Tragedy Averted

[Harold Lee Pickens]

While out pheasant hunting yesterday, I followed the dogs into an autumn olive/multiflora hell hole as they worked a running bird. I was carrying my little VHE 20 onehanded in my right hand as I tried snaking thru the briars, warding them off with my left. Hit a little opening, and shifted the gun to my left hand and froze. The fore end was off/missing and I suddenly felt very sick. I hung my orange hat where I stopped and started working back along an old deer trail I was following, and about 25 yds back spotted it sticking up in the air with the metal lugs stuck in the mud. You dont have to tell me how damn lucky I was. Had it come off in a field, would have never found it.
It snapped right back on, tight as a tick, with no play or wiggle. I can only surmise that a stick had gone under the latch and popped it up and off. Don't think this could happen again, but has me thinking about putting a small piece of tape over the latch to prevent it from happening again. Has this ever happened to anybody?

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Picture of my mother/daughter brace on point yesterday where we started into the woods.

[Dean Romig]

Opening morning of deer season this year I lost the corrugated 10" red plastic tube off the front of my grunt call which was hanging around my neck on a cord... never to be seen (by me) again. I lost something else too while deer hunting but I can't remember what it was... maybe it was my mind. :shock:





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[Garry L Gordon]

Glad you found your part!

While hunting in OK a few years ago, I fired my Whistler hammer gun at a quail, and when I went to load it noticed the hammer was missing (screw broke). We searched long and hard without luck. On our way home to Missouri, we stopped in KC and I bought a metal detector. We went back after the season (6 hour drive). I walked to the spot where I fired the shot (I'd marked it in photographs). I turned the metal detector on and as I positioned it to the ground, I got the "metal detected" signal. It was the hammer. Brad Batchelder made the screw and my gun is hunting again.

Sometimes, Harold, we are just "livin' right," as my Pop used to say.

[Kevin McCormack]

After a non-productive woodcock hunt in a newly-discovered and great-looking but unbelievably gnarly series of perfect cover thickets, my setter and I arrived back at my truck to find I had dropped the hand-held electronic control device for his electric beeper collar somewhere along the way. We backtracked for about a half an hour and I saw it lying just off the deer trail I had been following. I had wrapped it with dayglo orange tape "just in case." Otherwise it would still be out there.

[Mills Morrison]

Yikes!

[Garry L Gordon]

What happens in the field, stays in the field...

[Keith Doty]

Hunting flooded timber in E. Texas outta a boat, looked up and saw my favorite mallard call floating in the decoys, headed for open water! Actually got my dog to bring it back to me, took a bit of effort but she finally picked it up and returned to the boat. I was very glad, took us 20 minutes to get the boat positioned and cover up when we set up. Gentlemen, check your lanyards.

[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 ! :shock: never found it.

[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.

[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.

[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 :shock: 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]

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 ! :shock: never found it.

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





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[Bob Hayes]

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 Kimble]

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

[Garry L Gordon]

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 :shock: 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.:nono: The stuff of legends...

[Mills Morrison]

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 Lee 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).

[Daryl Corona]

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.:eek: 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.

[Rick Losey]

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

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

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

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=29498&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

[Dean Romig]

I remember that one Rick. I think we all should adopt your new policy.





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[Ed Norman]

the first year I hunted in 2018, I ran into a not so nice man that told me his property was just over there. I said I know I have a plat book. He continued on, telling me he was sick of people trespassing and he had snares up all along his property line and if my dog went over there "he might disappear". He was on a 4 wheeler, I had just gotten out of my truck, and started hunting south on state land, he went back out onto the dirt road and headed south doing donuts in the road parallel to me. I could just see the road and could see his 4 wheeler doing donuts. I carefully hung up my blaze orange hat and vest, leaned my unloaded shotgun against a tree, I almost tied my dog up there, but I was more afraid of not finding my dog than losing a shotgun and vest and hat. I was so mad I couldn't think straight, I could of left my dog there and could of found him with his beeper collar/locater on. Anyways, I snuck over there and tried to get pictures of him doing donuts on the road, he literally did donuts for a half mile to harass me while hunting. I headed back, it was probably 75 yards to my clothes and gun. It took me a while to find them, which is hard to believe, I headed back just a little off course, after going a hundred yards I went north, then headed back towards the road and found them. In Michigan harassing a hunter can result in a $500.00 fine, I did not know any better back then or I would of turned him in, the pictures didn't show much, the donuts in the road did.

[John Dallas]

About 2 .months ago, Ieft a 9' 5 weight Scott Custom shop rod and Bauer reel on top of thr truck and drove off. Say good bye to a. bunch of $$$

[Randy G Roberts]

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.

[Joe Graziano]

That happened to me while hunting at Rio Piedra. We would hunt, get back in the guide’s jeep, move and hunt. When I pulled my hammer gun out of the slip at a stop, no forend! What? You have to be kidding. We went back to the previous stopping point and there it was on the ground. That forend has an Anson release and has never fallen off before or since. It almost ruined a very special hunt with my father and my son. Needless to say, I was relieved when I found it. I’m glad to hear you found yours.

[Mike Poindexter]

I now put anything I want to use again on the hood of my vehicle, gun, rod, bag, you name it. That way when I climb in the car to go, I see the object of my desire staring me in the face. Dont ask how I came to learn this lesson.

[Phillip Carr]

The most valuable thing I lost was a GPS unit. Not once but twice while elk hunting in Colorado. Almost to the day a year apart.
1st one riding up in the dark, my GPS I was wearing on my hip fell off. I knew where I had last looked at it. Which was about a 1/4 of a mile down on the well used trail. Despite riding the trail and searching for it, it was never found.
Next year I had shot an elk early one morning. The wrangler and I loaded the elk in Panniers loaded on a brute of a pack horse.
I had shot the elk deep in a canyon pretty far in.
While packing the meat out the cowboy said we could save a lot of time if we took a shortcut but that there was on steep area where you had to really push your horse. He stated several times that for no reason should I allow my horse to slow down or stop.
Unfortunately I was watching my GPS really close since we were not going out the way we had come in. I was holding the GPS we reached the area where we really had a steep climb.
So I put the GPS in my front shirt pocket without thinking.
About that time the cowboy spurred his horse with the pack horse in tow. I followed hanging on for a wild ride. It was a pretty steep climb for about 80 yards. Half way up the GPS come flying out of my pocket. I saw exactly, or so I thought where it had come out.
Once at the top. I went down on foot. Easily following the hoof prints. Once again despite my best search It was gone for ever.

[Russ Jackson]

Four archery seasons ago ,I was fortunate to shoot a nice 8 Point I grunted in from about 200 yards ,it was late in the season and I took him about 4:30 in the afternoon as he had been cruising a field edge and decided that was the best darn Grunt Call I ever owned ! I hit the deer through both lungs and fortunately he only went about 40 Yards and I saw him go down so I was quite happy I didn't have an hour to sit and wait and then a Trailing task in the dark ! After tagging and dressing I started the drag he was quite heavy so I wrapped the rope around my wrist and tugged on him while I walked backwards, finally getting him out I discovered my Grunt call was missing as well as my Inexpensive but favorite Timex Exhibition watch ! Since I was hunting my own property it really wasn't a big deal and I went back in the next morning but couldn't find either advance to Spring 2021 as I am making my way between large Poplars in search of Morel Mushrooms LO and Behold laying on a piece of Moss along the same deer trail I used to drag the deer out laid my Timex and I couldn't believe my eyes about 10 more feet up the trail laid my Grunt Call in plain view ! The Grunt call for whatever reason doesn't sound good any longer but the Timex ,Took a Licking but keeps on Ticking !:rotf:

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[Phil Yearout]

1) Two pairs of Ray-Ban glasses before I was smart enough to start putting a lanyard on 'em.
2) 2/3 of a Winston WT 8' 4wt rod with a favorite old Okuma reel with a brand new weight forward line when I neglected to zip a reel-on case shut.

But a couple of happy endings: Two years ago in South Dakota we were flying down the interstate when we thought some guys in an SUV were harassing us. Turns out they were trying to tell us my nephew had left his shotgun on top of the bed cover. I laughed at him, then this year we were driving through a field when I noticed my 16ga Trojan was still lying on the hood of the truck. I guess putting things on the hood isn't always good enough

[Daniel B Sweet]

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.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

My wife and I were trimming some deer meat to can " whole Deer" and I carried the trimmings down to the open field to dump them. the next day I missed my Company ring went down to the field never found it probably in some bear or coyote gut looked for 3 years with metal detctors never found the ring! s### happens, gary