Thread: Tell me / show me the most useful thing you always take with you when hunting.

I always make sure I have a safety pin in my emergency kit, handy for digging stuff out of your hands and has been used by a fat bastard(me) to hold my pants up after busting a button!

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Dino

A couple of lengths of reinforcing tiewire

Plastic tape like insulation tape but double width - sellotape brand is best I've found.

Hand sanitiser for starting a fire

Rolltop drybag for storing sleeping bag in then stuffing clothes in to make a pillow at night

Spare cellphone battery in a ziplock bag

Originally Posted by 308

Rolltop drybag

+1 the ultralight sea-to-summit dry bags are brilliant, every time bivouac has a sale i get more of them, separate bags for kitchen, clothes, sleeping etc - everything stays dry, your pack has significantly better floatation...

Originally Posted by 308

Spare cellphone battery in a ziplock bag

Put your phone on airplane mode and it will last for a good week. I keep meaning to bring in some spare batteries for mine from china, they are only about $7 and would certainly be a handy thing to have

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Put your phone on airplane mode and it will last for a good week. I keep meaning to bring in some spare batteries for mine from china, they are only about $7 and would certainly be a handy thing to have

I've gone away from the spare phone battery thing and bought a battery pack to charge from, I got a Anker Astro3E 10000mAh job (imported for ~$70) which is probably overkill but I can get 4 charges from it from flat. Has the benefit of if I change phones I can just use the same pack and also I don't need to pull the back of my phone off which can be a bit of a front bum as it's got o-rings etc to keep it waterproof.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

I've gone away from the spare phone battery thing and bought a battery pack to charge from, I got a Anker Astro3E 10000mAh job (imported for ~$70) which is probably overkill but I can get 4 charges from it from flat. Has the benefit of if I change phones I can just use the same pack and also I don't need to pull the back of my phone off which can be a bit of a front bum as it's got o-rings etc to keep it waterproof.

Are they very heavy SH? Have thought about those solar chargers as they look ok

Originally Posted by Gibo

Are they very heavy SH? Have thought about those solar chargers as they look ok

The one I have is 250 grams & about the size of a larger cell phone, so yeah fairly heavy but there's plenty of lighter smaller capacity ones out there. The problem with solar is it takes so bloody long to charge, tend to be fairly bulky and you need plenty of direct sunlight - at least with a battery bank you can charge your phone at night or in shitty weather.



comes with various adapters and a mesh storage bag

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

The one I have is 250 grams & about the size of a larger cell phone, so yeah fairly heavy but there's plenty of lighter smaller capacity ones out there. The problem with solar is it takes so bloody long to charge, tend to be fairly bulky and you need plenty of direct sunlight - at least with a battery bank you can charge your phone at night or in shitty weather.

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comes with various adapters and a mesh storage bag

Cool, cheers for the info mate.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

The one I have is 250 grams & about the size of a larger cell phone, so yeah fairly heavy but there's plenty of lighter smaller capacity ones out there. The problem with solar is it takes so bloody long to charge, tend to be fairly bulky and you need plenty of direct sunlight - at least with a battery bank you can charge your phone at night or in shitty weather.

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comes with various adapters and a mesh storage bag

Where'd you get the Anker? Couldn't find any decent capacity ones in NZ.

I bought a Lenmar 7000mah. About 200-300grams. Nice compromise between keeping my iPhone (which has my GPS app on it) running for fricking ages, and not weighing too much. I'm a big fan. Could also use it to charge up a torch or something like that in a pinch.

Edit - never mind I see the answer to my question is in your original post the page before!