Aborted Range Trips...

[roundball]

Well...up at 5:15am this morning, 60 mile round trip and back at the house unloaded by 7:45...got to the range with the sky starting to lighten in the east, beautiful quiet cool foggy morning...laid out the heavy packing quilt I use on the bench, got the ramrods & thermos out of the truck, then the rifle, and finally walked back to the truck to get my shooting box.....

[Chaffa Hosa]

Well at least you got to see a beautiful sunrise

[Ironwood]

Dang!  Roundball you are not the only one that has done something like that. Got down to my hunting lease early one morning before daylight.  Had ammo for the wrong rifle! ::)

[Dryball]

I thought I was the only one who had 'senior moments'! :D :-[

Ned

[Oldnamvet]

I once had to make TWO return trips to get everything.  Fortunately, my club is only 10 miles away.  However, it still turned into putting 80 miles on the car rather than the normal 20.

[roundball]

Dang!  Roundball you are not the only one that has done something like that. Got down to my hunting lease early one morning before daylight.  Had ammo for the wrong rifle! ::)

Yeah, I did that once several years ago and to prevent having the wrong size balls ever again, I permanently store 50 of each caliber size balls in the shooting box for such screwups in the future, and of course I've never taken the wrong size balls since then, now that I have all the right sizes in the box...but this time I forgot the whole box!

I know how it happended too...you know when you've done something like loading the gear into the truck almost every weekend for years, it becomes sub-conscious habit and you no longer maintain a conscious focus on what you're doing...all the weekend gear is on a shelving unit just inside the garage door...just as I was lifting the box off the shelf the phone rang and I stepped off to the side of the garage to answer it, setting the box on my work bench as I did...had a few minutes conversation, hung up, closed the garage door and went into the house...never even thought about the box again until I got to the range this morning.

[Oldnamvet]

I am so anal about it now that I actually keep a checklist and take a quick rundown before I leave.  I have one for bird hunting, one for just going to the range, one for skeet, and one for deer hunting.  I get down to things as basic as toilet paper and extra light bulbs for deer camp.

[roundball]

I do the same thing when getting ready for hunting season...restocking / reorganizing a couple of large plastic storage tubs I keep in the back of the Blazer to make sure I restocked things like TP, plastic disposable gloves, batteries, or sharpened my skinning knives, etc.

Maybe a checklist before I leave for the range is next  ...maybe I could do like they do at gun show tables...tie parachute cord to every item I need to load 

[Roaring Bull]

I went to one of our monthly shoots and grabbed everything I needed...........except the priming flask for the flintlock........guess what evryone wanted to shoot that weekend..........not the percussion caps.........had a small antler measure that I would fill with 4F and stuff a cleaning patch down in the top.  Now I always tie it to the top of my shooting box

[Lady of the Woods]

I think we've all had our moments!
I'm down to just my rifle and a bag. I clean my rifle after every shoot, refill the bag with the necessary balls, patching and powdercheck on the couple a tools that ride in the bag, close it back up hang em both back on the rack and they're ready to go!  keep it simple stupid - that's the motto for me!!!
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[roundball]

Well, I basically do the same...its just in your scenario, I would have driven off and left them hanging on that peg !

[Ironwood]

I have 3 bags.  One is for the .32 caliber, one for the .40 caliber, and one for the .50 calibers.   I'm sure some day I can get those mixed up and grab the wrong bag for the rifle I want to shoot.  It's gotta be an age thing! :D

[chuck w.]

The first step to recovery, is for ALL OF US to stand up and admit we have this problem........... I went to the range minus a can of powder. I doubt if this will be the last incident of this kind either.

[bwhoffman]

Ive brought my guns.    And nothing else!

just like dry balling...theres those that have and there is those that will!