Do I take too much stuff with me?

[JMikeyH]

Every time I'm packing my things to go out stalking it seems to take an age to gather everything I take and get out the door. What do you guys take with you when you go besides the obvious?
The usual stuff I take:

1. Rifle
2. Ammo + wallet to hold spare rounds
3. Binos
4. Rangefinder
5. Sticks
6. Jacket/Waterproof
7. Camo gloves
8. Hat
9. Knife
10. Saw
11. Waistpack filled with:
    • Latex gloves
    • Hand cleaning bits and bobs like wipes/sanitiser
    • S Hooks
    • First Aid kit with bandages, tourniquets etc
    • Small fold up targets in case scope takes a knock
    • Staple gun for fixing said targets to a stick if needed
    • Water
    • Small snack like a Snickers
    • Sandwich bags for heart/kidneys/liver
12. Roe Sack
13. Flexible carcass tray left in the car

And probably a couple of other minor bits and pieces I'm forgetting. Is it too much? What do you lot take?

 

[David.evans]

Might help if you add ammo to the list lol

 

[JMikeyH]

Might help if you add ammo to the list lol

That's the bit I always remember I need after arriving

 

[David.evans]

I know mate I’ve took the 243 out ,and put 233 ammo in my pouch
some times I wonder if I’ve lost the plot
atb

 

[Namman]

Every time I'm packing my things to go out stalking it seems to take an age to gather everything I take and get out the door. What do you guys take with you when you go besides the obvious?
The usual stuff I take:

1. Rifle
2. Ammo + wallet to hold spare rounds
3. Binos
4. Rangefinder
5. Sticks
6. Jacket/Waterproof
7. Camo gloves
8. Hat
9. Knife
10. Saw
11. Waistpack filled with:
    • Latex gloves
    • Hand cleaning bits and bobs like wipes/sanitiser
    • S Hooks
    • First Aid kit with bandages, tourniquets etc
    • Small fold up targets in case scope takes a knock
    • Staple gun for fixing said targets to a stick if needed
    • Water
    • Small snack like a Snickers
    • Sandwich bags for heart/kidneys/liver
12. Roe Sack
13. Flexible carcass tray left in the car

And probably a couple of other minor bits and pieces I'm forgetting. Is it too much? What do you lot take?

I take roughly what you take, except I leave targets etc in car. A mobile phone is also essential as long as there is a signal. In Scotland ,off the beaten track with no phone signal, I take a satellite phone and GPS.

 

[tikka_madras]

I take most of that but stashed in the roe sack, mostly in the pockets where it all lives. (I don’t bother with a saw, just go up through the side of the breastbone with a knife). Plus a couple of very large food grade heavy duty plastic sacks. Usually I leave the roe sack somewhere handy and stalk fairly minimally. If I get something I’ll go and get the roe sack, gralloch and put the beast in one of the plastic bags, then pop it in the sack and we’re off home.

 

[VSS]

My stalking backpack is always packed and sitting by the back door, so I just have to add sandwiches and flask, pick it up and go. That way it takes no time to get ready at all!
During the fallow season my sticks, carcass tray and extra gralloching stuff (eg, spare knife, winch, etc) always stay in the vehicle, so no chance of forgetting those.
Knife is always on my belt anyway. Ammo goes in trouser pocket the night before.
Only thing that I actually have to remember as I leave the house is the rifle.

I will do an inventory of what's in the backpack at some point.

 

[MAH]

Hi. I take similar, with the exception of;
Target/stapler. - how many time have you used it?
Ranger finder. - I take it when I go Walking and I practice estimating then verifying the range to ad hock things. (My good lady has got quite good too). Then when I'm out Stalking, I feel confident to estimate range sufficiently, to get on target without the faff.
M.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Might help if you add ammo to the list lol

And a bolt!

 

[bullet chucker]

I have a small ruck sack that holds my essentials in one place, pick up and go! Not forgetting rifle, bolt, sound mod,binoculars. The following are on my shooting belt, knife,saw and ammo wallet. are all in the ruck sack to start with.
Flask if needed?
BC.

 

[Tim.243]

Every time I'm packing my things to go out stalking it seems to take an age to gather everything I take and get out the door. What do you guys take with you when you go besides the obvious?
The usual stuff I take:

1. Rifle
2. Ammo + wallet to hold spare rounds
3. Binos
4. Rangefinder
5. Sticks
6. Jacket/Waterproof
7. Camo gloves
8. Hat
9. Knife
10. Saw
11. Waistpack filled with:
    • Latex gloves
    • Hand cleaning bits and bobs like wipes/sanitiser
    • S Hooks
    • First Aid kit with bandages, tourniquets etc
    • Small fold up targets in case scope takes a knock
    • Staple gun for fixing said targets to a stick if needed
    • Water
    • Small snack like a Snickers
    • Sandwich bags for heart/kidneys/liver
12. Roe Sack
13. Flexible carcass tray left in the car

And probably a couple of other minor bits and pieces I'm forgetting. Is it too much? What do you lot take?

Why do you take so much?

Tim.243

 

[Stalker62]

Why do you take so much (ammunition)?

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On my first week on the Sika many years ago up in Sutherland

I drove 666 miles (I kid you not) door-to-door. I took 100 rounds of ammunition. Well it would be bad form to run out wouldn't it.
I was out - stalking hard - twice a day for five days. Ten stalks in all.

I drove 666 miles back home - with 98 rounds of ammunition...

 

[VSS]

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On my first week on the Sika many years ago up in Sutherland

I drove 666 miles (I kid you not) door-to-door. I took 100 rounds of ammunition. Well it would be bad form to run out wouldn't it.
I was out - stalking hard - twice a day for five days. Ten stalks in all.

I drove 666 miles back home with 98 rounds of ammunition...

Ha ha! Reminds me of my first attempt at getting a fox when I'd just got my first centrefire rifle, 243. Got into position, fox appeared right on cue, and all my ammo (and I mean ALL of it - I didn't leave any at home!) was still in the cardboard box I had bought it in! So there followed a bit of a silly scene as the fox strolled down one side of the hedge and I crept along the other side while trying to get the box out of my bag, open it, extract a few rounds, close box and return to bag, load rifle etc. Fox was long gone by the time I'd sorted myself out.
Now I just take 6 rounds. 5 to fill the mag and one over for emergencies.

 

[User00014]

Maybe I’ve been stalking too many years, I like you used to haul everything and the kitchen sink, now excluding the obvious, if I can’t fit in my Pockets it’s stays in the van.

 

[JMikeyH]

Why do you take so much?

Tim.243

Think I could manage alright without the stuff you crossed out, I feel like latex gloves and a first aid kit is prudent though! Especially with that scary post about blood being a method of transmission for some horrible new tick disease that's appeared in Europe (thread called Tick Tock Boom earlier today on it)

 

[camodog]

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On my first week on the Sika many years ago up in Sutherland

I drove 666 miles (I kid you not) door-to-door. I took 100 rounds of ammunition. Well it would be bad form to run out wouldn't it.
I was out - stalking hard - twice a day for five days. Ten stalks in all.

I drove 666 miles back home - with 98 rounds of ammunition...

Zeroing went well then !

 

[LuckyEddie]

Ok you mention hat, gloves coat.
What about boots, socks, trousers?

Forget the clothing you wear what you wear

Rangefinder - unless you’re new to the ground then you should know where the beast are likely to be, the ranges to certain reference point and best directions to shoot safely at. So they stay at home

S hooks - why?

Paper target and staple gun better left in the car.
I’d rather take a bit of a hike rather than disturb likely cull beast in the middle of the ground.

Saw - why? By the time you’ve cut a branch back the deer will have heard or seen the movement and beat a hasty retreat. Leave gardening for a time when you’re not stalking

 

[75]

I've got a couple of small s-hooks that fit in a jacket pocket - ideal for suspended gralloch on roe or munties - straight onto a suitable branch with no faffing. Otherwise, if it doesn't fit in my pockets I don't take it. It'd be different on the hill but I'm not usually far from the pickup anyway (in relative terms).

 

[JMikeyH]

Ok you mention hat, gloves coat.
What about boots, socks, trousers?

Forget the clothing you wear what you wear

Rangefinder - unless you’re new to the ground then you should know where the beast are likely to be, the ranges to certain reference point and best directions to shoot safely at. So they stay at home

S hooks - why?

Paper target and staple gun better left in the car.
I’d rather take a bit of a hike rather than disturb likely cull beast in the middle of the ground.

Saw - why? By the time you’ve cut a branch back the deer will have heard or seen the movement and beat a hasty retreat. Leave gardening for a time when you’re not stalking

Hat/gloves/coat is extra clothing that I might not wear Rangefinder is for a bit of extra confidence in taking a shot, S hooks is for hanging for a gralloch, and I should've specified that the saw is for sternum/pelvis not for pruning back branches

 

[Tim.243]

Think I could manage alright without the stuff you crossed out, I feel like latex gloves and a first aid kit is prudent though! Especially with that scary post about blood being a method of transmission for some horrible new tick disease that's appeared in Europe (thread called Tick Tock Boom earlier today on it)

This time of year (late nights) I have my dinner before I go, so bog roll is high on the list as I might well need a dump at some point...

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