Left your ammo on the kitchen counter?

Ever left your ammo at home?

  • Yes, but didn't worry because I can buy my ammo everywhere.

    Votes: 11 8.1%
  • Yes, and I was so mad, I didn't hunt for a whole year.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, I fill my pockets up with extra the night before.

    Votes: 14 10.3%
  • No, If I can remember a gun, surely I can remember ammo.

    Votes: 111 81.6%

  • Total voters
    136

joe-nwt

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How many people have left to go hunting and left their ammo (someone else can do magazines:D) at home?

Personally, gun and ammo and a knife, if it's eating critters i'm hunting, are the first things packed. I've had cold feet, cold hands, been hungry, thirsty, dead GPS batteries, all kinds of things but I always have plenty of ammo.
 
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No yet but if/when I do it won't be good. Everybody in my group hunts with boring cartridge like the .30-06, 7mm Rem Mag and I mostly shoot a 6.5 and a .35 Whelen. I'm not going to be able to steal there ammo!
 
One time, on a fly-in trip of all things, I forgot to take the trigger lock off my 375 SAKO. The pilot was in a hurry, the rifle was in the case, and I loaded it into the plane w.o. even thinking about it. The key, of course, was back at the truck! :runaway:

Great opportunity to hunt with the backup rifle. We always take one. That trip it was my Marlin 45-70. Felt kind of neat packing that thing. :)

Ted
 
Forgot my ammo one time (at least), but only had to back track ten miles!! Took my old Savage 6AB tube-fed .22 as a backup for a gopher hunt this summer. Left the tube follower rod at home!! My buddy forgot his gun lock key on another gopher hunt. He used the Savage that time!! My wife says I'm worse than a little kid when deer hunting rolls around. She puts all my deer hunting clothes in a storage tub now so I don't have to tear the house apart. :p:p
 
My buddy forgot his gun lock key on another gopher hunt.

One time, on a fly-in trip of all things, I forgot to take the trigger lock off my 375 SAKO.
I've had this happen to other hunters on trips. It never happens to me because THE LAW DOES NOT REQUIRE A FARGING TRIGGER LOCK ON A NON-RESTRICTED FIREARM DURING TRANSPORT.

Trigger locks are easy enough to get off with the small blade on a Leatherman Wave. Every time I've done it for some hapless friend I explain the law to them and tell that if it happens a second time they are on their own.
 
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I had the ammo but when I opened the gun case I found a .410 instead of a .222rem.

Oh well, at least I had a few .410 shells in the console of the truck........... and no I didnt see any fox or coyotes while I was bird hunting.:D
 
I don't hunt so I didn't vote... But I have gotten to the range to find I have the wrong keys for the gun case. and the wrong ammo for the guns I had with me....
 
One hunting partner showed up in without the bolt, which was in a locked up at home, as well as wrong ammo ,and no keys for the trigger lock. Lucky for him that I had an extra gun and ammo :)
 
I keep everything I need in a little back pack including back up ammo. I go hunting so many times a year that it ends up being impossible to keep track of all me gear. I love it when my buddy's stop in on their way out hunting or give a last minute phone call, all I do is grab my pack get my rifle out of the safe and I am gone. It takes less than 2 minutes.

I also keep ammo in one of those little butt stock shell holders when I am out in the bush. It doesnt matter what happens -I grab the rifle -I have ammo. I think of all the little do-dad things I have bought the shell holder is the best.
 
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