I lost a Foxtrot 20 gauge #9 today, in Holly Springs National Forest, I hope someone finds it and kills a bird with it..
I've seen the cost of those shells. You gonna sell your car to buy a replacement shell?
I bet it is for the crazy prices they ask.
I'll be on the lookout! Send a pin where I should start looking :TooFunny:
if i knew where i lost it, it wouldn't be lost, i think close to a pond, and heard one close by gobbling.
LOL i happen to know where a FEW ponds are on the HSNF!!!
Tell us more about the gobbling close by!! HAHA
20 gauge shells have a knack for disappearing. Will drive you crazy combing the area over looking for it wondering how it vanished in thin air, drive you even crazier when you don't find it.
What is the cost of one of those shells?
Quote from: HookedonHooks on March 25, 2022, 02:51:19 PM
20 gauge shells have a knack for disappearing. Will drive you crazy combing the area over looking for it wondering how it vanished in thin air, drive you even crazier when you don't find it.
Countless times I've knelt down and shucked them out into the leaf litter in front of me, watching each one, only to spend a couple minutes trying to find all three. It does drive you nutty how shot shells bury themselves in the leaves and tall grass.
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I lost a Foxtrot 20 gauge #9 today, in Holly Springs National Forest, I hope someone finds it and kills a bird with it..
You mean you didnt have an insurance policy on them?
I'll trade you a shell for the location of a gobbling bird lol
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Quote from: 3bailey3 on March 24, 2022, 09:32:33 PM
if i knew where i lost it, it wouldn't be lost, i think close to a pond, and heard one close by gobbling.
It was on the hiking path. I found it on my way out. :)
These darn shell losers are a big problem now, always broadcasting
where they've been huntin', trying to get their $15 dollar shells back. ;)
A couple years ago I had a kid out on youth day in Maryland. He shot a nice gobbler in some steep terrain that got to flopping and rolling. A chase ensued and we caught up to the dead bird. Being new to turkey hunting he did not have a vest, just a fanny pack he turned forward for his gear.
Of course the fanny pack was open in the chase and it's contents were strewn across the near vertical ridge we just 4ac3d down. Six freshly handloaded tss shells were missing. 12 gauge in olive drab hulls. I never even looked. His dad was with us and was really pissed off. I thanked him for the fun and headed home. To my knowledge they never found any of those shells.
Some 60 years ago during my college years at SIU-Carbondale, I was returning to my car via a levy after duck hunting in a swampy area. Before reaching my car, I managed to pick up nearly a box of 12 gauge duck loads some unfortunate hunter had lost, probably due to a hole in his hunting coat. Those shells went a long way in supporting a poor college student's ducking hunting efforts.