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.

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

I was hunting in SD a few years back and was working the edges of a cattail slough when I noticed a funny feeling in one of my Irish Setter boots. The sole has fallen off and I had walked about 200 yds. before I noticed it. Back tracked and found the sole then that evening used some Shoe Goo to reattach it.

Daryl that exact same thing happened to a hunting friend of mine year before last while in SD. Oddly enough it was Irish Setters for him as well, sole came completely off. He did have a spare pair of boots thankfully.

[Dan]

Many years past I was deer hunting and had the good fortune to take a buck. After field dressing the deer I remembered wiping my bloody hands over a fallen log and then after a long and tiring drag drove home. After getting home my (Former) wife inquired as to were my gold wedding band was. I stood there thinking for a while and then surmised that it came off while field dressing that deer. I grabbed a flashlight and headed back to that spot and sure enough found my ring lying on top of the blood stained leaves under that fallen log.

[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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[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

[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...

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

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

no- never - that wouldn't/couldn't happen to me

read post #5 on this thread -(but lets keep it between ourselves okay )

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...highlight=roof



I did have a friend who left his cased pride and joy M12 heavy duck on a fender, got home and realized it was missing - drove back to his spot and found it safe in the middle of the dirt road

[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