Just the other day I lost my best rabbit call. I looked every spot I called but still no call found. You ever lose any thing when hunting?Q

Lose my camo net face mask every year while bow hunting. Shoot a deer, track it and somehow it catches on a limb, pulling it out of my pocket everytime.

Lost a bunch of fat!:p Thought I lost my rangefinder once, thinking I'd have to make that painful hike back to where I'd used it, but I found it in the bottom of my pack.:rolleyes:

My brother lost a favorite pocket knife on a ridge where we had stopped to eat lunch, where he sliced salami. Many stops at that same ridge in subsequent years produced nothing. I can only imagine that a coyote packed the knife off, blade open, and sliced his tongue!

Lost a lot of desire after high anticipation, and seeing nothing! But it only takes about 12 hours to find that desire again!

This last year I shot my deer close to dusk. Before that I had my sunglasses on top of my hat. I had gutted my deer and drug the deer to my truck, was headed back to camp and realized my sunglasses weren't on top of my head anymore. The next morning I went to search the gut pile, after a while of searching around where the deer was I found them in the back of my truck. My hunting partners weren't too happy for me making them go back to the old gut pile. One interesting note, all that was left was some blood stained grass, the coyotes had it all cleaned up in one night.

BigSky

I visited the ye old outhouse before I left the lease last year and drove 3 hours home. Just as I pulled into the driveway it hit me. My fanny bag containing billfold and pistol were still sitting in the outhouse back at the lease. I didn't even have money for gas so I had to drive to the wife's work and get a gas card and drive 3 hours back. I was sure relieved to see my bag was still there. Another 3 hour drive back home to make a 9 hour driving day. I am still kicking myself over that one.

Yep, every year I loose at least one pair of gloves, facemask, a dozen or so tubes of chapstick. I've lost two cell phones, a digital camera, and some more memory over the years, also.

i hunt quail and have a high octane bird dog, a Pointer. i crossed through a fence and then made a wide circle through a section or so pasture. at the end of my circle i saw my dog coming towards me with something in her mouth. as she delivered her prize to hand, i realized she was bringing me a transmitter for an electronic collar. i thought that looks like mine, a check of my vest revealed it was mine. i thought to myself she must be the dumbest dog in nebraska, but an honest dog.

I left my stool, mittens, flashlight and game saw next to the truck and drove off and left it. Two nights later it was gone.

I lost my hatchet. I had tied it on to the back of my pack and somehow it worked itself loose on the way out. I've been back several times over the past 10 years and I still haven't found it.

Next person along picked it up just like my stool and mittens.

I kind of doubt it as I was hiking down hill on no known path on the NW slope of a very big mountain. Lots of pine needles to have slid under but like you said someone may have found it. At least I hope some one gave it a good home.

This last year I lost two sets of shooting sticks. When antelope hunting I left the first pair in the truck when returning from a successful stalk. Later in the week went to load 'em in my pack and couldn't find 'em. Figured they got kicked out of the truck someplace.

Bought another set before deer season and hunting a creek, I set up in some trees and waited until the morning sun was high and moved down the creek. Later checked my pack and they were gone. Walked that creek probably 8 times both ways and didn't find 'em. Didn't help the grass was waist high and the same color as the camo'ed sticks.

Bought another pair and carefully placed 'em in my pack. Later I was going through a bag that had lots of odds and ends from cleaning out the pickup, and there was the first set of sticks!

So I'm back down the only one lost set!

Of all the things I miss, guess it's my mind!!!:D

I lost my wedding band one afternoon while woodchuck hunting in a hay field. My wedding band is a loose fit. My rifle was slung on my shoulder and I was playing with the sling swivel with my left hand while I walked. The swivel came loose 'cuz I was playing with it and the gun tipped backwards and down. I flung my left hand down to grab it and felt the ring come off my finger. The grass in the field was about 8-10" high. Looked for 20 minutes or so before I gave up.

Came back the next day with a metal detector. Luckily the field wasn't cut and the grass was still matted down from my search the day before. Took about 5 minutes to find the ring with the metal detector.

The ring stays home when I hunt now.

MikeW

if you follow me long enough.. there should be a nice find.. whether im hunting or anything else.

When I was in my teens I was deer hunting about a 4 mile walk from home through tote roads in tall timber. I lost a "Tee" shirt. It seems that nature called and I was not prepared as we never carried any sort of pack back then, not even a canteen. Yea you got it I went home light in two sort of ways!!

I lost a transmiter one time, when I went back to look for it one of my GSP's found it right away. Nowdays anything I feel I can lose is put in a deep zip up pocket.

Hunters could restock their supplies just following me through the woods!

Last year, I took a very large (for around here) 8 point whitetail that weighed in at 163lbs field dressed. I laid my rifle down (A Sako 75 w/ a Zeiss Conquest 4.5 x 14) and climbed out of my stand, knowing I wouldn't need it right away as I always carry my Ruger 454 into the woods with me for convenience of carry out of my stand. I was so excited! It was the largest white tail that I had ever taken! I proceeded to dress and drag my deer, all the while thinking of venison and shoulder mounts!

Guess what was left behind?
Almost $2,800 dollars worth of rifle and scope that had taken me years of saving and arm twisting my wife to aquire.

Thankfully, I shot the buck on private land that was owned by a friend of the family. My cousin went to see where I had shot the buck, and noticed quite a supply on my permanant stand ! He called me later and asked if I knew anyone who would like to buy a slightly used rifle, then told me he happened onto a windfall. At least he offered to sell it back to me cheap hahaha!

I have layed my rifle down while adjusting clothes while still hunting and panicing when I realized I was hunting without it. Danged 1894 can be hard to find leaning against a tree even if you have only gone 50 yds or so.

Lost several hang on stands due to poachers. but the best / worst of them all was I went out with my Dad do do a little back packing and while out looking for a little camp meat someone came in and packed up our tents and sleeping bags. good thing we had not started the trip yet but were only about 10 miles from the car.

Never got anything back but ill know them when I see them, because one of the tents was a custom job.

I lost my leatherman into the privy after it slipped off my unbuckeled belt.

Fished it out of the privy...not a pretty sight. Boiling water cleaned up the leatherman tool, but shrunk the leather case to 1/3 size. I later got a nylon case and gave that leatherman to my a** hole brother in law.

While deer hunting this year I thought I was going blind. I could not understand why everything was so out of focus. I just figured that my glasses were dirty so when I went to clean them I found that I had lost the right lense out of them. No wonder everything looked fuzzy. I back tracked about a hundred yards and found the lens lying on the trail to my stand. Put it back in and got back on the deer stand. Still didn't see anything that day.

Maybe you didn't find the right lense!!!! :D

"Still didn't see anything that day."

I would bet you saw all of Gods creations that day. We just take them for granted and are unthankful.