Old equipment

[220yotekiller]

What is the oldest piece of equipment that you still hunt with? Rifles don't count. Mine is a ELK. INC cow talk call. My Dad gave it to me 18 years ago for chipping ice. I learned how to use it by listening to the casett tape and driving my Mom crazy. I was 11.

 

[Bambistew]

I have one of those somewhere, pretty sure I had the bull call too.

Oldest thing I can think of is a custom knife I won when I was 16 playing blackjack. Cost me $40k in fake money.

 

[BackofBeyond]

What is the oldest piece of equipment that you still hunt with? Rifles don't count. Mine is a ELK. INC cow talk call. My Dad gave it to me 18 years ago for chipping ice. I learned how to use it by listening to the casett tape and driving my Mom crazy. I was 11.

I found one of those knocking around a box a while ago. I got it when I was a kid as well, probably about the same age.

 

[sneakypete]

What is the oldest piece of equipment that you still hunt with? Rifles don't count. Mine is a ELK. INC cow talk call. My Dad gave it to me 18 years ago for chipping ice. I learned how to use it by listening to the casett tape and driving my Mom crazy. I was 11.

I haveone somewhere

 

[Nick87]

Step dads knife, about 40 years old.

 

[isu22andy]

What is the oldest piece of equipment that you still hunt with? Rifles don't count. Mine is a ELK. INC cow talk call. My Dad gave it to me 18 years ago for chipping ice. I learned how to use it by listening to the casett tape and driving my Mom crazy. I was 11.

I saw a brand new one of these at the store the other day on sale. I was wondering how the hell it sounded.

 

[OntarioHunter]

I still use my dad's P.S. Olt duck call. He delivered papers as a kid in the Depression to pay for it. I also have the lanyard he braided from buckstich lacing but it's too fragile and long since retired. (Downloaded image, not Dad's duck call).

Edit: For those who may be interested, one of the former employees bought the company name and is making these calls again. They are great. Not real flashy looking but they do call in ducks. Great support too. Dad sent his call back to the factory for a new reed back in the 60s. It fell out within weeks and Dad put it back in the factory mailer box. He dropped a crappy Lohman call in my stocking that Christmas. When he died in '99 I found the Olt call and box in his drawer and brought it home. About fifteen years ago I sent for a new reed and cork and have used it since then.

 

[Jason73]

I have a 70s Smith and Wesson 12 gauge. Can't recall the model but it's dropped plenty of whitetail over the years. Never passed 75 yards though. Lol.

 

[gouch]

My dad gave me this in 1966

 

[220yotekiller]

My dad gave me this in 1966
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I think my Dad has one of those, is it a k bar?

 

[AlaskaHunter]

My go-to raingear on the boat is from 1989 (commercial fishing raingear).
Filson tin cloth chaps from the 1980s.
My go-to shotgun is a 1974 Browning Citori I bought used in 1983 at a pawn shop for $500.
That red backpack is an old Dana Designs Arcflex (30 years old) and still my go to backpack.

 

[SFC B]

I am an AOH (started at 33-34) and I am still using a Schrade gut hook knife with a green rubber handle that I use. I used it on my USAFA buck last December.

 

[gouch]

I think my Dad has one of those, is it a k bar?

No, it's a Case

 

[elkduds]

Dad's M94, he got it new in about 1950.

 

[Nick87]

My dad gave me this in 1966
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Grandpa has one very similar same exact handle slightly different blade iirc.

 

[hank4elk]

My Uncle Henry folding knife and the Woolrich wool hunting coat my uncle Paul gave me when I was 13.
I grew into them both and wore the coat a few times this winter and I used that knife again this year to skin & cut up another elk.
I wore my dads wool sweater he gave me for hunting 40 years ago, this year again. It was old then but still like new. 1940's Eddie Bauer. Great core warmth.

 

[WildWill]

Dad picked this up in the 70s and used it as a boot knife for 30 years before giving it to me when I was around 13. Gut, skinned, and quartered a bunch of deer and pigs with it just use my havalon now.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

One old thing I use every day is grandma's cast iron skillet:

I inherited a Wagner from my grandma...use it every day.
The Wagner and straight Ware and Sidney on the bottom indicates
manufactured in the 1920s.
https://www.booniehicks.com/wagner-cast-iron/

 

[runningmt]

I still use my dad's P.S. Olt duck call. He delivered papers as a kid in the Depression to pay for it. I also have the lanyard he braided from buckstich lacing but it's too fragile and long since retired. (Downloaded image, not Dad's duck call).

Edit: For those who may be interested, one of the former employees bought the company name and is making these calls again. They are great. Not real flashy looking but they do call in ducks. Great support too. Dad sent his call back to the factory for a new reed back in the 60s. It fell out within weeks and Dad put it back in the factory mailer box. He dropped a crappy Lohman call in my stocking that Christmas. When he died in '99 I found the Olt call and box in his drawer and brought it home. About fifteen years ago I sent for a new reed and cork and have used it since then.
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Very cool!

Early season back in ND was filled with “regular” ducks…..nearly unidentifiable!

 

[hank4elk]

One old thing I use every day is grandma's cast iron skillet:
View attachment 215545
I inherited a Wagner from my grandma...use it every day.
The Wagner and straight Ware and Sidney on the bottom indicates
manufactured in the 1920s.
https://www.booniehicks.com/wagner-cast-iron/

I got mom's 10" Wagner,1940's wedding present. Just cooked some fresh smoked bacon in it.