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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am
Posts: 2632
Location: Campbell Co., VA
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 Dropped My Fav Striker!!  I discovered Friday that apparently I dropped my favorite striker in the woods Thursday morning! It's my Strike King from Max!!  So if anyone finds that gorgeous green & grey laminated beauty lying in a logging road in Amherst County . . . 
I'll go back to look for it this week, but since I don't hunt too far from the roads during the week so I can get out quick to go to work, and since it's been lying there over a weekend in the National Forest, I'm betting it's gone.
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Dale
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:27 am
Posts: 1907
Location: Roanoke, VA
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Been there, done that. Heartbreaking. Hope you find it.
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am
Posts: 3806
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I have turned to that model striker as a go-to this year ...worth looking for.
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gobbler74
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:30 pm
Posts: 317
Location: SHARON VA
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lost striker I feel your pain. Keep searchin'
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TScottW99
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:59 pm
Posts: 2851
Location: Roanoke
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Know your pain. Dropped a beautiful bocote striker made by Rick Powell last year somewhere in Montgomery county.
I agree the Strike King is a good striker. Works great one of my favorite slate calls.
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hendup
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:08 am
Posts: 1622
Location: Cartersville, Va
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I use a rosewood striker and absolutely love it. I've dropped so many over the years that I went out and bought every one I could find. I carry three of them with me every time I go out now just in case.
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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am
Posts: 2632
Location: Campbell Co., VA
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I'm always really careful in the woods. I never just carry things like that around in my hand. I had it in my vest, I guess it just fell out when I ducked under a limb or something. It wouldn't be so bad if it were some junky it-came-with-a-so-so-call striker. It was my "confidence call." Hopefully it'll be like Dumbo's 'Magic Feather' . . . 
At least it looks like I'm in good company with some other butter-fingered turkey chasers.
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afulle03
Longbeard
Joined: Sun May 15, 2005 2:49 pm
Posts: 152
Location: Haysi VA
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It seems like even if you replace the striker/call with the exact one, it never sounds as good as the first. Its unfortunate I've lost a few myself, I hope you find it.
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FlatLand Gobbler
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 am
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Location: Hampton, VA.
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I feel your pain. I hate loosing stuff in the woods. My buddy John lost his weeding band last year. He was a newly wed, and I don't think that pleased his new bride much!
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"Turkey hunting, when you knock all the feathers off it, is a game of infinite variables, played on a field of unlimited dimension, against an opponent who doesn't know the rules and wouldn't play by them if he did." ...Jim Spencer
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hendup
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:08 am
Posts: 1622
Location: Cartersville, Va
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I wish I had lost my wedding band in the woods instead of at the lawyers!
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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am
Posts: 2632
Location: Campbell Co., VA
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FlatLand Gobbler wrote: I feel your pain. I hate loosing stuff in the woods. My buddy John lost his weeding band last year. He was a newly wed, and I don't think that pleased his new bride much! DOH!! 
I dropped mine in a movie theater shortly after we got married and it rolled all the way to the front. I figured I'd just get it after the movie was over . . . I didn't see the rest of the movie.
Fortunately, my ring stays on my finger in the woods . . . although my wife sometimes wonders if I should just take it off April 1st and put it back on May 15th or so . . .
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