What brings you luck?

[steveshuntn1]

When the kiddos give it to you it makes it all the sweeter.

Yep…my youngest used to tell me what letters were on it when she got bored hunting. I bet she spelled out Remington a thousand times while bored in the stand. My oldest was 5 when she got me the vest for Christmas! Wrapped it herself!

 

[rtraverdavis]

When the kiddos give it to you it makes it all the sweeter.

My daughter is six.

Last season (2021) she was really into drawing maps. Drew me a bunch of them for my hunt and I ended up killing my best mule deer so far. I connected that success to a lot of hard work and planning, but also to the major mojo brought to the hunt in those maps she made.

This year her enthusiasm for maps waned big time. I asked if she was going to draw me a map for my elk hunt. She took seven seconds, drew a squiggle or two on the back of a used envelope, and handed it to me. Then, I got my ass absolutely whooped by the elk this year. I blame her completely and will hold it against her all year.

 

[Hunter4Life78]

Yep…my youngest used to tell me what letters were on it when she got bored hunting. I bet she spelled out Remington a thousand times while bored in the stand. My oldest was 5 when she got me the vest for Christmas! Wrapped it herself!

That is so awesome!!!

 

[Hunter4Life78]

My daughter is six.

Last season (2021) she was really into drawing maps. Drew me a bunch of them for my hunt and I ended up killing my best mule deer so far. I connected that success to a lot of hard work and planning, but also to the major mojo brought to the hunt in those maps she made.

This year her enthusiasm for maps waned big time. I asked if she was going to draw me a map for my elk hunt. She took seven seconds, drew a squiggle or two on the back of a used envelope, and handed it to me. Then, I got my ass absolutely whooped by the elk this year. I blame her completely and will hold it against her all year.

Remember this when she wants her first car!!!

 

[Irrelevant]

Luck, what's that?

 

[Moserkr]

I forgot a freeze dried dinner while backpacking in for an archery mule deer hunt, and shot my first archery buck that trip. You hunt harder when you are hungry. Thats my luck.

 

[hank4elk]

Luck? I gots me some. Plain dumb luck.
Been wearing a VLA hunt cap for the last 5 or so years ,just for hunting .I like the brim. Not flat and not a tube bill.

20 some years ago a Zuni guy gave me a gift, for no reason. I had never met him before but had bought some stone animal effigy/carvings previously on trips to Santa Fe. A cougar, a couple bears, and a buck.
He just stated ,"your an elk hunter". You need to carry this with you and he handed me a little leather sack. Inside was a stone badger. He said a badger is for hunting elk, it is tenacity. And he walked away....

I'm sticking it in my pocket this morning when I get ready. The clear moon night , is being replaced by dense ground fog.
I'll be lucky to see anything this morning. LOL

 

[np307]

I always keep a case from a previous animal I've killed in my pocket when hunting. And I always have a box turtle shell on my dash.

 

[The Hedgehog]

I know only what brings me bad luck. It cannot be spoken of. The ****** Curse.

 

[Straight Arrow]

It always helps to wear my RMEF cap while elk hunting.

 

[noharleyyet]

Preparation...

 

[JohnCushman]

baby wipes

 

[WildWill]

Preparation...

Prevents piss poor performance.
Mine is also a vest i got for Christmas 2009 from my aunt. Best orange vest I've ever had. Looks cleaner in the pic then in person.

 

[OntarioHunter]

Great dogs and strong legs have brought me all I could ask for during the last fifty years of hunting. Lucky to have had them both for so long.

 

[tjones]

I had a lucky pair of Sitka pants and some old smelly longjohns that always worked.

They were lucky until they weren't.

They did not stop the Havalon that slipped while skinning a lower leg of a bull and buried into my inner thigh.

 

[mdcrossbow]

I've worn many hats over the years but this one has endured over time.

 

[2rocky]

If I'm wearing this hat, I am slaying...and I don't just mean hunting....

 

[RobertD]

I like holding on to spent cartridges from succesful and unsuccessful shots. Like a physical vessel for a memory. Keep them handy for a while. Maybe luck, maybe just keeps me focused.

 

[CorkyM]

This old Browning,

 

[NearerTheBone]

I never hunt without my Kromer on my head. Can’t say it’s very lucky but I do rub the ivories together for “luck” before each hunt.