Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Of all the things you can forget to take on your hunting trip

Boots. Hunting in Crocs is not ideal.

Dad used to routinely forget his ammo for his .300 Savage. We had about a dozen boxes of .300 Savage with one round fired out of them.

I've had two notables. I forgot my heavy coat one time. The worst was the year I forgot the bolt for my rifle. I was hunting with my son. No problem-I was sitting with him anyways. Big problem-his scope fogged. Never trust a Trashco. Drove back to the cabin to get the backup gun. Driving into the resort, jumped about a half dozen deer, one all most standing on our porch. Driving back to the happy hunting grounds, had a nice spiker running right down the middle of the road. Actually had to slow down so he could get out of the way. Saw several more deer during the 20 minute ride. Of course, never saw another deer that day.

Oh come on Scott, a real hunter carries his rifle with the bolt in his back and takes brass, primers, powder, and bullets and loads accordingly to the shot.

Can't remember which, but I know guy that brought two boots but were not the same brand or fit or he forgot the boots period..He got on a local phone and had Cabelas ship them UPS to the outfitter's restaurant.Betcha forgot about that one.

Removing the bolt makes no sence to me

Life jacket.

My 12" Saw and Scabbard that carried a nice big Meat knife and a file.

Anybody ever hear quartered an Elk (including sawing through the pelvis) with a Victorinox Swiss Officer's Model ?

GTC

yep!

I forgot the right barrel, once. I had four good shots at the same buck, and could NOT understand how this deer was bulletproof! Until I realized. I had been firing 12ga sabots through a field barrel. What happened to the slugs, i can only guess, since it left lead traces on the choke, and no where else. I even reloaded! Finally caught the fact, i had no usable ammo for the gun I had in hand, I packed up and went home.

Mosberg 500. With interchangeable barrels.

How long did it take the blister on your Right index finger to heal ?

I did a float trip down the middle fork of the Salmon river in Idaho.

Upon arrival at our launch site at 6am in the morning after driving all night I was given a dry bag and told all my gear had to fit in that one bag.

Well sorting through my gear in the dark, I figured I had everything I needed. This was in early June with snow on the ground at our launch site.

We wore wet suits the first day of floating. In camp that night I unpacked my bag and realized I forgot to pack pants!

We were already 20 miles into the float in the River of no return wilderness and I had no pants!

Luckily I had a pair of shorts and as we dropped altitude and the weather warmed up and the shorts were perfect.

The tent. Was coyote hunting out near Fort Rock. Late December. Brought the fly, poles, stakes. No tent. Snow on the ground. Close to 0. Tarps and a big fire. Was kinda nice actually.

I forgot my orange butt-out tool (otherwise known as the Obama tool).

Drove 600 miles back home to get it.

I've forgotten my rifle sling a couple of times and had to improvise.

But the most important thing never to forget is toilet paper.

KC

Yeah. Needless to say I no longer do that.

On an elk trip I forgot Butler Creek scope caps a couple years ago. Was almost $2,500 before we got outta the local gun shop. Hunting buddy now makes sure one of us "forgets" something on the trip so we can go back to the same gun shop. I didn't forget anything this year and STILL walked out 2 guns heavy and $1100 lighter.

I store my bolts seperately in a seperate safe and room. Hopefully if someone ever steals my rifles, they will get caught trying to replace the bolts. You do have to have a good system to be sure you get the right bolt back to the correct rifle.

Almost 35 years ago, I was in the Navy and came home to elk hunt. My brothers and dad had already gone on a week long hunt the season before. I had a limited amount of time so dad decided to do a quick, lightweight spike camp with with me in a Wilderness area at timberline. There was no established trail up the drainage so we decided to lead one pack horse and hike up.

Day before season started we arrived at timberline after a three hour hike. While unloading stuff dad realized he forgot the pots and pans.

We cooked Dinty Moore Stew in the cans over the fire the first night.

In the morning I went hunting while dad hung close by camp and kept an eye on a big opening in the basin. About mid-morning a couple hunters came up the trail into the basin. Dad recognized one and they began talking, and dad mentioned he had forgot pots and pans.

His friend said he had camped in this basin about 15 years ago and had stashed a couple pots under some rocks in the scree field 50 yards from our tent. I came strolling into camp just in time to see dad's friend lift up a rock to reveal two pots.

What are the chances at 11,500 ft in altitude in a Wilderness area?


Casey

My dad showed up to deer camp 15yrs ago with a then 30yr old Coleman lantern that he hadn't checked in 20yrs...............OR before leaving home. No surprise, the fuel cap gasket was shot, and it was to be our main light source in camp.

A four hour round-trip later we had a new cap, and a new second latern. When he's giving me a tough time about something, I remind him about his lantern.

beautiful thing. If der ain't no givin and takin be'tween the newcomers and the old timers ther'd be no camp.

I bet my old coleman leaks right now. I might fix it...or maybe not. Seem to remember my dad fiddling with the one I have a few moons back. Might be an experience for the lads to replace mantles, seals and whatnot as the sun goes down. course dad waited until the sun WAS down to find out something was broke.