What’s the worst item you’ve lost?

[Irrelevant]

bow.

Got back to the truck in the dark after a brutally long day chasing mule deer. Set everything on the ground by the door and changed into some comfier shoes, loaded everything in the backseat and drove off, 3 hrs back home. In the morning when I went to unload the truck I didn't see my bow. I frantically drove back up saw fresh tire tracks and no bow.

 

[bushman13]

My dad's 35mm slides from Alaska 1970 - 80

 

[88man]

back in the mid 90's while making a deer drive with a gang of hunters in a swamp I LOST my stainless Steel Ruger 44mag. It apparently fell out of the shoulder holster at some point in the swamp. We looked for it a few times days later but the rains came and the area soon was under water for 90% of the time. That one hurt.

 

[BigHornRam]

Put my GPS with Montana map chip in my jackets vent, not pocket, and it slipped out somewhere on a snowy ridge in the Bighole. Use the caribiner thing now on my new GPS.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Not lost while hunting or fishing, but stolen from my truck:

About $4000 worth of fly fishing gear, between the 7-8 reels, 12 boxes of flies, etc. The Lanyard I bought the day before my wedding, a 7wt rod and 25 years of memories were all in that green Cabela's bag that some jackass had to have.

 

[Tradewind]

My ass, buying all the stuff I thought I needed to get by

 

[MinnesotaHunter]

I lost my truck keys in about 12 inches of fresh snow during the middle of a late-season muzzle loader hunt. My wife made a 4 hour round trip to bring my second set up to me (she is generally way cooler than me). I ended up shooting a nice buck the next day...

 

[devon deer]

Not lost while hunting or fishing, but stolen from my truck:

About $4000 worth of fly fishing gear, between the 7-8 reels, 12 boxes of flies, etc. The Lanyard I bought the day before my wedding, a 7wt rod and 25 years of memories were all in that green Cabela's bag that some jackass had to have.

That's my nightmare!

But the only thing I lost was a roe deer caller, I only had it a couple of weeks, cost me $65

Cheers

Richard

 

[stealthy_bowman]

Lost my GPS once. Spent hours backtracking to find it to no avail.

 

[JaegerRex]

I've lost a couple flashlights

 

[kylemcintyre67]

We were paddling a canoe full of decoys across the lake with my shotgun on top of the decoys. Until it wasn't. Splash! That was the worse, the best thing I lost in the woods was my virginity. Yah, didn't mind losing that at all.

The canoe we built this summer is specifically for accessing a section of public that I hope is overlooked this fall, I have a great fear of losing my rifle in the water. Planning to take it in the case with a life jacket strapped on to avoid this very thing.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Rangefinder, knife, binocs. The worst by far was a S&W .40 I left on tailgate and drove off. ☹

 

[Europe]

my husband

and after that my youth and health

and after that a double rifle in a river in Africa Thank God it was neither new or anyones heirloom, but it was not a good moment in my life

 

[Lv2hnt]

Besides a good point-'n-shoot camera and my first laser rangefinder, the thing that hurt the most was a carbon arrow a bull walked off with 9 years ago. NEVER trust an elk ...

 

[Straight Arrow]

"Of all the things I've ever lost ... the thing I miss the most ... is my mind!" author unknown

Personally, my moose antlers stolen from the shed roof.

 

[Zellhouse]

my hair.... chasing critters around with a stick & string.

 

[MTGunner]

My old flip phone. Then two years later I found it on the ridge I hav3 been hunting for yrs. No longer good for anything but a fishing weight. MTG

 

[nrpate05]

A really nice and new Knives of Alaska knife while butchering a bull in Wyoming. Got back home and noticed it wasn't in the sheath. Silly move carrying it on my belt - won't do that again. I still want to go back to that spot and see if I can find it. Hung up a pair of nice Smith shades on a tree this summer on a backpack trip. When I turned the corner and was looking directly into the setting sun a few miles later I realized they were still on that tree.

 

[glass eye]

While bowhunting in New Zealand I hiked all day and into the night only to discover that somewhere along the way my quiver full of arrows popped off of my bow that was strapped to my backpack.

 

[Gunner46]

My soul in Iraq

You are not going to like me for saying this Bro, you did not loose it, you shared it with us, every day you gave a huge hunk ...and I know that was hard. If it were not for a You there would not be a Me ! Thank You.