What's the most valuable thing you have found hunting?

[repins05]

Reading through the post about most valuable thing you have lost......

On the flip side

The most valuable thing I have found was a leica rangefinder last year. I was in the middle of nowhere....no hunters to be seen.....and not on a trail......I went to sit down on a boulder and a rangefinder was just sitting there. Batteries were low but still functioning.

 

[7mm-08]

Peace.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I found a bino harness full of gear. Razors, rangefinder, knife, some other stuff. Luckily got it back to the owner.

 

[Skyhigh]

I found a yeti water bottle in the road ditch adjacent to a parking area. Not too expensive, but I’ve definitely got some use from it!

 

[Cosmono]

clarity, fun, fresh air.

 

[taskswap]

For me it was a pair of Vortex Diamondback 10x42's. Not exactly Swaro's, but still. They were cracked, water-logged, and heavily crusted with mud - clearly had been there longer than a season. Vortex replaced them as a "warranty" item for the cost of shipping and now I have a new pair that I keep in my truck for road-side glassing. I ate "tag soup" that year so it was a nice participation-trophy to take home...

 

[doc holiday13]

My sanity

 

[RockAndSage]

Found an old pair of Nikon binos, sitting on a rimrock overlook I had just crept in on to glass from myself. Given that I've also found spent rifle casings a number of times in similar situations, it's interesting to me how constant geography is as a factor in good hunting.

 

[Sandhills]

Probably a dozen decoys a couple times. Once was a dozen ducks in a slotted bag in the middle of the road at night. Got two hunts out of em before I got em back to the owner and got a 12 of Banquets for returning em.

Found a dozen Bigfoot full body honkers another time in the road. Some has fallen out of the bag and when I picked them up I recognized the name on the bottom. It was the local game warden's. He has taken his kids in the youth waterfowl hunt and the decoys fell out of his boat.