Went on a self-guided rafting, fly fishing trip in 2012 to SW Alaska. Weather delayed our arrival by a day on our in-bound flight by float plane to the drop off lake. This had a reverberating effect when it was time to be picked up by our wheel plane at the local Inuit airstrip 5 days later. Flights were delayed across the region and we were worried if we were going to make it back to Anchorage for the return flight to DFW the following morning.
I took a .44 magnum for bear protection on the trip along with a full box of heavy load ammo. I dutifully checked in my firearm and ammo at DFW at the start of the trip. But when the float trip ended , we were delayed getting back to Anchorage. We made it back to Anchorage late, took a cab to our hotel, made the driver wait while we dropped our luggage. Then we had him drive us to a bad ass pizza place in town before it closed.
After long day of breaking camp, rowing to our pickup point, traveling by boat to the airstrip, taking a plane to Dillingham, taking a turbo prop to Anchorage, and eating pizza and drinking beer, I was dead tired. Asked my buddy at the hotel what time our flight was the next morning and he said something like 10:00 am. I immediately went to bed. Woke up about 7:00 the next morning, about to take a shower for the first time in 6 days. But decided to check my phone first to see what time our flight left. Flight leaves in an hour.
We make a mad dash to the airport, check my revolver in at ticketing and put it in my check in duffle bag and quickly proceed to security carrying my backpack as they are announcing boarding for my flight.
I forgot to remove my box of ammo from my backpack. Gulp…