silicosys4
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DISCLAIMER. Depending on your state laws, there is a risk of self incrimination in this thread. Make sure you aren't incriminating yourself due to draconian state laws in telling your story.
I'll be the first to confess. I have lost a Taurus PT-99 in that I knew I didn't have possession of it, I did not know where it was, I looked without finding it, and I wanted to know where it was. It was lost for about three years and I looked for it multiple times, even asked other family members if they had seen it. I knew it was either misplaced somewhere in the house or lost outside on private property and not stolen.
Turns out it was in the back of my fathers gun closet where he had stuck it after we had gone shooting and he had tossed it back there with his guns then promptly forgot all about it.
I have never lost a gun never-to-be-found again, but I personally know more than a few people who have. It usually seems to involve a tree and the urgent need to urinate.
Strangely enough I have never heard of someone finding one of those lost hunting rifles and I've never been lucky enough to find a gun. Found a couple of neat things but never a gun.
My father found a pretty beat up Ruger SA in .357 in a river one time. I don't remember much about it other than the grips were wrapped in electrical tape and the anodizing on the grip frame was worn completely off and the grip frame was pretty oxidized and pitted. He traded that off for my first hunting rifle, a J.C. Higgins M50 in good shape...essentially a commercial 30-06 FN Mauser action and chrome lined barrel in a decent no frills stock, a trade I'd definitely have made too if I were him.
So lets hear it.
Anybody got any lost or found gun stories they want to share?
I'll be the first to confess. I have lost a Taurus PT-99 in that I knew I didn't have possession of it, I did not know where it was, I looked without finding it, and I wanted to know where it was. It was lost for about three years and I looked for it multiple times, even asked other family members if they had seen it. I knew it was either misplaced somewhere in the house or lost outside on private property and not stolen.
Turns out it was in the back of my fathers gun closet where he had stuck it after we had gone shooting and he had tossed it back there with his guns then promptly forgot all about it.
I have never lost a gun never-to-be-found again, but I personally know more than a few people who have. It usually seems to involve a tree and the urgent need to urinate.
Strangely enough I have never heard of someone finding one of those lost hunting rifles and I've never been lucky enough to find a gun. Found a couple of neat things but never a gun.
My father found a pretty beat up Ruger SA in .357 in a river one time. I don't remember much about it other than the grips were wrapped in electrical tape and the anodizing on the grip frame was worn completely off and the grip frame was pretty oxidized and pitted. He traded that off for my first hunting rifle, a J.C. Higgins M50 in good shape...essentially a commercial 30-06 FN Mauser action and chrome lined barrel in a decent no frills stock, a trade I'd definitely have made too if I were him.
So lets hear it.
Anybody got any lost or found gun stories they want to share?
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