What’s everyone doing to carry everything into their set at night? Currently, I have my rifle slung on my back, I carry my tripod and X24 in one hand, and scanner in the other. I like to keep a free hand so I can scan while I’m walking in. I’ve seen tripod slings, and call slings as well. I feel like I can only sling one item otherwise they clank together. But at times I clank my call and my tripod since they’re in one hand as well. Curious as to what others are doing.
For night hunting I use a cheap Voodoo Tactical gun scabbard (works like a backpack, with shoulder straps and belt) Reese Predator Pack, and a Kifaru Gun Bearer.
The Scabbard is covered in Molle, so I strap the call to it and have extra ammo attached as well. I did add some ties to the top of the scabbard to keep the rifle from flopping around from side to side. It holds a suppressed rifle with a 20" barrel with ease. I also removed the Voodoo belt and installed an Eberlestock belt that I had lying around.
Reese pack does it all, holds hand calls, remote, batteries, pistol, and scanner.
I have a sling on my tripod, short walk I use the sling, if it is a long walk I will put the tripod in the gun bearer.
Kifaru just came out with a gun scabbard, looks amazing but it will be an expensive route to go. I have spent way more than the Kifaru Scabbard will cost on other packs and attempts to be comfy, quiet, and efficient. I would expect other pack makers to do the same in the future.
I have tried several different packs and carrying combinations over 15 years of day hunting and night hunting, and so far I like what I am doing now the best.
I have used a couple of different Eberlestock packs with scabbards, I just never liked them that much and never cared for how I stored the call in them, it took me too long to dig the call out. I am not knocking their packs, they build a great pack, I just did not like it in this application.
I can set up the tripod in the last 20 yards of the walk, quietly remove the pack, put the gun in the tripod, go put out the call, and start hunting.
I have not day hunted in a while, when I do I will follow the same process.
In a normal winter, we are snowshoeing a lot, so I like to have my hands free for when I fall on my face or get stuck.