Odd things LOST while hunting

[timberland]

First night on a ten day hunt, my buddy and I take his wheeler a mile or better from camp. We get off, he pulls the key out of the ignition, holds it up and says \"I\'m putting it here.\" I watch him place it at the base of a big pine only 5 feet away from the wheeler and cover it with pine needles. We were 6-7 miles from the road, so I didn\'t really worry about theft, but oh well, it\'s not my machine. Coming out after dark, as I\'m walking up to the wheeler, I can see him shining his flashlight in the trees. \"what\'s up?\" i say.

\"Dang squirrels stole the key, it\'s gone!\" :shock:

Worst part of the walk out was that there were 3 other guys sitting in camp watching our headlamps come off the mountain for 45 minutes and nobody left their beer to give us a ride. :help2: They waited until we walked into camp and said \"we were wondering why you were walking. :evil:

Never did find the key. Ran the wheeler by disassembling the switch and taping it together so the contacts lined up (my buddy\'s spare was still in WI) Note to self: (I need smarter friends)

 

[cnelk]

Ha!
Funny stuff!

Dont bring beer next time....

 

[cohunter14]

Dont bring beer next time....

Or hide it! :upthumb:

 

[Buglemaster]

I lost a great hunting jacket one year. Figured it came untied from around my waist on one of those warm days in Sept. I had a neat little stylus light in the pocket that I miss also. A neighboring rancher told me of finding a camo jacket with a light in the pocket on his property several years later. If it was mine, I swear I don\'t remember crossing that fence! :silent:

 

[Bob Frapples]

........nobody left their beer to give us a ride.

Lol, sounds like folks I\'ve hunted with in past.

 

[Deertick]

I got a nice wool, camo coat in the \"back room\" at Cabelas in the late 1990s ... $250 regular, and I got it for $26.

I was real proud of that coat, and wore it all the time. It had Gore-Tex under the wool, and overall it was about perfect for the hunting I was doing at that time.

A few years later on a DIY caribou trip a friend and I were chasing some caribou in the early morning fog ... we knew it was \"just over that rise\" that we\'d kill caribou, and so we took our coats off (it was really warming up) and we just KNEW that we\'d be right back.

We never saw our coats again.

Oh, well ... I got my $26 out of it.

 

[Zpd307]

if we were talking about ice fishing.... :lol:

 

[F M]

I here ya Gary I could make a pretty long list while ice fishing.

 

[cohunter14]

I had a nice fleece jacket that I decided to leave in a ground blind along with a few other things to save me some weight hiking back in the next day. Got there the next morning and a mouse had destroyed the jacket. Apparently, fleece must be in high demand for the mice up there!

 

[TetonStorm]

8 or 9 years ago I lost my Cabelas MT-50 jacket off the back of my back pack. I retraced my steps a couple of times and was dumbfounded that I couldn\'t find it. I returned the next day and looked again to no avail. The mystery has remained unsolved