Really expensive mistake

[Zero One Actual]

I know of multiple Christensen rifles with nightforce optics and all the bells and whistles laying around the Frank Church in Idaho.

I also know that there are some nice NVGs somewhere in Alabama near a large hill some may call a mountain.

None of this is mine but I was with the group and former owners when it occurred.

 

[MIPublic]

That just sucks, always hope it will turn up but doesn’t sound likely.

I just saw a story on Facebook about a guy who left his bow on in a parking lot on public land of of state. He drove back and looked and found a note posted to a hay bail with a phone number saying “lost something? Call me”.

Dude had his bow and it turns out he had sold the guy some hunting gear like a month earlier in his home state. Crazy

 

[ImThere]

Man that sucks!! Like others have said post on Facebook for the area. See if it comes home! Good luck.

I worked with a guy that left his rifle at the WMA went back to look for it and RAN it over! Where it had fallen where he had it leaned on the bumper in the tall grass.


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[dalton916]

I think I might lead the way in “expensive stuff lost while hunting” category….i lost my truck once in GA

I used to be one of those get in tree way early dudes. This morning (private 1,000 acres) I was running late. As soon as I realized I missed the trail I meant to turn on I started taking whichever trail would put my truck further from where I was headed.

Didn’t want to waste time so I looped back around to cut the trail I came in on above the turn and got to my tree.

When the hunt was over I went several places that I thought my truck might be at to no avail, lol. Oh yeah, I forgot to add I would drive in blacked out because, well, lights bother deer ya know??? (Never mind a truck rolling through the woods….).

Finally my buddy Dave shows up. Being Army and myself Navy he basks in the glory of my lost truck. We finally hop on his 4-wheeler and blow out the woods looking for it, lmao. Took a while, but, by God, we found it

 

[2Sloe]

So I’m just now getting to the point that I can even talk about this. I did a really dumb and expensive mistake about a week ago, as of this post. Still makes me sick to my stomach and is not like me to let something like this happen.

I came out of the woods and walked back to my car with all my gear hanging on me. Set everything down and opened up the car and piled in everything to leave. It was dark out of course. I apparently piled everything in except 1 thing… my Beast stand. It wasn’t until over a day later that I realized I was missing it. It occurred to me it was gone while getting ready for another week long hunting trip… at like 11:30 pm. Went to the places I could have set it here at the house and nothing, not in the car etc.

I had nothing else I could do but get in the car right then and drive an hour to the public ground parking area just to check and see if by some miracle it was there. Of course it definitely was not. But at least I looked and might be able to sleep a hair better. Got back to the house at 2am with no stand. What a dumb oversight that was. I sure hope whoever found my stand and drove off with it appreciates my generous donation.

I don’t have the stomach to spend that much money on a stand again. So I jumped on the Novix Black Friday sale and bought another Helo. It is a great stand but it’s not the Beast stand for sure. Live and learn I guess. Hopefully I’m not the only one on earth that has done a bone head move like this before.

Actually, everyone has prolly done something like that on some level. Like putting your wallet between your legs in the truck, getting out and your wallet ends up laying on the ground outside your truck. Knew another teenager when I was growing up put a brand spanking new fancy walnut stocked Weatherby 7mm with scope, sling, the works on top of his Z-28 after hunting and drove off with it on the roof and I kid you not it was the first time he went hunting with it. Yep, gone. So no, you’re not alone. We’re all with you there on some level. It will take time, but it will hurt less…in a few years.

 

[Zero One Actual]

I think I might lead the way in “expensive stuff lost while hunting” category….i lost my truck once in GA

I used to be one of those get in tree way early dudes. This morning (private 1,000 acres) I was running late. As soon as I realized I missed the trail I meant to turn on I started taking whichever trail would put my truck further from where I was headed.

Didn’t want to waste time so I looped back around to cut the trail I came in on above the turn and got to my tree.

When the hunt was over I went several places that I thought my truck might be at to no avail, lol. Oh yeah, I forgot to add I would drive in blacked out because, well, lights bother deer ya know??? (Never mind a truck rolling through the woods….).

Finally my buddy Dave shows up. Being Army and myself Navy he basks in the glory of my lost truck. We finally hop on his 4-wheeler and blow out the woods looking for it, lmao. Took a while, but, by God, we found it

I also have a friend this happened to in SC. He forgot to drop a pin at his truck and went to his old truck pin from the previous hunt. It was like five miles off.

 

[five]

Yea, one of my first hunts I drove off and left my rifle, but luckily my stepdad is in the same lease and retrieved it for me. And earlier this year someone in the lease drove off and left their rifle out. It happens.

In the cold one morning I am pretty sure my wedding band slipped off somewhere on our lease while messing with gloves. (The bad thing is, it had happened before and I had found it in the bottom of a glove. I knew better than to wear it in the cold, but it was habit.) My wife still hopes I find it one day.

 

[2Sloe]

……. (The bad thing is, it had happened before and I had found it in the bottom of a glove.

Hmmm….that sounds very familiar.

 

[Skunkworkx]

Looks like I need to follow a few around for cool hunting stuff.

Been lucky, just calls, bow hangers (one I found the next year the tree was taking) Face mask, always 1 glove...

 

[Glenn]

I've donated a Spyderco to the hunting gods before. Along with a wedding ring, tree stand (still don't know where I hung that thing) and several articles of clothing while adding/removing layers.

And I'm guilty of not marking where I parked and doing some extra "scouting" while my brain remembered where I parked it.

 

[dalton916]

I also have a friend this happened to in SC. He forgot to drop a pin at his truck and went to his old truck pin from the previous hunt. It was like five miles off.

Hahahahaha, damn

 

[Phopkins]

A few years ago I was on an afternoon hunt. I had a sales call scheduled in the city that evening. When I got to the truck I had enough time to shuck my pack, get out of hunting clothes and boots. In Illinois you have to case or unstring your bow before transport. So I hung it on the ladder rack to deal with once everything else was stowed. This was on the passenger side. All else accomplished I turned and walked around the front of the truck and got in, then drove off.
I'll never know if it flew off going down the road or someone picked it off while I was in the house selling that garage door.
It was the sweetest shooting recurve I've ever owned. Still hurts to this day. Believe me when I say I know how you feel. It's not good.

 

[roosterstraw]

Just got home from a hunt. Immediately going to check that I didn’t forget anything.

 

[IkemanTX]

I was fortunate enough to be able to reunite someone with their DJI Ronin S gimbal a few years ago.
Found it in a field opening a few hundred yards from the parking lot of a piece of public land. Lucked out and found a receipt with a name on it. Contacted the seller with the order number and they still had the contact info.

Sure was tempting to act like it was just a gift from the universe…


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[Westdesign03]

Thanks for all the stories guys. Doesn’t make me feel as alone or dumb about the whole thing lol. Not saying you guys are dumb lol.

Yes it still stings and will likely continue to for a while at least. Cool idea to check on FB. I don’t have it but the wife does so I’ll have her look on there and post the question if we can find a group.

Also there’s one other property it COULD have been left at but I really doubt it. Either way I think it’s worth a call to the land owner to see if somehow someone did find it there and turned it in to her. Will also give that a try after Thanksgiving.

 

[aclawrence]

I left my 870 against a pine tree last spring during turkey season I realized it when I got home and drove the hour back and it was still leaning there. It was a low traffic road and I doubt anyone had even driven by. I don’t lean my gun on the tree at the truck anymore.


My gosh multiple Christensen rifles with niteforcw optics. That’s probably close to 10k!


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[Westdesign03]

Just stopped in at the landowners house (possibility #2) to ask about the stand. No dice. She took my number anyway in case it shows up somehow. I didn’t think it would be likely to be there anyway but have to cover that base anyway.

 

[Zero One Actual]

I left my 870 against a pine tree last spring during turkey season I realized it when I got home and drove the hour back and it was still leaning there. It was a low traffic road and I doubt anyone had even driven by. I don’t lean my gun on the tree at the truck anymore.


My gosh multiple Christensen rifles with niteforcw optics. That’s probably close to 10k!


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You are correct. Think guided hunts with guys on horseback who thought they had their rifles with them that don't actually hunt a lot. I am not mocking them or knocking them. They just have a lot of money and buy whatever they want or what is suggested to them but have very little time in those environments and don't do very good sensitive item checks. Which in the end, is what this thread is about.

I'm sure some of us even left a kid somewhere once or twice. Hahahaha.

 

[aclawrence]

You are correct. Think guided hunts with guys on horseback who thought they had their rifles with them that don't actually hunt a lot. I am not mocking them or knocking them. They just have a lot of money and buy whatever they want or what is suggested to them but have very little time in those environments and don't do very good sensitive item checks. Which in the end, is what this thread is about.

I'm sure some of us even left a kid somewhere once or twice. Hahahaha.

That would be worth a hike up the mountain for somebody!


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[thedutchtouch]

The only two (cell) trail cameras I own I've let go dead and forgot to put a pin on one of them. They aren't too far from each other so hopefully I can find them, gotta go back one of these days I think they have been there about a year now. Oops.