RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

YUP that too.

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

For me it's my bow case.. When I get my bow rigged out like I want it, It will not fit in my case. I hunt with the same set up as I shoot 3d with.. I carry my case that protects my hunting arrows and the bow sits on top of the case in the back seat of my truck.

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

Agreed.... I can't imagine being 20, 22, 25 feet up in a tree without a harness!!! [&:]

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

Compass........

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

Good question but I would have to say my dragging rope!

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

A good pair of binoculars.......

From identifying a target animal or identifying movement at distance or in brush, to follow up right after the shot (reaction,placement, direction of travel etc. and recovery)....heck even if it's just to check out all of the cool things that go on during the downtime in a stand.

I feel completely at a loss in a stand without mine.

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

Hmmmm.....

Interesting, because other than the bow case, everybody's response is really "hunting equipment" more than "archery equipment". For example, maps/compass/binos are really orienteering equipment, and are an asset for any type of outdoorsman or hunter, regardless of the type of weapon.

For archery equipment, I think I would have to say traditional bows/equipment. When I learned how to shoot (good god, almost 30 years ago [&:] ), everyone first learned how to shoot on a recurve or longbow, and then "graduated" to compounds, after learning how to shoot by eye and estimate range.

Now everyone starts with a compound, which places too much emphasis on the fancy equipment and not on basic archery fundamentals, and then archers (if you can call most that) graduate to traditional equipment. I know many who hunt with the bow, and have never pulled back a 55# recurve to truly appreciate what "let-off" is all about ;)

Seems a$$ backwards and inside-out sideways to me [8D]

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

Earbuds - If you're a right-handed shot, you can keep an earbud in your left ear all day long. Whether it be your walkie talkie,cellphoneor one of the earbuds to your IPOD or your AM/FM radio, it makes those slow days in the stand a whole lot easier to bear. Just run the cord right down

On my offdays (which are rare) I hunt dark-dark, so that 9:30-4:30 lag time can be boring if you don't have something constructive to think about/listen to, especially early in the season when daytime temps are high. Personally, one of my favorite things to do is sit in my stand withmy radio tuned into Penn State or WVU football games with the volume set as low as it goes.

I've turned on a lot of the guys I hunt with to listening to the radio, and it's got a few of them some deer that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten b/c they wouldn't have been able to stay on stand that long.

RE: What's the most UNDERUTILIZED piece of archery equipment?
 

TP if you plan your hunt right!:D:D:D