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Like, Game will most likely show up when you're eating a sandwich....this actually might be true:)

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I only carry 7 rounds in my right pocket for good luck.

Have fun.
 
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I have a lucky hat. Or so I thought until this fall when I was wearing a brand new hat and killed the second biggest buck of my life. I have a hunting buddy that is bad luck and whenever we're out together we don't see anything.
 
I don't have any hunting superstitions. There are, however, several things I must do if I expect to be successful. Some of them may seem unrelated to the science of hunting (my special hunting quartz stone I picked up just before the big moose showed up for example) but I have proved often enough that it is a scientific fact that that stone attracts animals. So, I'm not superstitious, but I do have my scientific hunting rituals which must be followed in order to satisfy the hunting gods of the universe.
 
I need to keep the hunting karma bank account full. I always feel like if I didn't put in enough miles and suffer through enough bad weather and terrain I won't see any animals. This isn't quite the same as just putting in the work to get results, because I know damn well I could go road hunting and have more "success" but I wouldn't feel right about it.
 
I always carry 12 rounds. And I usually have to forget something at home.

I know that some days just feel lucky. You just know something's going to happen almost as soon as you get out of bed.
 
I used to be hard nosed convinced that I would or did see zero deer on a given day because I had seen a black bear (or sign of) in the area.

That belief went out the window one day I watched a big Boar saunter slowly past (within 20ft) a group of does feeding.
 
First moose I shot, I tracked the cow and calf for three days. The only time I didn't see the pair, I forgot the chunk of quartz I had found in a creek near where I saw them the first time. Yup, superstitious for sure.
 
Deer always show up when I start packing to leave my stand/blind. Doesn't happen when I'm thinking about it too, it only happens when I'm legit not paying attention...
 
Not hunting but fishing.. Guess it's like hunting for fish. My great grandfather in Finland. If he met an old woman on his way to his boat he would go back home and wait a while and try again
 
I have a ritual when I head out for ducks/geese. Wake up at 3:00-3:30...drive up north...make a pit stop at Casino Rama to take a dump...drive 5 more kms to the lake. Im not saying its a superstition....but my morning double/double always kicks in at the casino and a pit stop is inevitable or its going to be an uncomfortable day in the waders
 
I was just thinking about this thread. Although an obscure thread in the corner of cyberspace concerning Canadian hunting and superstition, I would say there could be more to it.

We are all decedents of successful hunters. The fact that we have rituals, gut feelings about certain actions W.R.T hunting is probably ingrained in our DNA. Darwinism anyone? Our curious nature, the ability to find patterns, lean to some higher superstitious power, to conduct trial and error on various aspects of the hunt, could be as old as our first sentient ancestors sharpening sticks with their teeth. Before the scientific method, mathematics, logic, trans-generational knowledge...before the concept of superstition...our curious minds would have been evolving and exploring everything. These kinds of superstitious tenancies could be some dormant predecessor to scientific thought. Whatever worked, just worked, no matter how crazy the ritual was.

Who knows. Perhaps there was a homo-sapien with a weird ritual...wearing dried up ### organs of his kills, unbeknownst to him, was attracting prey of opposite ###es of his prey. For every successful superstition, there could be 100 which were completely loony.

Just some under the influence sunday evening thought.
 
We noticed years ago that if you stood up in the duck blind to pee that's when the ducks would appear from nowhere and bail into the decoys. Took a bit more observation to determine that it had nothing to do with superstition but that the ducks were attracted by our movement.
 
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