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Title: Good Luck Charms
Post by: gobbler10ga on May 04, 2007, 12:30:00 PM
anyone have any good luck charms or things they do before a hunt????????????? Lucky hat? rabbits foot?
etc.
I found an arrowhead on a turkey hunt next thing I knew bird gobbles and comes in for the kill
made the arrowhead into a necklace
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: Whip on May 04, 2007, 01:13:00 PM
In my daypack is a chestnut I picked up the first year I ever bowhunted (28 years ago) and carried in my pocket that season for some reason.  Just haven't been able to throw it away.  Also have an elk ivory that I pulled out of a found skull on a mountain hunt one year.  
Don't know if either are "lucky", but I like having them with me.  They remind me of good times.
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: COOTER BOY on May 04, 2007, 02:34:00 PM
I have a small forked 4" long piece of Deer antler that I found in the forest one day about 15 years ago. I polised it up and made a small necklace. I wear it Deer Hunting. In my mind I believe it keeps me safe and brings me luck

Ken
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: woodchucker on May 04, 2007, 09:41:00 PM
I always carry the 110 Buck folding knife my wife gave to me our first Christmas together 20 years ago,Then there's my old funny lookin' Red&Black plaid huntin' hat,Then there's.....
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: mcgroundstalker on May 05, 2007, 11:36:00 AM
My wife gave me a little plastic indian that stands 2" high...He is bending at the knees and at full draw...I just like having it with me on hunts and 3D shoots...Now everyone knows!!!

... mike ...   :p   ...
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: T.A.C. on May 05, 2007, 06:50:00 PM
I have a black silk bandana that I wear that has a few burn holes thru it from trying to sleep too close to a fire one particularly cold night.
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: joe skipp on May 05, 2007, 07:32:00 PM
Roger Norris gave me a 8x10 close up framed photo of Fred Bear drawing back his bow. I touch this photo before every hunt.
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: Duckbutt on May 05, 2007, 10:20:00 PM
My uncle passed away at a young age.  He started hunting just months before he died.  The last time I spent with him he helped me trail my first bow shot deer.  When we were going through his things, I found his camo pants.....been wearing them for a lot of years.
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: Woodduck on May 06, 2007, 12:20:00 AM
Clear crystal quartz arrowhead, and a black arrowhead, for the yen yang effect; deer hoof from my first kill in 1965, and a new(this season's) buckeye, and a 'secret' weapon.     :bigsmyl:  

And keep'em in the 'lucky' mojo deer sack...wish it had a zipper instead of a drawstring.
Then I would be a sport.   :cool:

Anybody still carry a 'special' coon bone?  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: Labs4me on May 06, 2007, 07:49:00 PM
I wear a dog tag once worn by a very special Labrador Retriever named Dakota. He was my dog of a lifetime and he will be with me on every hunt for the rest of my days.
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: TRADITIONAL ONLY on May 06, 2007, 10:00:00 PM
well my parents got the "special" coon bone in there room, they dont carry it but they got one...

i used to carry a buckeye me and dad found one day while squirrle hunting, but after two or three tears it fell apart and i aint found another one.

but i guess the one thin i have that i consider "kinda" a good luck charm is a spike antler that dad killes several years ago. i cut the tip off and made a necklace that ive worn for the pat 5 or 6 years i guess, ive only taken it off 3 or 4 times and thats only because the rope was too small or i had to work on it a little....
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: 1/2primitive on May 06, 2007, 10:14:00 PM
My bow  :p    :bigsmyl:  
  Sean
Title: Re: Good Luck Charms
Post by: Curveman on May 06, 2007, 10:15:00 PM
In the immortal words of Roy Rogers: "Nope!"

More seriously, these talisman's etc. helped primitive man feel safe. Nothing wrong with them but in my own mind it is just a sentimental item or gesture which is a good thing to have/be but we all know won't help or keep us safe or anything of that nature.

Read Ecclesiastes some time: "How does the wise man die? Same way as the fool! The evil man lives and the good man perishes..." (gist).

Of course I could be completely wrong and maybe these little found items ARE "God's little messages!" I do say a little prayer sometimes.