Worst hunting investment ever?
05-23-2008, 09:23 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 7,684
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
ORIGINAL: mobow
You've had that many bad investments eh? 
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
hm thats a toughy
hm thats a toughy
i guess i would have to say some of the worst has been some waders ive bought for waterfowl hunting, some of those things will rip on anything!
05-23-2008, 09:25 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
I'd have to go with treestands......bought many junkers.....which is now I spend the extra cash, it certainly shows, I've yet to buy a cheap treestand that was awesome....though not always are the expensive ones awesome either.....but any awesome treestand I own wasn't cheap.
Bought some plastic/pvc raingear back in the day, in cold weather that stuff got so brittle and just broke apart, next year I bought some gore tex, which is still my tried n true raingear.
Bought some plastic/pvc raingear back in the day, in cold weather that stuff got so brittle and just broke apart, next year I bought some gore tex, which is still my tried n true raingear.
05-23-2008, 09:34 AM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,716
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
Ghetto-ass Motorola radios. I bet I've bought 4 sets now, and keep fooling myself into thinking that thelatest and greatestwill be better than the old set... They never are.
1 mile
2 mile
4 mile
8mile
They all suck.
They would work fine if you hunted in a flat desert or were talking across an open canyon... But everywhere I hunt, there are mountains in the way - andany sizable land mass in between the two unitstotallykills the reception.
...and their "rechargeable" batteries... Ghetto. Don't get me started.
I've given all of them away- except a few that I keep for when we play paintball.
Thank god for cell phones.
1 mile
2 mile
4 mile
8mile
They all suck.
They would work fine if you hunted in a flat desert or were talking across an open canyon... But everywhere I hunt, there are mountains in the way - andany sizable land mass in between the two unitstotallykills the reception.
...and their "rechargeable" batteries... Ghetto. Don't get me started.
I've given all of them away- except a few that I keep for when we play paintball.
Thank god for cell phones.
thats funny! 
05-23-2008, 10:15 AM
#17
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
Very spendy (275.00 dollars) hiking boots for the mountains, cabela's made them and they sucked!! Lesson learned now. I now buy the same boots I use for work and there cheap and last just as long if not more.
05-23-2008, 10:43 AM
#19
Site Buck Guru
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 5,922
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
ORIGINAL: buttonbuckmaster
Close runner up would be a pair of battery powered heated socks. Nothing like sweaty feet and wires in your boots to spell comfort.[&:]
Close runner up would be a pair of battery powered heated socks. Nothing like sweaty feet and wires in your boots to spell comfort.[&:]
05-23-2008, 10:50 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas and Arkansas
Posts: 1,496
RE: Worst hunting investment ever?
Hunting related....a knock off layered archerytarget from BPS (the red one with white squares). I tore that one up in no time. Bought a cheap bag target for FPs and a Yellow Jacket for BHs and am much more satisfied.