs attaching to the bed portion? They would fold in half, nice and simple. But you would go to open it and springs would be falling all over the place...man, were those a waste of money! We went from that to the army surplus cots, which are nice, but finally upgraded to the Cabelas Outfitter XL cots. Now THAT was a solid investment :upthumb:
 
Had a few bad things but the one that sticks out the most were a couple cheap frame packs. Had to pack out 3 elk one year with it and even though packing elk out is never easy, this cheap thing made it down right painful.
 
Cotton camo pants given to me by a hunter who wanted me to elk call for them. I was not the hunter, so the hunter outfitted me with Walmart and Bass Pro cotton/synthetic camo to get me to elk call for them.

Men\'s camo packs. Fatigue everyday out in the field because of the poor fit.

I now use First Lite pants and tops with Icebreaker baselayers. It took awhile to have the funds for better clothing and gear. Gear can be done cheaply for hunting, however, quality clothing, footwear and packs (women\'s Gregory XS packs) can make a huge difference if you are out hunting all day in difficult terrain.

My cheap equipment in the early days was adequate. Cheaper doesn\'t always mean bad and higher priced items doesn\'t always equate to good equipment. Now, I rarely buy new equipment despite having more money available for hobbies. I make a lousy US consumer.
 
Not sure what it was called, but it was supposed to help locate a downed animal using some kind of thermal detector.

Might as well just have had a buddy put a blindfold on me and spin me around and have me try to walk to the animal (we tested it on a downed bull)
 
Like Pikemaster said, cheap pack frames are the worst.

This elk won me 2 trips to the chiropractor

 
Keen and Vasque boots have been my worst purchases. Killed them both in about 30 days. Both are great comfy trail boots but poor backcountry boots
 
On the boot note, I did have a new pair of Rocky\'s that leaked like crazy on me the first year I used them. Cold, wet feet is the worst. Since then, I\'m sure to waterproof them on my own each year and they have been fine. But lesson learned for sure.
 
I have a better answer.

Kifaru 20 deg slick bag. I hated that thing. Pulled it from the box, climb in, zip up and caught the zipper so deep into the fabric. I had to shimmy out and work the zipper free. It was a bad omen. Took it on a summer trip into the Sierras. 35 deg nights. I shivered the entire trip.

Sold it for cheap as soon as I got home.
 
\"elky McElkerson\" said:
I have a better answer.

Kifaru 20 deg slick bag. I hated that thing. Pulled it from the box, climb in, zip up and caught the zipper so deep into the fabric. I had to shimmy out and work the zipper free. It was a bad omen. Took it on a summer trip into the Sierras. 35 deg nights. I shivered the entire trip.

Sold it for cheap as soon as I got home.
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I had one and I, too, sold it. I liked the material, but even the long/wide bag was too small for me, and I\'m not terribly huge, sitting at 195# at the time.

No, the fit/finish and material was all great, as you\'d expect from that company, but it was a tad cold, and built for smaller people.
 
I\'ll wholeheartedly agree with the cheap pack frames as a terrible purchase - we had 2 that looked like Brad\'s when we were first starting - absolutely painfull!

I usually have great luck with all my Cabela\'s gear, but for some reason their Outfitter Wool Dry Plus gloves were the worst gloves I\'ve ever worn. My buddy and I both bought them for his goat hunt a couple years ago, and they felt like they were actually extracting heat from our hands. Our hands soo cold with those gloves!
 
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