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Packing for upcoming plains deer hunt in the rain, I am once again missing a headlamp. I end up buying 2 new ones every year and a successful year has one of them surviving. I nominate headlamps as the most likely piece of gear I will lose in any given fall.

Any other nominees?

shooting sticks (the Stoney Point tall ones). there's at least $500 worth of them scattered across the western states by now....

Gloves.

knife sheath. if your like me and don't wear it on your belt, but carry it in your pack.
finish up with a critter, and somehow the ground opened up while you weren't looking and swallowed it.

Same as Snowy Mountaineer. Gloves, or actually, ONE glove.

L.W.

There's a guy on another board I visit who lost his Swaro EL's on the mountain.

For me, it's pocket knives.

Yeah, I will go with Headlamp. I buy a new one every year. I use them for work too and somehow when I start to pack my stuff for a trip......hum.. where is that headlamp.

Flashlights. I very nearly lost a Surefire G2 flashlight last weekend. Good thing it was yellow, or I would have never seen it.

Lost a bugle last year. Realized it was missing about two miles from where I last used it and I went all the way back and scoured the hillside never to see it again. Darn camo really blended in!

My buddy lost a $650.00 GPS the very first day he had it out! We went back later and tried to search where he had gone, but it was about a 5 mile trek he took. I asked him why didn't he just use his new GPS to find his lost one? Went over well!

Forgot, I'm always losing my Elk INC. cow calls too! I carry two or three in my pack at all times because I'm bound to lose at least one per season if not more!

Leatherman multi-tools. I lay them down and go off and leave them. Despite being silver and shiny, they just seem to disappear once I lay them down.

I would have to say a knife. While working for the forest service I found at least a knife a week and some weeks multiples. Sit down to eat lucnh and a knife would be sitting on a rock or stuck in a tree etc...

The only thing I personally lose on a regular basis has been gloves. If I lose the right one it's no big deal I just use the left on in bow season with my release on the right.

It depends, staying in public huts I'd have to say food and coffee. You leave your food in your food bag on the bench and miraculously while you're hunting all the good stuff vanishes.
Same for coffee, leave it sitting and it evaporates.... funny stuff.

Out on my own I don't usually lose stuff.

Most definately Headlamps, or even worse, my keys!!! I always carry a spare set!

Guilty! I'm betting your $$ estimate is low....

my brother has lost two hearing aids in years past

I've lost my butt more than once.

I can keep track of a hadlamp, but knives and gloves, or more like Leanwolf said, ONE glove!

me too, boggy..

seems like i can lose pocket knives when i am in unfamiliar surroundings... i always keep one of my good ones stashed in my stuff, but i tend to use a swiss army knife for most general chores...
they are inexpensively excellent, and esaily replaceable..

i worked maintenance in a steel mill for years...
never, never lay a turned off flashlight down!!!