Lost And Found

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  1. Lester

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    What is your favorite hunting accessory that you lost and found a while later?
     
  2. Lester

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    I could not find my Carter 2 shot release and I haven't had it since late season bow hunting in Kansas. I thought for sure I had lost it there, but just found it going threw some hunting pants getting ready for the season :)
     
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    RugerRedbone Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Lost a canal st. Cutlery pocket knife after dressing out a doe two years ago. Found it a few weeks later in the woods halfway between where I was using it and the truck.
     
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    Misplaced my binos one fall . Couldn't figure out how I could possibly lose them but they were gone . Went out turkey hunting the next spring and when I set up in my favorite fence row , there they were hanging on a limb .

    The weather wasn't kind to them but I could remember then that I had stopped in that spot and glassed a buck that I almost got called in .
     
  5. Fitz

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    A set of 3 Lone Wolf sticks. Couldn't remember where I hung them. Found them the following Fall :busted:
     
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    TheHardWoods913 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Same thing here....stuck my Gerber in the ground while cleaning a deer after a recovery after dark. Realized when we got back to the house I didn't have my knife, figured it was gone and there's no way it would be there when we returned. Walked through that spot to go hunting again about 2 weeks later and there it was sticking out of the ground at the same spot....on public land to boot!


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  7. Sticknstringarchery

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    I've had a few lost and founds.

    The first were 2 arrows. My first hunting season I used a quiver on my bow (I don't do any more it's mounted on my pack) and about half way on a walk out which I didn't normally go they fell out. A few weeks later I went that same way and there they were.

    Last year after killing my first doe and dropping her off at the processors I came back and took down my stand. I didn't hunt that tree again that season but, I couldn't find my good bow hanger. About a month later I went back to the tree looked up and there it was.

    A couple years ago I put out a camera. Forgot about it and was scouting this past summer and there it was still in the tree. Still works.

    I did the same thing with a pair of pruning shears. Found them where I dropped them and since, I have lost them again. I hope they are found. They were nice.


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  8. BigPhil_H

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    Well, I've been crying for the last 6 months and all night tonight until I decided to get my mind off of things and read a few threads before bed, lone behold, here we are talking about misplaced accessories which is the culprit of my agony -- my Leupold RX750 is still MIA :throw:
     
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    I had a good Kobalt razor blade/knife and saw. I have yet to locate it. Sooooo, I'm still working on the found part.
     
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    Lost a Grave Digger. Still MIA.
     
  11. Treehopper

    Treehopper Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Lost a fletch hunter conch release, 2 years later a logger found it after his mule ran it over. Filthy and so rusted it was locked up. My pro shop sent it in. I just got it back looks brand new, works great. The best part is no charge. I am impressed.
     
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    Lost a Buck 102 knife one year. A year later I got a phone call from a guy that said he found my knife in the woods and to come and get it. I had carved my name in the back of the sheath and he was nice enough to contact me. Years later I gave the knife to my Amish friend's son.
     
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    I lost a really nice buck to the river. :( Never did find it. Did find someone else's 182" buck. At least that guy got his buck.
     
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    My bow after every deer season. Usually find it a couple days before a GTG shoot :lol:

    Lost my rangefinder last season sometime, its still missing though.
     
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    Last year I lost my mind searching for the nice 3x3 I shot. Only to not recover. I'm pretty sure he must have been drug off by a bear but who know really. Last week I found it again on the trail. Glad to have it back.
    Really tho I wish I found my ken onion kershaw chive knife I lost. Loved that knife for gutting. I think it got lost in the body cavity. Maybe it made its way to be lobster bait.
     
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    I just got one of those. You have inspired me to put contact info in all the bucks I have. (119,105,102)
     
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    I've also lost 3 different Al Mar knives, three different times... all at Lake Carlyle, IL. I don't know what it is with that lake and knives. :(
     
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    While in college my friends and I would hunt a lot of public land. One day after walking miles of public ground I noticed my sheath had slid off my belt. I assumed it was gone for ever. This hurt my feelings pretty bad because my dad gave it to me as a Christmas present many years ago. While sitting at the dinner table the next night explaining to him that I lost it, I get a phone call. It is one of my hunting buddies calling to tell me he stumbled on to it that day. He gave it back to me at school. I couldn't believe he found it. I got him a case of beer in return. lol. Little gifts like that knife my not seem like much, but it ment the world to me. I now carry my knife in my pocket or in my back pack.
     
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    I didn't get to keep it long but I found a couple of cold beers in a field once. I still haven't figured out where they came from.
     
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    I accidentally dropped my Wicked hand saw out of the stand in November and forgot to pick it up on my way out. Of course I forgot about it entirely and thought I lost it until I went to pull the stand in March while I was shed hunting. As expected the saw was as good as new. :tu:
     

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