At which point do you realise you left something important at home ?

[hypertigger]

a couple of years back (during my break from archery due to phd) i entered the beds double fita for a laugh. so i meticulously packed my boyfriend's car (my sister had forgotten her riser once on the work top, so that went in.

and so drove there, unpacking car, after several trips with tents and things asked where's my bow? I had also been wandered up and down the line chatting to friends and john cavanagh offered to lend me a RH compound for the day! in the end decided to go home as i hadn't had much training time and went shopping instead. D'oh!!

haven't done that one since!!

[Orinoco]

Got completely set up at club a while back then realised I'd left my tab at home and there were no other left handers there that night. Luckily short round trip to find it.

[Cimbian]

My lad has a tendancy to forget his foot markers, leaving them on the shooting line. Did so on Saturday and muddled through at a league match on Sunday (different ground). Back to shoot at Saturday's ground on Monday, foot markers still in place despite another shoot going on there whilst we were away on the Sunday!

It turns out that as they were in a good spot another Junior had made use of them on the Sunday!

Strange thing is that it is not our home ground.

[wingate_52]

We need more than a mental check list at times. I change arrows, strings, button and rest between outdoors and indoors. You have to be organized. 2 sets of footmarkers also.

[exziit]

happened to me too but not with archery,

got home after getting dad to the bus station, and realized i forgot to pick up my sis who was sleeping over at my grandparents house, and all this happened 5 am and me wanting badly to sleep

[Ceri Jones]

Ive walked the mile to club just to find i have left my arrow canister by the back door as i was locking it. doh

[martin]

OMG 50 posts.....

I left my bow on the field after a shoot once and didn't realise until I opened my case at another shoot the following week. I was presented with it by someone who picked the bow up at the previous shoot and kept hold of it all week without letting me know in the week.

I'm a bit embarrassed by the whole thing so keep it to yourself if you could....

[BillM]

Two seasons ago, I was preparing to go to Banchory (a 4 hour drive from Oban) for the weekend and am quite organised in setting out the archery and camping gear the previous day. Met my wife for lunch on Friday and she said she wasn't feeling too good. She set off back to work and I got home and started to move things from the end bedroom where I arrange everything and pack the car and Leigh turns up - got permission to go home. She wanted me to help her change the bedding but as the bed in the end room was made up, I suggested that she sleeps in there. No! she wanted to sleep in our bedroom so sheets etc. have to be changed. Grrr! so got the bed stripped and she then decided that the end bedroom will do. Grr again, so threw the "last few things" into the car and drove off in a bad mood. I knew that I had forgotten something but couldn't figure it out.

It wasn't until I stopped at Loch Earn for the toilet that I noticed my rucksack with my white gear in it wasn't in it's usual place on the back seat. I phoned her mobile - not switched on. I phoned the house phone and left a message on the answer machine for her to bring my rucksack to meet me en route. Nothing. I turned round and headed back to Oban, about 70 miles away. It wasn't until I was about 10 miles from home she phoned me and said she had the rucksack and would leave once she had dressed. As I would be home at about the time she would be ready to leave I told her to switch the kettle on for a cuppa. Arrived home had a coffee and resumed mt journey to Banchory.

Original plan meant I would have arrived at 1700 ish. Revised plan - arrived at 2300. Set up tent, crawled in and went to bed. Never done it since.

[dino1300]

I once went to a County FITA match in Nottingham or some where like that.

Opened case saying 'probably shouldn’t be shooting my new bow, only set it up last night'. At which point I realized that 1 doz ACE's currently sitting in the boss at our indoor range.

Luckily (very) someone from the opposing team lent me a set of arrows.

I felt extremely grateful at the start of the shoot, and extremely embarrassed at the end when I beat him by 15 points with his own arrows.

[numpty]

Shot a Comp. early this year. I was wondering why I shot like a pleb. It was only when I was putting my gear away I heard somene say " Are your limbs supposed to be on upside down " When I looked. Yup they were on upside down .