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Unread 11-25-2021, 06:58 AM   #1
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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
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Unread 11-25-2021, 07:19 AM   #2
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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).
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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.
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I remember that one Rick. I think we all should adopt your new policy.





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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.
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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 $$$
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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