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Author Topic: Good Luck Charms  (Read 670 times)

Offline gobbler10ga

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Good Luck Charms
« on: May 04, 2007, 12:30:00 PM »
anyone have any good luck charms or things they do before a hunt????????????? Lucky hat? rabbits foot?
etc.
I found an arrowhead on a turkey hunt next thing I knew bird gobbles and comes in for the kill
made the arrowhead into a necklace
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Offline Whip

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2007, 01:13:00 PM »
In my daypack is a chestnut I picked up the first year I ever bowhunted (28 years ago) and carried in my pocket that season for some reason.  Just haven't been able to throw it away.  Also have an elk ivory that I pulled out of a found skull on a mountain hunt one year.  
Don't know if either are "lucky", but I like having them with me.  They remind me of good times.
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Offline COOTER BOY

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2007, 02:34:00 PM »
I have a small forked 4" long piece of Deer antler that I found in the forest one day about 15 years ago. I polised it up and made a small necklace. I wear it Deer Hunting. In my mind I believe it keeps me safe and brings me luck

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2007, 09:41:00 PM »
I always carry the 110 Buck folding knife my wife gave to me our first Christmas together 20 years ago,Then there's my old funny lookin' Red&Black plaid huntin' hat,Then there's.....
I only shoot WOOD arrows... My kid makes them, fast as I can break them!

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May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows..... Happy Hunting!!!

Offline mcgroundstalker

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2007, 11:36:00 AM »
My wife gave me a little plastic indian that stands 2" high...He is bending at the knees and at full draw...I just like having it with me on hunts and 3D shoots...Now everyone knows!!!

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Offline T.A.C.

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2007, 06:50:00 PM »
I have a black silk bandana that I wear that has a few burn holes thru it from trying to sleep too close to a fire one particularly cold night.
Terry

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2007, 07:32:00 PM »
Roger Norris gave me a 8x10 close up framed photo of Fred Bear drawing back his bow. I touch this photo before every hunt.
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Offline Duckbutt

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »
My uncle passed away at a young age.  He started hunting just months before he died.  The last time I spent with him he helped me trail my first bow shot deer.  When we were going through his things, I found his camo pants.....been wearing them for a lot of years.

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2007, 12:20:00 AM »
Clear crystal quartz arrowhead, and a black arrowhead, for the yen yang effect; deer hoof from my first kill in 1965, and a new(this season's) buckeye, and a 'secret' weapon.     :bigsmyl:  

And keep'em in the 'lucky' mojo deer sack...wish it had a zipper instead of a drawstring.
Then I would be a sport.   :cool:

Anybody still carry a 'special' coon bone?  :rolleyes:
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Offline Labs4me

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2007, 07:49:00 PM »
I wear a dog tag once worn by a very special Labrador Retriever named Dakota. He was my dog of a lifetime and he will be with me on every hunt for the rest of my days.
"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." - Henry David Thoreau (Before the advent of compound bows with 85% letoff)

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2007, 10:00:00 PM »
well my parents got the "special" coon bone in there room, they dont carry it but they got one...

i used to carry a buckeye me and dad found one day while squirrle hunting, but after two or three tears it fell apart and i aint found another one.

but i guess the one thin i have that i consider "kinda" a good luck charm is a spike antler that dad killes several years ago. i cut the tip off and made a necklace that ive worn for the pat 5 or 6 years i guess, ive only taken it off 3 or 4 times and thats only because the rope was too small or i had to work on it a little....
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Offline 1/2primitive

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2007, 10:14:00 PM »
My bow  :p    :bigsmyl:  
   Sean

Offline Curveman

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Re: Good Luck Charms
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2007, 10:15:00 PM »
In the immortal words of Roy Rogers: "Nope!"

More seriously, these talisman's etc. helped primitive man feel safe. Nothing wrong with them but in my own mind it is just a sentimental item or gesture which is a good thing to have/be but we all know won't help or keep us safe or anything of that nature.

Read Ecclesiastes some time: "How does the wise man die? Same way as the fool! The evil man lives and the good man perishes..." (gist).

Of course I could be completely wrong and maybe these little found items ARE "God's little messages!" I do say a little prayer sometimes.
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