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Found $169 laying in the woods

Wolf said:
you made me laugh,,last month i lost my S & W 45M&P.But like you i was able back track to wher i crawled under some vine maple,and there it was!!!Boy was i relieved,,it cost me a new holster too
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another story,,was walking out at dusk and a slender vine maple branch slipped under my eye glasses and was bent under pressure before i could stop. It flung my glasses off my face and i could not find them even with a bright headlamp,,,my night vision is terrible.I found them the next day about 10ft away behind a old stump
 
Most expensive thing lost was an iPhone. I found it 2 years later. I put it in rice for 2 weeks, and it worked (wasn't even in a nice case). Funny and kind of eerie to read texts from that day talking to my brother (also on firearm's hunt in same valley). It didn't have service, so I knew right when the battery ran out because it still thought it was that date and time. I thought about contacting Apple as a testimonial.
 
Dropped my fire department pager. Luckily I had it on "open". Fire department pagers are small radios, BTW. I walked around the woods with my radio keying it up, I eventually heard the squelch breaking on the pager. They are several hundred dollars to replace.

After rolling my ATV my glasses were missing. I might have been able to have walked home, I wouldn't have been able to drive. I'm 20/400 in my good eye and 20/800 in the bd one, without my glasses. I crawled around on my hands and knees for several minutes, praying and feeling for my glasses. I crawled up to them hanging in the crotch of a sapling tree. I thanked God!

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Was videoing my son's hunt. While blood trailing, I told him to hold the camera. He was young and playing in the ice dragging behind. I lost blood and was doing a grid search when I noticed he didn't have the camera anymore. Never did find it or the deer.
 
trailblazer75 said:
Reflective paracord. It’s saved me from buying a new thumb release I can’t tell you how many times.


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Thanks for that idea! Now I have some blaze orange laying around that is going on it in just a few minutes until I can get me some reflective.
 
BuckTown said:
Thanks for that idea! Now I have some blaze orange laying around that is going on it in just a few minutes until I can get me some reflective.
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Oh yeah. I tie a loop on a lot of things. Range finder, platform, skinning knife, handle of my pack, binos. Anywhere I can tie a loop. I don’t think deer see it at all either.


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Dropped my fire department pager. Luckily I had it on "open". Fire department pagers are small radios, BTW. I walked around the woods with my radio keying it up, I eventually heard the squelch breaking on the pager. They are several hundred dollars to replace.

After rolling my ATV my glasses were missing. I might have been able to have walked home, I wouldn't have been able to drive. I'm 20/400 in my good eye and 20/800 in the bd one, without my glasses. I crawled around on my hands and knees for several minutes, praying and feeling for my glasses. I crawled up to them hanging in the crotch of a sapling tree. I thanked God!

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Been there on the department pagers quite a few times, mainly after brush/wild fires. Luckily a quick phone call to the county dispatcher and they will send out a “test” tone so I can locate it. We had one member who actually got into a little trouble drinking and ran from the law into a thicket. Funny thing is, one of the LEOs that was on the foot pursuit was on the VFD with him and knew he always had his pager. Yep, sure enough the county toned it out and they made quick work of finding him. Needless to say his membership got pulled.
 
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I lost a Gerber knife in the woods and found it two seasons later. I found a Garmin GPS on public several years back. My dad lost a Remington BDL .270 with a Leupold scope. He got a call from the sheriff's office a year or so later. Someone had found it and turned it in.

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I had a Fitbit band break while doing some habitat work this summer without me realizing it and couldn't find it when I went back to look, so that was $100-150 down the drain. Found it three weeks later sitting three feet from a trail cam I set that day--a replacement band and a quick charge, and it was back on my wrist working great!
 
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I was actually out with a metal detector 4 hours ago looking for an arrow w montec practice head. I didNt find it but I did find an arrow I lost while bareshaft tuning. I was shooting 3 arrows one was acting up. It’s bad when y9 hear it hit close....then a faint noise in the distance!
 
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