played a new game yesterday morning...

[gps4]

My wife used to love playing the "find the hidden objects in the picture" games. I got to play in real life yesterday morning.

While I was getting strapped into my ladder stand, I pulled the safety rope out of my pullover pocket to wrap around the tree and a second later, heard metal-on-metal alerting me that my streamlight microstream flashlight had fallen out of my pocket when i pulled the rope out. Fortunately it hit a rung on the ladder on the way down. Otherwise, I would have no idea where I lost it.

So there I am, 16 ft. up a tree looking at a leaf and branch covered forest floor with about three and a half hours until I had planned to get down for lunch. Using my trusty 7X42 Nikon binoculars, I searched the forest floor until i finally found it.

[edub20]

several years ago i lost a flashlight when i left it on my four wheeler fender and drove off... My father in law found it a year later randomly and clicked it on and it worked. This was once of the cheaper chinese LED's that uses those 18650 batteries... I still have it and it's working 100%.

I thought that thing was a loss.

[Anatidae]

I'm bad to leave the ramp/gate pin (just one side) on the fender while I tie the 4-wheeler down.......and drive-off.

I've been lucky though.....lost/found it two different times in 3 weeks. I've since painted them blaze orange.

[jdbuckshot]

[jacksbuddy]

I've lost AND found knives, flashlights, and such several times while out hunting on the family farm. That's why everything that went in the field when working for my Dad as a surveyor was painted blaze orange - field books, pencils, hammer, calculator, etc. - EVERYTHING. (I still carry orange flagging in my game bag.)

[Agua]

Thought that was one of those "find the copperhead in the leaves" pics - which I'm never able to do.