Products you love (not firearm related)

[dogcat1]

Ranging binoculars.
The Skyview app for your phone that tells the names of the stars and planets. Extremely cool!

 

[baxterb]

Ranging binoculars.
The Skyview app for your phone that tells the names of the stars and planets. Extremely cool!

Love the SkyView app!!!

 

[Field28]

G. Loomis Greenwater inshore rods.

Why oh why did they quit making them?

 

[bakerb]

Bark River knives
Any quality merino wool
Surefire flashlights
Zebra light AA headlamps

Those are the things I use or carry almost every day

 

[Stormy Kromer]

Havillon knives.

Canadian whiskey. Hard to find in Africa.

 

[Russ16]

+1 for crispi boots
Coast headlamps
OOC knives

 

[ftrovato]

Too many to list, but one stands out time and again, wet wipes

Dont leave home without them!

 

[meigsbucks]

Gorilla tape
Leatherman multi tool
Barnes bullets
Cortland fly lines
Lacrosse rubber boots
Surefire flashlights
LED mini Mag lights
Abu Garcia and Shimano casting reels
Arbogast Jitterbug and Hula Popper
Yeti tumblers
Mr Heater propane heaters

 

[Flbt]

We have a pretty good group on this forum that has discriminating tastes for things of good quality. I'd love to hear a list of items you think are fantastic, first world, and you can't live without. New or vintage.

I'll go first:

Wilton Bullet Vises
Gerstner Machinist Chests
Toto one-piece elongated, extended height toilets (plungers are unnecessary)
Starrett and Mitotoyo tools and gauges
Vintage Stanley - Aladdin thermoses (the ones that actually stay warm)
Vintage Delta, Clausing, Atlas, and Walker Turner drill presses/lathes/etc
Lexol leather conditioner
Vintage Orvis Fly Rods
Hardy English Made Fly Reels
Japanese Domestic Market Shimano fishing reels
Scottish tweed
Le Chemeau and Courteney Boots
Yeti tumblers
Tumi Luggage
Gokey Luggage
Duluth Pack Luggage
LL Bean wrinkle free shirts
Lyon work benches
Surefire LED flashlights
Stanley tape measures
Energizer Lithium Batteries
Simple Green
Ospho Rust Converter
Kroil

Wet wipes
I guess I am cheap I like Canadian club 12 year old whiskey just there 12
Nicona boots
A good king ranch blood line 1/4 horse

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I'm a believer...

 

[Adam S]

Lots of good ones listed. I would add Chris Reeve knives and Red Wing heritage boots.

 

[Tra3]

+1 on Surefire flashlights
Schnees pack boots
3 piece Wool suits
John Deere
The original leatherman tool
Boston whaler boats
+1 on Courtney footwear
Cast iron pans
Optimo hats

 

[franzfmdavis]

Im going to loose sleep tonight thinking of everything I want to list...

 

[John the Electrician]

Milwaukee cordless tools.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I may not always need it but I won't fall hunt up here without it.

Dead serious. Cutting up a moose in September? Not without these.

 

[Safari Dave]

Fishing:

Shimano Reels
Loomis Rods
Lamson Fly Reels
Tibor Fly Reels
Abel Fly Reels
Sage Fly Rods
Cortland Fly Lines
Orvis Fly Rods
Simms waders
Simms boots
Patagonia - Foot Tractor Wading Boots - The Absolute Best, but stupid expensive


Optics:
Leupold - scopes & binoculars
Night Force - scope - excellent, but heavy
Trigicon - very durable


Clothing:
Sitka - I like them, but they are too expensive.
Kuiu - my son likes them, but an XL is too tight on a 5'10" 190 lb. man, so I haven't figured out their sizing. (They are ticking me off now)
5.11 Tactical - maybe be best "bang for the buck", if you can find it on sale.

Boots:
Kenetrek
Crispi
Danner

 

[Altitude sickness]

similar to a movie I can’t remember.

I’ll just take all of your lists. They are that good. My list would take days. Maybe I have too many interests.

Except boots. I like the old Redwing moccasin boots, or kangaroo leather moc toe boots by Russel or browning.

Hunting or climbing boots nothing beats Italian made. LaSportiva, Crispi, Etc

Winter boots, Schnees 16” pac boot

Handmade leather, steel or wood products old and new.

 

[Fatback]

Fishing:

Shimano Reels
Loomis Rods
Lamson Fly Reels
Tibor Fly Reels
Abel Fly Reels
Sage Fly Rods
Cortland Fly Lines
Orvis Fly Rods
Simms waders
Simms boots
Patagonia - Foot Tractor Wading Boots - The Absolute Best, but stupid expensive


Optics:
Leupold - scopes & binoculars
Night Force - scope - excellent, but heavy
Trigicon - very durable


Clothing:
Sitka - I like them, but they are too expensive.
Kuiu - my son likes them, but an XL is too tight on a 5'10" 190 lb. man, so I haven't figured out their sizing. (They are ticking me off now)
5.11 Tactical - maybe be best "bang for the buck", if you can find it on sale.

Boots:
Kenetrek
Crispi
Danner

I have found that on the Kuiu shirts at least thst the synthetic stuff runs a bit smaller than the merino wool stuff. I get 2x in the merino and the 3X in the synthetic shirts. I go 3X on jackets and rain jacket since I’ll be wearing them over other stuff. I find the waist sizes on pants run true to other pants. I really enjoy b their clothing. It is a bit proxy but they frequently run sales so I typically wait for the sales.

 

[Josh P]

My leather bound Thomas Nelson NKJV Bible (I use several translations, but it’s closer to the translation I memorized from as a child.)

Von Gruff Knives.

Books of enough quality/age that they lack a barcode.

Moleskine journals.

Tusker broadbeads. (VPA 2-blade, single bevel 300gr broad heads are my favorite, but I don’t shoot the weight or justify the cost these days. I’ll save the ones I still have for any potential buff hunts.)

Thermacells.

George Strait Wrangler jeans.

Barrister bookcases.

 

[towserthemouser]

Barbour Beaufort jackets... sent a 25 year old back for reproofing last year, more age more character!

I really miss the old Browning kangaroo featherweights too!!!!

Bonus points if your Barbour has grouse feathers in the pockets and smells a little like horses.