What does everyone keep in a day hunt pack curious ?

Flagging tape for sure, left that out of my list, it is essential for evening hunts.

In way back out to main road or trail you pay attention to terrain and try to flag easiest route to downed game.

We use ATVs to retrieve so less chainsawing the better....
 
One thing I carry that's proven to be useful in the past is a strobe light. I have a compact unit (1 D cell) that puts out a very bright strobe light and lasts for a long time.

Very useful for an evening hunt (before last light). I've shot a deer in twilight and came back with the sled in darkness guided by the strobe taped to a deer antler. Keeps coyotes away too.
 
That's a good one. Lee Valley Tools has a couple of neat power banks on sale now. I picked up the 5,000mAh model as the 10,000mAh unit seemed bulky/heavy enough that I wouldn't be very likely to carry it. The smaller one should give an extra couple of days of charging for my phone, and also provides an excellent bank of LED lights with one-button brighter or dimmer control. Gets very bright and very dim. Charges from the usual 5volt chargers via a short built-in USB cable. Seems ruggedly made.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/sho...s-and-tablets/charging/110183-led-power-banks
 
Picked up a few ideas for more stuff in my day pack (not sure if that is good or not :) 0. Without going into a lot of detail I have food, back pack stove etc in case things go south and it turns into an overnight stay. So my day pack is actually an overnight pack. I would be approaching my list with that POV.
 
Oh right, forgot to mention my twig stove. I have a first generation BioLite twig stove along with a pot into which it nests. They've since improved charging from the built-in battery (which itself charges via spinning of the little squirrel cage fan, which is there to feed air to the fire) and the heat sink probe. But mine's been great. Boils a litre of water in under 10 minutes from no fire at all. Burns any sort of dry stuff, especially hot with various conifer cones. As a bonus it's kind of fun feeding it little scraps from around a campsite. And as it burns so efficiently there's only about as much ash left as an ashtray, even after an hour of cooking food for a family. Not the lightest of stoves, but when you factor in never needing to carry fuel it's really not much different from high tech white gas stoves. Comfy for hand warming too. And since it's up on legs, I've had a forest cop tell me it's okay to use even during a fire ban. Which was handy on that trip as we hadn't brought a Coleman in the van.
 
Flash light,
spare batteries,
Compass
Local map
Socks
Scarf
Spare gloves
Trama kit ( 2x CATS, 2x 4＂ Israeli, quick clot, kerlex, 4inch pads and tape, gloves, npa, scissors, and boo boo stuff. I figure if it goes bad it going to be a gunshot wound, animal attack or serious fall.)
Water
24 hour emergency ration
Granola bars
Emergency blanket
2 lighters
Muilti fuel stove with .75 litres of gas/diesel
1 litre pot
Large fixed knife
Spare ammo
TP
200feet para cord on spool with lighter
Shelter tarp and 4 AL pegs
Game bags
Half axe
Snivel kit as deemed required for the dat
 
I wear an upland vest, I carry, 10 rounds of .308, 30' of rope wrapped around a 8x10 tarp, four cheese cloth game bags, three dried fruit bars, 1.5L canteen, Havalin knife with 5 spare blades, two sets of nitrile gloves, microfibre rag, pocket knife, Mora bushcraft knife, a pair of trigger mitts and a neck warmer. Seems like alot, but I can slip through the woods no problem and it is situated all over my upper body, so it really isn't very bulky.
 
Paul Harrell has graced us with a US Thanksgiving 2 hour video, where he deals with cooking/baking in Dutch ovens with charcoal, 3-day survival packs, and another less happy subject towards the end. The bit where he goes into what he puts in his 3-day pack starts at 39:27:

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Next day, and it seems either Paul removed the video himself or Youtube did it for him. Weird. There wasn't anything very controversial about it. Last segment was just Paul talking about the history of mass shootings throughout the 20th century, and how availability of higher powered, rapid firing guns with high capacity magazines was not related to trends in such shootings. Plain old factual kinds of stuff. Most of the video was about cooking and his emergency backpack contents. Lots of good stuff in there...
 
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Tp, stitching needles, 3 or 4 packs of smokes, probably a dozen or more bics, half my son's Halloween candy (dad tax) bottle of water, can or 3 of rockstar, baloney sammich (95% meat 5% bread) 50 feet or so of flat white rope... That's about it. That's if I'm watching. If I'm running out which I do 99% of the time a bottle of water in one back pocket and a slam baloney sammich in the other back pocket. Front pockets are reserved for my 3 extra clips and knife :nest: oh, and a full pack of smokes and Zippo in my sweater pocket.
 
Map of the area
Seat cushion that I stole from my turkey vest
lightweight nylon tarp, mostly to keep my a$$ dry, also for emergency shelter if I have to spend the night out
2x 500ml bottles of water
Small Bahco folding saw, mostly for trimming branches out of my line of sight
TP and a couple of rags for cleaning up.
Couple of heavy Ziploc bags for bringing the heart and liver out\
Skinning knife, usually a Cold Steel Pendleton
GPS and spare battery
Thermos of tea, something to snack on, and a chocolate bar.
Hank of paracord.
small first aid kit
flagging tape and small roll of electrical tape

The pack is mostly for extra clothes; I strip down for the walk in and pile everything back on again before I get chilled.

On my person or in my hunting vest:
compass
spare ammo
general purpose knife
pocket knife
cell phone
headlamp + spare battery
licences and tags
keys are attached to a chain attached to my belt so I don't lose them.
 
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