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Have you won anything?

MattMan81

MattMan81

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I keep signing up online to win stuff. Figure they have all my info anyway. May as well try to win something. I won a predator caller years ago at a local rod and gun club. Never hit a 50/50. I know some guys who win things multiple times. But not me. How are you guys on winning things? Ever win anything online? Hunting give away stuff?
*Mods. May have placed in the wrong section by mistake*
 
I never seem to win (good) stuff, lol. I was at a turkey banquet a while back and they were selling chances on something, think it was a turkey gun. My buddy bought a chance for $100. He said "man, they are only selling 20 tickets for this one, it's great odds." I told him if I bought 19 out of 20 tickets I would end up not having the winner.

Many years ago, I did win $800 on a roulette table in about 30 minutes one night just messing around, lol. Does that count?
 
Actually there was a fundraiser on here a month or so ago and I won but I donated it back because it was a good cause and a good member who started it. Otherwise, the only other thing I have ever won was a crossbow at a Hunter Education Instructor Banquet. I have a buddy who is also an instructor that seems to win stuff constantly. I think he dumps a lot of money into things and I'm not a gambling type by nature...... but he seems to win a gun every month. I'm not kidding. I do sign up for the stuff online sometimes it gets a little annoying but I never win anything from those things.
 
woodsdog2 said:
Actually there was a fundraiser on here a month or so ago and I won but I donated it back because it was a good cause and a good member who started it. Otherwise, the only other thing I have ever won was a crossbow at a Hunter Education Instructor Banquet. I have a buddy who is also an instructor that seems to win stuff constantly. I think he dumps a lot of money into things and I'm not a gambling type by nature...... but he seems to win a gun every month. I'm not kidding. I do sign up for the stuff online sometimes it gets a little annoying but I never win anything from those things.
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And the prize is still here if you change your mind buddy! I made out pretty well at a Muskie tournament once and won 5-6 different baits and only spent $20 bucks!
 
Mschmeiske said:
And the prize is still here if you change your mind buddy! I made out pretty well at a Muskie tournament once and won 5-6 different baits and only spent $20 bucks!
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No way! You should sell it if you don't want it everything you did! Good cause brother... good cause!! I don't regret that a bit whatsoever.
 
My luck on giveaways and raffles is so bad that I don't even order things for fund raisers anymore. At this point, I just assume I'll pay and never receive the hoagie or pepperoni roll. :confused:o_O
 
The first muskie tournament I ever fished I brought home the first place check in a drawing - nobody caught a qualifying fish. Then I won a KVD rod/reel combo and a box of baits after my wife put my name in a drawing at a BASS Elite Series tournament. And I won $500 in a church raffle.

Other than that, it's been a few little things here and there. The church women's' club does a big fund raiser event before Christmas every year. They have hundreds of donated prizes and draw a ticket about every 5 minutes all day. My wife and I each usually get about $50 in tickets for that and end up winning a prize or two. One year my niece was pulling tickets - she was about 5 years old at the time - and she found my tickets or my wife's six or seven times that day.
 
The only time I win a raffle is when everybody is guaranteed or almost guaranteed something. It's usually like a poncho, or a crappy gun cleaning kit that I also won the year before, or 20 ga shotgun shells for my 12 ga. I won a sweatshirt one year from a sponsor's garage. I still wear it so I count that one as a win.
 
Can't remember winning anything big, though I have cleaned up at a few trivia nights etc, lots of random knowledge rattling around in this head I guess, generally not very useful, but the stars have aligned with trivia categories once or twice. Funniest one recently was a coworkers baby shower (somewhat forced attendance, we had it during a work meeting but at a off-site location)... They were giving away Starbucks gift cards as prizes, I don't drink coffee but won literally every guessing game (my youngest is 5 but had a coworker with twin toddlers) and won enough gift cards to give one to each of my coworkers in attendance, that was a good day, not generally a fan of baby showers, particularly forced attendance ones but I do love to win lol.
 
I've won a couple shotguns from our local chapter of mn deer hunters association banquet. The first was when I was 14 and I won a savage 12 gauge bolt action deer gun and about 10 years ago I won a browning a5. I haven't won since lol. But I'm still way ahead
 
thedutchtouch said:
Can't remember winning anything big, though I have cleaned up at a few trivia nights etc, lots of random knowledge rattling around in this head I guess, generally not very useful, but the stars have aligned with trivia categories once or twice. Funniest one recently was a coworkers baby shower (somewhat forced attendance, we had it during a work meeting but at a off-site location)... They were giving away Starbucks gift cards as prizes, I don't drink coffee but won literally every guessing game (my youngest is 5 but had a coworker with twin toddlers) and won enough gift cards to give one to each of my coworkers in attendance, that was a good day, not generally a fan of baby showers, particularly forced attendance ones but I do love to win lol.
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What is a matter with you? You dont drink coffee? Have you seen a Dr?
 
I won a Mission Sub xr on a $40 raffle. And a savage 270 on one of those gun raffles that the daily winner is based off the daily lotto numbers.2 good hits for sure.
 
I second coffee being burnt gross liquid! Gag! And it's hot too. Barf.

I did win a rem 870 nitro mag and a youth something or other in raffles. I had zero interest in them then. Gave whatever the youth gun was away to a kid just starting hunting. Sold the 870 for next to nothing to a buddy who eventually traded or sold it for also next to nothing for a 9mm pistol but insists that he didn't
 
thedutchtouch said:
Lol I'm sure there's a few things wrong with me, but coffee is gross, tastes like you're drinking something burnt.
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Don't let him shame you, I've never had coffee in my entire life. It's hot, gross, stinks, and stains your teeth. Drink a Red Bull instead... Then you can enjoy kidney stones and the sensation of your heart exploding. :laughing:
 
2016ish I won a $500 gift card to a local pro shop which I used to purchase my summit viper amongst other things and January this year I was a $10k monthly giveaway winner for American trucks which may seem like a lot but not when you’re upgrading truck parts lol
 
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