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Learning the hard way: Can't hunt without your arrows (you can't make this up)

Forgot my insulated boots while hunting a weekend at my brother's property three hours away. There was about 20 degree temp drop over night and got down to around freezing. Needless to say that the uninsulated rubber boots, that happened to be in the bed of my truck, didn't keep my feet warm very long. I bought some boot blankets after that. I can tolerate cold about anywhere else except for my feet.
 
I hunted new years eve last year and wasn't thinking. I climbed got everything set up and hunted my evening. Time to get down I reached to remove my arrow only to realise I never nocked an arrow. At that point I was glad nothing came within range.
 
I put a new quiver on my bow last year after having the quiver fall off 3 separate times while walking in the year before. The worst instance occurred after I walked in 3/4 of a mile and through some really thick briars in a 3 year old clear cut in the dark. Got to the base of the tree, hooked up my bow and climbed up. Setup, pulled up the bow and no arrows. I didn't even notice they were missing at the base of the tree. I had to rappel down and try to backtrack through that mess and find my arrows. Walked by them the first trip back to the truck, then walked by them the second trip back to the tree. On my second return to the truck, now full daylight I managed to stumble across them. I was not a happy camper . . .
 
i love this thread.i now keep my release on my bow at all times .but have forgot my bow forgot my saddle.forgot my stuff thats not leagle in your state.lost my arrows in the brush lpst my drunk friend.almost walked of a cliff in the dark.but the one that hurt bad .i scouted a draw on google earth i knew elk would come up.out of a steep private property clearcut.pre season cut a trailthrough thick blm to the clear cut to an over look. cut a trail along the clear cut to get agead of game i might spot.during season i ran down the trail in the dark get to the clearcut and can hear a heard coming up the trail out of the medow.glass a heard of 20 and last one up is a 6x6 heardbull just a beast.took to long glassing ,i run the skirt trail but they got ahesd of me.i can hesr them neandering around to bed on a bench below me but the wind is wrong and the dry blowdon is noisy.they chose that bench for a reason.so i run full speed to the center of where i hear them and when the first 2 cows jump up i stop.slowly elk are standing up around wm woundering what was up then they stampeed.so i run in the middle of the stampeed hurtling blowdown being smacked by every fir tree in the woods and they bust to the left across the draw but i didnt see the bull fallowing so i stop and draw.this bull comes running up a skidder a little lower elivation 17 yards in front of me..into my shooting lane .and still being stuck in last season i bark at him like a deer twice.realised i messed up and chirped like a cow and he stoped dead in his tracks ...........behind a stump.........Screenshot_20211207-161549_Gallery.jpg
 
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