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No BOB for Me!

Pritch

Pritch

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Lately I've been gathering items together for a truck kit but haven't actually assembled or put it in the truck. Now I don't think I will.

Tonight I went out to the truck to retrieve my GPS from the center console for tomorrow's hent, only to find some dirtbag broke in and ripped me off! GRRRR! I'm so pissed right now I can hardley focus on packing up my gear, not to mention getting any sleep before leaving at 4AM! I loved that thing. The Garmin 60CSx is one of those gear purchases that I've been very happy with, and would certainly buy the very same one again.

Sorry to vent. Anyway, I can't see me leaving anything of value in there anymore.

-- FLIX
 
Man, I feel ya. I stupidly left my Garmin Nuvi in my truck while at work. Of course, when I went to leave, my back window was smashed in and the Nuvi was gone. While it was my fault, it still pisses me off thinking about it.
 
That sucks huge. I've never had a break in, but my dad seems prone to them. He's had at least a couple sets of golf clubs and a bunch of camera gear stolen out of 2 or 3 different vehicles on 3 or 4 different occasions. I think they were all in the parking lot at the golf course he works at.

I feel for you, losing stuff sucks. Having someone take something from you is even worse. What's worse, is chances are the guy will never get caught.
 
About 10 years ago I was going fishing.
About 4 AM I packed up the truck, locked it up and went inside for breakfast.
About 20 minutes later I go to leave and the drivers door had been forced open and everything was gone.
Couple grand worth of stuff, worse thing though was that given the time of day it was most likely a neighbour that watched me load the truck up
 
Sorry to hear that, really does suck. What else was in the bag? Some of us may have extras of what you had and could send it your way.
 
I know it's a crappy feeling. It's more than just the gear being gone. I don't leave anything of value in my vehicles anymore. I'll recommend you try to iron out an everyday bag that covers your most basic bug out needs as well as everyday stuff and carry it from home to vehicle to destination and back. This way it will be more likely to be near you therefore safer and more accessible.
Don't let it bum you out for long :)
 
THanks, guys.

At this point, it looks like it was just the GPS and the 12V cord. I went out to the truck to retrieve it to put it with my hunting gear and to check on the batteries, and found the center console and glove box open.

If I was home I would have heard the alarm and all due wrath would have been dispensed. We had friends over and went for a walk this afternoon. Somebody must have been watching and just swooped in.

I reported it and will check with my neighbors if they heard my alarm go off.

Looks like I'll be sticking to the main FS roads tomorrow.

Oh crap. FIVE YEARS of hunting waypoints gone. . .

-- FLIX
 
hoopster said:
I know it's a crappy feeling. It's more than just the gear being gone. I don't leave anything of value in my vehicles anymore. I'll recommend you try to iron out an everyday bag that covers your most basic bug out needs as well as everyday stuff and carry it from home to vehicle to destination and back. This way it will be more likely to be near you therefore safer and more accessible.
Don't let it bum you out for long :)
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I think hoopster has got it right. I love my Bravo-1's but I'm not going to leave them in my van - my Moras and my Linders machete, sure, no problem. A cheapo compass and a blue (heavier than a guilty conscience) tarp, also no problem. If somebody steals this, they probably need it more than I do.

All the cheap stuff will do the same as the much loved and premium priced gear, but less heartbreak in the case of a 'dirtbag moment'. In the final analysis, the important stuff is what you have between your ears, or to quote Ray Mears, " Knowledge is invisible and weighs not at all. Be mindful that in times of crisis if you can find shelter in the forest, rub sticks for fire and know which wild plants around you can be eaten you cannot easily be denied access to a home, hearth and a meal. All that is necessary is that we preserve wild places and our knowledge of them."

Having said that, I'm sorry, FLIX, to hear of your bad luck.

Doc
 
FLIX said:
THanks, guys.

At this point, it looks like it was just the GPS and the 12V cord. I went out to the truck to retrieve it to put it with my hunting gear and to check on the batteries, and found the center console and glove box open.

If I was home I would have heard the alarm and all due wrath would have been dispensed. We had friends over and went for a walk this afternoon. Somebody must have been watching and just swooped in.

I reported it and will check with my neighbors if they heard my alarm go off.

Looks like I'll be sticking to the main FS roads tomorrow.

Oh crap. FIVE YEARS of hunting waypoints gone. . .

-- FLIX
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That is unfortunate, though sometimes losing something like that can truly be a good thing. It is a fresh start at hunting. Can try new spots. Hope things work out and you get some good catches.
 
That is really unfortunate, I dont know what else to say but keep on your toes for a bit you never know some of these people come back for seconds...
 
Nothing I hate worse than a thief....sorry to hear this. My gut tells me with the economy in the shape it's in and no end in sight things like this are gonna only be more common....regretfully we are probably going to have to be "on guard" and try to out think the morons that turn to stealing. If you're hungry ask me, I'll feed you, cold I'll dig up a coat for you....but don't steal from me.
 
Sorry to hear about the loss FLIX:( I know the feeling; I kept my work bag/bug out bag in my truck for years. Fortunately I had to download everything, but I left my pack (Lightfighter RAID pack) along with my modified Gladius LED light and luckily just a few small items in the truck. I somehow left the truck unlocked (never do), and some punk "broke in" and took my pack, my Ti cup full of change and my new XM radio that my wife bought me for Christmas (last year). I was quite upset:mad:

I now keep very little in the cab. I remove my pack when I get home and avoid leaving it in the truck overnight. I need to get a truck box for the back for storing as another secure option. I hate thieves!

ROCK6
 
This is the glaring flaw in car/truck BOB's.

Cars get broken into with monotonous regularity. Cars also break down and need to be towed on rare occasions. Cars get into accidents, and need to be towed and owners taken to hospitals. I've known people who had each of these things happen to them, and they lost everything of value in that car. The tow truck driver will say he doesn't know anything about it, the body shop people will deny anything, and the mechanics as well are all innocnet and pure as a newborn bady.

It makes no sense to have anything of value in your car. It's been 20 years since my own truck was broken into and my BOB stolen. Nothing too bad, a surplus store machete, a small pot, bottle of matches, some bullion cubes and tea bags, some odds and ends. Replaced the whole thing for 25 dollars at the surplus store and K-mart.

In this day and age of compact electronics, cars are a good sourse of fast pawn money for GPS's, phone gear, and in states where leagal; guns. Some people who I wonder about their sanity, keep a truck gun behind the seat. Keeping any kind of gun in your un-attended car is insane. Putting gun stickers like NRA membership stickers on your car does not help.

Unplanned things happen in life. Don't keep anything in your car that can't be replaced cheap at the local 'mart. I try to keep my BOB in a cheap nylon duffle bag that stuffs under the seat and out of sight. People watch cars and the people who own them. Lots of the times it's somebody who knows you.
 
Sorry to hear this.
I had my car parked behind the house in full view of my bedroom window in a very quiet area and tey somehow manage to shatter the window without waking me.
I had a bad habit of leaving the gps bracket on the window (tom tom go) which is a huge bullseyes to a thieve that theres probably a gps unit inside, which I also tended to leave in the centre console but for some reason this one night I took the unit inside, just had a feeling, but I left the bracket on the window, this was all they got in the end plus a shattered window.
Now in europe nobody and I mean nobody leaves anything in their cars and they also make a point of raising the parcel shelf and opening the glove box so any passing scumbag can see theres nothing inside. This basically saves lots of windows.
This is how bad it is.
Alarms a waist of time I mean whats the reaction nowadays, you hear a car alarm and you ignore it !
 
I am so sorry to hear this. I had a very similar experience while in Billings. I came back from the bar and somebody had broken in and stolen my Garmin, it was a birthday present from my parents and I was really pissed. So yea, I feel your pain.
 
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