Reviving this old thread..hunting season is almost over what's a new piece of gear you used/ bought this year? Any gear fail your expectations? Any gear exceed your expectations?
Rocky Mountain elk diaghram calls and a Smith Game Call grunt tube. Huge learning curve in using both. The diaghrams made me gag at first. The grunt tube made my calls sound like a cut cat. The reward was getting critters to at least stop to my calls or even better was bringing a bull into bow range. I kept my hands out of elk guts this year but I am very stoked to get after it again next year!
"Placed correctly Swift A-Frames will reliably kill big bears. So will North Forks, Nosler Partitions, Barnes TSX, Kodiaks, Woodleighs, GS soft points, Hornady Interbonds and Speer Grand Slams - and if I missed your favorite bullet -it probably will too.
It's time to go hunting and quit all this ballistic masturbation."