hardly stand it

[jay83196]

Another week I can hardly stand it, I have started to pack etc made me remember when I forgot stuff in the past thought would be funny to hear what some guys have forgotten and how much of pain it was to forget it. I left my bow home once cost me two hours of driving back, never left gun yet.

[picksbigwagon]

Well I have a little over a month to go until the Iowa opener, I have forgetten little stuff over the year but the best thing I ever did was create a excel spreadsheat and make changes each and every year. I sit in truck in my driveway and double check the list prior to leaving. My hunting buddy thinks I have issues...........

[jay83196]

Me too I have a deer and bear hunting checklist....wallet, gun, ammo, 4 wheeler etc etc too much to remember too far to drive back.

[pooly_31]

a couple years back my dad and brother and i were unpacking and getting the cabin situated the friday before season started and we got done and noticed a severe lack of blaze orange glowing in the closet...dad forgot both totes full of all our blaze orange gear my mom was not entirely happy to deliver it!

[TooTallTom]

A few years ago, my cousin shot a pretty nice buck. I went to help him out with it, and we discovered that neither of us had our knives. (We both figured for sure the other guy would have his so didn't sweat it too much when we couldn't find ours.) Luckily, I keep one in my truck, so we used that. We ended up taking turns using a dull knife to gut a half-frozen deer, and sticking our hands down our pants between "shifts" since it was like 17-below that morning! Dragging that bugger out of the popple brush was fun, too. He was frozen into a kind of c-shape.

Good times!

[John478]

Several years ago I went out for a evening hunt when I got back to my truck that night. I realized that I had never losded my gun.

[nwhunter]

Well I have a little over a month to go until the Iowa opener, I have forgetten little stuff over the year but the best thing I ever did was create a excel spreadsheat and make changes each and every year. I sit in truck in my driveway and double check the list prior to leaving. My hunting buddy thinks I have issues...........

Using a spreadsheet is the way to go! I also try to leave my hunting stuff in the same couple of totes so I can grab, compare against my sheet and go. I've update that list every year when I get back and I still forget stuff since I also dip into my hunting stash for bow season and ice fishing. I know in the past I've seen threads with hunting supply list, might be time to get that going again...

[Monkster]

Oh yeah, I have quite a few ongoing spreadsheets! Rifle, bow, Ripley youth, guys weekend. I am accused of being unorganzied everywhere else EXCEPT for "my" stuff!

[Fever]

Made a four hour drive last year to find I didn't have my clip to my 30-06. Had ammo and basically everything else... just no clip. So my 5 round clip with one in chamber became a single shot bolt action. Still worked though as I put a 180 grain in the boiler room of a heavy fork on the last day. Weird... how do you forget a clip anyway?

[Musky Buck]

The knife deal TooTallTom I deliberately leave mine in the truck so if I connect I get to use anothers which then they have to clean lol. I don't like how slimy and etc. my knife gets and often freezes or whatever, lol so I get deep in the swamp with my drag out team and go man my knife, but those boys were suckers once, sucker twice, now I have to show proof I have my knife before we deploy to get the deer/dress it out, if the deer is harvested early I dress it out b4 the drag team, if it's closer to meeting up time my walk is 15 minutes so then I try to weasel the boys. I once took my rifle sling off and used it muzzleloading and told myself to remember it the following year, but dad cased our guns on Friday night and I just forgot about the sling, likely a result of Anheuser Busch so I looked like Charles Ingalls on opening day, sling was back on by the night hunt.

[cavalierowner]

I am also a list maker. In fact I have lists for almost everything I do. My hunting buddies give me a bad time about it every year, but I have never forgotten anything of any consequence. In fact almost every year at least one of them will ask me to e-mail them my list.

I just happened to think, there was one year when I forgot my caps for my muzzleloader and didn't realize it til I go to my stand. But it was only a 10 minute walk back to the truck to get them. So no big deal; I just felt stupid.

[TruthWalleyes]

Hello, My name is Andy, And i'm a list maker!

I've got lists for fishing trips, whether it be for walleye or sturgeon, or flatheads, etc. Lists for Pheasants, Ducks, Deer.

It makes packing quite fast and easy. Update the lists each year when new things are added, and other removed.

[nwhunter]

Hello, My name is Andy, And i'm a list maker!

I've got lists for fishing trips, whether it be for walleye or sturgeon, or flatheads, etc. Lists for Pheasants, Ducks, Deer.

It makes packing quite fast and easy. Update the lists each year when new things are added, and other removed.

[wdgold]

Few years back a guy in our party forgot his GUN!!!, no kidding. We bailed him out because another guy had brought an extra gun believe it or not, so he was able to hunt.

[Boar]

Had to hunt sunday of the opener one year, why? forgot to buy lisence by friday