Gear: what's your most abused or shortest life.

[bates]

Just wondering what piece of gear gets replaced the most often ?


I'm pretty bad about loosing a glove or trashing rain gear

 

[charvey9]

I'm usually good for putting a few holes in my pants or shirts every season, but just sew them up and keep on going. There are only a few items I actually wear out and end up needing replaced.

Light hunting gloves would be one. I wear them all the time, in all conditions, and usually go through a pair about every 4 months. Eventually I put a hole in them or seam pops.

The other would be boots, or more specifically, waterproofing on boots. 2 seasons seems to be about the average for me.

 

[Jauwater]

Yea boots for me. Light weight shelters, tarps specifically. I'm always ripping shit.

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[SLDMTN]

Boots, Gaitors, and Kahtoolas take a ton of abuse but hands down my trekking poles get absolutely beat!

 

[Where's Bruce?]

My joints.

 

[twall13]

I go through at least one set of merino liner gloves a year. I'm hoping to get a bit more life out of the aero wool liners I got this year but don't expect much more.

I used to go through socks pretty quickly until I started buying Darn Tough socks.

 

[Yellowknife]

Boots and raingear both seem to have a fairly short waterproof service life. Structural issues (soles pealing, seams blowing out) seems pretty common with boots too. 2-3 years on that stuff if all goes well, although I've replaced them after a single season a few times.

Gaiters are a wear item.

Merino gets rotten after a couple years.

Optics... for some reason I have broken a PILE of optics. Rarely a year goes by without me sending something in for replacement/repair. This year it was a Zeiss Conquest scope.

Puffy jackets are an every 3 year replacement cycle. The shell gets riddled with patches about the same time the insulation get iffy. But winter is long here in Fairbanks, so I wear them a lot. In fact, I'm about due in that department.

 

[fngTony]

Seat and knees in pants.

 

[elkyinzer]

Arrows and broadheads. Lost gloves, I have a drawer full of gloves and there's like two actual pairs. I beat up raingear pretty good, usually get about a year out of a jacket and two or three out of pants. Brush pants I get about two seasons out of when I rabbit and grouse hunt a lot. Sunglasses although not a hunting item I go through a pair about once a year and they aren't cheap.

On the flip side, the zipper just broke on my treestand/fanny pack. It would have been 18 years old, got it for Christmas before my first hunting season. Pretty bummed about that, we've been through a lot together.

 

[WRO]

Pants, barbwire eats them up.

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[dotman]

Boots, gaiters and my body.

 

[tttoadman]

Light gloves.

scope covers.

 

[5MilesBack]

My bugle diaphragms. But if I wasn't blowing them out, I wouldn't be working them hard enough so I'm OK with that.

I'm going on my 5th year with my Zamberlan Dakota boots and they're still holding up great. Great buy for $86 on closeout from Amazon. But I have a backup pair for when these quit staying together.

I have a pair of merino base bottoms that are literally in tatters, been wearing them every season since 2007 so I think I got my money's worth. But unfortunately these are the only ones that I've ever seen in a Tall that actually are long enough for me (Cabela's brand), and of course.......they've stopped making them. My First Lite pair come to the middle of my calf, so had to break some strands to stretch them out enough so they don't cut off the circulation.

Oh, and this year......Havalon blades.

 

[Jpeaston]

tires, I either need them or are about to need them

 

[Beendare]

My joints.

Ha! I was thinking the same thing.

Gear wise; Boots are numero uno

 

[vanish]

I find the longevity of some of the gear these days very sad. I've got a polyester camo hoodie from 1998 that has no holes in it except for the two I put in it to hold my back tag. The only problem with it, its now grey instead of camo because its so faded. I wore that thing for every hunt and also for a lot of camping trips for more than 15 years. I bought a merino one to replace it this year, and its already got a couple of holes in it. Not to mention, it cost 5 times more than that hoody.

From what I read, hiking boots are designed for 500-750 miles on them. That doesn't feel like enough to me. The cost per mile is more than my car!

 

[Back Country Hunter 2]

Boots and base layer tops. I use my boots so much for hunting and scouting that I have to get a new pair every year (Danner's). I end up getting a hole in a base layer every year, whether it's barbed wire or a tree branch. I'd like to say replacement blades for my Havalon, but so far this year it hasn't been bloody.

 

[Larry Bartlett]

Go Pros without a shred of doubt.

I'll lose one every year, that too is without a doubt. They're small and slippery when wet or cold.

But generally speaking...gloves!

Mechanics gloves seem to serve well, but you're lucky if you get one season out of them.

 

[16Bore]

My M70. Love/hate it. On its 9th stock because I've never liked any of them and it's a damn Tupperware. Best to crap and shoots whatever fits in the chamber.

Stupid thing.

 

[6.5x284]

I've ripped 3 holes in my Kuiu Guide pants, and all 3 by the tines of 3 different deer antlers when dragging them out or cutting them up. I always slip and that tine punches right through, and every time I think...man that could have been my leg with a hole! I also am hard on optics. I've sent back my Nikons, my Viper HD's, 3 Zeiss Conquests, 2 Premier Heritage, and Vortex Razor for repair/replacement. On the plus side, they have all been fixed or repaired with no questions. The last thing I go through a lot is WA Hydrate and Recover. Started out for hot weather archery. They I added it to my rifle hunts. Then I added it to my hangover recoveries (works awesome). It can get used up pretty quick during hunting seasons!