Tragedy Averted

[bob lyons]

This year my oldest son shot a deer. We tracked it till dark then another hour in the darkness. Most of the way we crawled thru blow downs and pine thickets.
We finally were able to get the deer. Once we dragged it out and loaded it up for the tagging station my 2nd son said he had lost his cell phone.
Back into the mess for another hour, however we where not that lucky late night and never found the phone.
A very long night.

[OH Osthaus]

every now and then, you see a want to buy for a replacement

i used to wonder how someone could lose a forend

then - a few years ago my wife came in the house holding the forend for my very early DH and asked if it was important it was laying in the driveway and fortunately she had not run over it - I had just come home from a hunt with that gun - best I could guess is that I had set it aside when i cased the gun but obviously had not reattached it to the barrels and it must have fallen out of the back of the truck when I unloaded gear and dog.


other than that - for lost stuff - I used to joke you could ID my woodcock covers by the right hand shooting gloves hanging in the thick stuff

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by scott kittredge

I was hunting a old dry up beaver bog for pheasant , a hour of thick blow downs ,blueberry bushes and pricky bushes, I looked down and noticed i lost one of my leg chaps ! never found it.

How the heck do you lose one of your chaps?????





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[Dollar]

That shoo goo is great stuff I always take a tube or two with me everywhere.It has saved several hunts with a quick fix to boot soles.
Oh I've never lost anything, ever,really.
Really its one of the 3 that I usually buy of everything and anything.

[Bob K]

A couple years ago while bear hunting in a nasty, wet swamp, my buddy, while navigating through the rhododendron, lost his 41 mag that was in a shoulder holster. He didn't notice that it was gone until the drive was over. We went back after ice over with a metal detector. It's still in the swamp.

[Larry Huff]

Well its bad to happen once but shame on us for twice over the past 4 decades . Losing the only set of keys to your truck in a 1000 acre field with leaves a foot deep and 7 hours away from home . Groan
Borrowed vehicles from friends nearby to drive home for the second set of keys and then drive back . A pain for sure

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

every now and then, you see a want to buy for a replacement

i used to wonder how someone could lose a forend

then - a few years ago my wife came in the house holding the forend for my very early DH and asked if it was important it was laying in the driveway and fortunately she had not run over it - I had just come home from a hunt with that gun - best I could guess is that I had set it aside when i cased the gun but obviously had not reattached it to the barrels and it must have fallen out of the back of the truck when I unloaded gear and dog.


other than that - for lost stuff - I used to joke you could ID my woodcock covers by the right hand shooting gloves hanging in the thick stuff

At least you didn't leave your Burt Becker bored Fox on the fender of your car and drive off. The stuff of legends...

[Mills]

My cousin was a guest at Winous Point several years ago and they had a rusty English 16 gauge double retrieved from a canal when they were doing some work. Someone many years ago was not as lucky as Harold. Howard said it was painful to look at

[Harold Pickens]

I would imagine that finding a replacement VHE 20 fore end would have been very difficult, and very costly. (I would start looking in Rick's driveway).

[Double Lab]

Just last month while in S. Dakota, I met another hunter who was hunting public land and connected with a rooster. So he had to take a picture of his bird and his new Beretta O/U that he bought for the trip. Hung the bird on a fence post, leaned his gun against the rail and snapped away.

He gets back to the house he is staying at and cleans his bird then goes to retrieve his gun and it's not there. Bo Whoop anyone? He left it leaning against the fence post and drove off. Jumps in his truck and finds the field and the fence but no gun. Someone got a nice gun.