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Always keep a full pack of trail tacks in your pack. Not only are they good for marking stands and invaluable for blood tracking- if a tree is too big to get your umbrella strap around you can tack the straps to the tree. What other gear is so simple so cheap and offers 3 invaluable uses? They saved my life and my buck in Ohio. 600 yard track job in middle of nowhere allowed me to mark first part of trail as light faded so I could return 3 hours later and quickly get right back on it. The best kind for that are the two-sided so you can see them light up from either direction. Can’t get lost and it shows u direction deer is heading. For this umbrella fix I used the old school kind.

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Nothing spooks deer more than my stank… 

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Thanks actually I was looking around the house for thumb tacks because I knew this monster white oak was way to big to get my arms around it. Then it dawned on me - duh I already have what I need !

Nothing spooks deer more than my stank… 

16 3/4” Live Fluke Release Club

I shot a big 10pt once….

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I used to use the push pins so you can see were you are going and where you came from.  Also the tacks are good for putting up where your stand should be this way you can walk in without a trace and shine your light above to locate the tree.   I used to like putting 2 side by side so it would look like a pair of eyes looking at you to unsuspecting  hunters looking to find your honey hole. It would also indicate if I had to veer off  but would be the end of the trail to those who tried to follow. . 

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Good idea! I just get wet instead of carrying the tree umbrella though. lol

Marking blood is a great idea though. I usually use toilet or tissue paper so I don't have to go back for it. From now on, if leaving the trail overnight, I'm going to use your tip so I can return in the dark in the AM even easier.

 

I used to use the push pins so you can see were you are going and where you came from.  Also the tacks are good for putting up where your stand should be this way you can walk in without a trace and shine your light above to locate the tree.   I used to like putting 2 side by side so it would look like a pair of eyes looking at you to unsuspecting  hunters looking to find your honey hole. It would also indicate if I had to veer off  but would be the end of the trail to those who tried to follow. . 

 

So you're the reason I have stopped and stared at what I thought was a deer for twenty minutes in the dark. Hoping it would move so I could continue on without spooking it.  lol

 

Those frigging two tacks are all over black river. lol Then again that place looks like a major airport at night. So does berkshire valley. I had to resort to using different types of reflectors because I would go into unfamiliar areas, tacking as I went so I could find my way out (and remove my tacks on the way out) and I'd end up climbing down, turning on my light and seeing 500 bright eyes in all directions. I got turned around a time or two because of that. lol

 

I used to panic a little, now I just wander around in nasty swamps until I find my way out or it's time to climb a tree for the morning hunt. lol 

“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.” – Fred Bear

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Never wet? Teflon spray? lol I'd like to know that secret tip.

 

See I'm the moron that backpacks hip-boots on my stand for half a mile to cross a river. I get to the river and say..."Nah, looks shallow enough, I'll just cross"....

Next thing I know, I'm laying naked on a river bank drying my clothes in the midday sun. lol

 

Wish I could say I've only done stuff like that once. lol

“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.” – Fred Bear

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