Lost or Found

aglore

A thread like this was started on another forum I participate in. What have you lost or found while on, going to or returning from a hunting or fishing trip? Six years ago I lost about $600.00 worth of rods and reels while on a hunting trip. Had laid them on the ground next to the meat pole and it snowed overnight. When we packed all the meat into the boat along with the camping gear and what not I had forgot all about the rods and reels that were put next to the meat pole. I guess the old saying "out of sight, out of mind" really works. Anyway, about 125 miles downriver I had stopped to change props and was moving things around the boat and noticed the rods and reels were not onboard. Nobody remembered packing them. Well, I went back to the same spot the next year and sure enough, they were gone forever.

3 years ago myself and some friends were rummaging around an abandoned and dilapidated cabin while on another hunting trip and I found a homemade knife. Gave it to one of the people from Texas that was hunting with me. Also found some old photos of a guy with his apparently pet wolverine. Pictures showed him feeding it by hand and another showed it following behind him on a trail while walking somewhere.

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101AIRBORNE

Guess I have been lucky. In forty years of hunting, I do not recall
losing anything. Have found American Indian artifacts and an old
Winchester 1895 carbine. Gave the Indian artifacts to the nearest
College and tried to give the Winchester to the nearest Law Office.
They told me to keep it and I did. 101

JustC

Buddy of mine was leaving a hunt on his own property, and came across a Rem 700 243 leaning up against a tree. Some guys have all the luck

A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.

Rembrandt

My youngest son and I were Antelope hunting on a 50,000 acre ranch in Wyoming when he lost his folding knife...it had his name engraved in very small letters across the back of the handle. Nine months later it arrived in mail....the rancher found it while on horseback tending some cattle, just happened to see the name and was kind enough to return it.

A radio host for a local outdoor sportsmans show had been out Pheasant hunting with his engraved Beretta 20 gauge O/U....got done hunting and put the shotgun in the case then laid it on the roof of his car and forgot about it. Drove 90 miles home and remembered where he had last seen it.....got on the radio show for the next couple of weekends explaining what had happen and offered a reward....a farmer who listened to the show found it along side the road and returned it....came back in good shape.

Tazmutt

Worst I ever lost was a Normark Presentation fixed blade huntin knife, only other thing is pair of Bushnell Binocs. I think they are somewhere around Lok Otelnuk, in WAY northern Quebec ... still got the case though

Never found NUTTIN. Got a real nice pile of Muley sheds from Wyoming.

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Edited by - Tazmutt on 09/27/2002 21:58:20

pickenup

A friend and I went plinking a few years ago. When we got back I could not find 10 mags for my High Standard. Don't know what happened to them.

The gene pool needs chlorine.

barto

ive got a friend who found a lever action rifle embedded in a tree fork.(someone had leaned it up against the tree & forgot it & the tree had eventually grown completely around it)
he chainsawed the stump off and still has it as far as i know.
barto

the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer

nunn

On a beach in Hawaii, back around 1972, I found a really nice Seiko self-winding chronometer watch. It was buried in the sand, and as I was walking and my foot went in and out of the sand, I saw a flash. I thought it was a quarter, so I dug around to find it and it was a watch.

In a national park somewhere in Arizona, my dad found a Paul Briguette gold watch. Nice.

When Mom and Dad were living on the river up in Arkansas, a spring flood washed a 12 foot aluminum jonboat onto their place. No one ever came to claim it, so they had a spare.

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Iconoclast

Adams Quail Hunter says I shouldn't mention the items at the bottom of the bog, so I won't . . . .

Have found some wonderful antiques bottles & iron ware in the woods. Literally stumbled over a super five gallon or so hand-forged iron pot many years ago, which now holds wood for my fireplace. With some bead blasting & stove black, it looks like the $XXX jobs from an antique shop!

fawn_boxer

about 3 years ago, a friend of mine was at his hunt club in va when he noticed something bright and reflecting in some bryers, so after getting up closer he noticed it was a deflated helium birthday balloon. the back side of the balloon had writing that said if anyone should find this balloon please write to the address listed below and tell us where you located the balloon. well he wrote to the texas address that was on the balloon and said that he found the balloon in virginia and he gave his phone number. it turned out that a woman called him and told him that she and her daughter had turned the balloon loose from texas just three weeks before he had found it. just makes ya wonder when ya turn a balloon loose, how far does it really go.

allen griggs

I had very expensive Puma folding knife. This was a beautiful knife made of very hard German steel, cost about ten times what a Buck knife cost. I was hunting in the Oconee River Swamp in central Ga. Rather than a stand, I just had sat down on a big fallen tree. I was sitting there for 2 hrs, watching for deer,and looking at my pretty knife. When I got back to the truck, I realized I had left the knife setting on that tree. One acre of that swamp looks just like another, I could never backtrack and find that knife. Now, I just buy Buck knives, they cut fine and you can lose a Puma as easy as a Buck.

4wheeler

I was trout fishing walking beside a creek and looked down and found a nice Case XX, 2 blade, folding knife about 6 inchs long closed.
It had never been sharpened,still have it.

I was pushing and leveling some ground so I could get a trailor to this old rock wall(my wife collects rocks).I dug up an old gulf sign still had the orange paint and was not bent,probably not worth anything but interesting because of the way I found it.

"It was like that when I got here".

Edited by - 4wheeler on 09/28/2002 23:46:18

maggiethecat

this one was a really great find. i once found a quarter in the washer after a load of laundry was done.

The greatest happiness is to see your enemy scattered before you, to see his village in ashes, and to gather to your bed his wives and daughters.-Genghis Khan 1226

Big Sky Redneck

I found one of my best friends while walking the gun one day in the woods, his name is Bucky. I stumbled upon him while he was eating some corn on the side of a field, I decided I wanted to talk to him,,,,,so I pulled up the rifle and blasted him. Now I see him everyday, hanging on my wall. Nice find I say.

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Real men use little bullets.

steve45

Was the scuba diver at a Marina in Utah. The Marina Manager asked me to dive under the docks for some dropped tools. Found a crutch, fishing pole, pair of binoculars and a Smith and Wesson model 29 44 mag. Nickel, 5.5 inch barrel. Took my lunch right there and went home and cleaned up the Smith. It was a small town, word got around and the park service eventually took it away from me. the owner had dropped it unloading a houseboat and didnt realize it until he got home and had no pistol. He did send me a letter and reward though. I dont know what happened to the other stuff, I left it on the dock.

4wheeler

7mm nut---You do know there is help available if you just ask for it

"It was like that when I got here".

Big Sky Redneck

Nahh, I don't need any help, got 'em with one shot!

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Real men use little bullets.

ndbilly

I was hunting in this swamp in GA and I sat down on a stump and there was this great Puma folding knife.. Nah, just bustin' stones, Allen. Never found anything worthwhile, did manage to lose the warmest gloves I ever owned. Left them sitting on a table in a hunting cabin in New Brunswick. Called a few days later but no one knew anything about them. Man, they were warm, waterproof and fit like, well, like a glove!

Iconoclast

Not hunting, but the most fortuitous find I ever made was a tiny little rock. My first wife lost the center diamond from her engagement ring. A few weeks later, I was tilling the garden one last time before winter & saw something sparkling on the top of the fresh dirt. Most profitable bit of gardening I ever did!!