Buy a headlamp - muchbetter than a flashlight, and it frees up a second hand.

Use a strapper/gear retriever instead of a rope - no tangling, ever.

Wear latex gloves and rubber boots while fooling around your hunting area - i.e. setting up mock scrapes, cutting out saplings, scouting.

Fill an old tube sock with Arm & Hammer and tie it off. It makes a scent killing "rosin bag" that can be kept in the closet with your hunting gear, and even toted along in your daypack.

Sprinkle tiny shreds of tree bark from your treestandto monitor wind.

Waste time during off-peak hours with an earbud and radio.

If you drop something, you can use your rope andthe large pin in your backtag license holder as a hook to pick it up. Otherwise, you can make a hook out of any piece of heavy wire.

If you hunt out of the same tree often, leave a bow hook or two hungup in it. They're only .90 cents, and it saves you from trying to find the same hole in the dark. Save the "hole finding" for when you're not hunting.

Make a good freebie bow target out of an old duffel bag or cardboard box - fill it with old clothes, towels, blankets, etc. Balled up shrink wrap works wonderfully as well - and is much lighter. Both work well only with field points - the first one can handle certain types of practice blades (muzzy OK).

Use your safety belt as a deer drag - there's no sense carrying two.

Buy a good limb saw - it doubles as a pelvic bone saw.

If you go through a lot of scent, dilute it with distilled water. Use rubber gloves.

Use shoestrings as freescent wicks - just feeditdown into the bottle, and pull it back out, then loosely tie it onto a branch.