A Cautionary Tale

[gnw1209]

and the OD on orange looks sweet!

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Damn, man! Sorry about the loss!

 

[GhostWolf]

Sorry for your loss.This is the only reason I won't get an OD Izula. I love the way they look even better than the other colors, but I know I'll set it down and never see it again. The OD just blends too well in this area. Unless we are in drought season. Heeey, that's it. OD for drought season, tan for the rest of the year.

 

[DRod]

it was probably a feral canadian. they're tiny, move quickly, and are hard to see. they also love to steal things from unwitting travelers and hide them in their burrows.

The beady eyes and flip top heads freak me out. uah..

 

[BenchmadeBoy]

it was probably a feral canadian. they're tiny, move quickly, and are hard to see. they also love to steal things from unwitting travelers and hide them in their burrows.

It's true. You should see my single sock collection . . . .

 

[jnich67]

I feel your pain, man. :thumbdn:

Jordan

 

[Ptaltaica762]

That totally sucks.:grumpy: Sorry about your loss.

Here's hoping you can find it:thumbup:

 

[Jake Bauer]

Dcycleman.. that is a Spyderco MULE. Spyderco every once in a while makes a fixed blade in an exotic steel (S90V, M4 etc...), and sells it with no sheath, and no handle. Once the buyer gets it, Its up to them to put a handle on it and get a sheath for it, making it truly the owners knife. One of a kind sort of thing.

 

[Munky]

Ouch man! Did it fall onto dry land or into water? I wish you good luck in finding it.

 

[luckykitty]

Try searching with a magnet ... take a bigger magnet, tie it on a string and sweep it over the ground ...

best of luck!

 

[africa_slinger]

Sorry about your loss. Did you retrace your steps and checked where you were building.

Good luck.

 

[Todd Murphy]

it was probably a feral canadian. they're tiny, move quickly, and are hard to see. they also love to steal things from unwitting travelers and hide them in their burrows.

LOL
Thanks for the laugh this morning.
But, seriously, that really sucks! Why does it always have to be the new, awesome things that get lost?

 

[melt]

Know anyone with a metal detector?

 

[jsdvnc]

Thanks again for the wishes guys. I looked again this morning but no luck. The magnet and metal detector ideas are good, but unfortunately the area is a bit of a junkyard and littered with scrap metal. C'est la vie.

 

[JTC]

You know I have some of the best luck finding stuff like that by going out after it's dark with one of my Surefire lights and spotlighting it. You'd be surprised what a super bright flashlight will find when you can get an edge or something to throw a glint. Good luck.

 

[dcycleman]

you never know, you might find it. One night this winter I was driving a plow truck in a storm and I had a surefire e2l with me. I probly stopped half a dozen different places to take a leak during the storm. when I was done plowing, I checked my pockets-no light. It was driving me crazy for like 4 weeks. Randomly I stopped in one of the parking lots that I remembered stopping in and I found the light sticking out of the half melted snowbank! It was covered in crap but I took it home, cleaned it, changed that batts. and it was fine except for a minor beating it took getting plowed into the snowbank. So the moral of the story is- you may get lucky.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

You'd be surprised what a super bright flashlight will find when you can get an edge or something to throw a glint. Good luck.

I went into a dimly lit hall of a museum one day and noticed a guard circling around looking for something on the floor. It turned out he had dropped a pin while changing his watchband!

I knelt down with my Arc AAA keychain light and swept it in a semi-circle and bingo! the beam glinted off the pin. Smiles all around

Lights will find what eyes alone cannot.

 

[DMH1112]

Hi Jonathan.

I agree and you only got to use it a few days.

 

[Sam30V]

So I got my new OD Izula on monday. I wrapped it in OD paracord and hung it around my neck. It worked great, I carried it all tuesday and today. At the end of the day, I was moving around a lot of large rocks, to build a bridge over a stream. Anyhow, I figure one of the times I was carrying a rock it pulled the Izula out of the sheath, 'cause when I stopped it was gone. So the moral of the story is, if you're gonna hang it around your neck, FOR GODS SAKE WRAP IT WITH ORANGE CORD. I'll never find the little sucker.

You need to find someone that has a metal detector. I use one in my line of work. A friend of mine lost a Buck fixed blade while camping and he asked me if I would go with him to the site where he lost it, with a detector, and look for it. We looked for about ten minutes and found it.

 

[chewbacca]

Tough break brother. I feel for ya.

This is exactly why real men buy pink Izulas...try losing that in the woods.