What strange item do you take on each hunt?

[Robertfishes]

My brother gave me a Buckeye Nut 30 years ago, I carried it for a few years. 8 years ago my friend in Ohio gave me one while we were hunting his place. I found some last year when we were hunting in Kentucky.. I gave them to my hunting Buddy's. My brother told me it was good luck to be given one..

[**DONOTDELETE**]

A rubber chicken....

[shag08]

Robertfishes....from what I have always heard, for a buckeye to be "lucky" it has to be given to you by someone else. I ALWAYS have a "lucky" buckeye in my pocket...doesn't mater if I'm going hunting or to work or to WalMart. I figure a little extra luck can never hurt.

[Legolas]

Pdk25,
Lip balm...
In a bar in Alaska and my lips were cracked bloody and hurtin. I noticed all the natives had no problems so I inquired. A local took me out to his dog team and he said "this is what we do". He lifted the tail of a dog swiped his finger down there then rubbed his lips.
"My goodness that is just disgusting", I said.
"Yep " said the native. " But you won't lick your lips".  

[halfseminole]

I've got a medicine bag as well.  In addition, I have the green jasper arrowhead my wife got me.  It's good medicine as well.

[Keith Zimmerman]

Medicine bag for me.

[Matthew Bolton]

My dad swears up and down by carrying a Payday candy bar for deer hunting. We have other superstitions but my old man has the only item that he hasn't changed in 20 something years.

[Rooselk]

Matthew, your dad is spot on. A Payday candy bar or two is a hunting essential.

[Red Beastmaster]

Visine eye drops and Red Man are in my pockets every time I have a bow in my hand.

[tippit]

My dad goes with me.  If we are lucky enough harvest something, he gets to stay in the woods which he loved and taught me to love it too!  tippit

   

[Jake Scott]

Tippit and Whip,
Super cool guys.  That is really, really, great.

Jake

[centaur]

I have a flight glove from my time in the military that goes with me. It is the only uniform item that I have left from that time long ago, and it is for my bow hand. It is olive drab, so it works well in hunting situations.

[cuboodle]

I carry a funeral card with the 23rd psalm from a hunting buddy who died of cancer.

[eidsvolling]

Tampons.

Yeah, you read it right.

1. To stop bleeding other than that for which they are designed. Think: Scary sharp broadheads and a constantly solo hunter. Now you get it.

2. To start a fire. They come in a waterproof container and weigh nothing. Not nearly as fragrant as cedar shavings (which I also carry), but very effective as tinder.

[dnovo]

I have a lucky buckeye nresiding in the bottom of my haversack. It goes wherever I go.
I found it the morning I killed 2 does from the same stand the same morning, an hour apart.

[pamike]

Lucky rocks!! My daughters gave me some lucky rocks to take along on my spot and stalk black bear hunt. (They were like 4 and 6 yrs old). I killed a 465# bear on the first day of the hunt. My buddy got to day 4 and was starting to get concerned. I joking said you need to use my lucky rocks. He was desparate enough that he said I will try anything. Within 1 hr he had a 400# bear on the ground. Carry them ever since.

[RedShaft]

That's really odd because a payday is what I usually grab when havin a snack when hunting. They do make me thirsty though.
For the longest time I work a necklace that was from a deers leg bone that shattered on a shot from me. I cleaned it and scrim shawed a arrow and a deer hoof print on it and wore it with a sinue cordage.  I wore It for hunting for years n years.

[RedShaft]

A buckeye is a mineral deposit in a deers stomach correct? Or am I mistaking it for something else?

[bretto]

http://www.ohio-nature.com/image-files/buckeye-tree-nut-lg.jpg  

This is a Buckeye Redshaft.

My Grandpa always carried one in his pocket also.

bretto

[toddster]

I have and old Cheveron that my daughter put on one of my hats from the Marines, I wear it because that day seen the most deer ever, and has her with me.