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Title: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 19, 2019, 07:08:45 AM
Yesterday while biking into state land in the minot unit i took my pack off and my pull over hoodie. Pack was a cabelas pack frame. 2017 version. Has a camo backpack on it with binos, game bags, kill kit, and a few other things. Jacket on top was a first lite kathlamet hoodie. I left it in this intersection figured I would be the only one back there for the day... (obviously a bad idea) came back and it was gone. Thank God i took my pistol off my frame.. If anyone knows anyone in the area that may show up with some new hunting gear please pm me.. I believe it was some locals on motorcycles behind gates.. i know it’s a long shot to find my gear.. but I’d sure like to punch someone in the mouth..


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: 7mmfan on August 19, 2019, 08:14:06 AM
Dirt bags. I don't leave anything in the open anymore, no matter how far back behind gates I am. People just can't mind they're own business. Sorry to hear about this. Good luck with finding, hope someone knows something.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 19, 2019, 08:41:12 AM
Dirt bags. I don't leave anything in the open anymore, no matter how far back behind gates I am. People just can't mind they're own business. Sorry to hear about this. Good luck with finding, hope someone knows something.
I figured i was far enough.. but i was wrong. I will never make the mistake again that’s for sure.


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: trophyhunt on August 19, 2019, 09:09:56 AM
Any chance a bear walked off with it?
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Threewolves on August 19, 2019, 09:28:30 AM
I know it was gated, but I would like to think someone saw it, thought if fell off a truck and will be posting it on lost and found. That is about as positive as I can be.

The way I look at things is if I did not earn it, pay for it or it was given to me it is not mine. I think the most I would do it move it out of the intersection, hang it in a tree or something. Anything other than that would interfere with my scouting or hunting trip.

I know you beat your self up enough about this. I extremely dislike learning self-inflected lessons like this. Even in trapping I would never mark my sets. Maybe down the trail 15 yards on the opposite side of the trail. In water I put cable on my conibears so in a catch they would go under water.

I have heard a couple of stories (in the unit next to you in 663 Capitol forest) of hunters getting stuff stolen out of their trucks. I was watching a doe in 663 hoping a buck would come out. I saw a hunter drive past me. He seen my truck at the end of the road turned around and left. Not to much later another vehicle came along with a guy and a gal, drove past me on down toward my truck they did not turn around where the other truck did. This part of the story is from my hunting partner. He was hunting closer to my truck. He saw the vehicle come down and turn around at my truck, then back up to my truck. The gal got out and went out ahead of their vehicle as she was "The Lookout". The guy got out and went to the back of my truck and just started to open the canopy. My partner yelled "Hey". The guy said "Sorry I did not know anyone was here". My partner yelled "What f--King difference does that make, get the f--k out of here. And they took off. We were about as far back in Capitol Forest as you can get, off the main lines, way at the end of some two track, yet there they were!
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Threewolves on August 19, 2019, 09:31:21 AM
I would feel better if a bear walked off with it, cooler story. And you found everything in the brush except the binoculars, because as everyone knowns bears can't see so good, so he keep them.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 19, 2019, 06:50:46 PM
It wasn’t in the middle of an intersection by any means.. well off the road. Unfortunate for sure. I really hope a bear is enjoying the pack somewhere


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Calvin Rayborn on August 25, 2019, 08:46:56 PM
 Scumbags! Hope They get turned in ASAP
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: dscubame on August 25, 2019, 09:43:18 PM
Perhaps someone was thinking they were doing the right thing?   :bash:
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 25, 2019, 09:46:22 PM
Perhaps someone was thinking they were doing the right thing?   :bash:
Doing the right thing as in seeing the truck at the gate. Seeing my backpack inside the gate... taking the backpack and keeping it? I’m not quite sure how this could be the “right thing”


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 25, 2019, 09:48:06 PM
Unless someone has it and wants to give it back. That would be the right thing.


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Tiger1358 on August 25, 2019, 10:12:34 PM
When I ditch my bike and start hiking, I'm even worried about that although I hike it really well with branches and stuff. Don't ever think that there won't be a cockroach that won't think about stealing it. They know damn well hunting gear is not cheap and they can make money selling them on offerup, ebay, and stuff.   
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Taco280AI on August 25, 2019, 10:54:03 PM
Stolen pack? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe they took it with the intent of posting it up online for the owner. Just because there's a truck at the gate doesn't mean it belongs to the owner of that truck. I mean why would anyone ever leave their gear behind like that? And if I did, it would be very well hidden, not simply of the road at an intersection.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on August 26, 2019, 09:14:59 AM
If that’s the case then i sure haven’t seen anything posted online.


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Selkirkslim on September 10, 2019, 12:37:30 PM
I know it was gated, but I would like to think someone saw it, thought if fell off a truck and will be posting it on lost and found. That is about as positive as I can be.

I have heard a couple of stories (in the unit next to you in 663 Capitol forest) of hunters getting stuff stolen out of their trucks. I was watching a doe in 663 hoping a buck would come out. I saw a hunter drive past me. He seen my truck at the end of the road turned around and left. Not to much later another vehicle came along with a guy and a gal, drove past me on down toward my truck they did not turn around where the other truck did. This part of the story is from my hunting partner. He was hunting closer to my truck. He saw the vehicle come down and turn around at my truck, then back up to my truck. The gal got out and went out ahead of their vehicle as she was "The Lookout". The guy got out and went to the back of my truck and just started to open the canopy. My partner yelled "Hey". The guy said "Sorry I did not know anyone was here". My partner yelled "What f--King difference does that make, get the f--k out of here. And they took off. We were about as far back in Capitol Forest as you can get, off the main lines, way at the end of some two track, yet there they were!

Not that it may matter to you or, anyone else but, in the event that you do encounter this kind of situation again, and for future reference, level the barrel at the thief at about knee height and walk them out to the road and have another person hold them, or you hold them, and get a county deputy coming pronto.

Had I been in your boots, I'd put one through their engine block and sat there and waited for the law to show up.

" They were making every effort to take from me which they are not, entitled to."

Push comes to shove?

Won't say it here...
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: WSU on September 10, 2019, 12:55:15 PM
Was the gate somewhere you could drive with a key?  Most of that unit is accessible to permit holders, right?
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: CoryTDF on September 10, 2019, 01:02:49 PM
Have hope! I lost a pair of Bino's way up in the hills in 2013. Fell off my truck bed as I drove off. I made a post on HW and wouldn't you know it our very own @Woodchuck had found them and returned them to me. I hope you have a similar outcome. 
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on September 10, 2019, 01:50:35 PM
Was the gate somewhere you could drive with a key?  Most of that unit is accessible to permit holders, right?
It was a locked gate. State land. Not Weyhauser. But yes most of the unit is open to permit holders


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on September 10, 2019, 01:51:01 PM
Have hope! I lost a pair of Bino's way up in the hills in 2013. Fell off my truck bed as I drove off. I made a post on HW and wouldn't you know it our very own @Woodchuck had found them and returned them to me. I hope you have a similar outcome.
Man that’s awesome! I can only hope


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ballpark on September 10, 2019, 02:18:35 PM
Had the same thing happen to me quite a few years ago. I had left my fanny pack on the ground where I had to take care of business before I made the long hike to my tree stand back on some private property I had permission to hunt.  A few hours in I notice a guy, he walks by waves and i watch him walk across cornfield to a creek crossing where I had left my fanny pack, by accident.  Didn't realize I had left it there until I got in the tree stand.   When I climbed out that night and walked back my pack was gone.  Lost knife my dad had given me and some other replaceable items.    We were the only 2 on this property that day.   :bash:   
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on September 10, 2019, 02:32:00 PM
Its a bummer. I was on a mountain bike and i swear i touched 50 mph heading out towards the main gate trying to catch someone. There was tons of motorcycle marks on my way out so someone on a dirt bike had found it and rode straight out. Also it is a non motor area..


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on September 10, 2019, 03:06:10 PM
What a (insert bad word here) slug.  First, you have people taking motorized bikes in there which obviously means they don't give a rats (bad word) about laws or rules.  It doesn't surprise me at all that one of those (bad word) heads would steal.   :bash: I feel your frustration brother... There is nothing worse than a thief or a liar.  Sorry this happened to you.  It's unfortunate but we are getting to the point where you have to hide and or lock everything even in the woods.   
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Bango skank on September 10, 2019, 03:14:42 PM
What a (insert bad word here) slug.  First, you have people taking motorized bikes in there which obviously means they don't give a rats (bad word) about laws or rules.  It doesn't surprise me at all that one of those (bad word) heads would steal.   :bash: I feel your frustration brother... There is nothing worse than a thief or a liar.  Sorry this happened to you.  It's unfortunate but we are getting to the point where you have to hide and or lock everything even in the woods.   

People driving into non motorized areas really piss me off.  A guy needs to carry a valve stem removal tool in his pack.  Nobody carries 4 spares.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: ThurstonCokid on September 10, 2019, 03:28:45 PM
There’s signs clearly posted on gates. Behind gates, and every 10 feet... non motorized is a difficult concept for these people man. Walking is too hard


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Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: fowl smacker on September 10, 2019, 04:01:27 PM
I hate it too, but I believe people with a disability tag can drive in.  So you may have some bad karma heading your way if you start removing valve stems on every vehicle.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Bango skank on September 10, 2019, 04:10:49 PM
I hate it too, but I believe people with a disability tag can drive in. 

Not where i go.
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: KFhunter on September 10, 2019, 04:19:53 PM
What a (insert bad word here) slug.  First, you have people taking motorized bikes in there which obviously means they don't give a rats (bad word) about laws or rules.  It doesn't surprise me at all that one of those (bad word) heads would steal.   :bash: I feel your frustration brother... There is nothing worse than a thief or a liar.  Sorry this happened to you.  It's unfortunate but we are getting to the point where you have to hide and or lock everything even in the woods.   

People driving into non motorized areas really piss me off.  A guy needs to carry a valve stem removal tool in his pack.  Nobody carries 4 spares.

park that yota right in the ATV bypass trail around the gate  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: Bango skank on September 10, 2019, 04:29:10 PM
What a (insert bad word here) slug.  First, you have people taking motorized bikes in there which obviously means they don't give a rats (bad word) about laws or rules.  It doesn't surprise me at all that one of those (bad word) heads would steal.   :bash: I feel your frustration brother... There is nothing worse than a thief or a liar.  Sorry this happened to you.  It's unfortunate but we are getting to the point where you have to hide and or lock everything even in the woods.   

People driving into non motorized areas really piss me off.  A guy needs to carry a valve stem removal tool in his pack.  Nobody carries 4 spares.

park that yota right in the ATV bypass trail around the gate  :chuckle:

Nah, not lookin to join the 4 flat tires club myself.  Id have to call somebody with a big trailer....
Title: Re: Stolen pack.
Post by: KFhunter on September 12, 2019, 09:47:03 AM
I brought out a jacked up 3500 dodge cummins once, little yota...nbd

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