Ever lost/forgot your ammo and had to buy more in BF nowhere?

Ever lost or forgot your Ammo and bad to buy it in Bfnowhere?

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    Votes: 159 84.6%
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I see this come up all the time: "Buy a 30-06/270/308/etc because if you go hunting you can buy shells anywhere if you forget/loose your ammo.
I've hunted 22 years, and it's never happened to me or anyone I hunt with. Just wondering if this is really a common enough problem that it actually warrants being said to everyone looking to buy a gun?
 
Nope, it has not happened 'yet'... And given that it truly could be a trip wrecker... I tend to agree about sticking to a main stream caliber.

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Jay
 
Let's see, you can put ammo in your hunting jacket, pant pockets, backpack, quad, truck, etc. How anyone could every forget ammo is beyond me. And no, I do not buy rifles in calibers I can get ammo at a gas station in the middle of no where for.
 
was in University and went huntin with my dad, he packed up all the guns and ammo for the trip.

I opened up the gun bag and found a 308 and not the 7mm RM that should of been there, he had grabbed the wrong gun bag. We both used 7mm RM at the time so thats all the ammo we had.

My 7mm was sitting in another gun bag at the farm :(

we managed to get a few rounds off another guy at the camp
 
i have never forgotten my ammo but i did have to borrow a few rounds from brother as i was getting low by the end of the week.have gone with a few guys who have left stuff behind.one guy went on a guided goose hunt and left trigger lock keys at home.another guy went deer hunting and forgot rifle bolt on kitchen table when he cleaned it.so anything is possible.
 
deadeyes40 said:
i have never forgotten my ammo but i did have to borrow a few rounds from brother as i was getting low by the end of the week.have gone with a few guys who have left stuff behind.one guy went on a guided goose hunt and left trigger lock keys at home.another guy went deer hunting and forgot rifle bolt on kitchen table when he cleaned it.so anything is possible.
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trigger lock is a easy fix one of them super small screw drivers or some sort of thin stiff wire and it can be poped off ive had to do it once or twice
 
I once had a duffel bag with all my ammo and a good Leupold spotting scope and a bunch of other vital stuff fly off the back of my overloaded pickup on the highway at the start of a trip. I didn't notice until I was in camp. I made do with purchasing ammo for my .22 magnum for the spring beaver hunt at a remote gas station/ general store.

It is very nice to live in a small town! We arrived home and had a message on our phone from a couple that I never talked to but who knew who we were - they had found my bag and so they returned all our stuff the day after we arrived home.
 
- on the other hand, I prefer to hunt upland birds with a 16 ga, and big game with a 7x64 Brenneke, or a .35 Whelen, or a 7x57 Rimmed. Never worried about ammo either!
 
never forgot ammo. the gun ammo knives and binos. they are always in the truck when i am loading it because i am a gun nut and i like looking at them. i have hunted with a guy that forgot ammo on a bear trip. i gave him one round and laughed at him.

the key components to what i am doing get checked about 10 times before a trip weather its fishing hunting and 4x4ing. i usial forget things like socks, gloves sunglasses.
 
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