Hunting Gear For a Newbie

[@micklemouse5258]

you've taken one of the most common KZbin videos (gear talk) and made it relatable, unique and no bullshit. love it. thank you

[@fhckoutdoors]

Well most stuff out there is American, and it really does bum-steer people.

[@adamimberti6948]

He is Australian. He knows no other way.

[@alexanderrandolph6030]

As an aspiring hunter (US though) im finding your channel perfectly informative. Personal walkthroughs of prospective purchasing help give me the knowledge I need to get into hunting!

[@Th3BadThing]

Appreciate this very much. NZer here and have decided to shake off being a city guy and dived into the world of hunting so have been trying to learn as much (as well as finding someone who would be willing to teach) as possible and this was a huge help.

[@myk702]

one long sleeve just made you my fav out door youtuber.

[@hawks_stuff]

Just don't let the missus know how much you spent....

[@fhckoutdoors]

Hahaha. Just ask her how much her collection of handbags, shoes and cushions cost...

[@s.rankin9111]

Champion work. As a beginner myself, love this video. And I'll be using this to make myself a shopping list

[@madtownangler]

KMart no longer exists here in the USA. The one in my parents town was the second to last one left in our state. I always have a backpack with a bucket strapped to it to sit on. I put warm clothes inside of it for when I get cold

[@bigcheese82]

This is for Australian audiences.

[@justme.9711]

I've got nothing to loose by asking, so... I don't have a mini GPS or sat phone, epirb etc, just my iphone 8, but I just remembered that I have a little 5w uhf/vhf dual band Transceiver. Do you know if it would be worth the weight/trouble of taking it along, or just a useless 242 Grams?

[@ultrafarmer3069]

grew up hunting in jeans and dryzabone if it was cold otherwise just a earth tone shirts. recently started wearing camo shirts still rocking the jeans. I only hunt during the roar and from my experience the reds couldn't care less what you wear. multiple times I've walked right up on one or had one cross paths with me and ive been ignored. Spend good money on your binos and scope, also something to check wind, ive always used tissues i tear small bits off the check the wind but have seen other methods. some sort of hat is round object that sticks out in an environment without round things haha.

[@lukeelliott2183]

First aid and snake bite kit would be definitely added to this

[@fhckoutdoors]

Yeah, but anyone going into the bush should have that, not just hunters.

[@benburrowes8767]

Save money on hunting gear that works leaves more money for guitars. That is quite a collection you have in the background 👍

[@fhckoutdoors]

Yeah I’ve got a few haha

[@rickfletcher8422]

Found your channel recently, glad we have an Australian working in our dollar suggesting affordable options instead of kahles, Swaro, sako rhetoric!!

[@allanleighton-hc1bc]

Great video Mate and really really informative, like Fat Rat Trading, I bought a revolver from them.

[@rossmara8377]

Good vid. I’d have thought decent boots before anything else.

[@fhckoutdoors]

I may have made an assumption that most people getting into hunting would already have boots. Good point!

[@robbieatvic]

For a newbie thats some great advice, let's hope they listen and save some cash. Thanks for sharing

[@moechams9936]

Great video, thank you. Where can I find the exact back pack in the thumbnail that can hold the rifle like that?

[@fhckoutdoors]

@@moechams9936 Check out Moroka 30

[@moechams9936]

@@fhckoutdoors after some research i found this "TIDEWE Hunting Backpack 5500cu with Frame and Rain Cover for Bow/Rifle/Pistol" and I love it. Cheapest on their main website and US amazon

[@moechams9936]

@@fhckoutdoors Thank you, after some research I settled with the "TIDEWE Hunting backpack 5500cu with frame and rain cover for bow/rifle/pistol" and I love it

[@Dr_Monster]

Great video, Thank You!!!

[@edwardhaigh4249]

All good advice mate,but need good boots and they are expensive,add a few hundy and be more like it.

[@fhckoutdoors]

I've addressed this in the comments before. Boots, medical kit etc are all things anyone heading into the bush should have regardless of their preferred activity.

[@benwarnock]

Would the bag not have to be pretty big if hunting something like a Sambar + all the other shit you have in the backpack?

[@JThomasSC72]

Respect for the Terror HC shirt 👊🏽

[@Jack11173]

Maybe a good idea for a quick video would be what torches or spotlights to use for hunting foxes/rabbits ect in low light/ night. I've found a couple older videos using the older lightforce handheld spotlights but not sure if they are any good anymore with technology nowadays. Olight look ok for $$$ but I think a lot of reviews seem like they are saying they are good just because they get shit for free or discounted. I think it would be good to hear a review from someone that doesn't talk crap through the whole video and keeps it real. This video was really helpful for me to get the basics sorted;

[@harps6668]

Hey mate what was the thing/site that says where our masterbator overlords say we can hunt? Cheers

[@richnegs5828]

Great video mate, getting back into shooting after years off it and wanting to go for deer when I’m up to speed. 👍

[@bestestusername]

Fat rat's a good shop, loads of good gear more than you expect for it location

[@BananaMagsinPyjamas]

Seriously need this thanks man

[@fhckoutdoors]

My pleasure.

[@BananaMagsinPyjamas]

Never would have thought of pillow cases

[@fhckoutdoors]

@@BananaMagsinPyjamas It's a good little hack hey

[@Velvet_outdoors]

Hunting with R-license in NSW it's a condition of the written permission that hunters must wear an item of blaze Orange at all times.

[@fhckoutdoors]

Well there you go, thats good information to know. Thanks.

[@ashleywoolnough4884]

Main things I have in my hunting kit are: First aid kit Toilet paper Knife Head lamp Cigarette lighter Water bottle Snacks, lots of snacks

[@geoffcrane9848]

Thanks Ed love ya work!

[@josephlau8476]

I like hunting very much.

[@6knots6]

Cheers mate

[@Geekchess]

Cheers for the video. 🍻

[@lukekeiler459]

Awesome vid, need a guitar review next 😂

[@richardkeeling5430]

Compass and snake bite kit first aid kit

[@fhckoutdoors]

@@richardkeeling5430 I’ve argued many times that this stuff is mandatory equipment for anyone going in the bush. Hunting gear goes on top of that.

[@jamesaveris966]

good video mate thanks for the info

[@simonmaracich6583]

Great vid well done mate

[@cato7669]

I've just spent about 4k on hunting gear, and was set to go next weekend for my first deer hunt but I live in fucking Melbourne 🤦‍♂️🤬 Great video 👍👍

[@fhckoutdoors]

Big oooooooofffftttttt haha. It’ll pass soon mate.

[@willshunting]

Glad you're encouraging Newbies to save their money..... leaves all the more to spend on their funeral. You are representing yourself to be a well experienced, valid and thereby 'safe' information resource. Your glaring ommissions are therefore, at best, irresponsible. You openly say "people get shot all the time"...... so tell us how an EPIRB stems a major bleed happening before your eyes while you're extracting your Beacon. Actual Newbies and even more seasoned hunters, I respectfully ask you to note the following. Suffice to say an EPIRB activation is reserved for a serious, typically life threatening situation; that is to say, potential loss of life due to bleeding, snake bite etc, or immobilization due to critical bone fracture and the ensuing risk of death through exposure. In the case of bleeding or invenimation, by the time a rescue crew responds to activation of your EPIRB signal, and actually locates you in the field to administer aid, you will be 'dead as a maggot' from a non-dry snake bite or (particularly arterial) bleeding as a result of gunshot or broadhead wound, or compound fracture, without immediately self-applied (or by a mate) trauma first aid items. Therefore, unless you and your mates can find Guardian Angels for sale on the web, purchase and never leave the car or camp without the following: - A CAT Military grade tourniquet and go onto You Tube and learn how to prepare/pack it and how to deploy it for limb trauma. - At least one Israeli T3 Compression Bandage and again go onto to You Tube to learn how to pack it and apply it for torso, neck, groin and other parts of the anatomy where the tourniquet cannot be effective. - A roll of sterile gauze or better still "QuikClot" to pre-pack, (and thereby stem blood flow before application of the T3 compression bandage) and yes, again make sure you know how to deploy it; not just buy it and stick it in your pack imagining you know how it works. - A pair of sterile medical grade disposable gloves. As you will learn from tutorials on You Tube, packing a wound with the gauze or QuikClot involves inserting your finger(s) into the wound to clear clots and any debris and then locating the main bleed point(s). The quicker you can make your hands crap free, the better; hence the importance of the gloves. - At least one roll of actual snake bite compression bandage and know how to use it. Sole reliance on gaiters is frankly idiotic. Species such as Eastern Browns, Tigers etc regularly sun themselves in locations above knee level, including logs, rock ledges etc. particularly in the early morning, before they have warmed up enough to get out of the way, before you unknowingly come across their position. Moreover, there have been multiple instances of both hunters and fishermen being bitten just after getting out of their vehicle before putting on their waders or gaiters. - A good quality, high decibel emergency whistle and attach it permanently to your bino harness. Yelling out to help mates or search party members finally locate you, when your snake bit or otherwise wounded, saps vital life energy. Blowing the whistle is much less energy demanding and the signal is more far reaching than yelling. - Also, it is inexcusable not to make sure Newbies, particularly those who are intending to hunt solo, make a water bladder and micro filter an essential must have. Sure, if your EPIRB signal is picked up, you should be found within say a 24 hour window. But if you have had a bad bleed, and even if it is stemmed, you can pass away in as little as 24 to 48 hours without water due to low blood volume; particularly if you were already, unwittingly dehydrated. Obviously you are not going to be in the business of filtering water after being crook enough to set off your EPIRB. The idea is to be in a position to keep your bladder as full as possible where ever a natural water source is located; hence the filter. Moreover, if you are the crook one, your mate can find safe water while you're laid up waiting for the professional response team. - Finally, never rely on the battery of a mobile phone or GPS. A good quality sighting compass is fool proof. In that connection, try actually going into the bush and having become lost, us the phone app to navigate. It is close to impossible. Always have a VicMap with you and make sure you know where the car and/or camp is on that map before you set out. I still carry a good gps but always have the compass in a pouch on my bino harness along with a small but powerful back up penlight for map reading. This is seperate to my headlamp, which also lives in my small stalking pack. Remember to never leave the batteries in your headlamp. You can find them discharged/ flat when you most need the light! Sure you can ignore all of the above on the basis that you're just starting out and yep, God's willing you and/or one of your mates might not ever be unlucky enough to need these items....but ask yourself this, would you be cool with advising a Newbie boat fisherman that the first safety item he should buy is an EPIRB and not a fully approved and serviced life vest, not to mention failing to emphasise that he should make sure he knows how to adjust and wear the bloody thing? An EPIRB is of course great, but it's no bloody good to anyone, least of all you, if you're dead under the waves (or in us hunters case, under the tree cannopy), by the time the cavalry turns up.

[@fhckoutdoors]

I agree that people should carry a first aid kit, providing they have had training on how to use it. Most newbies are not doing a Bear Grylls back county extravaganza, and for their first few hunts will likely just bumble around a state forest with their mates for a couple of hours. If they were doing solo, diy, multi-day backpack hunt they probably aren't a newbie. I never said don't carry blood stoppers, but a newbie hunter is probably going to sit next to a dam on public land, and not kicking doors in Baghdad. Most people don't even carry a first aid kit in their car, which is statistically far more dangerous than hunting. TL;DR, I agree that people should carry first aid equipment, and get training, but probably don't need to be walking around like they are a combat medic on their 4th tour of Afghanistan.

[@willshunting]

@@fhckoutdoorsI see....so a bullet or arrow wound bleeds slower and snake venom progresses slower through the system if one of your "bumbling" Newbies get unlucky in a State Forest as opposed to further into the field? I'll let your followers ponder that logic in terms of protecting their lives. Overall your reply is disappointingly, even arrogantly, dismissive, not to mention illogical. What the hell has this got to do with melodramatic battle scenarios? You have effectively responded by indicating that a Newbie does in fact not need an EPIRB cause they are bound to be "bumbling" in short emergency services response time range. As for the reference to car accidents; in case you haven't noticed, we don't all drive around with items designed to kill mammals in close proximity to our bodies. The over riding point is that a serious situation will hopefully be a rare and arguably unlikely event, but the fact is it can happen on the first or five hundredth outing, and it happen in the Wombat State Forest or out in the guts of the High Country. I respectfully suggest your response reflects denting to your ego rather than considered concern for the hunters who might follow your channel.....but each to their own I guess.

[@fhckoutdoors]

@@willshunting I said I agree with you that people need to carry a first aid kit and get medical training.

[@willshunting]

@@fhckoutdoors This is not the guts of what needs to conveyed to Newbies. For the average bloke starting out, mere reference to a " First Aid Kit" is inadequate. Yes, there are some Kits available that include snake bite compression bandage and some good stand alone snake bite response packs but they are typicall bulky. That aside, the entire point I have tried to assist on is that I have yet to come across a First Aid Kit that included a Tourniquet or bandage like the T3 in any kind of 'standard' kit. They are primarily designed for attending to gun shot and otherwise deep localised penetration wounds, which by their very nature often involve arterial hemorrhaging. In that connection, I would ask Newbies to note that .223 is an extremely common military round but deer hunters are of course often using higher calibre rounds. Thus a mishap with a deer rifle discharge can be even more traumatic than in a conflict situation. In any event, my aim, and I would like to think yours as well, is to have Newbies understand that the type of damage a discharged centrefire round, or mishandled broadhead can do, cannot be addressed by the contents of most First Aid Kits. Dollar wise, ironically, the combined out lay for the CAT tourniquet, Israeli T3 bandage, sterile gauze and a roll of specific snake bite bandage added up to around AU$110 whereas an average grade First Aid Kit starts at about AU$150 yet, like I said, don't have the serious , potential life saving items included in them. And yes, to be fair/ honest, if you chose to go one major step beyond sterile packing gauze (to use in conjunction with a T3) and buy a pack of "QuickClot", that'll set you back about AU$84, but I figure if even up to AU$200 is spent on the peace of mind, that if the unimaginable unfolds, I will not have to stand by like a swinging dick, watching a mate, or even a total stranger die in front of me; then coin well spent.

[@fhckoutdoors]

@@willshunting I appreciate that you clearly have a passion for first aid. As I said in the video, the things I listed as 'essential' are not the only items a hunter should have. I agree, and know from first hand experience, that the only way to stop a penetrating bleed are with CAT, compression and packing. However, that was not the outline of this video. I consider the topic of what medical equipment to carry in the field as a totally separate video. I will, however, steer clear of giving advice on how to treat wounds over youtube. Although I am first aid qualified, and dealt with a vast number of combat related wounds, I am not civilian accredited to instruct. It is both legally and morally irresponsible for me to be giving my viewers guidance on how to conduct first aid for a gunshot wound. Like I have been saying, I agree that first aid knowledge is a firearms owners responsibility, and they should receive the correct and up to date training from a qualified professional. Which is not me.

[@alexcrispim1425]

Your logical. Your ex milatiry? Love your show. Keep up the good content.

[@Survivalstorehouse]

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[@fhckoutdoors]

Yeah mate, always happy to give feedback on items. Flick me a message on Instagram and we’ll figure something out.

[@lukewarm2075]

Great content mate why U don't have more subs I don't know, everyone sub and like and buy t-shirts