What percentage of lost discs do you have returned?

[Disc Golf Doctor]

Curious as to how frequently everyone else gets contacted about a disc you have lost. I seem to only get about 1 in 5 or less. I had a disc I lost show up a couple of months later half way across the state last summer.

 

[brutalbrutus]

I'd say not a lot, maybe 5%. Its kind of strange though. I have lost or forgotten to pick my FR resistor 5 times and have gotten it back every time. One summer I lost 5 or 6 Teslas and didn't get any of them back...*shrugsmiley*

I also had a weird call about a disc once. I sold an orange champ wraith to a firend of mine and he lost it at Mt Airy(Cincy, Ohio) the first round he had it. Cant remember exactly how long it was later I got the call back but I think it was at least a year. It was so much later that in the meantime I had stopped hanging out with that guy, lol. The disc was found in a lake in Richmond, Virginia...

 

[Putt for D'oh]

Rarely. Hard to say, it goes in streaks and I lose a lot fewer than I used to. Lately I've left a few out there and of all that have gone this year I got called right away on three and not gotten anything back on 3. One I stuck in a tree and couldn't retrieve during my round. I went by on my way out and it was gone. I saw a group a few holes a head and ran up to see if they had it. One guy spoke up (not the guy that had the disc) and the guy that DID have the disc got a bit pissy about it being left of in the tree and not hard to get to or something then parting shot said "you should put your name on those" I did let him know its on the rim, maybe a bit faded but thanks for being a stand-up guy.

I've returned/called and dropped at a lost and found for probably 10 in the same time frame and found a few no-name no number used a facebook lost and found and got no hits on.

Overall in the time i've played? 1 in 5 sounds about right.

 

[hiflyer]

Every disc I've lost has had my name and number, none have been returned.
The only disc I got back was a *orc that sat in a lake for a year. I bought it back (it wasn't returned) from the guy who said he couldn't sell it. He probably couldn't sell it because of the giant QR code I dyed on it which sent me a text saying it had been found.

 

[livextreme9]

I rarely lose discs as I will spend quite a long time looking for them when I feel I have lost them. The ones I have actually lost, I have only received a couple of calls back. I have gotten more calls from discs that I have traded and the new owner lost, than the discs I actually lost.

 

[blake833]

I've lost almost thirty discs over the years (I play over a lot of water hazards and for some reason think that just because I made the first shot, I can do better on a second), and the only ones I've gotten back are ones I retrieved myself. Either going back into the brush and looking after a month or so when the foliage changes or a good wind comes through, or swimming when the water is clear or the weather warms up.

I have returned about 6 this year (when I started playing again), so maybe I'm building up some good disc karma. There are definitely some discs out there I really miss, and maybe shouldn't have been throwing in the first place

 

[dorseymatt]

I'd guess about 80% of the time, since people at my home course are very good about returning discs. Honestly the percentage at my home course is probably 90% or above.

 

[scarpfish]

So few of them that I don't bother keeping track. I put my phone number hoping someone calls, not because I expect them to.

 

[cleav]

5-10% is a generous answer. probably closer to 5%. and I have everything properly inked. and for some reason the ones I get calls about are the ones I don't even care about...maybe bit that much of a coincidence.

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[Nova P]

The only ones that I don't get back are the ones that go into the deepest and most remote lakes. The others come back to me with tremendous regularity.

 

[Baseballadp]

I've only lost 2 in a lake. One when I was brand new first day and didn't have a name. It was a sweet day glow destroyer. I miss it. The other is in the middle of a sewage pond basically. Somebody might eventually return it but doubtful. Both times I searched and found other people's who said I could keep them (both had lost them so long ago in that lake they had forgotten bout them)

 

[jmdaire27]

Last two I lost (well, one lost, one left on the course by accident) I got back. Reached out to our local disc golf community FB (literally has been the only time I use FB....) about the first one, White SDS. Second I texted my friend who was also on the course asking if he came across my Orange Undy. He did.

So, 100% the last couple years (suppose I don't lose many). However, I can think of a few in the past I never got back. Oh well.

 

[sisyphus]

Despite contact info on every disc and a reward policy, 5% is about right. I saw one I lost in Indiana for sale online in Illinois, and had one returned from a local course on which I'd never lost a disc.

 

[thrembo]

New category:

What do you do with lost discs when you find them?
1. Always try to get them back to their owner.
2. Finders keepers losers weepers.
3. Borrow them for a while. Leave the name and number on them and throw them till I lose them again. Hey, they might make it back home someday!

 

[davetherocketguy]

I had a disc I basically returned to myself...I guess? Lost a disc at a course about 30 miles from home. It was a light blue bigZ Mantis. About 3 months later I was playing a round at a local course about 10 miles from home and I see this light blue Mantis some kid was throwing. I asked him if I could take a look at it. Sure enough my name and number were still on the bottom. I asked if he knew who Dave was and of course he didn't. Guess what dude that's me! I was seriously going to let him keep it since I had moved on from that driver and I think he thought I was going to fight him or something. "Aw nah man you can have it." He was all nervous about it and I ended up selling it about a month later.

 

[Keller]

I don't put contact info on my discs.

It's too much of a pain in the a$$ trying to hook up with people to try and get them back.

If I lose a disc, it gets a moment of silence and I move on.

I usually lose one disc a year, so it's not a big deal.

 

[roggenb3]

I voted everytime, even though that is not true. But I get well over 50% back. If there was an option for 80%, I would have chose that.

I seem to have unusually good luck with this. Partially because a lot of my lost discs are dyes, and I think people are less ready to take a disc as their own when it's so easily recognizable. Also, Glide being a community lost and found around here really does help - makes it super easy to return a disc.

 

[Tigga]

He probably couldn't sell it because of the giant QR code I dyed on it which sent me a text saying it had been found.

THAT is friggin awesome, lol

 

[Twmccoy]

I don't put contact info on my discs.

It's too much of a pain in the a$$ trying to hook up with people to try and get them back.

If I lose a disc, it gets a moment of silence and I move on.

I usually lose one disc a year, so it's not a big deal.

This. Plus, if you want to possibly re-sell the discs down the road you can get more value out of them un-inked.

If you chuck a disc in a lake, move on. She's gone. I lost a biofuzion Defender about 3 months ago on a seemingly innocuous shot. The weeds were minimal. I simply never found it. It had no ink on it. Oh well. It comes with the territory.

 

[Keller]

Yeah, I think the Inked disc hope to get it back if I lose if phase is starting to back fire. I know lots of people "including myself" who don't want other peoples inked crap anymore. It's one thing to have it small on the rim, but most I see are large obnoxious chicken scratch.

I love (not) playing with those guys that like to pick up your disc and see a name one it and assume you're throwing a found disc that you didn't bother calling the owner about. No jaska$$, I play with him all the time and I traded him for it!

From here on out for me, you ink it, you ruined it. Unless it's DX. That whips off easy.