Whats in your stand with you?

[Drew]

As deer season is 2wks and days away here in Michigan, I'm just curious as to what you all take with you on the hunt? What's in your stand with you and in your pack? What did you used to take and deemed unnecessary? What do you always forget and wish you had?

[BravoKilo]

Best thing I ever did was switch from a backpack to a fanny pack for all my gear. Was always one to have a tool for the job, but finally realized over half of my gear was simply dead weight and never found myself using it in the tree. Now, I keep my backpack in the Jeep and simply walk in with a fanny pack with the bare essentials:

Water
Knife (and maybe an additional multitool)
Flashlight
Scent Away wipes (if I'm sweating after I hang my stand)
Trail markers
Appropriate calls
Rangefinder

Rope cocker and safety straps get carried in my safety vest

[Deerstalker]

Theramcell, water, range finder, binoculars, snackbar & apple, grunt call, cell phone on vibrate, deer drag, camera, knife, HSS vest, first aid kit, hearing aids, cushion, bug spray and flashlights. All of this is in my backpack and I keep the CB spares in the auto.

[mr meat]

Calls,light,cell phone,knife,thats about it!

[Normous]

I will add, 2-3 screw in hooks to hang stuff and a pee bottle not to contaminate my favorite stand sites.

[Masboy]

Thermecell!
Rangefinder
Surefire
Knife
Gruntcall
Crowcall
Lighter
Don,t carry binocs much when hunting anymore from my stand because I have a scope an range finder an always forget my iPod camera.everything else stays in the backpack in the truck . I carry as little as possible .

[wabi]

Crossbow, arrows, rope cocking aid, cell phone, and my fanny pack which contains:
Deer tag, deer tagging kit (small ziplock bags, temporary tags, zip ties), knife, field dressing gloves, spare string & slave string, water in warm weather, headlight (1-AA battery model and a spare battery).
Edited to add:
Forgot to mention the genuine "wabi" deer call in the fanny pack.
Guess it's so much of a "standard equipment" item I don't even give it any thought.

[cdnarmyguy]

http://www.excaliburcrossbow.com/phpBB2 ... =1&t=47215

[Onetimeonly x-->]

Way to much stuff but you never know when you may need something. Went from a fanny pack to an over the shoulder side pack. Nicer IMO.
Scott

[cdnarmyguy]

When I go I go for a couple of days. Im not a day hunter.

[vixenmaster]

I have a day pack, water, knife, p bottle, spare string, T paper jus in case rubber gloves & rope cocker, camera & walkie talkie.

[RexKay]

Rubber gloves..2 knives..Butt Out ..bleat..compass..led flashlight..lighter..phone..and buck bomb

[onebigskittle]

I have a day pack, water, knife, p bottle, spare string, T paper jus in case rubber gloves & rope cocker, camera & walkie talkie.

I am with ya on the rubber gloves ...Blood chaps my hands and its important to have a good top of the line TP to keep something else from chaping
I take most of whats been said plus my diabetic testing supplies.

[frisky]

TP has a least two uses. Just in "case" paper, also marks a small blood trail, real good!

[gendoc]

p-bottle, water, compass, knife, rope cocker and cell phone.
thermocell is attached to my suspenders