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[TRADITIONAL ONLY]

the baby wipes are nice untill they FREEZE!

carry a book. if your like me and no mattr how hard you try, you still fall asleep on stand, READ! it works!

learn to shoot barefinger. youll never forget your glove/tab if you dont need one...

[leatherneck]

Those of you who use the wind puffer bottles. Use the Scent free foot powder to refill them. Thats all thats in them anyhow and you can fill about ten bottles for the price of one.
I agree with Trad Only, nothing worse then frozen baby wipes when nature calls.  

[Kevin Bahr]

I have two, both taken and applied from hunting buddies:  First, from Steve H., when cresting arrows, I now make sure I put a stripe about 10" behind the broadhead.  That way, when I find a broken off arrow on the blood trail, I know exactly how much arrow is in the animal.
And from Ron Lang: put some reflective material on your backpack straps in front and somewhere on your back.  Makes you more visible walking in the dark, if you aren't already using a flashlight.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

If you still use screw in steps, a short piece of PVC pipe makes a good tool to protect your hand while screwing them in.

Carry a walking stick and use it. Handiest little extra I have found.

Best one I have found lately is a 9" chain saw on a 12' pole.. Greatest little tree stand prepping tool you'll find. (Probably not what you want if you're prepping during season, but great this time of year)

[Seeking Trad Deer]

Always take a pair of binoculars

[72highboy]

It seems to me that everyone knows to get to their tree stand before first light while it is still dark. I have found that the you should also get to the high spot you want glass from while it is still dark. This may be a couple mile hike in the dark but you will be amazed at how quickly animals bed down after first light. Of course, this usually only applies to areas in the west where you can cover some country with your binoculars.

[jimneye]

It seems inevetable that once I have used my climber stand to settle in twenty feet up that I will drop a glove or hat.  I now carry a large treble hook (with the barbs and points dulled) attached to a string to retrieve droped items.

[Jon Stewart]

I carry the essentials, TP, small bottle of hand sanitizer and unscented baby wipes in a ziplock.  Multiple uses.

On hunting trips we carry a small squeeze bottle of woolite and a 2 gallon ziplock. A cold water wash  and a washing machine. Just fill the ziplock with cold water and a small amount of woolite and let it stand for 30 minutes and rinse. Never know when you need clean socks!!!

Wife  and I used this technique on our cross country bicycle trip.

[Russ Clagett]

On longer hunts or bivy situations I also carry a waterproof bag. Two reasons, one is, once your stuff is wet, it's just wet and that's it. the other is laundry. Empty the bag, find a few smaller round rocks, put in some water and dirty clothes, and shake the hell out of it. Soap helps but is not necessary.

Also tampons are awesome firestarters too, as well as excellent first aid items as they are meant to stop bleeding. Waterproof matches are a bad lie, carry a LIGHTER.

[Legolas]

Use an antipersperant on your feet (NOT a deoderant). They will stay much warmer.    

To make a more permanent foot stand for your treesuit measure the circumference where you want it and use the formula circumference equals 3.14 times diameter. Make it out of 3/4 inch plywood with some L brackets.
Paul

[adirondack46r]

Change up your schedule on stand. Even if I take a whole day off, my preferred schedule DURING THE RUT is to get on stand arouond 10:00 and stay until around 2, take a break to get some chow back at the truck, and back to the stand for the last 2 hours of the day.

Gone are the days when I can sit for 10 or 11 hours straight. This schedule is based on my 30 years of actual deer sighting times. I know you can see them any time, but this schedule keeps me rested, focused and on stand during (in my experience) the most productive hours.

[Roadkill]

birthday candles to start fires
dental floss
needle
bandaids
matches
fishhooks
mirror
flat whistle
taped up watertight in an Altoid container

[Kingstaken]

Not every bow can handle Fast Flight Strings.

[hickstick]

I found the peel-n-stick chemical heat packs for back pain worked awesome at keeping your whole body warm when put under your layers, stuck around the area of your kidneys.

zip ties...as said bfore...awesome for tagging animals, tying stuff to packs, impromptu blinds, and strapping branches to a treestand. I've even used them to hold back branches in shooting lanes but ziptying them to other branches.  cut them out when you leave (hunt a lot on public land where clipping branches/trees is a no no)

[Billy]

Read the posts on Tradgang....    then spun and bounced away...

[Greyfox54]

This is more of a hunting technique than a gear or gadget tip . I hunt mostly alone and early season when bucks seem to be more interested in rattling as a feeling out period with other bucks I set up my stand in a hopefully productive spot near a bedding area and then sneak in and rattle from the ground about 25-30 yards up=wind from my stand , sometimes I rattle with 2 horns and other times I mimic a buck rubbing a tree with just 1 horn . I do this for only a couple minutes then beat feet to my  treestand which I have alredy hooked my bow to the string and I climb up and pull my bow up and hook the antlers to the string and drop them down to the ground and wait . Bucks used to come directly to the tree I was in looking up  when I rattled from tree and now they seem to more often sneak into the spot I rattled from ignoring where I am sitting . It has given me several sitings , a few shots and even a few deer . Also if he hangs up or walks out without getting a shot just pull lightly on the string and the antlers will tinkle a little and get his attention and he may come around , seems to work sometimes for me . It is also a good idea to call from a scrape , either natural or manmade this way when he comes in he has lots of options . Stand placement is critical but it deffintely works , sometimes , Fred

[Legolas]

Take the insides out of some fig neutons and put a glump some place conspicuous near your camp. When you and your buddies are near it exclaim "Oh wow some possum crap!" Then scoop it up and eat it in front of them...
     

Paul

[trapperDave]

[Selfyewdave]

My tip is for scent liquid, whether it be doe in heat or a cover scent.  I like to put a cotton ball in the bottom of those little black plastic film canisters that have the grey tops.  I put a little of the liquid scent onto the cotton in the canister and then put the lid on it.  I will make about 3 of them and take them with me in the woods,remove the lids, and strategically place the canisters around me.  
When done, just put the lid back on....no mess, no stink, works great.

[vermonster13]

Take a kid hunting. You'll have a partner always ready to go and someone to help with the dragging.