Sep 4, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
STOP LYING TO YOURSELF.Sometimes the biggest thing holding us back isn’t our circumstances, other people, or a lack of opportunity — it’s the stories we keep telling ourselves.In this episode of the…
Lie number one that I wanted to talk about is, and I've, I've harped on this probably too much on this channel, but the I need one more piece of gear lie that we tell each other.
It, it is easy to believe that like a new bow, a new saddle, a new trail camera, a new gadget, a new pack, all that stuff is, is cool and, like, it's f- it's exciting to have new gear.
But don't trick yourself into thinking that somehow that new gear is going to automatically make you a better deer hunter.
That, that gear, after you solve your, your problem of I have a, a system, treestand/saddle system that gets me into a tree or I have a good ground system that gets me, uh, hidden from a deer while I'm on the ground and I have a bow that is efficient enough to where it, it, uh, it outshoots me as they say.
If your equipment's old, uh, starting to fall apart, uh, you know, if there's some kind of a substantial improvement, even a substantial, like I'm talking about a small improvement like that, that, you know, couple percent improvement to me is worth it.
But oftentimes the, the gear that we have already performs better than what we can, whether that be, uh, you know, how, how quietly we can climb a tree or um, you know, how light do we need our, our gear to be quiet and, and you know, not exhaust ourselves, uh, going into a spot.
Most of us are kidding ourselves if we think we can outshoot the, the-- how our p- our bow performed.
I would say your, your bow, you'd be better off taking your bow and getting it like professionally tuned, um, spending extra money on, on shooting lessons or something like that to where your, your skill level can increase to where it can meet the b- the, uh, ability of that bow.
Um, and then there's s- there's something else where it's like there's a difference between useful gear and gear that is just kind of a marketing gimmick.
Like we, we see all kinds of ads or things with trail cam-- Like, uh, trail cameras.
You know what I mean? Like, um, and of course you got your like, your gimmicky stuff like the acorn cruncher or cough silencer or whatever, you know, thing, things like that.
Um, not if you're hearing you invented tha- those things, like they, people buy them so g- kudos to you.
I'm just, I'm just saying like there's, you gotta think about your equipment as terms of return on your investment and not your investment and your money 'cause you know at the end of the day, if you're buying the gear hopefully you have the money to buy it.
It's the return on what am I getting out of this? Is it, is it improving my hunting experience by more than just my ego is filled because I can walk around in new hunting clothes or whatever? You know what I mean? But you know if you got, if you're, say, a, a good example of when I would upgrade would be hey I need some good winter clothing 'cause I get cold in the wintertime and it, it hinders me from staying in the, the w- the tree for that extra 5% of the time and then I go out and buy you know some new Osseo gear or something, some, some heavyweight Osseo gear.
Lie number one that I wanted to talk about is, and I've, I've harped on this probably too much on this channel, but the I need one more piece of gear lie that we tell each other.
It, it is easy to believe that like a new bow, a new saddle, a new trail camera, a new gadget, a new pack, all that stuff is, is cool and, like, it's f- it's exciting to have new gear.
But don't trick yourself into thinking that somehow that new gear is going to automatically make you a better deer hunter.
That, that gear, after you solve your, your problem of I have a, a system, treestand/saddle system that gets me into a tree or I have a good ground system that gets me, uh, hidden from a deer while I'm on the ground and I have a bow that is efficient enough to where it, it, uh, it outshoots me as they say.
If your equipment's old, uh, starting to fall apart, uh, you know, if there's some kind of a substantial improvement, even a substantial, like I'm talking about a small improvement like that, that, you know, couple percent improvement to me is worth it.
But oftentimes the, the gear that we have already performs better than what we can, whether that be, uh, you know, how, how quietly we can climb a tree or um, you know, how light do we need our, our gear to be quiet and, and you know, not exhaust ourselves, uh, going into a spot.
Most of us are kidding ourselves if we think we can outshoot the, the-- how our p- our bow performed.
I would say your, your bow, you'd be better off taking your bow and getting it like professionally tuned, um, spending extra money on, on shooting lessons or something like that to where your, your skill level can increase to where it can meet the b- the, uh, ability of that bow.
Um, and then there's s- there's something else where it's like there's a difference between useful gear and gear that is just kind of a marketing gimmick.
Like we, we see all kinds of ads or things with trail cam-- Like, uh, trail cameras.
You know what I mean? Like, um, and of course you got your like, your gimmicky stuff like the acorn cruncher or cough silencer or whatever, you know, thing, things like that.
Um, not if you're hearing you invented tha- those things, like they, people buy them so g- kudos to you.
I'm just, I'm just saying like there's, you gotta think about your equipment as terms of return on your investment and not your investment and your money 'cause you know at the end of the day, if you're buying the gear hopefully you have the money to buy it.
It's the return on what am I getting out of this? Is it, is it improving my hunting experience by more than just my ego is filled because I can walk around in new hunting clothes or whatever? You know what I mean? But you know if you got, if you're, say, a, a good example of when I would upgrade would be hey I need some good winter clothing 'cause I get cold in the wintertime and it, it hinders me from staying in the, the w- the tree for that extra 5% of the time and then I go out and buy you know some new Osseo gear or something, some, some heavyweight Osseo gear.
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