We all walk, crawl, run, and relocate all season long in the turkey woods. I've yet to have a season where I made it out with 100% of my gear, but this year was the closest. I only lost 2 strikers, and a decoy stake, but found a hat from 5 years ago! No good anymore but cool to find.
So what did the woods claim of yours, never to be returned?
1 pair of binoculars
2 facemasks
I was prepared and before the season, I bought two extra Avian decoy stakes--based on previous years experiences....and wouldn't ya know it, for the first time in over 30 years, I didn't lose a decoy stake.
My pride.
Thanks for the jinx! I haven't lost anything yet, but will be in Nebraska Thursday - Sunday so will probably end up losing a gun, binos, my vest and one glove from 3 different pairs.
Dropped my halloran walnut wenge slate . Pot wasn't hurt but appears slate is cracked. Still sounds awesome.
Was gonna say a little pride and self esteem but was beaten to it. Other than that nothing. Did find a loaded winchester high brass shell though. I think this is the first year I haven't lost anything. Still have a week and a half to go though.
Nothing, I don't hunt in that manner much anymore. But I have certainly been there and done that. You definitely lose more stuff running and crawling LOL.
Lost two nice oak ridge strikers, a face mask, a couple of shotgun shells, 17 chapsticks, and 15 pounds!
Lost an avian stake and some pride.
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Pair of gloves and lost a bunch of mouth calls this year.
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3 strikers, avian x stake, cover for FF III, 2 gloves (separate times)
2 mouth calls, a box call, one pocket knife and 2 left gloves so far...
Gloves and face masks are the worst when lost. I generally have no hope the minute I misplace them in the woods. It's like playing where's Waldo?
So far an H.S Palmers hoot tube....ugg
Face mask
Decoy and striker...nothing that hurt my feeling though.
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Kicked a hoot tube outta the truck sometime in march when pre season. Still ain't found it. There's a hooks executioner 2 Layin somewhere in a pine jungle, and I thought I misplaced my river cane yelper , until I found it in a pocket. ????. Misplaced at least half my stuff between buddies and dad's truck and really need to go around and collect. Dropped 9 pounds and lots of pride but it was a stinkin blast.
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my mind :turkey2:
The towel. Well, didn't lose it really. More like, threw it in. It's been the strangest season ever. Had plenty of fun but it does get quite depressing when the darned things do the exact opposite of what they've done for years. Oh well, it'll make for a better spring next year I hope.
I don't even need to go outside to lose something. Only thing I can think of at this point is ALL my Cherokee Sports Decoys, Stakes and bag. AT THE HOUSE! Dang I've been looking for it since before the season. It should be in the garage, with all my other stuff, but dang if I can find it. Maybe the wife, is trying to throw me a hint...........LOL. Sucks to be getting older. They will probably show up when I put my other stuff away at the end of the season, right in front of my bench of course......LOL.........dang wife.
my hooks executioner 2 mouth call never got to use in woods
I think all I lost was one glove.
I know about where I lost it but still couldn't find it.
Lost my flash light this year luckily it wasn't a evening hunt
I did loose some sleep...but found in in the woods!
Dang! I think I should start following you guys around in the woods! In 22 years of hunting everything that PA has to offer I think I've lost one shell and a seat cushin. I left my knife lay after gutting a deer once but I went back and got it the next day.
Lost a Enticer Carbon tipped striker. On first rainy day, ordered a couple more replacements and backups and haven't lost anything else.
Well looks like the only thing I forgot was how to kill a turkey...lol...Pretty important thing to forget.
First year i didn't loose anything, i change from a vest to a shoulder bag. I will never go back to a vest. Not near as much weight or near as hot as a vest.
Dawkins Striker.
Dad's charcoal laminate striker and a Lonzo one piece striker I've had for 8 seasons. I learned the hard way to never put strikers in the outside striker holders on an Ol Tom I Beam vest.
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Outside striker holders are the devil! That's what cost me the 2 I lost this year. They don't stay shut when I'm crawling under barbed wire fences. Might try the satchel route next season. Got me a sweet nwtf side bag. Maybe my strikers will make it home then.
This is the first year in awhile I haven't lost anything. Other than about 4.5 Oz of hevi 7s :you_rock: usually I lose at least a striker or mouth call. 2014 I lost my ghostmaker glass call that ed made me the year before. That one stung a little bit.
Striker,owl hooter,crow call.
Pretty upset about the hooter
If anyone has a houndstooth hooter the green one they wanna sell id gladly pay for it or buy you a walnut of his or Harrison walnut in trade
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Lost a brand new lightsout Dymondwood striker that I never even got to use!
A waterproof Kaiser purpleheart striker.
Gotta be more careful I guess.....
Good thread...lets see two strikers, three mouth calls, and at least two shells
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My favorite mouth call and an avian x decoy stake.
My custom CEDAR/BUTTERNUT paddle call made by Steve Mann. It's in Sonora Texas. I'm still sick over that one!
I uncomfortably dropped numerous piles of bad Wendy's and biowipes throughout various public land ridges in WV.
It was an out-of-state trip. Our group stopped at Wendy's along the way and all felt like garbage the next day...
Left my brand new pair of MO Bottomland gloves in the woods early in the season. Went back next morning and found them. Lost the shell from my last bird, but it's in the grass somewhere behind the house where I fanned the tom. Have a buddy with metal detector I could find it with.
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Nothing yet this year. I did lose my favorite facemask several years ago but found it about 2 weeks later. About 10 years ago on a fall hunt I FOUND a 1970's vintage Lynch "World Champion" box call. The fellow must have dropped it that day as it was a damp day but the call was fine. It had no name or address on it and I found it on public land. I had no way to find out who it belonged too. I would have preferred to return it to it's owner. I still have it and the sound justs gets better with age.
Quote from: Chilly on May 11, 2016, 06:16:45 AM
My favorite mouth call and an avian x decoy stake.
Almost forgot, also lost my left glove... Had that pair for 2 seasons with no tears. Bought a replacement pair and every finger has a seam that has split open.... they are garbage....
So far this season I have left my rangefinder lay beside the tree I killed my bird at. Ranged him, killed him and totally forgot I layed it down until I got back to the truck. Good thing I knew what tree I was sitting at.
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A tube of Chapstick
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Decoy stake this year. Last year I shot a bird, waited till he quit flopping, layed my gun down and went out to the bird. I messed around for twenty minutes or so admiring it, taking pictures and checking it in on my phone. I proceeded to pick the bird up and walk a mile down the mountain to where my buddy was waiting in the boat. First thing he says is "where's your gun?" :o :begging: I had stopped a few times on the way down to sit and rest. I couldn't for the life of me remember if I had carried my gun and left it leaning against a tree at one of those spots. I proceeded to retrace my path best I could looking. I reached the top where I shot the bird, and there was my gun laying next to the tree I shot him from! ;D What a relief. It's amazing how excited I get sometimes with these crazy birds, turning me into a total tard.
Didn't lose anything personally, but I did find an 835 laying in the grass of a huge state forest last year. State police found the owner!
Lost a few pounds from my waist line and a couple oz.'s of Hevi Shot. Word to the wise never pick up jersey gloves or handkerchiefs you find laying in the woods. ;D
This year I lost nothing. In all the years I have hunted I've only lost one striker. I've lost other things but luckily found them later.
Lost the Lynchs Fool Proof box call I have been carrying for last 32 years. I still tear up thinking about it.
I lost my harrison hooter and haint gobble call this year,almost the crow call.
Quote from: TRG3 on May 10, 2016, 08:07:52 PM
I did loose some sleep...but found in in the woods!
X2
Scratch box striker
So far the only thing I know of is one mouth call, but I suspect that I'll find it in my truck after season. I have left some toilet paper buried in a place (or three) but don't really want that back.
I once lost my truck remote (had left the key in the truck) 2 years later I found the remoter in the woods.
I usually drop about 5lbs during the spring season, but my hunting partner has started keeping a stash of honey buns with us on most hunts, so what weight I've dropped has been replaced thanks to Little Debbie.
what part? If I find it can I keep it? Not really laughing.....I know it hurts.
Quote from: WW on May 11, 2016, 09:26:35 AM
My custom CEDAR/BUTTERNUT paddle call made by Steve Mann. It's in Sonora Texas. I'm still sick over that one!
Thermacell
Last year, I lost my virginity. :drool:
Yellow shell virginity, that is.
This year, I got home with my bird and reached in my pocket for the shell I had shot it with and it was not there! Figured out where it likely was and went back and found it. I like to mount the beard on a leather lanyard with the shell brass from the shell I shot it with.
I had construction workers in my house and they were moving stuff out of my den. When I got home, one of the guys had moved my hooks necklace and my beard lanyard. He was impressed with it, especially when I told him about half of them were missing. I told him I am not a great turkey hunter, just old!
Only lost a flashlight, but I know exactly where I left it just too lazy to go and get it... Oh well it only cost
$3
Quote from: paboxcall on May 11, 2016, 04:48:19 PM
Didn't lose anything personally, but I did find an 835 laying in the grass of a huge state forest last year. State police found the owner!
how does one leave their shotgun in the woods and forget about it ?!
I doubt they forgot about it. I would bet they could not find it after setting it down.
I know a dumbarse that leaned his against a tree to take a whiz. Walked off and left it. Realized after about 15 minutes of walking there was no gun on his shoulder and had to back track to find it. Took me a little while. :z-dizzy:
Quote from: g8rvet on May 13, 2016, 05:07:53 PM
I doubt they forgot about it. I would bet they could not find it after setting it down.
I know a dumbarse that leaned his against a tree to take a whiz. Walked off and left it. Realized after about 15 minutes of walking there was no gun on his shoulder and had to back track to find it. Took me a little while. :z-dizzy:
I knew an older fella (long ago past on) who had fox hounds. He was hunting fox in and around his orchard (probably 150 acre orchard). He sat his model 12 against an apple tree while he went to gather up his dogs and when he came back he couldn't find it. He was sure some one stole it. He went out and bought a new shotgun. That spring while working in the orchard he found it leaning against the tree right where he left it, 2 rows of trees over from where he looked for it the fall before! He took it home, cleaned it up as best he could, and sold the new shotgun he had bought!
Quote from: WW on May 11, 2016, 09:26:35 AM
My custom CEDAR/BUTTERNUT paddle call made by Steve Mann. It's in Sonora Texas. I'm still sick over that one!
If you go back and look for it, keep an eye out for my favorite Spyderco knife I lost out there a few years back. It's near a creek. That's all I can tell you about the location... :toothy12:
My uncle left a gun on a fence post for two years and swore it was stolen. Found it on a suggestion from myself when I asked him where he last had it. His answer---when we was dragging that deer under the fence... :z-winnersmiley:
Daughter has been trying the recurve bow thing for her second bird and threw the rangefinder in her turkey vest. Last time was seen, friend suggested tying some trail ribbon on it NEXT TIME :'( I personally have lost nothing so far but some #6 longbeard shot out the end of my bennelli.
There was a story last year about a guy who found a really old lever action rifle in Mark Twain nat. Forest that someone must've leaned against a tree and forgot about 40 yrs ago. It was still just leaning up against that tree, completely rusted out.
Quote from: g8rvet on May 13, 2016, 05:07:53 PM
I doubt they forgot about it. I would bet they could not find it after setting it down.
I know a dumbarse that leaned his against a tree to take a whiz. Walked off and left it. Realized after about 15 minutes of walking there was no gun on his shoulder and had to back track to find it. Took me a little while. :z-dizzy:
I drove off and left my Super mag at a trailhead in the Shawnee National Forest last year. Realized it when I got home! :funnyturkey: Lucky for me it was in a really isolated area with little or no other traffic. I killed two birds with it this year.
Lost my lucky ol Tom hat. Haven't killed a turkey in the last 4 years without it.
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Quote from: supremepredator on May 10, 2016, 02:51:49 PM
My pride.
Right there with ya'... I also lost my patience and a few marbles as well... Oh yeah, I lost my most favorite gobble call...
Only one mouth call. I leave the primary call I run all year in the woods after my last hunt as a little tradition.
I've lost way too many strikers this year...Losing my Lyman/Torman dymondwoods crushed me :help:
Nearly lost my best box call, after shooting a Gobbler. Started walking back to my truck. Luckily remembered it. Have lost many items this way.
Quote from: KansasGobbler on May 14, 2016, 07:32:24 PM
I've lost way too many strikers this year...Losing my Lyman/Torman dymondwoods crushed me :help:
OUCH!! That REALLY stinks...
Found a striker I lost last year!!!
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's brain goes to mush after I flop a bird.
After all the talk about loosing stuff and even guns, I misplaced my shotgun in the woods today for a few minutes after shooting my first Rio.
Lost my iPhone
Quote from: greenhead11 on May 15, 2016, 07:55:37 PM
Lost my iPhone
Camo case? And yeah I have one and have often thought of how it would turn out if I lost it in the woods.
Got my foot caught in a vine heading through the woods in the dark and dropped my AvianX hen decoy, but didn't know it at the time. Found it later in the day when I was leaving and retracing my steps.
Quote from: Odessa on May 15, 2016, 09:05:22 PM
Got my foot caught in a vine heading through the woods in the dark and dropped my AvianX hen decoy, but didn't know it at the time. Found it later in the day when I was leaving and retracing my steps.
Did the same thing with an Avian X hen but found it later as well. Those decoy bags need better drawstrings.
Lossed my Davids Halloran bloodwood one piece striker.
Quote from: greenhead11 on May 15, 2016, 07:55:37 PM
Lost my iPhone
Was it not charged or no signal? Find my iphone should get you close enough to hear the lost signal if you play a tone. And not because I have lost mine, but because my wife and daughter are forever losing theirs.
I lost an avian stake (previously posted) and a tom teaser hillbilly hen
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Quote from: Happy on May 15, 2016, 08:18:45 PM
Quote from: greenhead11 on May 15, 2016, 07:55:37 PM
Lost my iPhone
Camo case? And yeah I have one and have often thought of how it would turn out if I lost it in the woods.
no camo case dropped and on silent. The find my phone app and verizon could not find the phone either
That sucks. Would be true for most of my public hunting locations as well. No or very poor signal.
One time, many moons ago, we took a couple of younger guys on a snipe hunt (the silly kind, not the real kind) complete with bags and flashlights. We lost a very expensive FM handheld fire radio and knew the chief was gonna be on our tails (he was also my Dad). All of us went back out the next day and formed a line and walked the entire path with one guy staying back and keying the radio and calling out. We found it! Still working and one of the walkers heard it. Shew. Don't think my Dad knows that story and I am 53. Eating dinner with him tonight, I think I will tell him. Statute of limitations has worn out for a butt whipping.
My truck.... :character0029:
Our group have keys to each others vehicles.....Older fella's and we hunt back in the big mountains in PA.
I came out from a morning hunt and my truck isn't there........I'm dumbfounded.....I'm about 9 miles deep on a 10 mile road that dead ends.... :o
No choice but to start walking out the road...I walk about 300 yards & there sits my truck... ::)
The fella's thought, it would funny to move my truck.... :character0029:
Paybacks are hell....
Quote from: boatpaddle on May 17, 2016, 03:03:29 PM
My truck.... :character0029:
Our group have keys to each others vehicles.....Older fella's and we hunt back in the big mountains in PA.
I came out from a morning hunt and my truck isn't there........I'm dumbfounded.....I'm about 9 miles deep on a 10 mile road that dead ends.... :o
No choice but to start walking out the road...I walk about 300 yards & there sits my truck... ::)
The fella's thought, it would funny to move my truck.... :character0029:
Paybacks are hell....
:TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I always have my phone on vibrate in the woods. I try to keep it in a zippered pocket so I don't loose it. Lost my wedding band gutting a deer once. Flicked my hands getting the blood off and off went the ring. Was the better part of an hour on my hands and knees to find that one.
Quote from: boatpaddle on May 17, 2016, 03:03:29 PM
My truck.... :character0029:
Our group have keys to each others vehicles.....Older fella's and we hunt back in the big mountains in PA.
I came out from a morning hunt and my truck isn't there........I'm dumbfounded.....I'm about 9 miles deep on a 10 mile road that dead ends.... :o
No choice but to start walking out the road...I walk about 300 yards & there sits my truck... ::)
The fella's thought, it would funny to move my truck.... :character0029:
Paybacks are hell....
:TooFunny: :toothy12: :TooFunny:
What a bunch of buddies you got Z!
I usually find things but this year I lost my favorite camo bandanna. Great to wear around the neck on a cool morning. Looks like I'll be buying another one soon!
Nothing that I know of yet but I am hoping that I will find that I lost a little weight.....lol
half a roll of toilet paper :TooFunny:
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Quote from: boatpaddle on May 17, 2016, 03:03:29 PM
My truck.... :character0029:
Our group have keys to each others vehicles.....Older fella's and we hunt back in the big mountains in PA.
I came out from a morning hunt and my truck isn't there........I'm dumbfounded.....I'm about 9 miles deep on a 10 mile road that dead ends.... :o
No choice but to start walking out the road...I walk about 300 yards & there sits my truck... ::)
The fella's thought, it would funny to move my truck.... :character0029:
Paybacks are hell....
:TooFunny: :toothy12: :TooFunny:
What a bunch of buddies you got Z!
A fun bunch..
They weren't real happy with me later.....The windup alarm going off in an a pan under the bed at 2:00 am on a Sunday morning evened the score a bit....The one at 4:00 in an other location put them over the edge..... ::)
I don't think tying all there boots together before I left, added any warmth toward their opinion of me, that morning..... :'(
Their follow up text messages were very quite funny..... :o
I had a owl hoot a week before season started and have not seen it again
Lost another striker and a pocket knife yesterday in Nebraska crawling through 2 ft high prairie grass. Rio got a truck ride so I'm not too mad.
Quote from: WW on May 11, 2016, 09:26:35 AM
My custom CEDAR/BUTTERNUT paddle call made by Steve Mann. It's in Sonora Texas. I'm still sick over that one!
Oh Lord....terrible