Most expensive item lost while hunting

Last year I lost my Gerber Gator and after 30min found it (under neath the deer we were gutting.
Lost my Rayban sunglasses too went back the next day and found them
 
Lost my van once. And it wasn't even in the woods or anywhere secluded - I was field hunting geese! Took the rest of the afternoon, but I found it. I parked it on an adjacent field about 1/2 mile away and the driveway was somewhat sunken. Given that the crop was canola and my van is green, the visible rooftop was fairly camo'd.
 
My cousin and I were driving into our cam on our atv's when he realized he'd forgotten to tie the lid of his rod case closed. He looked and found that he'd lost the same piece of both of his rods, making abour $200 worth of gear useless. Cursing ensued, he chucked the other ends into a marsh, I tried to calm him with a can of beer, which he also chucked into a marsh.

Her then decided to tie down the rest of his ####, so got out his father's fillet knife to cut some rope, but broke the tip off of it in the process and chucked it into the marsh. I loaned him my knife and he tied everything down, but of course, forgot the knife on the rocks somewhere and lost it.

We made it into the camp and over the next two days he broke the tip off of his own fillet knife, chucked it into the lake. Accidently poured a full bag of stinkbaits overboard, and when we got back to shore he beat the living #### out of his rod case, kicking it around the yard and smashing it on trees as punishment.

It was a good weekend, despite the fact that a six pack of beer, which I was foolish enough to pack in with my clothes, exploded all over everything I packed.
 
Skippy... your buddies got some "issues"... Geez...

And... I once lost a spyderco knife my wife gave me when we were first dating... Friggen snow was deep with a crust and every time you "punched" through, you had to dig your way out... Never knew what happened to the knife, but it would be nice to recover...

Cheers
Jay
 
Lost one of a pair of army surplus wool gloves once near Tulameen when I sat on it on a wet log and got up and walked away without it.

Probably provided several generations of mice with nice warm bedding.

Fortunately I can't remember ever losing (or finding) anything significant in something like 37 years of hunting.

There was that jungle carbine i found, but that wasn't during hunting season.
 
Had my Oakleys on my hat while cruising Winefred Lake. Hat blew off my head, hat floats....sunglasses do not. Lost my cellphone on the ground while gutting my first deer. I was using it to phone a friend to ask for pointers. I had only watched him do it until then. Of course, in order to get reception to call out, I had to stand in the back of my truck. No such luck that phone could be there. Couldn't even call it with another phone to make it ring.

Other than that, I lost a Buck knife. It was so cold, the deers blood kept freezing good and hard on the blade and I left it on the bumper 'cause I didn't want to put it back in my belt sheath. ....Left it there and drove away... Last, but not least, a brand new set of Stony Point shooting sticks.

I hate it when that #### happens....
 
My dad lent me his pump action 30-06 with two clips. I was riding on the back of an ATV that my uncle was driving and dropped one of the clips. Couldn't find it! My dad was pretty pissed. Two days later, driving with my uncle again on the back of the ATV, I noticed the clip on the road. The only problem was that the road was an active logging road and the clip was not the same, haha. Damn kids!
 
yorgi said:
Told this story on another forum and had quite a few of their members calling me on it. Not a FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) tale, this happened to someone in my group.

My buddy purchased a used Sauer rifle with QD claw mounts, he goes out and buys a brand-new Leupold Vari X-III 3.5X10 and gets it all sighted in. During the moose hunt in Northern Ontario, he manages to drop the scope and ring combination in the middle of a swath of tag alders and bushes, interspersed with potholes. All six of us in the group searched for 4 hours for it, to no avail...

Fast-forward one year later, buddy just can't give up! Armed with a $60 metal detector, it took him 10 minutes to find the scope in a pothole, only about 3 inches deep! After spending a full year in the pothole, the scope had suffered no damage whatsoever. The rings lost all their blueing and are now in the white. After a test-run at the range, the scope was promptly placed on the original rifle and used this year to harvest another moose.

Buddy wrote a letter to Leupold expaining everything that had happened and thanking them for a great product. The company sent him back a standard e-mail advertising their newest products...
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Found a rifle in the water on a hunt in the mountains....gun Win. 70 was toast but the 4x Leupold was intact, although stripped of its color,. except where the rings were. I have the scope. It happens, I've been there. and I wrote Leupold and told them the story and they acknowledged it.
 
Stuck a knife in a tree while dressing a Caribou on the Muskwa river many years ago. Forgot it there, and we went to the landing and headed home. Friend recovered it the next year, still in the tree, perfect shape. Eagleye.
 
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