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Ok, I just have to make an addendum to my latest posts whining about losing discs, etc. I think I explained I was on a bad streak of losing discs. Today, I returned to a course where I lost my purple Pro Leopard (brand new) in some rough 35 feetish away from the green 11 days ago. I had already played the course one more time since I lost the Leopard - searching again on the hole I lost it that time but to no avail. This time out I was at the hole I lost it. I threw my tee-shot. I walked down to the rough generally where I had lost my disc - mainly to mope, which is what I did as I stood there looking up to the sky in resignation. As I looked up to the sky, there was a tree above my head with a purple disc stuck in the branches. Looked at my feet and there was a decent size rock. With the second try, I tossed the rock above my head and knocked the disc out - voila! - my lost Pro Leopard (amazingly still there unnoticed for 11 days by assuredly a bunch of throwers as they played the hole!)
I am sure this has happened a bunch of times to you guys and I am also sure there have been similar stories in this very thread. Finding my disc today was ridiculous and awesome at the same time.
A couple of years ago I lost my Pro Valkyrie skipping into the river at high tide, took a look into the river too murky to see anything. The spot was where a pine tree was growing in the river, and several roots exposed. I thought it was possible the disc may of been tangled in the roots. I checked the time for low tide, very early next morning. I was the first one to tee off, and sure enough found the disc tangled in the roots and was easily able to walk on the sand bar to get it. Lost it a few months later, in the same river at Munden Point DGC Virginia Beach my home course. It was the first time I had bought a disc in a pro shop, and first at any store, I had ordered disc online my first four months of playing. I bought it at New Quarter DGC Pro Shop in Williamsburg, VA the first time playing there. I had thrown it about 18 months, I have never seen another one in any of the disc shops in my local area. It was an awesome wind disc, can't say the same for the DX or Star Valkyrie.