Have you ever forgot?

I drove 45 minutes to a shooting range North of town and realized that I had packed everything except my pistol.

post office mishap

with regard to the post office mishap, you must've been carrying one of thos plastic Glocks...you know those are invisible to metal detectors, right?

ha haa!

i have forgotten ammo, eye/ear protection, and targets. i have also forgotten to disarm when entering certain establishments.

after i realized what i had done, i felt like a real knucklehead

Once heard of a guy loading all his shooting gear in his car and driving off with trapgun on the roof.

I shoot Tri Gun drove 5 hours to the Match then my wife called said that my guns layed on the Pool table

I never drove for an hour to the desert to shoot my mosin ... and left the mosin at home.

Yup, happened to me too....had a day at the range scheduled with my grandson, packed plenty of ammo of all kinds .22, 9mm, 5.56, and .45-70, had ear/eye protection, had everything.....except guns. It was a very short range session since all we had to fire was eight .45acp for my carry gun. We only fired seven so I would have SOMETHING loaded for the ride home!

yup
pretty much any or all of the above
(now... dadburn it, where did I leave my car keys ???)

Loaded up a BIG range bag with 4 guns, a ton of ammo, my eyes and ears, etc. and was all set for a great afternoon of shooting at the range. Drove ALL the way there, walked in, got to the counter and reached for my WALLET...

...mumbled to myself, turned slowly around, and drove home VERY, VERY CAREFULLY. All I could think about was getting pulled over by a LEO all the way home. That was a long 10 mile drive!

This is why pair of those cheapo shooting glasses with the ear plugs attached at $12.00 a pair in each car is a good idea, I am famous for forgetting either or both. I try to keep things seperate, ammo in the ammo drawer, guns seperate from everything else, that way I know when I grab a weapon, that that's all I have so I must go through the other drawers to get the other assorted stuff for that gun. And I still screw up usually because I do stuff very fast, my wife sit's down to eat and I'm done. Can't help it always been that way, fortunatelly it's not with "everything". The post office thing is ingrained in my head, but here in FL, there might be an annex in a store you aren't even aware of till you are already in the store shopping, so I don't know how you are supposed to deal with that. Like here I walked into a compuer store and there as a post office inside, so I went back out and left my gun in the car, "which I hate doing". In NY if you left your gun in the car, you loose one minimum and it was illegal to do so back when I carried in NYC. Here it's the opposite. I think that law should be changed for obvious reasons. First of all when was the last time someone held up a post office?

While attempting to formulate an intelligent response,...I forgot the question.

What were we talking about again???

I was going out one day and set down my ammo bag to go get my phone. After getting phone, drove off without ammo bag.

At least you didn't take the phone with you, It's like putting something like your keys in the refrigerator when coming home with packages and spending an hour looking for it.

Many years ago when I went to interview for a FP residency in another state I left the hotel and got about 20 miles and realized I left my revolver under the pillow in the room. I drove back and told the guy at the check in counter I left something in the room. He said " Yea I know" and reached into a drawer and handed my gun to me!!!

never have I left my gun in an office building rest room and drove 30 miles home only to realize I didn't have it with me (organizer carry)

no, not me...

I have never put my Series 70 Colt Satin Nickle Commander .45 in my briefcase and flown from DFW, TX to Houston on Southwest Air. only to get in the cab, and discover I had been through a couple of metal detectors and an x-ray machine with my baby.

It was a big PIA finding a GS to ship the pistol back to Dallas, but I durn sure was not going to try and fake it or bluff my way back! LOL

For back up hearing protection I bought a bulk pack (200 pair) of the Blue Sponge throw aways. I toss ten packages into the glove box of my truck and replenish religiously. Seems as if I give out a couple every time I go shooting.

Side note: In a bind a couple of loaded rounds stuck in the ears works wonders, just looks silly.

My Dad forgot his rifle one year deer hunting. We didn't let him live that down for a couple years. He had been known to forget magazines as well. But he simply slipped one in the chamber and hunted anyway.

I have forgotten my fishing rod(s) when driving a fair distance for trout fishing only to discover when I got there that I "wouldn't be doing any fishing" no matter how much I wanted to go. So I grabbed my camera and hiked a trail or two.

I certainly have forgotten ammunition, but usually it is when I am shooting an assortment of calibers and I just forget one caliber or bring the ammo and forget the gun. No big thing really. Probably saved a few bucks one way or the other.