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.

 

[Loper]

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.

That’s rough! Did you get another spotter? If so, is it another Swaro or now just a budget spotter?

 

[Sully_44]

That’s rough! Did you get another spotter? If so, is it another Swaro or now just a budget spotter?

Ha! No, it’s a Swaro. Unfortunately I’m a glass snob

 

[Loper]

Ha! No, it’s a Swaro. Unfortunately I’m a glass snob

Let me know the next time you go out to glass. I’ll follow your footsteps the next day and will be scanning around. I’d love to find a Swaro in the woods LOL.

 

[Slings]

Lost my iPhone this fall while antelope hunting. Turns out a black phone conceals its’ self extremely well on open prairie, never found it.

 

[sierracharlie338]

I didn’t lose it per se. But took a trip with the family and took my favorite watch, actual wedding ring and college ring. Got home can’t find them anywhere. Looked for months and months. About a year later my wife says guess what I found…

Turns out she put them in the front office where no one would ever look for those things and the only reason we found them is because we were moving. I’m on my wife’s ass all the time about moving my stuff but this one took the cake.

Lost a Ruger 22 pistol somehow, pretty sure it was stolen but have no clue when or where. Get a call one day from an investigator at a sheriffs office half way across the state saying he has my gun. Again no clue how/when it walked off but ending up with some questionable characters who found themselves on the wrong side of the law.

 

[Sully_44]

Let me know the next time you go out to glass. I’ll follow your footsteps the next day and will be scanning around. I’d love to find a Swaro in the woods LOL.

Haha! Knock on wood, I’m 3 years sober right now

 

[omicron1792]

Took my son fishing in a remote pond when he was about 4. We were out on a little flat bottom boat. He caught a fish and when I reached over to pull it in the boat my iPhone jumped out of my front shirt pocket and sank to bottom of pond.

we kept fishing and by the time we got home it was 4-5 hours later. My wife was worried sick bc she hadn’t heard from us that whole time. Ha

 

[Jimmy]

Lost my truck key for about 20 minutes. Searched all my pockets and pack while panic set in. Didn't have a spare. Finally found it, felt so relieved.

 

[dlee56]

Custom Stonehocker Spike knife. $250-$300 value. It’s somewhere out there clipped to the chokecherry that ripped it out of my pocket while I was busting brush.