Do you get your discs back????????

Just wondering how many people have a lost disc returned to them.  It seems to me that unless a regular player finds the disc it is to never be seen again. Is this the norm outside of Michigan????  And yes all the discs are signed with phone# and PDGA#b

[chuckdisc]

I have only lost two disc and one of them was returned the next day.

[Trevor Smith]

The one that kills me is when it is a very unique disc. My good friend lost his pink wraith, named and numbered, dyed with the batman symbol, given to him by his girlfriend as a christmas present, up in the tallest tree on our local park. That alone was a feat in and of itself. Well, he spotted it, but being 75 feet up he couldn't retrieve so he told all of his friends about it and to keep an eye on the tree for him. The very next day was 35 mph winds. The disc had no hope of staying up that tree. 2 hours after the storm passed, he booked out to the field and checked the tree. The disc was down but nowhere to be found! He saw some kids on the 18th hole (the tree was on 13) so he tried to go over to ask. The kids booked it when they saw him coming. He didn't get a good look at the kids faces but seriously, who doesn't notice a pink batman disc? We both live on a college campus and it is a good chance that these kids are students here. My friend is very well know with all of the disc locals, so a hit has been put out on the kids. You don't steal a man's pink batman disc. You just don't

[Jim Coonradt]

One word. Baseball. I have gotten them out of the top of a tree with one good shot. Better than leaving them. Problem is I got the baseball stuck in the tree. I gotta buy me a new one tomorrow.

You don't pull on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. And you don't mess around with Jim.

Nothing to do with my name. Just a song.

[AK Discer]

True that, I've been saved by golf balls, baseballs, and water/Gatorade bottles more than once.

[Joe Meldrum]

Got one of two lost

[Tim]

im a city worker whats is a sentence lol

[AK Discer]

huh?

[Donny Olow]

I usually throw all my discraft discs in the lake.

[Trae-Bear]

i only have had 3 discs returned to me

[AK Discer]

I've lost 20+ discs since I started playing and I've only ever got two of them back. It just happened that yesterday I got my flat top 12x Firebird back. I lost it last year in August. I lost it on hole 3 at Kincaid and this guy found it on hole 10. So, somebody found it, used it, then lost it again. It is because of things like this that make me lose faith in humanity that they don't even try to get a hold of you or call you. I put my name, number, and PDGA# on all my discs.

I always call a person when I find a disc a couple of times over a week or two. If I hear nothing back, then I guess they didn't want the disc. If I find one with no name on it, not much I can do, but I do ask people on the course that I run in to if it is theirs.

[rob bax]

Let's talk numbers - specifically percentages. What percent of discs that you lose are returned to you - presuming you have your phone number on your disc?

Sean Perkins just wrote he's lost 20+ discs and gotten 2 back. That's 10%. That's about where I am - maybe a little better. I've gotten about 20% of my lost discs returned. That's a disappointing number, but my bet is that it isn't uncommon.

I return 80% of the discs I find. The 20% not returned aren't returnable - no identifier, place, or a phone number that's not working anymore.

[Justin Penrose]

In the past 8 months since really getting into the sport ive lost 6 discs in tourneyments and just shooting to many off the pad to find one in a field or what not and out of those 6 discs ive gotten all but one back and i lost it into a lake that was to deep to swim or wade to get my plastic back.