What's the most expensive thing you've lost while outdoors?

[FrankieP1988]

What is the most expensive piece of gear that you have lost on a hunt/scouting trip/ fishing trip etc?

I seem to have a bad habit of losing my sun glasses. I lost my Oakleys during scouting this year and some Electrics during a fishing trip. I have no clue where I dropped my Electrics but I'm pretty sure I remember where I left my Oakleys, I'm going to try to find them this summer haha.

So what gear have you lost?

 

[luke moffat]

Garmin Rino 530 HCX GPS......2 hours in alder hell looking for it to no avail...

 

[Ross]

Been lucky no major losses, but others in the area not so lucky....shot archery bull in 04 and was taking care of it saw guide and hunter come within 40 yds and could see hunters quiver full of arrows. Later coming out and ran into them. Started talking and asked hunter where is your bow, he says "I lost it!" I said what how do you lose you bow. He had on bow sling going through nidaho brush and never noticed his bow was no longer on his shoulder. Are you kidding me! I looked with no luck...couple of years prior hunting with two friends and his Leica rangefinder fell out of pack way back in Ross creek cedars of nwest mt....sure it is still there for the squirrels.

 

[Kevin_t]

I lost a decent point and shoot a few years ago. I found a Garmin Rhino that wintered above treeline and loaned it to a friend who lost it.

 

[2ski]

Sunglasses for me too. I've lost quite a few pair to the bottom of lakes and rivers. One pair of Natives I had missed my shirt when I went to hang them off my shirt while standing of the dock coming back from fishing. I slowly moved down to get them before they fell through the crack, and then right as my hand hovered over them....gone. I dove down to try to get them. It was 15 feet of water and the seaweed didn't look that high from up above. It was more like 6 feet, but the shadow of the dock made it look shorter. Lost a pair of $50 glasses to Lake Mead last summer. Water, boats, alcohol, water slides on boats and sunglasses don't mix. The sunglasses lost that day. I won't pay more than $20 anymore for a pair of sunglasses I'm taking out fishing/hunting/recreating with me.

 

[luke moffat]

Been lucky no major losses, but others in the area not so lucky....shot archery bull in 04 and was taking care of it saw guide and hunter come within 40 yds and could see hunters quiver full of arrows. Later coming out and ran into them. Started talking and asked hunter where is your bow, he says "I lost it!" I said what how do you lose you bow. He had on bow sling going through nidaho brush and never noticed his bow was no longer on his shoulder. Are you kidding me! I looked with no luck...couple of years prior hunting with two friends and his Leica rangefinder fell out of pack way back in Ross creek cedars of nwest mt....sure it is still there for the squirrels.

Garmin Rino 530 HCX GPS......2 hours in alder hell looking for it to no avail...

Coincidence? I think not!

 

[Stid2677]

Broke my rule of not securing stuff by a secondary means and lost my TG1 camera when I got stuck on a boulder and bent over trying to free the raft. Heard a splash but did not realize what it was until I got a mile or so down river. Was lucky that our party of 4 all had cameras and that it happened on the first day.

 

[carpssublime]

I've been keeping sunglass companies in business for quite a while myself

 

[Mikeha33]

Last year during our KS antlerless deer season in January, I somehow managed to lose the back half of my Bushnell Elite scope. I was carrying it on my shoulder by the sling, and one way or another, the rear lens and adjustable focus ring somehow unthreaded itself. Fortunately, my local dealer that I purchased from was able to talk Bushnell into replacing the entire scope. Would have set me back about $500.

 

[goodgrouper]

My brother found a garmin on a mountain in MT, no info on the owner in it, two years later he lost it on the same mountain.

 

[Kotaman]

This past August, I was crossing a raging river in Alaska with my Boswell Custom Ultra Lite .300 WSM w/Swaro Z5 strapped to my shoulder. The current caught the butt stock of the rifle and ripped it off my shoulder. I watched the rifle bounce down stream then sink at a little curve in the river some 50 yards away. Keep in mind the current was so strong a guy could barely stand up in the river and was pushing waist deep. I walked down to the bend in the river where the rifle disappeared and started poking around with my trekking pole. After a short time I hit something hard. Ended up hooking the sling with the trekking pole and pulling the rifle out. Took some dental floss and a piece of cloth, ran it down the barrell, shot it and was good to go! That would've been a big one...$6500 w/scope.

AND on an October Sheep hunt in BC I lost a KUIU Guide Jacket with a $150 Mag. in the pocket off the back of a horse. On that hunt alone I either lost or destroyed about $700 worth of gear.

 

[Browtine]

GLoomis Streamdance 6wt and Orvis large arbor reel in an unfortunate canoeing accident!

 

[littlebuf]

Garmin Rino 530 HCX GPS......2 hours in alder hell looking for it to no avail...

Funny I dropped mine this year while packing out my bull. Justin and I went back looking for it. I told Justin while we wee looking that ironically the GPS knows exactly where it is since it was on. Justin spotted if, I would have walked right by it

 

[5MilesBack]

I think about the only things I've lost are a judo-tipped arrow that I shot a chipmunk with, and a bugle tube. Searched for over 2 hours in an open meadow for that stupid arrow. Somehow lost the bugle tube this year on my daughter's rifle elk hunt.

 

[les welch]

I'm not familiar with the Rino's but don't they have a feature that shows other paired Rino's or something like that? I'm thinking more in Luke's case where Becca may have had one that would have showed where it was at?

 

[shaun]

Garmin Rino 530 HCX GPS......2 hours in alder hell looking for it to no avail...

Same here when I was about 13... Mowed a lot of lawns to pay that back

 

[CHAD PEZZLE]

I'm not familiar with the Rino's but don't they have a feature that shows other paired Rino's or something like that? I'm thinking more in Luke's case where Becca may have had one that would have showed where it was at?

They do have a tracking feature but it has to be turned on. I never keep mine on because I wasn't usually hunting with someone else that had one too, so it seemed pointless to me.

Chad

 

[Buster]

Not the most expensive (rangefinder takes the cake for that one), but worst was my release in the bottom of a ravine, under a buddies gut pile. 2 hours of hell hike down and up to get it back to finish the hunt. How or why I too it off and set it down exactly where we rolled the guts out of that deer, I will never know. Just glad I didn't hike down they for nothing.

 

[CaseyU]

My buddy just purchase a 270 and I set up a scope on it for him and he asked if I would sight it in... went out to a dirt pile people use to shoot used the range finder to find my spots and left a brand new rx1000 laying in the dirt. I went back within four ish hours and it made its way into the hands of somebody else. Damn...

 

[luke moffat]

I'm not familiar with the Rino's but don't they have a feature that shows other paired Rino's or something like that? I'm thinking more in Luke's case where Becca may have had one that would have showed where it was at?

Yes Becca had hers with and if mine was on it could have narrowed our search window quite a bit by the other GPS knowing where it was within about 30' or so, but it wasn't on such is life ;(