What'd you forget?

[VegasMike]

This week I forgot my steri pen .. killed , ran out of water , hitting dehydration on the way out , gambled and drank out of the stream. Countdown begins, I should be amune to beaver feavor by now.

Jet boil a couple years back and ate freeze dry cold and not really hydrated. Gross

 

[stonewall]

forgot my elk calls last year. had a few in the truck though, so it worked out ok

 

[lang]

Buddy picked up a bow three or four years ago on the side of the road. Figured someone just drove off after setting it on the ground and forgot. He left a note and I posted on every forum I could trying to return it to its owner. So if anyone left a bow...he still has it if you can identity it.

 

[sagebuster]

My brain.

 

[rclouse79]

Did a bear hunt where we couldn't take any pictures after the harvest due to a dead battery. I had brought the battery recharge pack with no cord to plug into the phone.

 

[Jqualls]

This week I forgot my steri pen .. killed , ran out of water , hitting dehydration on the way out , gambled and drank out of the stream. Countdown begins, I should be amune to beaver feavor by now.

Jet boil a couple years back and ate freeze dry cold and not really hydrated. Gross

You are safe. You can only get covid right now.

 

[Primos4me]

last time i had that nagging feeling, i forgot my bugle tube. you talk about a deflating feeling 12 hours from the house. but as we do in the elkwoods, we adapt and overcome. i cut a couple gatorade bottles and taped them together, along with a Primos pack bugle that never got used with the camo duct tape in my bag of misc goodies and went hunting. killed a 4 point bull a couple days later using that homemade tube.

That's definitely a bad gut feeling once you figure out what you forgot on a trip of any kind.

 

[Jstumbaugh]

Great read and updated my pack list so I don't forget anything this September. I couldnt imagine making a 2000 mile trip and realize I forgot my boots.

 

[M-Wig]

I've never forgotten anything I can remember on out of state trips. In-state I've forgotten boots twice. Arrows once. Went on an afternoon deer hunt with my muzzleloader. Pulled the gun out and realized I left my box with bullets, primers, etc at the house. 250 mile round trip for nothing. Plus, it was the last day of season so I had all year to think about it.

 

[WI Shedhead]

My cousin and his son live in montana and my dad and I joined them for a backpack hunt 7 miles in the great bear wilderness. After day 2 I realized the only thing they were eating was trail mix. They brought a gallon bag of that and for got the 7 days of dehydrated meals and extras on the kitchen table. Fortunately I always pack 1 extra, we rationed it all out and we were all good.
It helped the huckleberries were thick that year we ate ourselves nearly sick on them!!!!!

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I have whittled a one long handed spoon to replace the one I forgot on multiple occasions....

 

[Tx270WT]

Leaving the shotgun at home when going duck hunting. turns out it’s more common than I would have guessed…

 

[SoloWilderness]

Left my lucky coffee mug sitting on a stump while we packed the horses to break camp and head out with our harvest. Found it a year later, still sitting on the stump, with dried up hot chocolate in the bottom. It's still lucky.

3 years ago hung a brand new pair of $300 sunglasses on an oak tree while I glassed some elk across the canyon. Forgot to pick them up when I took off to make a stalk. Realized I did about a mile later, searched the oak brush for the rest of the day. No glasses.

Left my trekking poles at home last year. Tarp tent was a bit saggy. Packing my friends first bull 9 miles back to the truck in 1 trip in the steep stuff with a pair of Aspen Yoda sticks that needed to be replaced every time I leaned too hard on them was a bit rough. Kept the 1 that refused to break, it's still in my truck for a backup... Also left my favorite windproof beany sitting on the ground where we were setting up for my buddies shot.

Took my brother in law on his first elk hunt (archery), left my bow at home to focus on getting him an animal. Put him on elk after a couple of challenging days, said "go sneak around that timber edge and stick the closest one" only for him to say "I left my release in camp". Camp was about 4 miles straight uphill. He did remember to pack the largest size container of bag balm they make, and 3 pairs of jeans to camp, as well as cans of corned beef hash, beans, etc. 8 miles in on a backpack hunt. I ate well that trip, hardly even touched my MH stash...

Same brother in law, decided he would get a jump on getting to camp and get set up, as me and my hunting partner were doing the late night drive and hike in the dark thing after getting off work. Poured rain. Forgot he had rain gear in his pack (at the bottom apparently). Hiked 4 miles in, soaked for 2 of it. Hiked back to the trailhead, where my hunting partner found him shivering in his fogged up truck, still soaking wet in his gear (rain gear still in his pack). Offered him dry clothes, hiked in together, 2 miles in he said "I just don't want this" and turned around. He had my tent in his pack... Luckily I had a fly tarp...

Same brother in law, several years later, with a rifle, after realizing he might not be up to the task for archery. Put him onto a herd of cows, with a nice bull, at about 175 yards. Said "pick a cow, pick a spot, shoot it, I'll kill the bull when I see your cow drop" Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang. I was watching the cows through my scope, looked over all the cows, nothing was hit. I then shot the bull. Watched all the cows run away unharmed, searched everywhere for blood, just in case. He forgot to pick a cow and apparently just shot over their heads, as he didn't want to have to pack two elk out of my hellish canyon bottom honeyhole (he swears to this day he just got buck fever). Also managed to drop all his spare shells into the oak brush trying to reload. Burned his tag in the campfire that night, then the next day he decided he couldn't wait for me to break camp, dumped all his remaining food out on the ground (I got a weeks worth of free MH meals), hiked out by himself and got to explain to the Fish and Game warden why he was packing an elk quarter, and a rifle, with no tag. (Who had headed up the trail after hearing his rifle volley). He dropped my quarter in the dirt by the side of my truck, while I broke camp and packed everything else out with my other buddy.

Needless to say, after this, I conveniently forget to tell him what tags I am putting in for every year, and he just gets a point every year (if he remembers to put in, as I conveniently forget to remind him) , and swears "this is the year" he will go OTC by himself. He always forgets when the season is... Think he has 9-10 points now, so I'm going to tell him to start asking for honey holes on Facebook, to finally "get a big ole bull for the wall".

 

[hh76]

Great read and updated my pack list so I don't forget anything this September. I couldnt imagine making a 2000 mile trip and realize I forgot my boots.

I did it, and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Flying back home for deer camp one year. Running out of space, so I was planning on wearing my boots on the plane. Got behind, and ended up in WI wearing sneakers.

I stopped at the nearest sporting goods store and picked up the cheapest boots I could find that might work. They ended up being some of my favorite boots after that. Super comfortable, and even pretty lightweight.

A few times I've made special purchases for an upcoming hunt, got to playing with the item at my desk, and forgot to pack it with my gear. Never anything serious, but things that annoyed me to not have with.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

On a duck hunt as we are backing the boat down the ramp I realized I forgot my waders. Fortunately I had on Muck boots and we found a big cypress tree that I basically hugged all morning.

Opening day of muzzloader season 2 years ago I shot a nice buck right at first light. I climbed down from my stand to start looking for blood and it immediately hit me that I had no blaze orange on, I basically sprinted back to the truck and drove home to get my orange vest and hat and went back to get the deer.

Not a story about forgetting something but a similar feeling… I drove 18 hours from TN to Denver last October on Thursday before the rifle season opened on Saturday. We stayed in a nice hotel in downtown Denver and when I walked out to the truck Fri morning the back window was busted out and all my clothes and a lot of my gear was gone. I had my gun in the hotel fortunately and my pack was in the bed along with my boots and binoculars. I had a cheap vinyl bed cover that they easily could have cut open but for some reason I guess that was too much work. But I had no warm clothes, socks, blaze orange, etc. they even got my ammo. We duct taped the window and had a pretty cold drive the remaining 4 hour drive. I found a sporting goods store and ran in and grabbed a pair of camo pants and a jacket, and a merino base layer and 3 pairs of socks. I had been slowly buying up “nice” clothes as I found them on sale or on the classifieds preparing for this trip so I was pretty bummed but I ended up shooting a nice bull on the 4th day and that made up for the inconvenience.


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[wytx]

Got to elk camp one year, only about 1 1/2 hrs from the house, I asked the spouse where's your bow? He forgot it and had to be my guide for about 3 days . He remembered the next week when went back up.
I did get to pick the areas to hunt and we did it my way, not his, for those 3 days. Didn't pay off for me, lol.

 

[Hoyt Ag]

I had a customer forget broadheads back at camp one year. How this happens, I will never know. We were on a decent 5 and he had to watch him walk off into the sunset once he realized his arrows were all field points. Luckily for him, we got a similar one 3 days later. I have his name saved in my phone as Broadhead and we are still dear friends to this day.

 

[Roughwater]

This is more of a reminder to bring mostly because it's the couple things I have forgot in a row but only applies if you are camping at a Forest service road and that's a "Shovel and a Bucket." It's a requirement I forgot several times and I ended up buying them in my hunt area, so now I have lots of shovels and buckets.

 

[Paul_E_Hunter]

well forgot coffee once, that didn't go over well...

 

[Bluumoon]

Forgot all my premade dinners last year. Had canned chili for dinner x 2, pretty sure I ran every animal out of the unit.