What'd you forget?

[Gearqueer]

First backpacking trip with my GF, one of the first dates, I forgot the tent poles. Used heavy rocks in the corners and rope under a tree to hold it up. She stuck around anyway, lucky me.
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Next time you tell that story leave out the part about using rope.


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[Gerbdog]

Next time you tell that story leave out the part about using rope.


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Haha, well played.

 

[Superdoo]

Went ice fishing a couple years ago. Forgot my down parka!
I live in North freaking Dakota!!!!!

 

[Lark Bunting]

Here's a picture of, "Not a tent".

 

[Lytro]

Forgetting my spoon for my dehydrated meals on a backpack hunt was a rough one.

 

[Dapper]

I forgot my arrows. Luckily it was just for an evening hunt. My bow broke the evening before. That bow was always in its case with the quiver on. My backup bow wouldn't fit in its case with the quiver on. So I grabbed the backup bow, hiked in over a mile to watch a water source. Once I got there I realized I didn't attach the quiver. You can be having the worst hunt of your life and then it can change in a heartbeat, later that afternoon I shot a big 6x7.

 

[Marble]

I forgot TP, toothbrush and chap stick with SPF on one hunt....

 

[trophyhill]

We're all stuffing the last few things into our packs, going over gear lists, grocery lists, piling up the garage or hobby rooms with stuff... and I have a nagging feeling I'm forgetting something. The last couple things on my lists are oil change and tire rotation, both appointments are tomorrow.

Thought I'd start a lighthearted thread on things we've forgotten. Plus, it may remind someone they forgot to add it to their gear list.

One year when my son and I were heading out to do an overnight scouting trip I thought I had thrown in a cheap tent. When we got to the trail head I realized I had thrown in a beach sun shade. When I got home I took a sharpie and wrote, "Not A Tent" on both ends. The damn bag looks identical to a tent I also own.

If you're so inclined, finish the sentence, "One time, I forgot..."

last time i had that nagging feeling, i forgot my bugle tube. you talk about a deflating feeling 12 hours from the house. but as we do in the elkwoods, we adapt and overcome. i cut a couple gatorade bottles and taped them together, along with a Primos pack bugle that never got used with the camo duct tape in my bag of misc goodies and went hunting. killed a 4 point bull a couple days later using that homemade tube.

 

[3darcher2]

The first whitetail buck I ever killed with a bow I shot in faded blue jeans and white tennis shoes at about 15 yards. I did have a camo shirt on, but I had forgotten my outerlayer camo and boots. Fortunately it was early October in PA and it was a pretty nice day.

 

[CJF]

Forgot my boots once. Yes you can go miles above tree line wearing crocs as long as your also wearing OR Crocodile Gaiters and DarnTough socks!

 

[xOttox]

Sunscreen. Antelope trip last year in the NE panhandle first week of September. Weather wasn't to hot but after 6 days under the sun I was burnt to a crisp. My face, neck, and hands hurt so bad those last 2 days.

This year, it's the first thing I've thrown in my bag.

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[Billy Goat]

I've forgotten TP, more than once.

That's the reason for every sleeveless shirt I own.

 

[Jqualls]

last time i had that nagging feeling, i forgot my bugle tube. you talk about a deflating feeling 12 hours from the house. but as we do in the elkwoods, we adapt and overcome. i cut a couple gatorade bottles and taped them together, along with a Primos pack bugle that never got used with the camo duct tape in my bag if misc goodies and went hunting. killed a 4 point bull a couple days later using that homemade tube.

Hah I did similar hack last year. I left my tube in the vehicle for a day hunt. Didn't realize it until I was 2 miles in and about 1200' feet of climbing. Cut the end of a Gatorade bottle off but unfortunately only had one bottle and was not succesful.

 

[robtattoo]

Im not admitting to ever having forgotten a thing.
But i will admitt to having started a hunt in knee high socks & finishing it in ankle socks

 

[trophyhill]

I forgot my arrows. Luckily it was just for an evening hunt. My bow broke the evening before. That bow was always in its case with the quiver on. My backup bow wouldn't fit in its case with the quiver on. So I grabbed the backup bow, hiked in over a mile to watch a water source. Once I got there I realized I didn't attach the quiver. You can be having the worst hunt of your life and then it can change in a heartbeat, later that afternoon I shot a big 6x7.

thats awesome and so true! back when i was a beer drinker, i got up lat

Hah I did similar hack last year. I left my tube in the vehicle for a day hunt. Didn't realize it until I was 2 miles in and about 1200' feet of climbing. Cut the end of a Gatorade bottle off but unfortunately only had one bottle and was not succesful.

the important thing is you didn't let that small setback stop you from hunting

 

[TBarone]

My binoculars.

 

[Gapmaster]

Passport! Stuck at border for 2days. Lesson learned

 

[Daniel0307]

My bow. I win! Luckily it was just an evening on a bear bait.

I have been waiting for someone to post gun or bow!

 

[StillBald]

Wife and I left on a 14 hour drive for a week+ backpacking trip. Realized 2 hours from the house that neither of us had packed the tent-- we had both left it on the dining room table assuming the other was going to grab it. Glad we figured that out before we got to our destination!

 

[mwebs]

Kettle kit to boil water with my pocket rocket for dehydrated meals. I was used to bringing the jetboil... Used lots of interesting configurations of rocks, heating water in the bags without melting, etc. GF was not impressed eating not really rehydrated meals, my digestive system was also not impressed.