It's not like I ever lost a range finder out in the field.

Leaned my dad's 30-30 against a tree while I dug out my deer. I searched for hours before I found it. I wasn't going back home until I had!

Left the house without my shotgun when I was headed out to turkey hunt as a teenager. Didn't realize it until I was halfway across town.

Got in a hurry opening morning and went to get out of my truck to walk to the blind and realized I was in a pair of loafers/house slipons. Still went to the blind and shot a buck but went back for my boots to retrieve the buck.

My neighbor pulled the trigger on a nice Mills county 9 Saturday morning. 'CLICK'. Deer walked off, over to his son's blind, who apparently did NOT forget to load HIS gun.

I was hunting in Mexico in the early 80's and let a low to mid 50's 10 point walk next day I'm in a different stand that deer walks out and out come anther 10 bigger and has the only drop tine I had ever seen at the time, I'm shaking they start fighting trying to kill each other, I can't stand it and try to shoot the drop time deer and you already know which on hit the ground. All these years later I still don't have a real drop tine got some that are sorta drops and I have let several young drops walk including one last weekend

I needed to shoot my 270 weatherby magnum. I opened the door to my truck and shot across my hood at a target on a big dead tree. Walked down to check my shot and all was good….. walked back to the truck, climbed in the seat and looked up and my front windshield was completely shattered across the whole thing. The muzzle was too close I guess and the muzzle blast shattered it.

I took some friends out to the ranch in Upton county to hunt once. At the end of the day we are driving back to camp when we see a beautiful West Texas 10 point(in rut) and a doe right off the side of the road. I'm talking 35 yards...staring right at us. Slam on the brakes, my friend gets out, opens the back door, takes his gun out of the case, loads it, puts it up on the bed of the truck and pulls the trigger. The deer run off. In his defense he had the setting sun square in his scope and a mesquite tree between us. He hit the branch which somehow deflected that heavy 30-40 Kraig round. I give him hell about that to this day. The pic of those deer and the massive rack backlit by the setting sun would have made a great picture.

The Ninny brothers were hunting somewhere near Rocksprings. The place was divided by a county road. They went out early one morning to find a nice hill country ten caught in the fence. A/C told Bluto he ought to just shoot the thing, but he said it wasn't sporting so no. Wanting to loosen the deer from its bind, they looked for a rope and ony found a fifty foot orange extension cord. Tied up the antlers and set about geting him out. Success. Den Den then reconsidered and thought he should go ahead and take it. Missed it at fifty yards whereupon it then there escaped. Later hard a hunter saying he saw the strangest thing, a nice ten point walked out of the cedars with an orange extension cord dragging from his antlers.