How many have ever forgotten ammo for a hunting trip?

i have and now keep a box of 22mag in my calling bag! ive forgotten my magazine also and have had to hunt with a single loader lol.
 
I once left my primers at home for the muzzle-loader. After one shot at a coyote, miss, I was done for. At least I wasn’t far from home.
 
Forgot my gun once. Took it out to dry the night before and fell asleep early. Woke up the next morning in a rush and just grabbed the case and went. Pulled it out of the truck and it felt strangely light.....

Never forgot ammo though!
 
My family always laughs at me during this time of the year. The back seat of my truck makes it look as though I am living out of it. Coats, bibs, calls, boots, water/food, medical, ammo, chair(s). I just grab the gun(s) and walk out the door.
 
Just once. Forgot my speed loaders but had loaded up the ML and
realized it once out in the woods. Fortunately Mr. 8-pointer was
down with one shot. Most of us using front stuffers REALLY try
for the "one-shot one-kill" method, anyway.

Since then, I go through a visual sequence of anything and
everything needed. That method has worked so far......
 


I went black power hunting once and left my ram rod home.
Home was two hours away. I went home and came back.
Stopped and had breakfast, I was the only hunter there.
Got a lot of strange looks.
Went deer hunting in the afternoon.
Shot one the next day.
 
Never forgot ammo. I have ran out though. Not that there was not more at the truck, but I only had about a box of shotgun shells when I left the truck. Sadly, my buddy carries a 12 and I carry a 20. Both of us have run out at one time or another but can't help the other guy. Of course, there is no mag restriction here and the rabbits can be thick. After you spray and pray at the bunnies, you are cursing when the chukar are flushing and you are running out of shells...

I did one time lose a pin from the trigger group of my shotgun. I had soaked it and cleaned it all out. I did not want to dry fire it, so I did not know a pin was missing till opening morning of dove season. Thankfully, my friend always brings a backup gun. I now bring my 12 as backup, but I sure would like to have another 20 so I don't have to bring all the extra ammo.
 
I have never forgot ammo. I have always carried extra and never shoot my last round.
I did however pick my rifle up off the cleaning rack once and forgot to put the bolt in it.Didn't go far before it dawned on me.
Now I always do a quick inventory before leaving.
 
Never yet! Always take 3 rifles and a shotgun on long trips away from home. However I do have a Foxpro decoy in some field in Kansas! I'm sure the batteries are dead by now!
 
I can answer yes to the question. But it was when I was about 15yrs old and we were headed to SD to shoot prairie dogs. We were loading up the truck and I carried out the 2-100 round mtm and 3-50 round mtm cases and set them next to the garage door on the shelf, We get out to SD and start shooting and went through 100rounds the 1st day and went to get the next box the following day and I can't find any shells. Then it dawned on me that they were sitting in the garage on the shelf. Lucky for me the buddy of my father had brought a 243 with him as one of his back-up back-up guns and he had plenty of shells for me. I did have to slow down on the shooting though. Never again especially now that I have mostly odd-ball or wildcats that I shoot. I usually bring way too many shells when I go now.
 
Ammo....no...but I did forget to take my trigger lock off once, that sucks pretty bad also.
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I've got my hunting ammo I plan to bring everywhere then I have cheap plinking ammo with soft points that would work just fine as well.

I never have forgotten ammo but my rifle case has pouches on the sides for carrying magazines so I keep a magazine of each ammo type in my rifle case, one mag with vmax, one with 65SGK and one with cheap hornady SP.

Besides that I keep a few rounds of .40s&w and cheap 223 ammo in my breast pocket of my winter jacket, then I keep some plinking ammo in my center console, I think there are a few under my drivers seat as well and in my back pack plus I also fill up my AR15 pistol grip with 5 rounds of 223 and hold them tight by stuffing ear plugs in with them so I have ear protection and ammo with me as long as I have the gun that shoots it.

I try to just toss my cheap ammo around everywhere I would normally be that way I can look in my pocket to find some, under a rock maybe or somewhere in my car.
 
Some good ideas here for stashing ammo. Usually what i shoot, nobody else will have any ammo to help me out with if I forget.

I will say that I've forgotten to close the bolt on my AR three times, like when getting out of the vehicle and waiting till I crossed a fence type of deal. It cost me a coyote twice and almost the third time.
 
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I have forgotten it before maybe once. Also I’ve forgotten to load gun on stand. Once I even drove 30+ hrs home from my winter work and when I got within 1/4 mile of my house see mr.coyote. Perfect welcome home but my ammo was in drawer back at work.

Not perfect but blessed.
 
I grabbed the wrong box of ammo for my 7 mag. I took 140g ballistic tips for an elk hunt instead of partitions.'

I shot a nice bullet once in the ribs, he hit the ground grave yard dead right there.
 
Originally Posted By: Runnin'HardMy family always laughs at me during this time of the year. The back seat of my truck makes it look as though I am living out of it. Coats, bibs, calls, boots, water/food, medical, ammo, chair(s). I just grab the gun(s) and walk out the door.

Yes! Now I can show my wife that I'm not the only one.

If I have time for stand between feeding and checking livestock, everything is with me. If I had to run home and grab everything quickly, I would forget something. I do keep ammo in my rifle case, as well as a call.
 
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