I got a sweet set of Motorola talkabout radios for my 11th birthday right before my first deer season. Sat on an old 2 track road overlooking a nice little meadow, and left one of them sitting on a stump. I couldn't find it after I got back to the camp that day, and couldn't remember exactly where I left it.
Went back the next year to hunt the same area, sat down next to a stump to watch the same meadow, and put my hand down right on it! batteries were dead, but some new AA's and it was back to business.
Lost my first old timer hunting knife in the same meadow after I shot a little whitetail buck, but was able to go back and find it that night. Was sure scared of a monster bear getting me as I walked the 500 yds to the meadow, up a gravel road, from our "campsite" at a friends house.