We have all done it. We left home without something we really wanted on our hunt, or maybe needed. We got to our stand, or two miles away from our vehicle and realized, ooops, I forgot my ??? I have a long list including my rangefinder and release. What are some things you have forgot and please share the story that goes with it? I have to go now, but will share later.
Gee, I Forgot My ....
- Thread starter Swede
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I forgot my rain pants in 2013 the year of the monsoons in Colorado. I was just across the divide to the west of Boulder. I realized this and called my hunting partner as I was out a few days before him. He brought me a pair and they were needed. We were rained on 10 out of 13 days. My boots actually dried out twice in 2 weeks. Yuck........
I also forgot my flashlight one evening while scouting before opening day. I was 1.5 miles from the truck and 2000 ft up. I was just shy of 12000 watching some elk come out to feed as the sun set. It was a rough walk back with only the glare of the GPS to see by. I stepped in a few hole and fell over a few logs. I had many bumps and abrasions. I was lucky I didn\'t break my forearm on one fall when I fell down and smacked it hard on a rock.
Lessons learned.......The hard way.
I also forgot my flashlight one evening while scouting before opening day. I was 1.5 miles from the truck and 2000 ft up. I was just shy of 12000 watching some elk come out to feed as the sun set. It was a rough walk back with only the glare of the GPS to see by. I stepped in a few hole and fell over a few logs. I had many bumps and abrasions. I was lucky I didn\'t break my forearm on one fall when I fell down and smacked it hard on a rock.
Lessons learned.......The hard way.
elky McElkerson
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- Mar 13, 2014
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I\'m now pretty good. But my first attempt at an elk. I was 20. Got an invite to hunt a private ranch in CO. On the drive out there, the landowner/outfitter said the most awful words ever uttered before such a hunt. \"So you guys have your hunters education cards?\"
No, we forgot to take the course.
There were elk everywhere. I almost cried. Sprained my ankle killing time trout fishing. After that, limped into the truck and drove home. It was horrible. In Las Vegas, New Mexico experienced my personal worst case of bigotry. Got ridiculed at a gas station. We left but the hoodlums drove next to us on the highway taunting us by pulling theirs eyes back slanted and calling us names. I\'d be lying if I said I didn\'t almost go to prison that day
. Slowest week of my life.
So a hunt Ed card is my gold standard of forgetful ness.
No, we forgot to take the course.
There were elk everywhere. I almost cried. Sprained my ankle killing time trout fishing. After that, limped into the truck and drove home. It was horrible. In Las Vegas, New Mexico experienced my personal worst case of bigotry. Got ridiculed at a gas station. We left but the hoodlums drove next to us on the highway taunting us by pulling theirs eyes back slanted and calling us names. I\'d be lying if I said I didn\'t almost go to prison that day
. Slowest week of my life. So a hunt Ed card is my gold standard of forgetful ness.
You name it, and likely I have forgot it one time or another. What comes to mind are rain gear, rangefinder, release, grunt tube, and my hunting knife. None of those compare with leaving my boots behind. It is common for me to take my boots off when I get home, and run around in slippers or Romeos. I should immediately put the boots back in the truck when I take them off, but occasionally I don\'t. I can tell you there is a high price to pay, in the currency of sore feet, from hunting all day, over brushy ground with down fall trees, and steep side slopes, wearing Romeos.
I forgot, or rather at the time, I didn\'t have a great medical kit.
5 of us backpacked into the Flat Tops in the morning for a 4 day hunt and set up camp, then we headed out chasing elk. I was hunting with my brother and we decided to have a Mountain House for lunch. I leaned up against a tree, put my Snowpeak stove between my legs out in front of me and got the water boiling. When I was ready to pour the boiling water into the MH, my release that was strapped to my wrist, snagged my right pant leg and caused the water to slosh out of the pot and onto my right hand. SONOFA...!!! I\'m just glad I didn\'t freak out and cause more damage to perhaps my brother and I by throwing the pot. My hand ended up looking like this:
Luckily my brother had some gauze pads and tape, as I only had some band aids, athletic tape and advil. Every evening I would warm up some water and pour it over the gauze to peel it off of my skin - or what was left of it! Then re-dress it and continue that process for the remaining days. I don\'t forget my med kit anymore!
5 of us backpacked into the Flat Tops in the morning for a 4 day hunt and set up camp, then we headed out chasing elk. I was hunting with my brother and we decided to have a Mountain House for lunch. I leaned up against a tree, put my Snowpeak stove between my legs out in front of me and got the water boiling. When I was ready to pour the boiling water into the MH, my release that was strapped to my wrist, snagged my right pant leg and caused the water to slosh out of the pot and onto my right hand. SONOFA...!!! I\'m just glad I didn\'t freak out and cause more damage to perhaps my brother and I by throwing the pot. My hand ended up looking like this:
Luckily my brother had some gauze pads and tape, as I only had some band aids, athletic tape and advil. Every evening I would warm up some water and pour it over the gauze to peel it off of my skin - or what was left of it! Then re-dress it and continue that process for the remaining days. I don\'t forget my med kit anymore!
It\'s not what I forgot going out but while out hunting. One day when we went out it was really cold out so I had long johns on and after hunting for a few hours and getting warm I stopped at a nice log to sit down and take my long johns off. I also took my release off while shedding some layers and set it on the log. Needless to say my release was still on that log when I got back to the truck. I did not carry a spare at that time. I do now. When I went back to get it the gps said it was 3 miles as the crow flies back to the truck. Lesson learned.
Toilet paper on one trip and a stove on another. Toilet paper is one creature comfort I don\'t like to leave home without and nothing saps your morning motivation like waking up cold and soaking wet then gagging down a dry starbucks via and ice cold instant oatmeal.
timberland
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- Aug 27, 2015
- 471
I drove 150 miles for a long bowhunting weekend without arrows. My detachable quiver was in another vehicle. Practiced and hunted with a couple of Mom\'s just praying a monster buck didn\'t come out over 20 yards.
JohnFitzgerald
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- Mar 31, 2014
- 1,108
Forgot a change of underwear for a 7 day hunt.
Forgot my boots on another.
Forgot my boots on another.
cohunter14
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- Jul 10, 2017
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\"JohnFitzgerald\" said:
Ouch! I don\'t know which one is worse :lol:
\"cnelk\" said:
I am the same way. I like the idea of having it on your bow. I don\'t have that option, but I just keep mine in my pack year round.
cohunter14
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- Jul 10, 2017
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I will sometimes carry my cell phone and I do typically carry a GPS, but it\'s much easier to look at your wrist instead of pulling a phone or GPS out of the pack. I also like it for the middle of the night when you roll over and wonder what time it is. Mine has a back light for that, which is nice.
I don\'t know if this counts as \"I forgot\", but when I got to me tree stand years ago, my drop line was missing. It was interesting as earlier someone had cut my drop line, at a stand about a mile away. They just left me a short stub of cord. Well, I decided I could manage without one again. Unfortunately this time the law of averages caught up with me. As I was coming back down the tree, a limb I was using as a hand hold broke and I fell backward onto my head and shoulders from 12 feet up the tree. I was knocked out for over 1/2 hour and when I came to, I was rummy and sick.
I should have not hunted that tree or returned to get a drop cord. Duh.
I should have not hunted that tree or returned to get a drop cord. Duh.
