Never myself or knew anyone who forgot their gun in the field, but was pheasant hunting with a guy who leaned his Browning Citori against his buddies truck where his AM rear pumper meets the rear passenger quarter panel (we drove in two separate pickups that day) was talking with us when his friend backed up and drove over his beautiful 12ga Citori.
Very ironic story behind this I'd like to share and the events that lead up to it.
I did forget my shotgun at home for a five day out of state pheasant hunting trip. It happened because I allowed myself be hurried and become distracted by an completely unexpected situation and a tolerating a person treating me rudely and with considerable disrespect that really got me PO and me suppressing my extreme desire to knock TLS out of this person (as I would have any other time) resulted in my becoming upset which caused my distraction resulting in my gun getting left behind.
As there were 5 of us and we were traveling in two vehicles, one my extended cab 4x4 the other my friends standard cab 4x2. We all slept over at my friends house so we could get sufficient rest and still get a very early start.
When we went to leave unfortunately my less than three year old Silverado I had bought brand new wouldn't start and none of us could quickly determine as to why. So we decide to take one of the other guys pickups. Now for for reasons none of us understood one of the group not really my friend but more of a acquaintance becmae VERY upset (even though we weren't taking his truck) and he jumped all over me about my "POS" truck not starting ets ets, despite it being the newest of any vehicles any of us owned, and still looked showroom new.
The fact it was raining like the proverbial cow P***ing on a flat rock didn't help. So now in a torrential down poor we had to unload all of three guys gear from my truck to the different truck, the other four guys formed a chain of sorts unloading the bed of my truck and reloading the new truck while I unloaded my stuff I needed from the cab of my truck (hunting licenses, maps, hotel reservations etc) and I'm sure most have guessed it somehow MINE was the ONLY GUN that failed to get transferred into the different truck as well as my backup gun as I am to this day the only one in my hunting group that ever brings a backup long gun when hunting. I can believe one gun can be accidentally forgotten but two? highly unlikely.
We get to our hunting spot and I then find out I don't have a gun I asked how did this happen and was one or more guys unloading the stuff from my truck and handing it off to be loaded into the different truck, three of the four replied almost in unison "Mike said he he got your guns from your truck" and I said essentially nothing as I realized doing anything else would result in ruining the trip for everyone.
Three of the four other guy's all said once they shot their limit for the day or trip they would gladly let me use their gun. Well it turned out to be a great trip great weather but very low pheasant numbers so I rarely got to hunt, walked my legs off but very little did I hunt and I was the brunt of endless but good natured ribbing.
Late Sunday about an hour before dark and finishing up our last hunt of the trip, the guy who chewed me out leans his $2k+ Browning Citori against the back of his buddies truck as described above and his buddie for reasons never explained ended up backing over it.
Who says Carma has not a sense of humor?
