The Best Place To Buy Your Hunting Gear (And How To Save 10% When You Do)
- 3 days ago
- 4 min read
If you've been hunting for more than a season or two, you already know the problem. You need a new pair of boots, so you order those from one site. Your optics guy has a deal running somewhere else, so that's a second tab open. Your buddy swears by a specific game bag company that only sells direct, so that's a third order. Then you remember you're out of freeze dried meals and scent free soap, so now you're on a fourth site adding those to a cart too.
By the time you've actually built out your kit for a western hunt, you've got four or five order confirmations in your inbox, four or five different shipping timelines, and no idea which box is going to show up when. Something always gets delayed. Something always gets forgotten. And you've spent an hour of your life just clicking around instead of actually getting ready to hunt.
I see this constantly with the hunters I work with at East 2 West Hunts. Most of the guys coming to me for tag strategy and hunt planning are working hunters. They've got a job, a family, a limited number of hours in a week to get ready for a hunt that might be their one shot at a tag this year. The last thing they need is to burn an evening bouncing between five different gear sites trying to price match a base layer.
Why Buying From Multiple Places Actually Costs You More
It feels like shopping around saves money. Sometimes it does, by a few bucks here and there. But here's what it actually costs you that doesn't show up on the receipt:
Shipping adds up fast. Five separate orders usually means five separate shipping charges, unless you're hitting free shipping minimums on each one individually, which often means you're buying more than you needed just to clear the threshold.
You lose track of what you actually own. When your gear purchases are scattered across half a dozen accounts and email inboxes, you lose the ability to look at one place and see your full kit. That matters when you're building a packing list for a ten day elk hunt and trying to make sure nothing's missing.
Returns and warranty claims turn into a mess. If a piece of gear fails in the field, you need to know exactly where you bought it, when, and under what return policy. Spread your purchases across enough retailers and that record keeping falls apart fast.
None of that is fatal on its own. But add it all up over a hunting career and it's real money and real time you didn't need to spend.
Why I Point Every Client Toward A One Stop Shop
When someone signs on with East 2 West Hunts for tag application management or hunt planning, gear comes up in almost every conversation. New nonresident hunters especially want to know where to actually buy the stuff on their list. My answer is the same every time. Go to one place that carries everything you actually need, vetted by people who hunt the way you're about to hunt, and build your kit there.
That place, for me and for every client I point in this direction, is the GoHunt gear shop.
I'm not saying that because it's easy or because I'm being lazy about the recommendation. I say it because GoHunt actually solves the one stop shop problem the right way. It's not a general sporting goods store that happens to carry hunting gear alongside fishing rods and camping chairs for weekend car campers. It's built specifically by western hunters for western hunters, and it carries the categories that actually matter for a backcountry hunt under one roof.
Optics from Swarovski, Vortex, Leupold, Zeiss, Leica, and Nightforce. Apparel from Sitka, Stone Glacier, Outdoor Research, and King's, plus GoHunt's own in-house line built specifically around western conditions. Footwear from Danner, Crispi, and Asolo. A full archery lineup covering everything from broadheads to release aids. Camp systems, game bags, backcountry food, and the small stuff that always ends up on every packing list.
You can build an entire kit, optics down to socks, in one cart, checked out once, shipped together, tracked in one place, and earning rewards points the whole way through.
It also means when a client asks me a gear question, I know exactly where to send them and exactly what they're going to get. Every product in that shop has been field tested before it makes it onto the site, so I'm not sending someone toward gear I have doubts about just because it happened to be on sale somewhere that week.
If the one stop shop approach makes sense to you, here's how to actually save money doing it.
GoHunt Discount Code: EAST2WEST Savings: 10% off your order Where to use it: shop.gohunt.com
Using it is simple. Build your cart with whatever you need, whether that's a full optics setup, a new layering system, or just restocking the small stuff before season. At checkout, enter EAST2WEST in the promo code field, and the 10% discount applies automatically before you pay. No account required to use the code, though creating a free GoHunt account also gets you started earning rewards points on top of it.
The Bottom Line
Stop splitting your gear purchases across four or five different sites hoping to save a few dollars here and there. Pick one place that's actually built for the kind of hunting you're doing, buy everything you need in a single cart, and let the savings and the rewards points stack up instead of scattering across a dozen different accounts you'll never fully use. For my clients, and for me, that place is the GoHunt gear shop. Use code EAST2WEST at shop.gohunt.com and get 10% off while you build your kit the right way, all in one stop.
And if gear is the easy part but you're still trying to figure out how to actually draw a tag in the state you're building that kit for, or how to execute your hunt after you draw that tag, that's exactly what we handle at East 2 West Hunts. Western Hunt Basecamp is the free place to start.
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