Christmas is right around the corner, and if your family is still asking for gift and stocking stuffer ideas, we got you covered. Just share our list of the best stocking stuffers for bowhunters for 2023.
This list has some of the most practical tools, gadgets and gear you’ll use all year. It’s the good stuff! Make sure the items below are on your list this season.
Reflective Tacks
Reflective tacks make finding your treestand in the dark easier than ever. This is a super cheap stocking stuffer idea that all hunters will find incredibly handy and useful throughout the season. These HME tacks are highly reflective, allowing for easy access to your treestand in the dark.
Price – $2.99
Venom Gloves
Whether you’re cleaning deer, or working around the shop, the Venom Steel nitrile rubber gloves give you all the protection you need to keep your hands clean and odor free. They’re designed to be rip, tear, puncture, and chemical resistant. Every hunter should have a box of these gloves stashed in the truck.
Price – $15.98
Gear Tie
Strapping down your gear is easier than ever when you have the Nite Ize Gear Ties in your pack. These assorted packs include a range of lengths from 3” to 24” with multiple quantities per length, ensuring you’ll always have the right Gear Tie for the job at hand. Gear Ties feature a patented design with a strong bendable wire interior and grippy rubber exterior, allowing you to secure or hang gear with a simple wrap-and-twist motion.
Price – $25.99
Stealth Strips
You’ll find plenty of uses for Stealth Strips when it comes to making your gear quieter than ever before. This peel-n-stick silencing tape works great on bow accessories, treestands, climbing sticks, and much more. It’s super easy to apply to any piece of hunting gear. The self-adhesive tape bonds to anything metal or plastic and has a super firm aggressive hold.
Price – $12.99
SD Cards for Trail Cams
SD cards are easy to lose and will eventually wear out. That’s why deer hunters can always use some fresh SD cards for keeping the trail cameras rolling throughout the year. You can find them at your local Walmart, or order them online, quick and easy through Amazon.
Price – $18
HotHands
HotHands are the perfect stocking stuffer. Hunters can always use them throughout the cold weather months of hunting season and beyond. They may not admit it, but most every hunter loves a fresh batch of HotHands in the stocking.
Price – $29.99
Headlamp
Headlamps are one of the handiest tools a hunter has in the gear bag, and Cyclops makes a variety of good ones to meet every hunter’s need. Their HL500 is a 5W CREE LED 500 lumen headlamp with red LED and durable ABS housing with a clear protective shield.
Price – $34.99
Venom Steel Wipes
These wipes are huge when it comes to cleaning up after the gutting chores are complete. They make a great addition to any hunter’s truck. They’re big, tough cleaning cloths that easily handle the blood, mud, grease and grime.
Price – $8.98
Last Chance Pocket Shop
The Pocket Shop is a 20-in-1 multi-tool built specifically to meet an archer’s needs. From the built-in assortment of tools, to the set of archery specific hex bits included, this multi-tool has everything an archer might need, whether in the field or the shop.
Price – $29.99
Gear Hanger
Big Whitetail Dreams makes a great gear and bow hanger that goes on the tree quick and easy and can securely handle all your gear for easy access in the treestand. It’s a public land legal design built with a 200lb cam buckle and comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Price – $34.95
Socks
During long sits and brutal cold, the last thing you want to worry about is your feet. The Zero Crew Cold Weather Sock from First Lite provides a high-lofted merino knit sock for maximum warmth and protection from the elements. We’ve designed reinforcements in the toe and heel for durability and compression through the ankle and arch to lock in fit to create a sock that can stand up to the harshest of late-season conditions.
Price – $30
Darn Tough socks are another must-have sock that hunters will love to find in their stocking. Their Heavyweight Hunting Sock is the burliest hunting sock in their lineup. It features extra heavy terry loop construction to protect your entire foot and leg for maximum warmth on the coldest days. It has a reinforced footbed for comfort and durability, and the merino wool wicks moisture and dries fast in the nastiest conditions.
Price – $35
Knives
Built to be an everyday carry workhorse, Engage is an easy carrying folder with an ample 3.5-inch S35VN stainless steel blade for superior toughness and edge retention. Featuring Cold Steel’s patent-pending slide-action Atlas Lock that guarantees consistent, durable and reliable lockup, it’s completely ambidextrous and fully capable to meet any task. The easy gripping G10 handle is overbuilt to be resilient, and the satin clip point blade allows for detailed and precise cutting.
Price – $249.99
High-end kitchen knives are an excellent gift that’ll be used with pride all through the year. Boothill Blades makes some of the most rugged and unique knives you’ll find anywhere. Their knives are a beautiful addition to any kitchen.
Price – $375
The Montana Knife Company is producing some of the hottest knives in the country these days among hunters. They are some of the baddest fixed blade knives you’ll find anywhere. Their Blackfoot is made from cryogenically treated 52100 high-carbon ball-bearing steel, achieving the perfect balance of edge retention, toughness, wear resistance, and easy resharpening.
Price – $300
Butt Out
The Butt Out tool comes highly recommended as a great gift idea by my hunting buddy, Scott McFarland. He says that after the Butt Out showed up as a gift for the family Christmas gathering years ago, it’s continued to be the topic of conversation during the gift exchange time every year since. And it works really well during the field dressing process, too! Its patented design allows you to quickly disconnect the anal alimentary canal from deer and other big game. It’s a great stocking stuffer…or gag gift.
Price – $9.99
Wool Gloves
Keep your hands warm and comfortable with these quality merino wool fingerless gloves. They’re machine washable and dryable. They are the perfect option for keeping you functional while warming your hands.
Price – $19.99
Mini Portable Air Pump
This 3-in-1 mini portable air pump works equally well as a vacuum and light. It’s super tiny, easily fitting in your pocket or pack and is the perfect addition to any hunting camp. This is a great item to keep things lit up and aired up around camp.
Price – $15.99
Scentlok Power Bank
Give the gift of keeping your gear charged this Christmas with Scentlok’s power bank charger. Built to keep you in the field longer, the Scentlok Power Bank was designed to supply power to your heated ScentLok garments as well as your phone, camera, and other smart devices. The compact design allows you to easily carry this in your heated ScentLok garments or in a backpack.
Price – $24.99
Killzone Broadheads
Broadheads make a great stocking stuffer. We hate to buy them, but can always use an extra pack throughout the season. The NAP Killzone is a 2 blade rear-deploying mechanical broadhead that packs a devastating 2″ cut. The field-point accurate Killzone uses NAP’s unique spring-clip design which ensures your blades won’t open in flight or in your quiver. There are no o-rings or rubber bands to worry about.
Price – $39.99
Moonshine Leatherworks
Wallets are a common gift found under the tree, or in the stocking each Christmas, but if you really want to beef up the caliber of wallet you give, check out the latest from Moonshine Leatherworks. The blend of leather and camo is hard to beat and is tough as nails. It’s a gift that’s customizable and will be cherished for years to come. Check them out at Moonshine Leatherworks on Facebook.
Deer Calls
Deer calls are the perfect stocking stuffer! They’ll provide all-season use for years to come. The OG from Hunter Specialties produces mature buck grunts, young buck grunt, doe bleat and fawn bleat sounds, and the Ruttin’ Buck bag easily produces the sounds of a fight.
Price – $27.99
Vortex Diamondback HD Binos
Tuck these compact binos in the stocking, and you’re sure to keep your hunter happy all season long. The Vortex Diamondback HD binos are 10×32 power, rugged in design, super compact, and extremely affordable. They are the perfect pair of binos when you wanna lighten your load without sacrificing performance.
Price – $269
Stealth Cam Connect Trail Cam
A deer hunter can never have enough trail cams for scouting, security and gathering intel. The Stealth Cam Connect cellular trail camera delivers super quality in a compact package. The camera takes the guesswork out of cellular activation and will have you transmitting images in a matter of minutes. It’s a super easy and hunter-friendly design that’s built to help you get the intel you need to make your move on a buck this season.
Price – $99
You can’t go wrong with the stocking stuffers mentioned above. Add them to your list, and keep your hunter happy this Christmas.
Merry Christmas from the Bowhunting.com crew!
