Time for some levity here... I bought a beater of 3-piece T/D recurve to refinish some months ago. I took it apart and "put it away.". For the life of me, I can't find the darn thing now!!!!!!! :biglaugh:
I know with all of us being hoarders in our own right, I can't be the first to do this. Let's here some humorous stories of losing stuff like this. It's here somewhere...
You're way too young for that to happen!!!
Maybe it wasn't you that 'lost' it. Just sayin'... :dunno:
I have clothes that disappear out of my closet with alarming regularity. Nobody there these days but me and the missus.
Never lost a bow or archery stuff...that I know of...but last year I bought two pair of Permethrin treated knee socks at Cabelas with a gift card from my daughter. I KNOW I put them in a spot so I wouldn't forget to take them to the cabin. I've looked everywhere but never saw them again. Funny, my wife just asked about them again last night.
Even further back I bought a shower valve kit to replace a leaking valve. It came with an oval plate to cover the hole cut into the fiberglass wall to get at the valve. Cut out an oval slightly smaller than the plate then put the kit aside for a better time to finish it. Still haven't found the kit or another coverplate big enough to cover the hole so the cut out piece is still taped in place. And then the town lowered water pressure so it doesn't leak anymore. Guess I'll have to empty out the garage someday to find the kit or come up with plan B.
I've lost my glasses and while looking for them, discovered I was wearing them.
Happens at my age of 70:)
LOL
Just look for it in the last place you put it. Works for me. :)
Actually, just found some stakes for my turkey decoys that I put away after season last year. Had been looking for a couple of weeks. Found them while looking for something else. Didn't find the other thing I was looking for though.
I moved 2 years ago and I can't find three wood arrows I made special rabbit points for. I have looked high and low. Also lost a map of a reservoir I live near that showed the lake before it was flooded. Gone. The worst was I put three choke tubes for my waterfowl gun away for safe keeping and found them 20 years later in an empty shell box.
Funny this came subject came up. I (we) were moving stuff so the man cleaning our carpets could get under the beds. I found two large wood boxes still wrapped with moving company stickers on them from 2013. One box contains old pellet guns. But the other box had 2 doz wood arrows, broadheads still in wrapper, old publication from Fred Bear Sports Club on the origin of the bow quiver plus stuff. That's 4doz woods that have surfaced in the last month! Funny thing is I don't recall making them, quit frankly they are butt ugly.
Quote from: M60gunner on May 02, 2019, 03:30:10 PM
Funny thing is I don't recall making them, quit frankly they are butt ugly.
:biglaugh: Now, that right there is funny! :laughing:
Lost my favorite insulated, camo Radar cap. Looked high ... looked low ... should have looked at my son's house in NC. He sent me a hunting pix and sure enough ... he was wearing MY favorite insulated, camo Radar cap. Seems he's been wearing it for the last 8 years. Heck, it doesn't get cold enough in NC to wear an insulated, camo Radar hat. Especially a STOLEN one!
Good Luck Son! Love Ya! Dad
That happens to me constantly!
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. :dunno:
Lost my car once in college. Parked with friends and walked to a party. Friends left early. Took me till day light to find the dang thing by myself. Probably a good thing I couldn't find it.
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I lost a bet once. But only once.
Kirk, That is an amazing gambling record you have. Only one (1) loss. Wondering if you'd like me to spot for ya in Vegas? I'll bet we'd win a bunch of cash . . .
:notworthy:
Quote from: Captain*Kirk on May 02, 2019, 09:55:54 PM
I lost a bet once. But only once.
Quote from: 1Arrow1Kill on May 02, 2019, 10:16:58 PM
Kirk, That is an amazing gambling record you have. Only one (1) loss. Wondering if you'd like me to spot for ya in Vegas? I'll bet we'd win a bunch of cash . . .
:notworthy:
I'd lay odds he just quit betting.
Then again I dont win many bets so . . .
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Quote from: TrapperJohn77 on May 02, 2019, 09:30:05 PM
Lost my car once in college. Parked with friends and walked to a party. Friends left early. Took me till day light to find the dang thing by myself. Probably a good thing I couldn't find it.
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LOL. :laugh: :laugh:
I come from a small town. When I was a teenager, my family and I went to a big town a few hours away to do some shopping. After we bought all we planned, we passed by a gun shop, so my father and I told my mother and my sister we would go there just for a quick peek and then take them to the jewelry store for a treat as promised.
This was before cell phones, mind you.
We found parking, walked to the gun shop, my dad bought something really quick... and then we realized neither of us could remember where we left the car... and the ladies.
It took us over an hour to find them. We knew shops had closed by then, and ancient words came to my mind... "Hell hath no fury..." Well, we had two of them sitting in the car, and neither of us wanted to approach them.
Boy, I started writing this post with a smile, now I feel the gloom. Think I'll call my mom and apologize again.
A few years ago I lost a set of limbs for a Morrison td. I have looked high and low and have not found them yet. My only guess is I threw them away with some bow boxes. I still have the hope that one day I will find them in the shop shoved away in a cubby hole.
Quote from: 1Arrow1Kill on May 02, 2019, 10:16:58 PM
Kirk, That is an amazing gambling record you have. Only one (1) loss. Wondering if you'd like me to spot for ya in Vegas? I'll bet we'd win a bunch of cash . . .
:notworthy:
Forgot to add...I don't bet unless it's a sure thing. So that one loss was pretty dismal.
Lost my Dad's duck hunting canoe when I was in high school. It was a weekend float camping trip with my buddies and there was way too much alcohol involved. Needless to say my hay bailing money from that summer went to buy him a new canoe. I have thought about it over the years and still don't know what happened to that canoe. My dad still ribs me about it now and then. :knothead:
Quote from: supernaut on May 03, 2019, 01:07:42 PM
I have thought about it over the years and still don't know what happened to that canoe. My dad still ribs me about it now and then. :knothead:
Deliverance? :help:
We were pretty drunk but not "Deliverance" drunk :biglaugh:
Back in the early 80s a young man asked if I had a bow that he could borrow with some hunting arrows for a friend so they could go deer hunting.
I loaned him my Black Widow hunter 45#@28 62".
I also loaned my 6 arrow Darton hip quiver with 6 Easton XX75s with Bear Razorheads.
A few weeks later I asked if he was going to bring it back......... :dunno:
He didn't know what happened to them. :banghead:
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. :nono:
Ouch Graps. Maybe that is why Shakespeare in Hamlet wrote: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend."
Ahhh, what does Shakespeare know? I appreciate your generous spirit. I guess those boys needed that Black Widow and arrows more than you.
Quote from: Graps on May 06, 2019, 10:00:09 PM
Back in the early 80s a young man asked if I had a bow that he could borrow with some hunting arrows for a friend so they could go deer hunting.
I loaned him my Black Widow hunter 45#@28 62".
I also loaned my 6 arrow Darton hip quiver with 6 Easton XX75s with Bear Razorheads.
A few weeks later I asked if he was going to bring it back......... :dunno:
He didn't know what happened to them. :banghead:
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. :nono:
Man, that must've hurt! :dunno:
Graps that reminded me of a show I saw many years ago.
It was a documentary or something like that. An eskimo was telling someone that he no longer loaned out his gear, only his wife. His spear would come back dull, his kayak would come back leaking, and so on. But his wife always came back fine.
Quote from: Graps on May 06, 2019, 10:00:09 PM
Back in the early 80s a young man asked if I had a bow that he could borrow with some hunting arrows for a friend so they could go deer hunting.
I loaned him my Black Widow hunter 45#@28 62".
I also loaned my 6 arrow Darton hip quiver with 6 Easton XX75s with Bear Razorheads.
A few weeks later I asked if he was going to bring it back......... :dunno:
He didn't know what happened to them. :banghead:
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. :nono:
My son loaned a friend just getting into hunting an older bow he never shot any more, a half dozen arrows and a quiver. He didn't have a bow case so I loaned him a cheapie I had. He hunted twice with the guy to get him started then told him to keep the stuff until he was able to afford a better bow.
The next summer my son saw all the gear hanging in a pawn shop.... :dunno: Some people have no morals whatsoever.
I rented a van in San Francisco. Forgot where I parked it, reported it stollen, filled out all the reports at the precinct, walking back to the motel 3 hours later......found it.
Five or six years ago got back from ETAR and couldn't find one hiking shoe. And I'm the kind of guy that can stand to lose anything. So unpacked the pop up trailer searched high and low, set up the tent again, went through all the boxes for a second time, nothing. Contacted everyone that camped with us, nothing. The following year set up the portable shower and there is my shoe. But the other shoe was at home:(.
Last summer I was out shooting my bow in the back yard. We we're getting ready to go camping and had the pop-up camper pulled out so that we could pack it up. I got called to do something so I set my bow down and went to do whatever it was. When I came back I couldn't find my bow. I looked everywhere for it. I checked everywhere, including my brothers room. Even interrogated him a little bit. He didn't have it though. I couldn't believe that I lost a bow and pretty much assumed someone had stolen it out of the back yard while I was gone. The next morning we cranked the camper down to leave, and there was my bow. I had set it on top of the camper and while I was gone my dad had come out and cranked the camper up with my bow on top of it. That was a relief!
LOL...don't feel too badly...my cousin left his on top of the truck and drove home...Don't know where we lost it but somewhere on I-87 I think ... A beautiful Big 5...great shooter
Back in the 70s when I first started bowhunting I was walking a path to where I planned to hunt before daylight and got hit by a pain. I shed my treestand, leaned my bow against a tree and walked a few feet off the trail to take care of business. After completing the task I went back for my bow and stand and couldn't find them in the dark. I had only gone about 20 ft off the trail but my gear was nowhere to be found.
I looked for an hour or so, as it was getting light I walked back to my truck and followed the path back to my gear that was right where I had left it. I had turned right on my way out of the bushes when I should have turned left.
Another time I killed a deer on the side of a mountain, I was dragging it off the mountain and hit a section of vertical bluffs. I left the deer above the bluffs and went looking for a way through the rocks to the valley below. I found a way down and went back for my deer but couldn't find it, I looked high and low and couldn't find it.
In desperation I ended up going backup the mountain to the gut pile and following the drag marks back to my deer, another turned right when I should have turned left episode.
If you are married ask your wife. I place stuff all the time in a spot where I can find it. Two days later it disappears and I can't locate it anywhere. Ask the wife and she says "it was just laying there so I put it away for you". Happens way too many times for me. :laughing: :laughing:
I have had better luck having loaned items returned. Years ago a neighbor asked if she could borrow a bar of soap and then tried to return it USED........no, no please keep it! :dunno: