Showing posts with label hunting gear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hunting gear. Show all posts
Thursday, March 10, 2011
What's in Your Backpack ?
This video provides some very good ideas regarding what should be in your hunting backpack. Although if you are a person with a disability, it will become much more specialized. What's in your day pack? Here are a few of my ideas
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Cold-Weather Hunting
One of the difficult things about enjoying the outdoors and being a person with a disability is, I cannot regulate my body temperature. This goes for heat as well as cold.
When the cold weather comes and I still want to do some hunting I take a few precautions. In addition to a heavy jacket and balaclava I try to be sensible about my lower extremities.
Because I cannot feel from the chest down I cannot tell how cold my legs and feet become. So I usually put a blanket on my legs and wear boot blankets over my normal tennis shoes.
I know my tennis shoes are not going to bother my feet, causing a blister or sore to develop. The boot blanket's slip on easily overtop, camouflaging my white sneakers not to mention adding a little style to my roll.
When the cold weather sets in, what do you like to wear?
When the cold weather comes and I still want to do some hunting I take a few precautions. In addition to a heavy jacket and balaclava I try to be sensible about my lower extremities.
Because I cannot feel from the chest down I cannot tell how cold my legs and feet become. So I usually put a blanket on my legs and wear boot blankets over my normal tennis shoes.
I know my tennis shoes are not going to bother my feet, causing a blister or sore to develop. The boot blanket's slip on easily overtop, camouflaging my white sneakers not to mention adding a little style to my roll.
When the cold weather sets in, what do you like to wear?
Friday, November 19, 2010
Hunting Backpack For Wheelchair Users
Before I get into the specifics of a hunting day pack and its contents, I would like to talk about quickly and easily attaching the backpack to the wheelchair. On my current Permobil C-500 wheelchair I have Backpack Clips installed.
On each backpack strap, I attach one heavy-duty plastic wire tie that easily clips into the carabiner. With this system I can easily switch my hunting backpack with my regular everyday backpack.
If need be, an individual can quickly unclip the backpack from my wheelchair and set it on my desktop so that I can direct them to retrieve an object. This is very helpful when relying on others for assistance.
I use a small camouflaged Remington day pack for all my hunting gear. It does not have to be camouflage as I'm always hunting in a ground blind, but that's just how I roll. Here is a picture of it.
It's important to organize your day pack and know exactly where everything is, so that you can direct your hunting partner / assistant when you need something.
I recommend using different colored zipper pulls so that you can say for example " it's on the left side with the blue zipper pull ". It just makes life so much easier, but that may be the OCD in me .
Here is a basic list of what I carry when crossbow hunting:
On each backpack strap, I attach one heavy-duty plastic wire tie that easily clips into the carabiner. With this system I can easily switch my hunting backpack with my regular everyday backpack.
If need be, an individual can quickly unclip the backpack from my wheelchair and set it on my desktop so that I can direct them to retrieve an object. This is very helpful when relying on others for assistance.
I use a small camouflaged Remington day pack for all my hunting gear. It does not have to be camouflage as I'm always hunting in a ground blind, but that's just how I roll. Here is a picture of it.
It's important to organize your day pack and know exactly where everything is, so that you can direct your hunting partner / assistant when you need something.
I recommend using different colored zipper pulls so that you can say for example " it's on the left side with the blue zipper pull ". It just makes life so much easier, but that may be the OCD in me .
Here is a basic list of what I carry when crossbow hunting:
Balaclava
Black diamond headlamp
Buck 110 knife
Crossbow cocking rope
Doe bleat
Doe decoy
Drag rope
Extra wire ties
Facemask
Hunting license/tags
Laser range finder
Rubber gloves/washcloth
Sidewinder cocking crank
I hope this information helps you, everyone has their own needs and way of organizing their backpack. These are just my suggestions, I would love to hear yours.
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