I have a hunter orange pullout in my pack. If I drop the pack, I pull it out over the pack before I leave it. You can be 10 feet from a good camo pack sometimes and your brain just won't pick it out. That's also why I have sunset orange and fire red strings on my bow.
I have misplaced my camp a couple of times, but no big deal. I don't have a lot of time/money for hunting, and to improve draw odds I put in for both bow and rifle seasons. My entire hunting ensemble is multicam, mostly purchased cheaply on Fleabay. Now before everyone jumps it to tell me how stupid I am to hunt rifle season without every square centimeter of my body draped in blaze orange...My state doesn't require it, and never has. This was how I learned how to hunt, and I don't have the time or money for a separate ensemble. I also don't use GPS, but good old Map and Compass.
My butchering kit has a traffic safety vest. Weighs like three ounces, is bright yellow mesh, with reflective strips on it. Depending on where I hunt I may wear it all day, or I may not (last deer season there were 300 tags for the entire Gila, 872 square miles, didn't see another hunter in the field for five days). But if I have animal parts in my pack, the vest is wrapped around the pack. If I have need of an "emergency evacuation" where I want to go over a hill from a hunting spot for odor reasons,the vest gets wrapped around my pack. Last thing I want in that situation is to tighten down a Kifaru Waist belt...I also carry bright orange/reflective surveyor's ribbon to mark land marks, like where my pack is.
Post nature calls I make sure I look around that I haven't dropped anything from pockets in my haste to drop trou, and post waking up, or post meals, too.
So far the biggest dollar item has been a damaged camera that belongs to She Who Must Be Obeyed, and after banging around in my thigh pocket for a week I cracked the LCD screen on the back. It was one of those wonderful cameras that had all the menus on the touch screen, rather than separate controls. $239.
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