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"I wish I knew how to quit you."

Nutterbuster

Nutterbuster

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Sitting here waiting for my old Hardcore waist pack/chest pack/shell carrier/hand warmer to dry so I can repack it with shells and gear for tomorrow.

I paid 10 bucks for it back when I first started duck hunting...7 years ago? It's probably been on every single duck hunt I've been on, and I frigging hate the POS.

It holds a dozen shells, but they end up buried in the neoprene sleeve if you don't watch it. You have to check before daylight to make sure you can actually get them out.

The fleece lining in the hand warmer keeps your hands warm...if it's dry. It hasn't been dry a dozen hunts in 7 years. But it makes for a quick place to stuff a headlamp or call...and then lose it when you go to fetch birds.

The zipper compartment is more secure...if you can make the dang zipper work.

And best of all is neoprene is waterproof...right. WRONG. This thing gets soaked every time you step in a deep hole and will stay wet until you put it in a dryer. It'd be impressive if it wasn't so damn frustrating.

But here I sit...waiting on it to dry because I've had it for 7 years and it won't break and it's handy to have one thing to tote that holds shells, thermacells, headlamps, and the pin punch to drop the trigger guard and disassemble the firing pin mech on ole Matilda.

Anybody else have ****ty gear they can't get rid of, or am I just that stupid?
 
The funny part is you aren’t even asking for suggestions to replace it with. Some of those nice binocular chest harnesses look like the would fit the bill short of the cold wet hand warmer.
I’m still using a one inch webbing tether on a frame buckle a wormy guy from Alabama let me try at Ft Stewart three or four years ago. I told myself I would replace the out of spec not climbing rated pos every year. Just haven’t gotten around to it. Sometimes I use my linesman’s as a backup tether once at height. Sometimes I just don’t. I’m also still using some sorry old api skyhook as a ros.You really need to get rid of your silent reaper pack. I’ll send you an address to send it to.
 
Some times the old shoe just fits better than the new one.
I don't have a hunting piece of gear that falls into that category. Mostly haven't used anything long enough to fall into that category that got that much use. It either doesn't get used or used and lost. Often times miss placed, and something different takes it place. Found later and sent into the tub of use some day.
 
I lost my shell holder/ muff thingy several years ago when I let someone borrow it and it never made it back to me. I was more upset over the half dozen heavi shot shells in it than I was the handwarmer. For all your stated reasons I hated it but felt compelled to take it. I felt like it would have its feelings hurt if I didn’t. I’ve since moved on to waders with the shell holder/ muff thingy built in and I’m sure it will also be equally useless. I hope whom ever ended up with the former one is as tormented by it as I was.
 
I thought of this due to a post on the Hickory Creek mini kool aid thread, but the quiver on the mini is atrocious. It gets in the way when cocking, so you have to take it off first. The release always gets stuck and is hard to operate (especially if its cold) and then since you're using all your God-given strength to pull the quiver off sometimes it goes flying through the air and down to the ground with all your arrows so you have to climb down and get it. And THEN, when you're hiking a mile back to your truck in thick brush in the dark the quiver release magically wants to work by itself and will conveniently drop your quiver with well over $100 of heads and arrows in the thickets spot on your whole hike back (yes I found it after 90 minutes of retracing my trail). I love the mini so much that I keep used this gall dern quiver.
 
@philsanchez76 dude, just leave the quiver off and in your bag. If the mini is not in my hand, the quiver is in the bag. I know Kyler had a second place to attach the quiver on his jx3. I thought about that, but never did it.
 
five said:
@philsanchez76 dude, just leave the quiver off and in your bag. If the mini is not in my hand, the quiver is in the bag. I know Kyler had a second place to attach the quiver on his jx3. I thought about that, but never did it.
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Problem with that is how I slowly still hunt my way to my set up areas. I often encounter deer and get shots. I absolutely will not hike in with an arrow loaded due to uneven terrain etc, so I usually cock the bow at the truck and then reattach quiver and that way I can silently grab and load an arrow and shoot. This does not work as well in the backpack. After 3 full season of this crap I am finally trying to get a new quiver this off season so ill stop complaining.
 
philsanchez76 said:
Problem with that is how I slowly still hunt my way to my set up areas. I often encounter deer and get shots. I absolutely will not hike in with an arrow loaded due to uneven terrain etc, so I usually cock the bow at the truck and then reattach quiver and that way I can silently grab and load an arrow and shoot. This does not work as well in the backpack. After 3 full season of this crap I am finally trying to get a new quiver this off season so ill stop complaining.
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Is it a good idea to walk around with it cocked with no arrow though? Sound alike a recipe for a dry fire (I know the mini has an anti dry fire, but it can get pushed down and "sticks" once it's down or at least mine seems to)

Getting back to OP I was given some muck apex low tops three years ago when I asked for hunting boots. Not exactly what I wanted but made them work, They are fine for early season but not much use later/in cold and not a huge fan of walking in them, wore them for two and a half years before buying some lowas and demoted them to around the house duty because I can't make myself get rid of them
 
thedutchtouch said:
Is it a good idea to walk around with it cocked with no arrow though? Sound alike a recipe for a dry fire (I know the mini has an anti dry fire, but it can get pushed down and "sticks" once it's down or at least mine seems to)
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It's a small risk. Ive got 150+ hunts in with the mini now and it has never dry-fired in any conditions. I feel confident with the trigger safety plus the anti dry-fire mech. My dry fire safety does NOT get stuck though. id get that fixed.
 
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