Most expensive thing you lost while hunting

[chanson_roland]

Lost it on 10/30 last year, and got texts from my inReach contacts to call a number as it was found.

A generous hunter found it in the last few days and I’ll be getting it back! It was out in the woods for about 220 days and was under 15 feet of snow this last winter and still works!

This is the best advertising copy Garmin could hope for. If I'm the VP of Marketing at Garmin right now, I'm like:

 

[eddielasvegas]

Lost it on 10/30 last year, and got texts from my inReach contacts to call a number as it was found.

A generous hunter found it in the last few days and I’ll be getting it back! It was out in the woods for about 220 days and was under 15 feet of snow this last winter and still works!

Wow and such a good ending.

Good on the hunter for tracking you down.


Eddie

 

[.204smokechaser]

This is the best advertising copy Garmin could hope for. If I'm the VP of Marketing at Garmin right now, I'm like:

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Haha yeah. Just goes to show they have a good product and why I’ll trust an InReach over a cell phone in non cell service areas I frequent all year.

My plan was to call/email them and see if they’d like to take a look at the unit before I gift it to an employee of mine who’s fiancée was wanting either for him to get a satellite capable phone or an inReach.

 

[chanson_roland]

Haha yeah. Just goes to show they have a good product and why I’ll trust an InReach over a cell phone in non cell service areas I frequent all year.

My plan was to call/email them and see if they’d like to take a look at the unit before I gift it to an employee of mine who’s fiancée was wanting either for him to get a satellite capable phone or an inReach.

If I can ask, which InReach is it? I have an SE + that I refuse to give up for this very reason, a dedicated communicator that's separate from my phone or GPSMap64, that I'm confident will work in non-cell service areas. I'm willing to lug the extra weight just to have a dedicated device if I ever have to "push the button".

 

[Blowdowner]

Swarovski 10x42 EL and Leica rangefinder (Thanks to COVID)

Went on Shiras moose hunt, a couple buddies hunted with me and I caught Covid from the first one! I was pretty fatigued on the 6th day when I got my moose with a bow and symptoms emerging , had my bino pack on in all the pictures etc. took care of the moose then I can’t remember much after that trying to get home with all the travel and borrowing trucks and sleeping at family houses and airport flights, then getting home and quarantined in my RV for a week .

Needless to say a month later when I was looking for my bino pack to go shooting it was no where to be found and I have no idea where it could be. I tore everything apart looking for it and called everyone I knew… all to no avail

Still has never shown up 3.5 years later

It's in the bottom of your freezer wrapped like a moose brisket

 

[Blowdowner]

I hunted with an acquaintance for a few years when I first got into hunting. Over the course of 3 trips he lost his rangefinder (1st trip), prescription glasses (2nd. trip), and finally his rifle on the 3rd trip. We had both harvested bucks and once we got the meat back to my Ranger he leaned his rifle against a tree while we loaded the bags of meat into the bed. We gathered up all our stuff and headed back to camp which was about 5-6 miles away. As we were unloading meat and gear he noticed his rifle was missing and we hurried back to where he thought he left it. When we got to the spot there was no rifle. So we slowly drove back to camp looking on the sides of the trail and road all the way there, with no luck. For weeks I prodded him to call the White Pine county Sheriff to see if it was turned in, but he was convinced that another hunter found it and kept it. I told him that most people are honest, and once again told him to call and ask. The next day he called me and said that another hunter found it and reported it to the sheriff and gave his contact info if anyone called looking for it.
On that same trip he accidentlly threw away all my dirty hunting clothes when we stopped at a roadside dumpster to toss our camp trash. That was the last time we hunted together which sucked because if anything he was reliable.

Guy like that there's a chance he never looses anything when he's alone.

 

[.204smokechaser]

If I can ask, which InReach is it? I have an SE + that I refuse to give up for this very reason, a dedicated communicator that's separate from my phone or GPSMap64, that I'm confident will work in non-cell service areas. I'm willing to lug the extra weight just to have a dedicated device if I ever have to "push the button".

Just the mini 2.

 

[Sandhills]

Lost a hand carved goldeneye decoy once. But I only paid fifty bucks for it.

Had a bag of duck decoys stolen out of my pickup at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

 

[FlyGuy]

Lost a benchmade mini bugout carbon last year in CO. Had it clipped in my right front pant pocket. Tried to take a shortcut back to camp after dark. I knew it was going to get pretty steep but it was way more than I anticipated. Ended up in an uncontrolled slide for a good [emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]]]]-[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]’ - in the dark. Apparently that was when the knife was ripped out. Going back to the same unit this year so I’ll see if I can turn it up!

 

[ddd-shooter]

Lost it on 10/30 last year, and got texts from my inReach contacts to call a number as it was found.

A generous hunter found it in the last few days and I’ll be getting it back! It was out in the woods for about 220 days and was under 15 feet of snow this last winter and still works!

If you ever lose one, you can call Garmin and they’ll give you very close coordinates to your device.
My father did that a year or two ago. I forget the details (if it had to be turned on, how strong the signal had to be, etc) but it was cool.

 

[clebysantos694]

Lost my archery release a couple of years ago. Got out of the tree stand and placed it in the stretchy pocket on the side of the bino harness. Got back to the truck and realized it was lost. Went back multiple times and never found it.

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[KenLee]

My hearing

 

[Kenny Hart]

My hearing

Post of the thread right here!

 

[JS1622]

Lost a set of Maven 10x42s and a rangefinder that I found 3.5 weeks later.

 

[scottbot]

A generac generator off the back of a camper between Lusk and Laramie Wyoming. The whole back end frame of the camper that the hitch connector was bolted on to snapped off. $1000 gone. We drove back and never saw it and had a friend an hour behind us and he didn’t see it either.

 

[Isildur]

A $120 Buck Alpha Hunter knife with gut hook blade, camo side plates. No longer in circulation. Made me sick after having it for so many years.

 

[TradLife406]

My self respect and dignity

There's a lone Stalker longbow limb somewhere in a mountain in Montana. It was my backup limb. Somehow fell out of the case along the atv trail.

Then the usual headlamps trekking poles knives etc


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[2weak2flex]

Inreach mini 2 on a nasty river crossing. Forgot to close my belt pouch on my pack and off it went.

 

[CamoPirate]

Lost hunting days during the season is probably number 1. Otherwise I've only lost a $5 beanie and a couple elk calls.

 

[huntsman22]

that'll learn you to be a beanie baby.....