Memories carried with us and/or good luck items

[SFC B]

Mine are rituals too....CPO and I always take a bottle of Rumpleminz schnapps which only gets touched after a harvest ( along with the letzebissen for the animal). Also, I have to make a stop at the McDonald's in Wellington, CO. It is near CPOs house and the first time we hunted together I stopped to get chow there before heading to his house the night prior to my first elk hunt. I we all tagged out on that hunt and now I HAVE to stop every time. Weidmannsheil !!!!

 

[Gunner46]

My Buck 110 has traveled half way around the world and back with me. Deployed during Desert Storm. I don't think there has been a single tag that I have filled where it wasn't in on the clean up job in the past 30yrs, as well as many a tag of my friends.

Opening packages, cutting damn near anything/anytime, cutting kindling, can opener a couple of times, cleaning my fingernails....

Lucky Charm? Memento? Memories? Yeah.

I can't even dream of Not having it with me when I go hunting.

 

[glass eye]

No lucky charms or rituals. My A5 is like a travel gnome and I've been shooting it since I was a teenager in the late 70's. Last December Alaska Airlines lost my gun for a few days and it didn't get back until a week later. During the time when it was "LOST" and nobody knew where it could be, I felt a deep sadness of the thought of having to replace it.

 

[kansasdad]

^^^^^Velveteen shotgun glass eye!

 

[dirtclod Az.]

If they ain't rusty they ain't trusty.

 

[choc dogs]

I have misty eyes every time I set up the wall tent, even though the one my father and I hunted out of has long since passed on to other family members, who also hunted and camped out of it. I do however have the sheepherders stove that Dad always was going to set up to use "next year I'll get a stovepipe put in it". I found it in the basement after my father's passing, with the original receipt from 1967 inside, and it's made biscuits every year since. This year marks the 40th year I've been able to hunt. I think I'll use the same M70 308 I used for my first deer, for my next.

 

[F250]

I have kept the last corn cob pipe my father bought in 1987, just before he passed away, in the glove compartment of every truck I have owned.

 

[Europe]

Rice crispy treats, sweettarts and my lucky rabbits feet from my first rabbit. We arent very lucky getting something but we measure luck more by how many animals we see.

I have a rabbit foot key chain that is old and worn --but I still have it.

Glass Eye, I still have ( or my son does now ) firearms that were in the family when I was born-- I used some of them in the 1940's, I believe some still work, but I know some dont, but we keep them anyway.

I enjoyed reading everyone's post and thank you for it.

Dan, David, Guy, Cheyenne --we WILL do it again. We will need to alter the trip ( trips ) a bit however in order for me to be in attendance. What are those things called where there is a chair setting on two poles and four people carry it/me--"thats what I am talking about" (-:

 

[Gr8bawana]

I had a pair of lucky camo pants that I bought at a surplus army store in about 1978. The first pair I ever bought. I've lost track of how many deer hearts and livers I have packed out in the over-sized pockets over the years. Last time I wore them was about 3 years ago, seems like I was wearing them almost every time I shot a deer. They were patched everywhere and they finally got to the point it was time to let go after over 35 years. I gave them to one of my kids for a costume.
In this pic you can see the bloody pocket used to bring out the heart and liver for my dad.