What does your basic hunting EDC consist of?

Gun: Rem 700 in .270win with Federal 130gn ammo
Knife: Either my EDC Kershaw Leek or my older Gerber Gator
Light: XL50 Maglite

I also usually carry my 1911, some paracord, water, a couple of calls, plus the required license and blaze orange etc.

in the uk

My deer hunting kit is

1. FN mauser .30-06 with 22 inch fluted stainless barrell
2. 7 rounds of 165 gr hornady interlock loaded rounds
3. bushnell 3-9 x 40 scope (soon to be changed to a schmitd 6 x 42)
4. old british forces respirator bag.
5. normark 5 inch hunting knife
6. spare knife
7. latex gloves
8. hand wipes
9. gerber ezizip
10. gerber exizip
11. head torch
12. 10 ft of nylon rope
13. stainless flask
14. mosquito repellant (in season)
15. 6 inch long pieces of cotton string. (for gralloching)
16. 8 x 40 binos
17. Stalking sticks

We do things a little differently to how you do.

steve

K31 with Burris Fullfield II.
Custom built hunting knife and a Buck 110
Blaze Orange vest and hat
Nikon Binos
TP
Jerky
Water
Blood Glucose test kit
Glucose tabs
Insulin pen
Glucogan in a syringe
Cell Phone
Paperback book, usually cowboy or sniper themed.

My typical carry for few hour hunt is...

Remington 700 ADL in .243 Winchester (with 9 rounds on the butt cuff)
Short barrel Ruger Single Six in 22 mag
Cold Steel Hunter knife with sharpening stone
Leatherman or Gerber multi-tool
2 pairs of rubber glove
Small first aid kit
Surefire P6
Cellular phone
Blazing orange vest and hat and glove

and the most important item around here

Camelback (3 ltr water)

we never go out without water as you can easily die within few hours without water in this heat.

Model 700, 3006
2 knives
compass
small bottle of water
small flashlight
firestarter

I travel light

lately I just carry a gun, whichever one I deem appropriate at the time, and whatever I've got in my pockets, usually a spyderco folder and a leatherman along with a bic lighter and my cigs can't go anywhere without those babies. I don't exactly "hunt" though, I just walk around the farm and shoot deer and it isn't exactly hard here.

when I did actually go "hunting" I would carry a good fixed blade knife, my rifle, a pocket knife, a few snacks and a bottle of water or thermos of coffee, sometimes both. Something waterproof to sit on. I always felt like I was overpacking, but it sure is nice to have some tobacco and a hot cup of coffee out there. Never noticed the cigarette smoke running anything off, although maybe it did and that's why I never got that 12 pointer hanging on my wall

Pack: Eberlestock half track! Just awesome
Gun: Rem 700 BDL .270 with Vari-X II 3x9
Protection side arm: Glock 20 gen3
Knife: ESEE 6 and Izula 2
First aid trauma kit
Extra mag for Glock

Here is my normal setup:

Ruger Super Redhawk (480 Ruger) + 11 shells (6 in the cylinder + 5 in a pouch)
Simply Rugged Holster with Chesty Puller chest mount system

3.25" Dunn Skinner knife with antler scales
Tekka head lamp w/ green filter + extra batteries
GPS/Compass/map (whatever is appropriate for where I am hunting)
Drag Rope
Latex gloves/baby wipes/paper towels (the latter two will work if ah-hem...nature calls)
Bic Lighter
1 bottle of water
1 sandwich and a couple of cliff bars
All of that goes into my backpack.

If treestand hunting I will add:
Saftey harness
20-30ft of 550 paracord
Bow/equipment hooks

Colder weather obviously gets more warm gear that gets packed in and put on when I get to where I am going.

I have a deer lease with a well stocked travel trailer, so I will go over actual blind gear. In the 4x8 box blind, I have a small wooden box with a few bottled waters, toilet paper, a few rounds of .308 & .30-30, leather gloves (to use as shooting rests on the metal window frames, so as not to scratch the rifles), surgical gloves in case I shoot one too big to load by myself without parting it out, some inexpensive but surprisingly bright bushnell 12x50 binocs, bug repellant, and a quality LED flashlight.

For the evening hunts, I make sure to have a very bright mag light LED in the Sammy for tracking in the dark.

All I carry to the blind is the rifle, cell phone, leatherman waive, Gerber folder w/ gut hook, case stockman and zippo lighter in the pocket, plus an LED headlight if cloudy or moonless. Both my blinds are a couple of miles from camp, so I keep a 1992 Suzuki samurai parked there year round. I usually park a few hundred yards from the blind, and walk in quiet an hour before first light.

In the Sammy, I keep some "hard use" gloves for loading animals, some rope for dragging big boars to the boneyard, spare batteries for the game cams.

For guns, I have a marlin 336 w/ a 2.5x7x33 leupold for the shorter blind and for walking around, and this year I've been using a savage weather warrior .308 w/a bushnell elite 5x15x50 ao in a DNZ tactical base most often. I do rotate other guns a bit just to convince myself I need them, but the marlin and the savage are my two primary game getters.

With so many pigs this year, I've been wearing a 4" S&W 686 on my hip, loaded with hot 158gr Golddots.

If I forget my mini Snickers bars, I am miserable. They taste great and are lucky for me

I enjoyed this thread so I'll add my stuff to the mix:
I always have a Kershaw lockblade, a Streamlight Stylus penlite, and a Leatherman or Gerber multi-tool. EDC, hunting or not.
When hunting deer I am a short atv ride from home, so not much survival type stuff.

WEAPON>H&R Ultra-lite 12ga or .45c Blackhawk or T/C .54 Hawken or Bear Recurve.
KNIFE> cheap Remington folder clipped in hunting coat pocket.
BINOS> Bushnell 10x42
WATER> 8 oz Gatorade bottle filled with water (I'm cheap, been using this for years)
SNACK> big double handfull of salted in shell peanuts in a ziploc bag.
CALLS> diaphram turkey call for fall archery turkeys or coyotes.
LIGHT> good bright LED flashlight.
PERMITS> pinned into my coat pocket in a ziploc bag.
SHOP TOWELS> in a ziploc for cleaning hands after field dressing or well, you know.
LENS CLEANER>small microfiber towel for glasses and optics

>>>>>in a smallish drawstring bag that can be quickly swapped from coat to coat or atv bag or glovebox or whatever I keep the following emergency items:
12-8" zipties
2 bic lighters
magnesium firestarter
spare flashlite
small ziploc of paper tinder
whistle on lanyard
hand sanitizer (flammable)
compass
Altoid tin with a few band-aids and some ibuprofin
......and one more thing. The beautiful Mrs kb made a paracord sling for my gun using 2 33' lengths of cord.

Rifle- Tikka t3 270 win with 5 rounds
Handgun- HK p30 40 SW with an extra magazine
Rope
Knife
Peanut butter crackers
Liter of water
Latex gloves
Binoculars
Galaxy SII
Ear Protection
Required Blaze orange garb
lighter
cotton balls dredged in KY
Zip ties

why hg and rifle

I noticed many carry a rifle and a handgun, which leaves me wondering what benefit the handgun could possibly be other than adding 2# to the loadout.
For example if you have 7 or 8 rounds of 270Win for a rifle you are proficient with, wouldn't that cover most contingencies?

Having said that, I can totally see the handgun as backup to the bow or crossbow.


My hunting loadout on cool days includes many of the items mentioned earlier, plus a couple spare top layers (1 thin, 1 heavy) and a waterproof shell, thin gloves, thin hat.

From November 1st on there is a risk of sudden drastic weather changes including snowstorms, so thicker gloves & liners, warm hat, cagoule, spare socks, and wind/waterproof overpants are added to the mix.

For comfort I love having a small thermos of hot tea and a really good sammy to munch on. A foam pad to sit on is a blessing.

I carry the .44 as a backup in case of rifle malfunction.

I carry a handgun because my rifle is usually out of reach when I am dropping a loaf or when I am gutting or boning out something. Every year it seems like someone around here gets mauled while dealing with their kill or are headed back in to get the next load. A friend of the family got messed up by a grizzly 3 or 4 years ago while quartering an elk, by the time he knew the bear was there it was between him and his rifle.

Most of the hunting I do anymore is Elk hunting. When I leave my vehicle I leave with a day pack on my back. In it I carry binoculars, a GPS, compass, a range finder, a quart of water in a canteen with a canteen cup, cow elk call, small Gerber hatchet, walkie talkie, flashlight, spare batteries for flashlight and GPS, 4 or 5 high energy bars, 5 or 6 packets of instant coffee, rain poncho, small block and tackle, 25' of quarter inch nylon rope, 50' parachute cord, fire starter kit and water proof matches. Pair of gloves, extra pair of wool socks. sometimes extra long underwear, Flagging tape for marking trails, sheath with a hunting knife. I also carry either a Model 30 Glock or a model 627 Taurus Revolver, a rifle suitable for Elk hunting. In the past that has been one of the following rifles, a 340 Weatherby, 45-70 Marlin, 30-06 Weatherby Ultra Lite, or a 7 Mag BAR. I use camo clothing and try to keep the pack as light as possible, but still have necessary items if I have to stay longer than expected, I could spend the night in the woods if I had to and would be comfortable. Most of the equipment in my hunting pack stays in the pack all the time except the food stuffs and the water, the pack stay in my pickup throughout hunting season and sometimes all winter long.

.54 caliber flintlock PA Mountain Rifle
Cow's knee lock cover
Rifle bag with ball and tools and flint
powder horn with 3Fg powder
Small, Mora knife
medium, Mora brand knife
small tomahawk
Food wallet with parched corn and venison jerky
clay pipe and tobacco
fire kit (gotta light the pipe)
Water gourd
Drag rope.

LD

Gun. Marlin 336 30-30
Ammo. Remington cor-lokt or Federal
Knife. Buck 119
Saw. don't carry one
Light. Streamlight or Surefire, not sure of the model of either.

Remington 3006 w/ 165 acubonds for elk, 165 sst or ballistic tip for deer, usually w/ bipod
Brunton Echo 10x42 binoculars
Leupold rx1000 rangefinder
Schrade fixed blade knife
Sagen saw
water
Matches and magnesium sparker
Silva Ranger compass
GPS and map
And ALWAYS carry a leatherman!

Gun: Circuit Judge .45 Colt, Mosin Nagant, or 20 gauge
Ammo: Box of a good hunting round for whatever gun I'm shooting
Knife: Which ever one I can find
Other: flashlight, tags, binoculars, food, & water