buddy forgets ammo at home after driving 4 hours

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got a call today from a member of my group hunting 1c moose .he left at 3 am packed everything and headed out to 1c from toronto.its about a two day drive to the hunting spot .4 hours into the drive he cant find his atv keys at the gas station.after a worried 5 min he finds them on the floor of his truck.he thinks to himself to go over all important gear.he panics when he cant find his ammo .yup he forgot it at home.the big problem is he shoots a 338 lapua mag and finding ammo where he is impossible. he drives back and finds it in the garage .told him if he took a more normal easy to find caliber he could have bought anywhere.well there up there for two weeks,enjoying the peace of moose camp
 
I bet he could have found 30-06 somewhere along the way ... It happens , it sucks but it does happen .We left all of our CZ mags at home one day going out to the range lol I had 2 Thirteen year olds firing single shot, we saved a bunch on ammo that day.
 
i have never forgot ammo but i did forget the mag once. had to single load. good thing the bear went down as loading a t3 without a mag is a pain.
 
If you forget your ammo whether it be 30-06 OR the new 363 Whiz-a-tootin-rare-bird , you must be tarred and feathered.

I am also not into this buy a .308 or 30-06 because of availability stuff.First on list AMMO , second on list RIFLE , third TP. Although TP is almost as important as ammo depending on circumstances.
 
Went shooting once, drove a good hour to my usual shooting pit. Get there set up about to start unloading on my targets then notice I forgot my trigger lock keys. That's a quick way to ruin your day.
 
Forgot my trigger lock keys once doh! Wasn't hunting so I went fishing instead wallet keys phone wallet keys phone.... Lol
 
Ya we had a similar story last year. We were 16 hours into a 24hour drive when we stopped for breakfast. The guy with the bull tag mumbles “oh ####” as he goes to pay for his breakfast. He forgot his tag at home. So we made him pay for everyone breakfast that morning. About five min later ,after we find out you can get your tag re printed at a service Ontario that happened to be across the street, the guy with the cow tag lets us know he forgot his too. We ended up being about two hours behind because we had to wait for the service Ontario to open, but the two hours and paying the $10 to re print each tag was well worth not having any tags for the hunt.
 
Sounds like your buddy was just too excited and rushing to leave. Oh well, 800-900km in wasted gas money will be a good lesson learnt.

I've started to use the checklist on all my trips and it definitely helps. I have a main laundry list of gear broken down between fishing and hunting, and then just copy each one off the list I'll need.
 
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