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High end products you can't justify

I wouldn't consider any of my hunting stuff high end. I just don't feel the need for high end equipment. Hunters are targets for a lot of marketing that is designed to take their hard earned dollars. One thing I would invest in is my own processing equipment. That would pay for itself pretty quick.
 
All the latest and greatest high end hunting clothing. Most of it is made in China anyways and if you have grown up in my area you know how to stay warm while outside. Wool and layering. I have actually fallen through the ice up to my crotch before and just stripped down and rung the water out of my wool,put it back on and was warm again within 15 minutes. Try that with your First Lite etc. and let me know how that turned out for ya.
 
most of the time with the larger ticket items, I realize I need more time to use the things, than I need the thing.
Do I need the gear or do I just imagine I’ll be more successful using it.
certainly I don’t have a truck camper or off road van. ditto on the high end camo.
I can see traditional archery testing my logic as I use archery gear more frequently than any of my mid range firearms .
I try to justify my gear by never using credit cards or credit for depreciating assets.
 
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With all the gear junkies here I’m surprised there’s anything listed that can’t be justified. :grimacing:

Hunting gear I have no problem spending money on quality stuff. I would rather do that once rather than throwing money away on a bunch of throwaway junk purchased multiple times. In that regard high end products often end up costing less.

I guess for me it’s gotta be hunting land. Just can’t justify spending all that money when I have 6 million acres of public land in my state just waiting for me to hunt for free. I would get bored real quick being restricted to anything under a 1000 acres. I love having room to roam and would be miserable hunting on a 40 acre parcel day after day even if it was covered with big bucks. Guess I’m just weird that way. LOL
 
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Hunter260 said:
Especially not when legs are free!
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generally, I agree with the sentiment. But time is not free. It’s the most valuable thing we have. I use an electric bike, pretty often. Not out of lazy. But out of “I can arrive at a spot two miles deep in 5 minutes, and out in 5 minutes. Instead of .5-1 hour each way.

I don’t know about you, but an extra 10-20% sleep each night, time for coffee, or your kids, or work, or more hunting and scouting. I freed up at least 50 hours last season. And hunted areas I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to hunt within reasonable timing and effort.

I still exercise as much as I did before an ebike. I still walk a ton scouting.

but I can tell you that 1700.00 paid for itself in half a season. I don’t have a mid drive because I don’t need it. But it would pay for itself in two seasons for me. Id rather pay for a second hub drive ebike for a friend or to have as a backup.
 
Bishop S7 and S72/58 broadheads.

I'd love to support them based on their location and unquestionable quality, but I can't justify the cost of their S7 &72/58 steel heads, even if they last forever.
 
Plebe said:
Bishop S7 and S72/58 broadheads.

I'd love to support them based on their location and unquestionable quality, but I can't justify the cost of their S7 &72/58 steel heads, even if they last forever.
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They're great heads, but I guarantee I'd lose them all within a few years from pass throughs. And after a year or two id get bored and want to try something else lol
 
Garmin Xero.

Really, all high end archery sights. They may be critical to someone else, but the shortish ranges and moderate arrow weights I shoot don't necessitate hundreds of dollars in an archery optic.

Also, expensive releases. I sometimes get interested in trying them, but I shoot well enough at my anticipated distances with el cheapo, and would surely get more value from more practice over an expensive release aid.
 
There's a lot of "high end" expensive gear that I don't think I can personally justify.

I've never been tempted by Sitka or Drake or Kuiu or the other frat-boy brands of hunting clothes. Really just because it doesn't get super cold in Alabama. And even down into the 20s, I just seem to be ok. Maybe because I know it's our best hunting weather and that amps me up?

Broadheads are another. I've killed 41 deer, half or more with broadheads and I just haven't really lost any I though were due to poor construction. But I've lost a LOT of arrows in the swamp. So chinadermics for me last year and probably this year. Same goes for arrows, lighted knocks, etc. I loose or break them too much and at one point I did the math and every one lost was $50 or more down the toilet.

Optics are another. A $200 Nikon or Vortex does everything I need it to do. I don't deer hunt with binoculars or rangefinders. Just haven't wanted them.

I've never wanted a hunting truck, at least until this year when I started looking at camper trailers. With my wife and I working remote and satellite internet on the horizon a good RV could revolutionize hunting season. But I'm not sure I couldn't sped the money some other way and achieve more and bigger dead deer in my house.
 
BuffaloBill said:
I wouldn't consider any of my hunting stuff high end. I just don't feel the need for high end equipment. Hunters are targets for a lot of marketing that is designed to take their hard earned dollars. One thing I would invest in is my own processing equipment. That would pay for itself pretty quick.
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….this post right here… and U don’t have to go crazy with the processing stuff either… a good knife, a grinder (or grinder attachment to a kitchen-aid mixer), and misc stuff like freezer paper and ground bags and you’re good!!!
 
TooheyBirdie said:
….this post right here… and U don’t have to go crazy with the processing stuff either… a good knife, a grinder (or grinder attachment to a kitchen-aid mixer), and misc stuff like freezer paper and ground bags and you’re good!!!
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You don't need to spend on a fancy knife at all.

Knives is another area I can't justify high dollar expenditures.
 
TooheyBirdie said:
….this post right here… and U don’t have to go crazy with the processing stuff either… a good knife, a grinder (or grinder attachment to a kitchen-aid mixer), and misc stuff like freezer paper and ground bags and you’re good!!!
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I've got a Victorinox boning knife. I have the KitchenAid attachment but it kind of sucks. I'd like a decent grinder but don't need a $300-400 one. I'd like to at least be able to do basic cuts and grind burger. The KitchenAid attachment was slow going and I didn't want to burn it up and piss my wife off ha.
 
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