Elk Hunt is coming up; reminder to self, "don't forget to".......

[WapitiTalk1]

What are some items that you have forgotten, or, things you have forgotten to do before you departed for previous elk hunts? I'm talking those "holy hell, I forgot my ________ or forgot to _________ before I left items. I know we all pretty much operate on some type of physical checklist that we update each year, but, the best laid plans seem to always have a fault or in this case, a forgotten item or not doing something that you needed to prior to departing. OK, let's hear em……

On a past hunt I have forgotten ________________________________, and/or, forgotten to do ______________________________ prior to heading out.

[Stein]

For me, it's pretty much the case that I forget I don't have to bring everything I own on every hunting trip.

[vandeman17]

For archery elk, I have forgot shorts for around camp a few times but nothing a knife can't take care of using my old camp pants.

[WapitiTalk1]

For archery elk, I have forgot shorts for around camp a few times but nothing a knife can't take care of using my old camp pants.

Heck, isn't that how we "used" to make shorts/cut offs anyway?   

[bracer40]

A few years back, I was several days into my hunt when I realized I’d forgotten to swap out the arrows in my quiver for the ones in my arrow case....the ones with broadheads on them!

[D-Rock425]

A few years back, I was several days into my hunt when I realized I’d forgotten to swap out the arrows in my quiver for the ones in my arrow case....the ones with broadheads on them!

ive done this too.  Grabbed the wrong arrow box.

[vandeman17]

For archery elk, I have forgot shorts for around camp a few times but nothing a knife can't take care of using my old camp pants.

Heck, isn't that how we "used" to make shorts/cut offs anyway?   

Jorts all the way

[Dhoey07]

Grab an extra rangefinder battery!

[Jpmiller]

I had a quick shooting session with my fingers a few years back after forgetting my primary AND my backup release. I'm pretty much the smartest guy around sometimes. I used to shoot fingers only so it wasn't the absolute end of the world but I didn't end up drawing back all weekend so it didn't cost me.

I also forgot my boots one year on a late season hunt. Trudged around in my slip on merrells all day in soaked cold feet. Fortunately that one was only a day hunt.

[kselkhunter]

Since I only hunt elk in the backcountry, I have the opposite problem.  I'm so paranoid about forgetting something that I end up packing too much stuff. 

But I like to keep backups for major items at the trailhead in my truck.  Spare water filter, spare jetboil, spare batteries, spare arrows/bullets, spare food, etc.  So that has helped me reduce my over-packing habit in recent years. And thankfully Oregon went paperless for tags/license, so the multiple years I forgot to bring my tags with me from WA are no more (and now I'm an OR resident, so it's moot anyway).   

[huntnfmly]

Took a buddy on his first hunt ever archery elk few years ago I was working a hot bull up the hill from us I backed off cow mewing the bull was coming down the hill buddy turned around and was trying to say something bull stopped I snuck up he said he forgot his release hiked back to truck then came back and you could see the fresh tracks coming off the hill 15yrds from where he was set up

[andersonjk4]

Tags.  I have left my tags at home a couple different times.

[Greg Mullins]

Toilet paper

[KFhunter]

For me, it's pretty much the case that I forget I don't have to bring everything I own on every hunting trip.

 



I take too much, then try to figure out how to keep the stuff I brought from getting stolen from camp as I don't use it 

[xX Let ER Rip Xx]

Extra release........ had mine break on me 2 years ago. Had to drive back into town to get another one.