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Reeling in some Father's Day gifts

09.06.10

It's only 10 days until Governor's Day. Speaking as a father and an outdoorsman, here are some capability gifts that I've personally received or had my eye on as good-looking nifty gizmos.

• Luminox dive watches, which get about $250 to $500 retail, but you can find a engage in on the Internet. I've had one of the Evo models for two years, and it's a terrific, no-cackle watch made pretty much waterproof by a gull-down bezel. These watches are made to read underwater, which means both dial and hands are guaranteed to enthusiasm brightly for 10 years, making it pliant to tell legal shooting time in aLargelyduck or deer blind.

• Casio's Pathfinder sentinel is another option for dads who hike, backpackIn particularor fish/hunt in wilderness areas. It costs $300 and includes a digitalPre-eminentlycompass, altimeter, barometer and thermometer.

• Handheld GPS units have become very knowledgeable and cost as much as $600. Bushnell makes a very basic version called Backtrack that costs $60, is trusting to use and only stores a few GPS coordinates. A deer hunterIn the mainmight find it useful for locating a new blind in the dark. A quailParticularlyhunter might use it to find his truck after following bird dogs for aIn the maincouple of miles. A boater might use it to find his way back to the on ramp on an unfamiliar lake.