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just wondering what are some of the things that you have lost during the hunting seasons of past it seems like i always lose something every year in the past i have lost rangefinders that i had for only two days that the wife gave me for xmas i never did tell her, i just replaced them. so i was wondering if i was the only one that lost stuff out hunting?
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Lost an outdoor edge lockback knife about 4 years ago. 2 years later my dad and I were shed hunting and came across it. Perfect shape. No rust or anything. It was a couple hundred yards from where I was building a turkey blind the spring that I lost it. Here's one you probably won't believe, but it is true. I was fishing one year with my Grandpa and we had a pole that got pulled in the water when we weren't looking. Went back about a week later to the same spot and caught a perch that had a line coming out of it's mouth. Pulled it in and there was the old zebco rod and reel. Believe it or not we were fishing on the Mississippi! You know, if that had been a $150 rig, we never would have got it back.
 
I once lost my Bushnell rangefinder while deer hunting only a few days after I got it.

Thankfully the landowner I was hunting on had some pheasant hunters hunting the following day. They found it and gave it to the land owner.

I didn’t even know I had left it at my ground blind. When the landowner asked me if I lost one I had to look in my hunting pack…….it wasn’t there. I was able to tell the landowner the name brand and describe the color etc. and he returned it to me. I am very thankful for those honest pheasant hunters. They could have just as easily stuffed it in the hunting vest.

I also lost a new Ruger SS single action .22 cal revolver and a new holster many years ago. I set it on the top of my pickup and drove off without putting in the cab (had a concealed weapons permit). Got 10 miles down the road and remembered it. I drove back over my travel route slowly many times but never found it.

In the mid 70’s I lost a night champion coon hound while hunting him one night. That dog cost me $2000. he was an excellent coon dog, and I was very fond of him. I advertised and offered a substantial reward for his return. No takers. I found him 3 years later 25 miles from home after a friend of mine tipped me that he thought he had seen him. I had photo’s of the dog and several other coon hunters identified him as mine. However the guy who had him, refused to surrender him to me. After the sheriff got involved I was able to get the dog back.

The above mentioned is just a few things I have lost over many years of hunting. I will stop for now!
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2 Flashlights, 1 knife, too many treesteps, several arrows, 1 grunt call, a favorite slate call...Do I need to keep going? I get depressed when I think about everything.
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My mined, no I lost my wallet as of late but am pretty good about not losing hunting stuff. Typical I find alot of lost items while shed hunting, I have also lost a few releases till I got the ones that rap around your wrist.
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The entire contents of my stomach about 20 times in a row after the flu bug hit me in the middle of a hunt. A pair of binos I found a year later...numerous turkey calls, 870 shotgun when I fell in the DM river while sneaking on turkeys, bout lost control of my bowels when a black bear came into camp while trout fishing many years ago, several saws for trimming limbs, a hat or two, several treestands from thieves, two releases, a camo jacket.....give me awhile, I can probably think of more.....
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Hey we are all bowhunters here.

I am thing the top thing I have lost while hunting is my PRIDE!!!!!

Shoulda aimed a bit higher?? Ever ring a bell guys? Didnt see that twig?

Yep Pride has to be top on the list for me. I really dont take much with me but my bow and all the stuff attached. The only thing I can think of off hand that I have lost would be an arrow or two from MISSING what I shoot at, but there goes the PRIDE thing again!!!

HEHEHEHEHE
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Several arrows, knives, accesories, and one heckuva nice pair of binoculars off a cliff in Northern Iowa on a deer hunt. I knew I should have never gotten close to that cliff because I hate heights like that! Watched then go all the way to the ground, bouncing off of tree and rocks, then finally shattering, then lost my lunch when I realized how close to the cliff I was.
 
I've lost about 5 releases over the years. Last year I shot a buck at dark and marked the last blood I found with a brand new rain coat. I went back the next morning and found the deer but forgot about the coat until I was 500 miles away.
I'll add a twist. What have you found? I've found a Winchester shotgun in the middle of the road, a rangefinder (in MY treestand which I kept) a box of shells, a knife ,a $20.00 bill, and some nice gloves.
 
Knives, coonhounds, arrows. The worst thing I ever lost was a lost the magazine tube(I'm thinking that's what it's called) on a REALLY REALLY old (I think it was a 1912) Winchester Pump 22 rifle. Made the gun from holding 9 shells down to a single shot. God, I was mad when I lost that! The weirdest thing I ever found hunting was one time I crawled on my hands and knees a couple hundred yards along a brushy fence line to cut the distance in half of a tom strutting out in a field. I stopped at a really large tree where the gate was located. After calling for 20 minutes to a half hour and him eventually walking away I got up to stretch and looked down and found a paper towel with a skid mark on it....no I didn't sit in anything. Luckily I was sitting on the other side of the tree!
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Last November I lost my grunt call.. Didn't even know I was missing it until the following week when I found it where I crossed under a fence.. Thing was I didn't know it was frozen and I tried to use it. BIG MISTAKE sounded like a sick cat.
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Arrows, a number of tree steps and bow hooks, grunt calls, a knife, and a bunch of things I have since forgotten about. Then there was that one cold morning when I was hiking up the ridge to a stand. I was starting to work up a bit of a sweat so I took off my hat and put it in my pocket. By the time I got to my stand I had lost it. About an hour after sun-up I rattled, almost instantly I could hear something running towards me. A massive 10 pointer tops the ridge and runs straight at me. At about 45 yards the buck seemed to hit an invisible wall, launched into the air, turned tail and headed for the next county. You guessed it, hanging from a small sapling about 3 feet high was my hat.
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Was snow goose hunting about 100 miles from home and left my gun leaning against a fence post which was right next to a busy highway!!!! Drove all the way back to KC and realized (when I was unloading my truck) that I had left it against the fence post!!! Luckily the area I was hunting was real close to a Missouri wildlife area and I called a friend (who is a conservation officer in the area) and asked him to drive down the road to where i left the gun to see if it was still there.... LUCKILY, it was still there and to this date he gives me crap every time he sees me!!!!

Mark....
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