Favorite things

[wollelybugger]

Its funny how out of all the equipment you buy there are a few things that become your favorites. I always take my Dads old hunting knife with me because of the memories it brings back. I also have his old Zippo lighter with his signature on it and think of him every time I use it.

I got my old Hill longbow that I killed my first buck with, and my Old Bear Kodiak that killed a lot of deer for me. Wouldn't trade these bows for a new Widow.lol Favorite pair of waders and a old fly pole that I seem to use all the time.
 
You fellas got any equipment that has become special.

[KodiakMag]

mid 70's K-Mag that was my fathers, Zwickey BHs, a knife that was given to me 7/4/92 with my name engraved on it with the date. I din't recieve it until I was 10 but my father had it engraved for me to use when I started hunting. It's done it's fair share of work over the years.  

[Mike Vines]

I have, and still use my grandpa's hunting knife, along with a rock I had found years ago of a perfectly formed snail that was petrified, it's about 2" across (I keep it for luck, maybe I should leave it back one day).  lol.

I always have a compass on hand even if I'm just going to the local woodlot.  That was instilled in ms since I was a kid and force fed to me in the Army.

Now for the most important thing I bring with me into the woods...Memories.

[BowHunterGA]

I have a Hoyt Gamemaster I that I will keep forever.

When I was young growing up in North Carolina I had an archery mentor that had a very giving attitude towards youths getting into archery and hunting. Had it not been for him I would not have been able to afford much of the experience that made be fall in love with the sport.
A few years ago I got the opportunity to repay some of the many favors this gentlemen had bestowed upon me and took him Turkey hunting in GA. I was just starting to dable in traditional archery at the time and about a week later the post man delivered a box to my door. Inside was a brand new Hoyt Gamemaster #55 recurve.

The following week I got news that my friend and mentor went in for routine hip surgery and never made it out of the operating room.

That bow will ALWAYS have a place on my wall and in my heart!

Thank you JR Wright!! I still think about you every time I am in a deer stand with a bow!