08-16-2003, 01:59 AM
I usually double check all my gear before I leave. I get out and do a lot of back country trips both fishing and hunting. If I find something hiking of the trail the odds of finding the original owner is next to nothing.
I do feel bad for those guys that do loss that stuff. I'm sure it's much worse then having something stolen because you know you left it.
A buddy of mine found a back pack and belt pouch full of hunting gear. I couldn't believe somebody would take it off to do a stock or something like that and never come back or not look hard enough for their gear. I'd say he found about 3,000 dollars worth of gear. I didn't believe him until he showed me the stuff.
All this high dollar equipment probable isn't some local who's got a family to feed. I put money on it that it's some out of stater who makes a fortune and has the money to blow. If I lost something like that I'd spend the rest of my trip back tracking and find that stuff.
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I do feel bad for those guys that do loss that stuff. I'm sure it's much worse then having something stolen because you know you left it.
A buddy of mine found a back pack and belt pouch full of hunting gear. I couldn't believe somebody would take it off to do a stock or something like that and never come back or not look hard enough for their gear. I'd say he found about 3,000 dollars worth of gear. I didn't believe him until he showed me the stuff.
All this high dollar equipment probable isn't some local who's got a family to feed. I put money on it that it's some out of stater who makes a fortune and has the money to blow. If I lost something like that I'd spend the rest of my trip back tracking and find that stuff.
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