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Lost/Left Behind/Forgotten

Nutterbuster said:
There's an orange hat sitting 30ft up a tree on a WMA in north Alabama. If anybody finds it, you're welcome to it.
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Swan creek, mallard fox, black warrior, skyline? Are you from these parts too? War Eagle.

I killed my first buck deer last year. I field dressed him and threw him on my back to cross a creek. I slid down the mud bank and lost my LB.
 
Not me but My 17 year old son left his very expensive bow on his trunk lid. It stayed for a while until he went around a sharp turn and it fell off. We never knew what happened to it, he just remembered leaving it on the trunk lid. A few days later I saw one of the the neighbors to where we hunt had a sign in their yard that they found a bow. I stopped and got it but it was trashed: bent cams, broken sight pins and housing, rest in three pieces, arrows skinned up bad, stabilizer bent, cut strings and cables, etc.

I hung it on his bedroom wall.
 
Thermacell fell out of my pack earlier this year. Usually pretty good about not losing things but it does happen from time to time. Buddy of mine found a really nice rangefinder on the road on public a few weeks back. Lucky sob


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Backpack came unzipped last season on the way in and I lost my ScentLok Full season Taktix jacket,and gloves( in the pockets) followed my track on my GPS several times and never found it, even took my dog in there in the spring and still never found it. I use nite ize gear ties to tie the zipper loops together now, problem solved. Bow and gear hangers forget it I now buy the cheap hooks at Tractor supply.
 
I bought a new pack last year, one that has several detachable pouches attached to it. Realized when I got home the pouch that had my hunting license, knives, and some other small items was not there. Was able to find it the next day using my Huntstand track.
 
On a canoe hunt a few years ago we field dressed a deer and as we sometimes do, we went ahead and pulled the tenderloins out and put them in a baggie in the snow to cool while we finished up. Yep, let them there and canoed downstream. Realized it later and canoed back upstream to get them - not letting them go to waste!

My buddy left his shotgun leaning up against a tree at our lunch stop on the bank one time. Didn't realize it until we got out at the next spot for a deer drive. Yep, back upstream we went (different hunt than above).

Found a knife while out rabbit hunting on public land - makes up for at least one knife I've left behind or lost. I've been pretty good about not losing things fortunately.
 
Several years back I got turned around and ended up crawling towards the sound of a road to get out. During which my pack got unzipped and I lost a Buck knife in a sheath. Fast forward about 2 months. Hunting a different area but parked in the same place and got turned around again in the dark and had to crawl through brush towards the sound of cars and low and behold found my sheath. About 20 feet later I found my knife looking like it had been gnawed on. I don’t get lost just sometimes not exactly sure where I am in the dark, lol. At least now Siri can get me out if I get to turned around.
 
I don’t lose much anymore because I streamlined my pack-in pretty well to carry the same crap all the time, but my first couple of seasons I left my bow sling, a pull-up rope or two, an actual boot (mud sucked it right off my foot, I’m actually lucky I didn’t take another step because it was basically quicksand), and I had the damndest time recovering my arrows until switching to lighted nocks. You’ll dial your system in.
 
I'm notorious for losing things. I just found a pair of sunglasses I left at a tree last week when I was prepping it.

Organizing is key. My hunt pack is the only thing organized in my life. Everything has a place. Everything goes back.

Having said that I've found tree strap ropes months later on trees... lost a rangefinder, gloves, mask,

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In October, I left my crossbow by the side of the trail. My mind was occupied with dragging a deer. I remembered a few moments later and went back and got it.
I left a paracord loop around a tree a week ago. I swore I was going to be back the next day. I hope it is still there.
 
bj139 said:
I left a paracord loop around a tree a week ago. I swore I was going to be back the next day. I hope it is still there.
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Did this with a treestand once. It was a Lone Wolf and I didn’t hardly sleep all week thinking $300 worth of treestand and sticks were just there in the highly-pressured woods an hour from home. They were still there when I went back, luckily. The spot I was hunting is super close to the parking lot and rarely gets pressured as a result, but it was stressful.
 
Lost all the arrows outta my quiver dragging a deer through some brush. Now I take my kit back to the truck first before starting recovery.
Lost a release between my truck and my tree. Had to cancel that hunt.
Packing up leaving a property I hunt forgot my bow in its case, realized it when I got home and immediately went back. Owner of the property saw it driving by and snagged it for me. I've never felt so much love toward a man who isn't part of my immediate family.
 
Just this morning I got up at zero dark thirty, got packed and got dressed. Drove a half hour to my spot and went to head into the woods only to learn I left my bow at home
 
Nutterbuster said:
There's an orange hat sitting 30ft up a tree on a WMA in north Alabama. If anybody finds it, you're welcome to it.
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Not sure how, but I've had an orange sweatshirt 50 ft up a pine tree out back of my parents' place for a few years now. Lost it walkin' in at the end of the day, found it over that summer. Not really sure how it got way up there, but t's held out a good 3-4 years now - or had last year at least.
 
Exhumis said:
Lost all the arrows outta my quiver dragging a deer through some brush. Now I take my kit back to the truck first before starting recovery.
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Lost mine in a poor-decision cattail clump last year.
 
DanO said:
Found a knife while out rabbit hunting on public land - makes up for at least one knife I've left behind or lost. I've been pretty good about not losing things fortunately.
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my dad found a knife that' he'd left on his bumper a good 2-3 years after the loss, fairly deep into logging roads.

I guess we're good at retracing our steps or something
 
Left many bow or gun hooks in tree's, GPS fell outta my pocket crossing a ditch, found that, last year opening day of bow I get in my tree and realized all my arrows fell outta my quiver on my backpack, never found any of them. Lost a cell phone tracking a deer in a thicket. Lost a cell phone in the middle of a snow storm muzzleloader hunting. Currently have some trail cams in the woods of northern Michigan from last year cause I never ended up hunting up there last year, currently have a trail cam under 2 ft of water on the refuge thanks to the fabulous rain we had in October that never drained outta the swamp.
 
Shot a doe and she ran off with my arrow stuck in her. 3 hours of blood trailing in the dark and then I saw an arrow sticking out of the ground. Got all excited until I realized it was an arrow that had fallen out of my quiver while tracking this doe! And also, I was indeed walking in some circles!
 
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