What have you forgotten?

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I'm sure every one of us has gotten to the trailhead started getting our gear on and went "uh oh". What have you left at home? Whether minor or major, did it impact your hunt?

I am usually very thorough on my packing, but on one trip I completely spaced on my binos. Don't know how it happened but it did. Now I have a fhf bino harness that always stays clipped to my pack in the closet.
 
I left straight from work for a turkey hunt but forgot my boots at home - did not realize it until I was 4 hours away. It was a lot of fun hunting in dress shoes for a weekend.
 
I left straight from work for a turkey hunt but forgot my boots at home - did not realize it until I was 4 hours away. It was a lot of fun hunting in dress shoes for a weekend.

Haha, I did the same thing a couple years ago. Headed up to deer hunt and I forgot my boots. Fortunately I realized before we got into the mountains, stopped at a local sporting good store and bought a cheap set of hiking boots to hold me over.
 
Problems with work led to a scrambling hasty departure for a hunt with a buddy several years ago. We had gotten about 300 miles from the house when the conversation in the truck turned to the weather which was deteriorating and forecast to get worse. My buddy was lamenting the weather and expressing some minor concerns about the continuing monsoon, dropping temps and tent placement.

That's when I twitched.

A phone call to the wife confirmed that my tent was leaning against the bookcase in the breezeway right next to the front door. We went shopping.
 
i was in twenties. early 20's. my brother and i. younger brother.

saved our money and was driving to colorado for our first ever rifle elk hunt. we were cruising thru new mexico..we were following the ranch owners truck. it dawned on us that we forgot to take a Hunter's Education course. the ranch owner blames himself..but ultimately it was our faults.

brutal. the trout were biting. still pisses me off after all these years just to think about it.
 
I was racing to make a evening hunt when I lived in Missouri it was late season and I only had a week before I deployed and really wanted to shoot a deer before I left. You could shoot a doe with a gun or either sex with a bow. I grabbed the gun headed for truck changed my mind went back for the bow. Got a phone call by this time I was running real late its an hour drive over so I was really rushing. Made photo finish at the farm. Went to get bow out no bow no gun. Sat stand anyway and enjoyed nature of course a great buck strolled by. It was a memory that made me smile my whole deployment
 
I have forgotten my bow, stand, finger tab, boots, and binos on day hunts for whitetails in the past.

Last year forgot my spoon and had to cut the corner off of the zip locks and suck the food out that way! Also drove to Colorado from Wisconsin one year and as I was changing at the trailhead realized that I didn't have a belt. Had to cut a new button hole in my ascent pants to keep them up!
 
Typical rush after work. I hauled %%^^ to my Dads place about 4 hrs away. then i realized i had no gun. Luckely where he lives there is a rifle leaning at both sides of the door incase something good walks by. I got to use his for the weekend.

When my brother and I were still in high school, we would bow hunt by ourselves for 2 weeks in Eastern OR. We were so jacked up the first time, we managed to get to camp without any dishes or cookware. We drove 30 miles back to town to buy 1 pan, 1 fry pan, and 2 small bowls.
 
Went duck hunting with a good friend and a friend of his that was new to the sport. We were hunting out of layout boats and had to pushpole about a mile back half way there I relized I forgot my gun. I did'nt go back. Ended up shooting one duck and had to wade and pull the boats back because of high winds. That guy still duck hunts even after that mess his first time out.
 
Well I almost left on our 8 hour trek to the trailhead this year without my damn tent. Luckily I realized it before we got out of town. I have forgotten to grab my bino harness a couple of day hunts. Luckily I get my stuff together well before and not had any major issues with gear being left behind for big hunts.
 
I once forgot my release at camp on a hog hunt. Didn't realize it wasn't on my wrist until I was putting the stalk on a hog!!!!
 
My license. I was using two packs for archery season and had switched my gear out for the following weekend to my other pack. I had even reminded myself to grab it. I drove to my spot on Friday night after work and started unloading my gear and that's when it hit me. After tossing my gear I called my wife and asked her if it was on the table, yup sure was, right where I left it when I saw something shiny that distracted me. Had to drive home that night to get it and then went back out in the morning. Now I have just one pack and that's where it stays.
 
The biggest thing I have forgotten was my extra camera battery. Last year I missed the chance to video littlebuf and Brock going after a really nice mule deer.

I bought three extra batteries for my new camera and I know that won't happen again.
 
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