Back in 2015 I was elk hunting in the little belts of MT. The same day I shot a bull, I also found some binocs on my way out. For some reason I've decided to try and find the owner.
All I will say is they're not cheapies and I suspect the guy was on horse. Send PM with what they are and where about you lost em if your missing a pair. Or text me.
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Nathan
Lost a set a while back but not in Montana. Lost mine on the breaks of the Grande Ronde river in NE Oregon
I'll be damned - it just happens I lost a pair of upper end binos elk hunting here in Montana in 2015. Would love to help you out, but in all honesty, I wasn't in the Little Belts and I found my Zeiss 10x40 Classics after the season ended and I'd already replaced them. They were buried in my safe all season...
Ndhunterman: If those binoculars are of the Zeiss brand then contact Zeiss America.
A few years back I found a set of saddlebags in the road here in SW Montana. Amongst many other things in the saddlebags were a set of Zeiss binoculars.
The Zeiss folks register their owners by serial number and I eventually learned of this and contacted them - I asked Zeiss to contact the owner and give him my phone number.
The owner of the Zeiss binoculars and the rest of the gear was most appreciative of my efforts - it solved an insurance problem he was having.
Sadly the saddlebags had been run over and the Zeiss binoculars were in need of repair - but again the insurance claim was then able to be finished.
Good luck in finding the owner.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
Correction, it was 2014...time files apparently. # 3kidsunder5
Contact the manufacturer with the serial number to see if they've been registered. Might be a start.
Did you happen to find a range finder in the snowies? I lost one about that time when bringing an elk out to surenough road.
K
I lost my Swarovski's out the back of the pick up when the topper opened up. The guns were the next up ready to go out when we stopped for gas in Colorado Springs. Okay, we had four quartered elk underneath all the stuff and we were loaded heavy, but Gary should have tied down that door. Those binos were in my pack along with other stuff including my check book. I was flying home out of Denver and when I got home the phone rang and a Colorado guy was asking if I'd lost my pack? Great news, but he said that the binos were in bad shape and that he would UPS my pack back to me. It sure renewed my faith in some people. Dropping a pack at 65 mph on the highway was bad enough, but we were pulling five horses in a tandem trailer that that ran over the pack too! Yeah those binos WERE in bad shape, but they had a lifetime guarantee so I sent them back to Swarovski in Rhode Island because I had "dropped" them. They said that they couldn't fix them which was what I expected... But, they said that they would send them back to the factory in Austria. A couple months later I got my binos back repaired even better than new N/C(!) along with a letter written in Austrian that I wish that I have kept full of exclamation marks!!! That is some great customer service.
Did you happen to find a range finder in the snowies? I lost one about that time when bringing an elk out to surenough road.
K
Nope, never hunted the snowies. Found these binocs laying by a trail a few miles in...
Good luck with your quest, sir. My wife and I find some pleasure in finding family bibles, and military medals, and finding the families of those items, and seeing if they would like them back. We have returned thousands of items so far, including Freeman papers, indenturment papers, family photos, and such.
Best of luck on your search.
Another good reason not to buy expensive chit...
I found a set in the road two years ago. The owner was proud to get them back.
I was hunting in 1992 and one of the guides had a sweet pair of Steiner binocs. Seemed expensive for this particular cowboy. Asked him about them. He said he climbed up a mountain to glass from a rock ledge, and found them resting there. This was three hours in on a 4WD, and then another six hours in on horseback in the Selway Bitteroot Wilderness area in Idaho. He was putting them to good use. Only saw one person the whole week who was not in our party. I hear now the high country hunting sucks as the Elk calves get all eaten by wolves.
A couple friends of mine were hunting Elk up above Gardiner MT a few years back, and found some very expensive binocs, and other gear including a Weatherby rifle. The great find was short lived due to finding the owner dead nearby.
Ken
I'd rather die elk hunting than most other places...
Ouch. Although far worse ways to go