Water!!

[Ralph]

#5946

Mostly just making a statement/comment here but when it comes to getting a drink around here in the Texas Panhandle (Probably all of the State this year)you gotta carry the water with you. Matters not what kind of purifiers or filters there are, they don’t make water out of dirt. Water is heavy. I know there be many ways to carry it, some better than others but none are in some manner or another not in the way. Seems every year I dream up someway new to carry water or some liquid. Anyway, just a thought. At least on the property I hunt (acres and acres of canyon lands) I can pick areas to poke around in where I can carry a pint or so and drift by my truck and refresh and replenish every now and then.
Like I said, just babbeling along and ready for Saturday. By the way, I totally dislike the new “green” plastic water bottles. Never anything made so much noise at the wrong time!!!!!

[Polar Bear]

#46197

I have a day pack with a 2 ltr. water bladder. Carrys enough stuff for a week so long as I pack only what is needed. The water bladder has a bite tube for easy access. Not very much rain here in Oklahoma this year either. I keep a 5 gal. container in camp.

[SDMFer]

#46201

One solution to the water bottle noise that I’ve recently been turned onto are platypus soft bottles. You can squeze the air out of them preventing the excess noise.

[shawhill]

#46234

Thats not really a hunting issue here in NY, but I do run into that similar problem while trail running. Something that may work for you if you hunt near to home is to freeze a gallon of water and drop it off somewhere easy to get to (pref. in the shade) it will probably be melted by the time you need it but it should be cool. I stash frozen gatorades along the trail when I run long distances and it works great!

[roninrus1]

#46286

Hard to beat a CamelBack. No noise! Love mine.

[Ed Ashby]

#46413

roninrus1 wrote: Hard to beat a CamelBack. No noise! Love mine.

I used the CamelBack some in the outback of Australia and I concur. For a day’s hunt, where you’ll be back at camp by nightfall (or soon after) it’s the best way I found to carry enough water in really hot, dry country.

A bit over 35 years ago, when I lived in Tucson, well before season started I would back-pack well-sealed gallon jugs of water into my hunt area, bury them at strategic locations and mark their location on my map.

Ed

[David Petersen]

#46477

R2 — Good luck on Saturday! Dave

[Ralph]

#47217

Thx Tony for the Platypus tip. Found them and bought 2 of the .5 liter ones. Fits my business to a T. I have a cover from a “Flexi-Flask” insulated water bottle that I bought in a fly fishing shop in Eagle’s Nest, NM. years ago, the bottle history a long time ago. Man just a fit to slip in my GF wool haversack. Cool.
Thanks Dave! My hunting is “snooping, poking around, glassing, seeing probably too many Indian tools rather than deer and just being out.I love it. Deer occasionally get unlucky also. Everyone I hunt with does the blind and tree stand deal but that’s their deal. I guarantee that over the last 15 yrs. of hunting this property I know a lot about the southern 5000 acres of the ranch I hunt. My wife and I can use the property year round also and that’s great for a couple of people that grew up in public land (Artesia, NM, her and Mesa, Co, me) that now live where nearly all is owned land. How I miss the Grand Mesa! We have 10,000 acres to play in now anyway so we good. At 66 yrs. old I’m really glad I can still spend a couple of months hunting and “snooping”. See no reason to not be shooting 50# hunting bow either. Could go more if chasing elk but that hasn’t been happening for a long time.
Anyway, will have a drink of water with me.

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