What’s the most valuable thing you’ve lost?

[8mille]

Youth,parents,a huge portion of an inheritance in the stock market on a bad trade,3o% of my heart to a heart attack-for starters. But I’m still standing and forging ahead; the gift of life is too precious not to.

 

[Sully_44]

2 different Swaro spotting scopes. 2 separate occasions, and never found either.

 

[dtrkyman]

Lost and found my Benelli turkey gun!

Killed a nice Tom, set it against a fence post to cross, got a phone call and forgot it there, was right on the side of the road basically!

Had a client the next morning and noticed my gun was not behind my seat, knew immediately I had left it, having a client and hunting a property the opposite direction I called another guide and told him after his morning hunt to drive by and see if my gun was still there, assuming it wouldn't be, during slow times in the morning hunt I was shopping for a new turkey getter!

About 8am I get a text of a picture of my gun still leaning against the fence post! No clue how nobody spotted it?

I then told my client about it and he was like dude you should have went and looked before the hunt, I said I didn't want to be late!

 

[go_deep]

2 different Swaro spotting scopes. 2 separate occasions, and never found either.

Not to bring up bad memories here, but how??

 

[leavy76]

At some point today, I lost my Benchmade Mini-Bugout I had it clipped to my pants pocket and then when I got home it was gone. I’ve been going crazy trying to find it as it retails for about $150.

I’m curious what is the most valuable thing you’ve lost, either of monetary value or sentimental value?

Doesn’t necessarily have to be hunting related.

Same. I received a Benchmade as a wedding party gift. Promptly lost it less than a week later while it was clipped to my pocket. This is why I can't have nice things.

 

[Sully_44]

Not to bring up bad memories here, but how??

Haha! The first one was on a late elk hunt. I was trying to make it back for Sunday dinner and had my pack tied to the back of my Rzr. From where I last glassed to where my truck was was 24 miles of double track. When I got to the truck, the bag had come loose and the tripod had rattled out as well as the spotter. Somehow the bag and tripod were still in the bed, but the spotter was long gone. I spent the next 8 hours going back and forth on that road. Somewhere in the sage brush and rocks a Swaro 65 sits. Every time I drive that road I keep an eye out, but I don’t think it will ever be found.

The second one I was glassing from one of the most popular parking lots on the Wasatch front to watch wintering animals. I had my two year old boy with me and was riding his strider bike. At some point I was using my 15s on the tripod while my spotter was sitting next to me. My little boy started whining and getting cold so in a rush I grabbed my tripod, bag, son, and his bike and jumped in the truck to head home. I didn’t realize my spotter was still sitting there until a couple days later. Long story short, someone picked that up and it wasn’t there when I went back.

 

[Deeker]

Lost my benelli for three days. Got done duck hunting, put it on my truck bed while I loaded dog and decoys and then drove off. Realized when I got home and went back, but by then it was gone. Put an ad on Craigslist and Facebook offering reward. Nice old guy called me and told me that he had it, saw it all happen and ran over and grabbed it before anyone else did. It was a crowded parking lot at a boat ramp full of duck hunters. Wouldn’t accept my reward money, I was young, he was comfortably retired.

I have lost countless knives, sunglasses and tools. Could supply a mid size construction company with the amount of tools I have lost over the last 15 years.