Whats in your bag?

DAA said:
Never carried any kind of bag. Caller, seat, shooting sticks in my left hand. Rifle slung on my right shoulder. Few rounds of ammo and a coyote drag in my pants pocket. That's it.

- DAA
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Ah, to be in an area where they respond in the daylight hours;)
 
tawnoper said:
One thing absent from these lists that is essential. Toilet paper!
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Oh no... I listed TP in my initial (nighttime) post. I learned in my youth hunting days that it is essential gear in the survival gear kit. Returning to the vehicle, hunting camp or home with a section of thermal under garment cut out, or one sock missing is a clue that there might be better options! ;)
 
I carry long barrel rifles slung on right shoulder, but if barrel short enough for my squaty body, I carry muzzle down on left shoulder; can be deployed much faster than muzzle up on right w/added benefit of hasty sling. Pictures taken in selfie mode so are mirror image of right hand shooter! So, description refers to strong/weak hand rather than right or left hand.
Carry rifle muzzle down on weak shoulder. I rides nicely tucked under arm pit, helping keep sling from slipping off shoulder, another benefit of this type carry.

To present the rifle rapidly, grasp forend w/weak hand and lift sling off shoulder,........ (pictures 1 & 2).
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.....while reaching for and grasping stock wrist or pistol grip with strong hand and guiding rifle toward strong shoulder..........(Picture #3)

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........pull rifle back into strong shoulder w/both hands. (Picture 4) Note the sling having already been adjusted to "hasty sling" length will come naturally into hasty sling position as rifle is shouldered.
 

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I carry my bird guns slung like that, pretty quick to get on target.

I like the scabbard as everything including the rifle is there, just flip the shoulder straps on and go and I can deploy the call and decoy without any extra time where I want it and my hands are free.
 
AWS said:
and my hands are free.
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Another advantage of muzzle down. Muzzle up tends to slip off shoulder.
I can carry 24" barrels down but muzzle is too close to ground to suit me; if I bend over or duck to go under a low limb might put muzzle in the dirt.
 
I have a Elberstock Bandit backpack.
I can set my call right in the outside "cradle".
Inside I have:
spare batteries
Cable drag
Small flashlight
6lb shooting bag(for center weight)

I may add seasonal weather clothes or Thermacell
 
Keys & small light on lanyard carried in pocket. Large pouch on a belt (like a dump pouch) carries the scanner, other pouch on belt has spare battery pack for thermal, small knife, few spare rounds, bit of water, coyote drag, green laser mounted of card that can slide into ARCA mount on tripod to help find coyotes, LRF.
 
1. Rifle
2. Call
3. Drag
4. Mouth call
5. rubber gloves
6. extra batteries
7. toilet paper (that one is important)
8. Leatherman
9. 22 LR pistol
10 . compass
11. Coffee Thermos
 
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