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Worst thing you’ve forgot to take into the field?

OspreyZB said:
The other day I drove an hour and 45 minutes to an area I've never hunted. Proceeded to hop out of the truck, hit the lock button on the door (old Chevy S10, no key fob) and slam it shut. Grab all my gear from the bed. Hmmm... feels like I'm missing something. Give myself the quick pat down... Uh-oh. Phone and keys are sitting on the center console of my locked vehicle.
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Been there and done that a long time ago. Was 3 hours from the house and pre cell phone days. Luckily my buddy had taken his truck as well and had a little shirt pocket screwdriver that we bent into a hook to use to take the back glass out enough to unlock the truck. Got me a spare key and put on the truck when I got home and never had a truck without one sense.
 
BTaylor said:
Been there and done that a long time ago. Was 3 hours from the house and pre cell phone days. Luckily my buddy had taken his truck as well and had a little shirt pocket screwdriver that we bent into a hook to use to take the back glass out enough to unlock the truck. Got me a spare key and put on the truck when I got home and never had a truck without one sense.
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Yup that was the first thing I did when I got home. I got lucky, my driver's side door doesn't quite close all the way tight, and I was able to jam an arrow down there and hit the unlock button. The perks of driving a 20+ year old beater truck, lol.
 
DB4x4 said:
Usually two. Either one for skinning and a second for deboning if packing out, or one for gutting and a small saw for zipping open the rib cage and pelvic bone if dragging.
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I carry a spare because that is faster than re-sharpening. I did pick up a Havalon, though.
 
You name it. I've left my bow at the house at least once. Once I even left it on top of the Tonno cover on the way home. ( I never found the bow after I went back! Quiver? yes. Release? yes. Boot's? yes. Tree stand? yes. screw in steps? yes. pack? yes. I once even left my Browning shotgun leaning on the fence leaving a parking area. I went duck hunting and forgot about a meeting I was supposed to attend. I was scrambling to get everything put away in time. ( decoys, dog, waders, etc) It was and hour away. Anyway, I was in the meeting and realized what I had done. As soon as it was over, I hauled butt back there and it was sitting right where I left it. In almost all of those cases I was rushing to get to the woods or out of the woods. I have to tell myself now to slow down and run a check list in my head before I even leave the house or the truck.
 
1simplemann said:
You name it. I've left my bow at the house at least once. Once I even left it on top of the Tonno cover on the way home. ( I never found the bow after I went back! Quiver? yes. Release? yes. Boot's? yes. Tree stand? yes. screw in steps? yes. pack? yes. I once even left my Browning shotgun leaning on the fence leaving a parking area. I went duck hunting and forgot about a meeting I was supposed to attend. I was scrambling to get everything put away in time. ( decoys, dog, waders, etc) It was and hour away. Anyway, I was in the meeting and realized what I had done. As soon as it was over, I hauled butt back there and it was sitting right where I left it. In almost all of those cases I was rushing to get to the woods or out of the woods. I have to tell myself now to slow down and run a check list in my head before I even leave the house or the truck.
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Dang man. Losing the bow hurts!
 
One time I drove halfway to my hunting spot at 3am only to realize the storms look real bad.... pulled over to look at the weather and there were severe thunderstorm warnings for like the next 7 hrs.... apparently it had been like 3 days since I checked the weather cuz this took me by surprise.... turned around only to realize I was still wearing my house shoes.... didn't even notice till I got in the garage and saw my boots sitting there by the door
 
Hehe.. this topic is right up my valley:

1. Drove an hour to field for first light geese hunt. Large feld, so about another hour to haul popup blind, decoy setup and so on.
Get inside the blind, wait for first flock to land on the field. Tap, tap - something is missing.
Left the damn shotgun at home.

2. After an all day deer sit, walk back to truck under a rain, change my boots to running shoes for drive. While changing placed boots under tail gate "temporarily" to avoid raining inside.
Only remembered about these boots on next day while gearing up for a hunt in completely different locations a few hours away. Hehe. Luckily those were not stolen when I came back to pick those up several days later, in fact someone just moved them to the edge of road..

3-to-infinity: walk to my tree, climb up to realize in left the quiver in truck/home etc....
It happened so many times, now I built a arrow holder out if a vent pipe and keep it inside xbow case tied to xbow, so it's impossible to have those 2 separately.



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TooheyBirdie said:
You say you haven't forgot much, but I've hunted plenty in the south... thermocell is just as important as a bow or rifle down there
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very true. i hunted yesterday evening in a swampy area called honey island swamp....i got swarmed so bad walking in i almost turned around and went right back to my truck lol. I had my thermacell but i dont turn it on until climb time
 
Didn’t forget anything at home today but after I had descended today I was doing a quick mental check to make sure I had everything I brought with me, looked up, and there was my gear hanger strapped to the tree 20 feet above my head. About left it since it’s basically cobbled together from things I had laying around but decided that’s not how you learn a lesson so I undid the sticks from the pack, hooked the lineman’s belt back up, and up to get it I went. Bet I don’t do that again.
 
In my early years turkey hunting, drove 30 minutes to my spot opened the back of the car and realized I forgot my shotgun. Only time I’ve forgotten something that completely killed the hunt. Forgotten plenty of “nice to haves” including my Thermacell this morning (it was in the low 60s here in TN).
 
On one of my furthest treks in (35 min kayak before a roughly 2 miles hike), get up in the stand pull my bow up check my texts. Go to grab an arrow from quiver then realise it isnt on the bow. If i couldve made one appear it wouldve been that moment but nothing lol it was a rough day, almost gave up hunting all together lol
 
HuumanCreed said:
So its not technically forgot in the field, but to do before you got in the field. Was watching a few does come near me during the rut, but really hoping for a buck. Well forgot to turn my phone to silent mode at the parking lot and someone called me. Needless to say I saw nothing for the rest of the day....had to give up and move to different tree.
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My phone is always on vibrate. My alarm in the morning is the only time my phone is allowed to make noise.

With that said, I was hunting and filming either last year or the year before, not sure and I had a nice buck step out to feed on some oaks and then immediately go right back the way he came. A little while later a small 6 pt comes out and I’m filming him. He comes right up to me and since I’m not going to shoot him he stands perfectly broadside without a care in the world. Well, that is, until my phone starts barking out directions on how to get to some random ass place that it had selected while sliding around in my pocket, lol.

There were some choice words that made it into the soundtrack
 
I stated that I forgot my release one time but forgot to mention the ABSOLUTE worst thing I ever forgot was toilet paper.


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I’m usually pretty good about this kind of stuff I tend to be somewhat OCD about things but last week for the first time I start to get set up and realize I left my quiver at home!!! So I had my Bow but no arrows. First time I’ve ever done something like that. I watched the sun set instead.
 
Got up in my saddle one dark morning, got comfy, took a swig of ye 'old hot tea and settled in for that leisurely wait for sunrise.

About 5 minutes later I realized that all my bullets were back in the car.
 
HuskerInIowa said:
Dang man. Losing the bow hurts!
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Yep but it was my mistake. I deserved it. some one else had a good day though. . I got a new bow out of the deal. However that one got stolen out of my truck the following year. The neighborhood I lived in wasn't so great. Some D bag broke the lock on my back slider. My truck was broken into 3 or 4 times over the years. Every time they got something good. I was glad to move out of that there.
 
Drix22 said:
Got up in my saddle one dark morning, got comfy, took a swig of ye 'old hot tea and settled in for that leisurely wait for sunrise.

About 5 minutes later I realized that all my bullets were back in the car.
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Been there, done that. Did it last year, at least I had 2 in the clip. Never fired a round that day so it didn't cost me.
 
Drix22 said:
Got up in my saddle one dark morning, got comfy, took a swig of ye 'old hot tea and settled in for that leisurely wait for sunrise.

About 5 minutes later I realized that all my bullets were back in the car.
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I've taken to salting a few rounds in random pockets of my gear. Found 4 .444 rounds in my bino pouch the other day. Of course with my luck I'd have carried a 7x57mm if I actually needed the rounds in my bino pouch...
 
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