Most expensive thing you lost while hunting

[elkliver]

Wedding ring while duck hunting.
Everything else when I had to get rescued off a mountain after throwing my pack on up on a ledge and hauling myself up after it. That was the end of the line and I sat on that ledge for 8 hours awaiting rescue. Cliffed out and mentally exhausted.( I took a wrong turn at albuquerque.) pack/rifle/range finder/ binos....the whole lot. Probably still sitting up there. Only thing that came down with me was my pants/ shirt/ boots/ phone.

You realize this is a great opportunity for a Forest Fenn type treasure hunt. You could give clues to the location, write mysterious poems. Somewhere on Ledge lies a treasured Pack, retrieval is daunting and may break ones back ....

 

[5MilesBack]

The only thing I can remember losing on a hunt is an $11 bugle tube several years ago.

 

[Arithson]

Guiding hunters in the mountains one fall and rode out to get a shower and have a few drinks at a little bar at the bottom of the mountain. Got drunk and rode back in to camp after the bar closed, got up the next morning and the guy I was with couldnt find the $14,000 cash in a ziplock the hunters had paid him. Rode out and drove back down the mountain. A nice guy coming in for coffee had found it in the parking lot. And turned it in to the bar owners who knew us.

Had a cousin set a pair of Swaros on a rock after I shot an antelope. Walked back to the pickup and drove off. Went back and he never could find them. I keep thinking one day I will but it has been 15 years.

 

[HydeParkHunter]

$280 Maui Jim Sunglasses a couple days ago while elk scouting. Just used the arms to 'clip' them on to a strap even through I was going through thick stuff. Dumb.

 

[RemiR7]

Carter wise choice thumb release. Still upset about it. Same trip 4-5 miles in, found a pricey range finder while moving some thick timber that was in good condition.

 

[Mykolaivka887]

Binocular

 

[KeithO]

High Country Supreme with quiver full of Easton XX75/2117 with Thunderheads on them and my release strapped to it. Got out of the tree, set it on the tailgate and left. I still mourn that loss!

 

[trepuah]

I lost my phone while walking through a swamp on public land scouting for whitetail. Fell out of my chest pocket on a random island in the swamp and didn't realize until probably 20 mins later. Started running back through the swamp frantically looking for it and stopped randomly and put my hands on my knees to catch my breath. Low and behold my phone was about 4 inches from my feet face down in the dirt. Probably the luckiest I have ever been.

 

[Dillwock]

Sig range finder that fell off my bino harness when I unbuckled

 

[subtlevibe]

I lost my phone whole elk hunting last year and then almost got lost myself in the woods trying to walk out at night

 

[TylerJohn21]

Most expensive was my trusty garmin Etrex unit. (Ironically while testing out my Fenix 5X, which I had failed to select begin tracking on). Most painful? 3 pairs of Sitka traverse gloves have been lost to the void. Simply not meant to own a pair.


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[JDT1982]

A pair of Costa sunglasses

 

[Mpmoody15]

I'll bump this thread shamelessly. On October 30, I lost my brand new Sig Kilo 8K rangefinder in the nearly 24" of snow in CO unit 33.

 

[.204smokechaser]

My InReach is under 2 feet of snow at the moment. Will head back up there in June when the snow melts with a metal detector. Backtracked the 10 miles I put on through a foot of snow this last week to no avail.

 

[j3h8]

Lost 3500 dollars on this adventure

 

[I live in round valley]

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Lost 3500 dollars on this adventure

Recovery cost or fines?

 

[txtransplant]

Almost lost my phone on the mountain last week. Well - I DID lose it, and found it about half an hour later.

Had been hiking laterally above a patch of trees that I suspected deer were bedded in. Sure enough, I spotted a few does about 130 yards out. I dropped to the ground, glassed a bit, and pulled out my phone to mark them on the map. Must have left my phone on my lap while I continued glassing for several more minutes. Eventually, I decided to move on. Made it 30 or 40 yards before realizing my phone wasn’t in my pocket.

As I retraced my steps, panicking, I realized that my Bluetooth headphones were in my backpack and the Bluetooth was turned on on my phone. When I put the headphones on, they say “CONNECTED” when establishing a connection or “PAIRING” if they don’t see a device. All I had to do was turn them on and off while moving. Eventually, it got a connection! Pressed the “play” button and a podcast started playing. Now I was within 20 or 30 feet, and if I moved away from the phone, the connection would get weak. Took another five minutes or so to actually find the phone.

I don’t normally take my Bluetooth headphones on the mountain with me - but I will from now on *just in case* I have to use this technique again.

 

[j3h8]

Recovery cost or fines?

Recovery cost. Truck was 3 weeks old to me so the wife, while not surprised with my shenanigans, was not all that thrilled.

Here's yet another adventure. This one was only about $600. This one was not my fault though. Dirt road we'd traveled many times but an underground spring was revitalized after some really heavy rains causing the road to disappear.

 

[IDVortex]

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Lost 3500 dollars on this adventure

Sir, you can't park there.

 

[Maddog58]

Recovery cost. Truck was 3 weeks old to me so the wife, while not surprised with my shenanigans, was not all that thrilled.

Here's yet another adventure. This one was only about $600. This one was not my fault though. Dirt road we'd traveled many times but an underground spring was revitalized after some really heavy rains causing the road to disappear. View attachment 785643View attachment 785644

Damn Dodge diesels are too front heavy