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New Gear Release 2022!

Bwhana said:
There should be a thread on here each season to track your previous 3 seasons' gear used and harvests and compare that to the coming season's results. Prove with facts that your harvest quantity and quality improved with the new toys. I think most of us, if honest, get very little improvement in our harvests due to the gear we use, but win if the comfort is improved via fit, less weight, or ease of use. $ spent on better location will always trump better gear, but the new gear is fun too. too much of what we see coming out is fluff again - like an existing saddle with expensive camo pattern added that doesn't work any better than Carhart brown in the tree...
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I tend to agree with your point that hunting success (killing a deer....dislike the PC term "harvest") is not necessarily correlated with gear, though gear does make a difference. Case in point, if you hunt with a home-made spear, wearing home-tanned skins, rather than a modern gun/bow and scentlok, I think most of us would kill a lot fewer deer. LOL

I don't need to hunt for food, I choose to. Hunting for me is for the experience, the enjoyment, the satisfaction (of learning new things, not just getting an animal), the feeling of being alive and part of nature as a predator, etc. But part of that experience is the fun and enjoyment of getting new gear, and I think many on this site, from what I've seen, are gear junkies too. :tearsofjoy: There's nothing wrong with that....so long as you are honest with yourself as to your motivations, and don't delude yourself that the latest gadget will magically turn you into the Davey Crocket of super-hunters.

So I think the suggestion of tracking gear acquisitions and then "proving" that this helped your hunting is a bit over the top. It assumes that the primary way of measuring hunting success is animals taken. Sure...that is a motivator for hunting, but not the only one and often not the main one.

All the new gear, the marketing announcements, the doodads, the refinements and even the crazy ideas at ATA and elsewhere are designed to capture hunters and their cash.....not animals. :)

All that being said, I still like new gear....wouldn't have started building out a saddle hunting kit, on which I have spent quite a bit of money already, to use it during the 2022 season. Will that make me a more "successful" hunter this year? Dunno....maybe. Having fun learning and playing with the new gear, so it's been worth it so far.

Now...has anyone announced a camo blaster or light sabre at ATA 2022 yet? I want one of those for the Fall hunting season! LOL
 
Bowhunt or die guys did a ATA vid. They mentioned “30 or 40%” more than the current platforms for the carbon fiber model and they also mentioned $250. They’ll sell a boatload if that’s true


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tarafrost said:
I tend to agree with your point that hunting success (killing a deer....dislike the PC term "harvest") is not necessarily correlated with gear, though gear does make a difference. Case in point, if you hunt with a home-made spear, wearing home-tanned skins, rather than a modern gun/bow and scentlok, I think most of us would kill a lot fewer deer. LOL

I don't need to hunt for food, I choose to. Hunting for me is for the experience, the enjoyment, the satisfaction (of learning new things, not just getting an animal), the feeling of being alive and part of nature as a predator, etc. But part of that experience is the fun and enjoyment of getting new gear, and I think many on this site, from what I've seen, are gear junkies too. :tearsofjoy: There's nothing wrong with that....so long as you are honest with yourself as to your motivations, and don't delude yourself that the latest gadget will magically turn you into the Davey Crocket of super-hunters.

So I think the suggestion of tracking gear acquisitions and then "proving" that this helped your hunting is a bit over the top. It assumes that the primary way of measuring hunting success is animals taken. Sure...that is a motivator for hunting, but not the only one and often not the main one.

All the new gear, the marketing announcements, the doodads, the refinements and even the crazy ideas at ATA and elsewhere are designed to capture hunters and their cash.....not animals. :)

All that being said, I still like new gear....wouldn't have started building out a saddle hunting kit, on which I have spent quite a bit of money already, to use it during the 2022 season. Will that make me a more "successful" hunter this year? Dunno....maybe. Having fun learning and playing with the new gear, so it's been worth it so far.

Now...has anyone announced a camo blaster or light sabre at ATA 2022 yet? I want one of those for the Fall hunting season! LOL
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That was a rhetorical suggestion on posting success, but it worked :)
 
As far as I know it doesn't exist but someone needs to create a mobile/takedown elevated saddle shooting position for the range. I'm jealous of you guys that can climb a tree in the back yard, but no go for me (to shoot) so can someone start selling a section of telephone pole attached to some scaffolding that will also break down and fit in my truck and not weight 2000 lbs, cheap please?
 
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