I found a 12ga. shotshell in my car..
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Ever seen the bed of a P/U full of hulls...then tell the wife to be as you are moving you have more....and in other gauges, and that does not include the loaded shells...other calibers. Well, that barn type shed out back was kinda bare before I started " backing up the truck".
About not having guns for...
Well I have cleaned out the truck [ best can] as I park off campus. Storm comes up and shells hiding under bed liner, from b/t tool box and cab...All sorts of stuff comes "floating out" . I don't even own a .270, .308, and where'd the .50 cal come from?
Going to the car wash, spraying out the bed with tailgate down ...I've gotten some funny looks as the liner is lifted and I start hosing....hulls .22's , 9mm, 45ACP just scooting across the lot...
Lady decided maybe she didn't need change after all. Then again I wonder if the 870 in the mat holders being cleaned had anything to do with it...
Quickest way I know to get mud out of a bbl...
Ever seen the bed of a P/U full of hulls...then tell the wife to be as you are moving you have more....and in other gauges, and that does not include the loaded shells...other calibers. Well, that barn type shed out back was kinda bare before I started " backing up the truck".
About not having guns for...
Well I have cleaned out the truck [ best can] as I park off campus. Storm comes up and shells hiding under bed liner, from b/t tool box and cab...All sorts of stuff comes "floating out" . I don't even own a .270, .308, and where'd the .50 cal come from?
Going to the car wash, spraying out the bed with tailgate down ...I've gotten some funny looks as the liner is lifted and I start hosing....hulls .22's , 9mm, 45ACP just scooting across the lot...
Lady decided maybe she didn't need change after all. Then again I wonder if the 870 in the mat holders being cleaned had anything to do with it...
Quickest way I know to get mud out of a bbl...
captain obvious
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Ok, beat this:
I was driving home from a rugby social (that I did not drink at; exams earlier in the week pushed my lazy and tired buttons - I live less than a mile away), and made an accidental turn down a one way street. I immediately pulled into a driveway to turn around, but alas, there were two Morgantown PD cars across the street, waiting in ambush.
The officer walked up to my car, looked inside with his flashlight, and the FIRST thing he did (before even speaking to me) was to call for backup.
Needless to say, my car gets a bit messy on the one week in four or so that I have all my exams.
Everything worked out, though, and that night was the first time that I have ever carried on a friendly conversation about shooting/firearms with a cop - definately a nice change from the usual "what's in the back and why on earth do you need that kind of firepower" response that so many Northern Virginia LEOs have.
I was driving home from a rugby social (that I did not drink at; exams earlier in the week pushed my lazy and tired buttons - I live less than a mile away), and made an accidental turn down a one way street. I immediately pulled into a driveway to turn around, but alas, there were two Morgantown PD cars across the street, waiting in ambush.
The officer walked up to my car, looked inside with his flashlight, and the FIRST thing he did (before even speaking to me) was to call for backup.
Needless to say, my car gets a bit messy on the one week in four or so that I have all my exams.
Everything worked out, though, and that night was the first time that I have ever carried on a friendly conversation about shooting/firearms with a cop - definately a nice change from the usual "what's in the back and why on earth do you need that kind of firepower" response that so many Northern Virginia LEOs have.
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one time
after a visit to AZ me and the ex ball& chain were in the line to go thru the metal detector when she handed me a live .40sw round that I thought I had left in the ashtray of the rental.
I was getting the change out of my pocket so I wouldn't have to take it out at the check in and decided to leave the round in the car,she picked it up and was going to take it onboard because "littering is wrong"
I had to get out of line right before I was to go through the metal detector and drop it in the trash....sheesh.
Another time I had a .22 round stuck in my treads of my boots as I went into court,lucky for me the guard was a gunny-he said I could have gotten in deep-uh-messy stuff.
after a visit to AZ me and the ex ball& chain were in the line to go thru the metal detector when she handed me a live .40sw round that I thought I had left in the ashtray of the rental.
I was getting the change out of my pocket so I wouldn't have to take it out at the check in and decided to leave the round in the car,she picked it up and was going to take it onboard because "littering is wrong"
I had to get out of line right before I was to go through the metal detector and drop it in the trash....sheesh.
Another time I had a .22 round stuck in my treads of my boots as I went into court,lucky for me the guard was a gunny-he said I could have gotten in deep-uh-messy stuff.
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I bought an old beater Ford from out behind a used car lot one time.
I gave the guy $300, aired up two tires and dropped in a used battery...and drove it home. I noticed when I bought it the truck lock had been popped. No big deal. I opened it up and found $$ dollars worth of hand tools in the trunk.
I called the dealer and quizzed him about the lock. He said he din't know nuthin bout it. I figured what the hell.... I was much younger then.
I fiqured his F U attitude meant they weren't his.
I gave the guy $300, aired up two tires and dropped in a used battery...and drove it home. I noticed when I bought it the truck lock had been popped. No big deal. I opened it up and found $$ dollars worth of hand tools in the trunk.
I called the dealer and quizzed him about the lock. He said he din't know nuthin bout it. I figured what the hell.... I was much younger then.
I fiqured his F U attitude meant they weren't his.
mfree
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When I was taking the dashboard out of my project car, I found firmly wedged between the dash and the windshield support reinforcements a decidely non-tobacco cigaratte... it had obviously been there for years, and had tarred itself stuck to the paint.
My friend and his cousin, who owned my old car and they had used it too to take some brass to a commercial reloader, got pulled over for some serious stupidity the cousin did(long story) The police took a long time categorizing the various calibers and amounts of various brass they found and finally gave up counting!
Never found ammo in a used car but I did leave a plastic HK pistol case in a rental along with a cable lock lock, did not bother to try to get it back. Only thing I found was my dad found a eight ball of coke in a used car he got! He flushed it and I kept the cheap Pakistani lockback folder I found.
Never found ammo in a used car but I did leave a plastic HK pistol case in a rental along with a cable lock lock, did not bother to try to get it back. Only thing I found was my dad found a eight ball of coke in a used car he got! He flushed it and I kept the cheap Pakistani lockback folder I found.
DWS1117
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I wish that were the case.
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very funny post. Thanks for the laugh.
Just classic.
Mannlicher
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a clear cut example of a c-o-n-s-piracy
Years ago, I bought my wife a used Wagoneer. After a time, the heater messed up and I asked a mechanic friend to check it out. When I picked it up, he was tellin me what he found inside the heater parts. An airguage, (one of the big truck size), a 4 bladed case knife, two pens, and a pair of earplugs. He told me he had dropped them all into the glovebox for me.
A month later, I decided to check out the earplugs as I was going shooting anyway. I opened the glovebox, found the plugs and squeezed the little box to open it up, only to find it was full of pot!
My wife is a teacher and had been carrying the stuff around in the glovebox all that time onto school property and everything else. LOL
The mechanic had done the same thing I had. He read "earplugs" on the side and took for granted that's what the box actually held. So, instead of checkin it out, he just threw it into the glovebox with the rest of the junk he found.
A month later, I decided to check out the earplugs as I was going shooting anyway. I opened the glovebox, found the plugs and squeezed the little box to open it up, only to find it was full of pot!
My wife is a teacher and had been carrying the stuff around in the glovebox all that time onto school property and everything else. LOL
The mechanic had done the same thing I had. He read "earplugs" on the side and took for granted that's what the box actually held. So, instead of checkin it out, he just threw it into the glovebox with the rest of the junk he found.
Got pulled over several years ago, driving a little fast, the Statie all of a sudden got real tense, and asked me to step out of the car yada yada yada, after he got me "secured" I noticed about a hundred different empties rolling around the bed of the truck.
A buddy had dropped a bag of reloadables in my truck and I had forgotten about, Trooper had a good laugh once we got it cleared up.
Once later on, rented a car in tampa, had a blow out, went to change the tire and there were three pistols under the spare, a junker Maverick, a 1911 or argentine clone, and a really nice S&W 29, I called home and asked a buddy to run the serials, all came up hot so I ended up calling the local cops, They took a statement but never heard anything about them. But during the statement one detective walked up and asked why I had called Minnesota to check on the guns, I said "cuz I did not know anyone in Florida". he chuckled and smiled and said thanks for calling. A distant cousin bought a car in chicago many years ago. During the seventies, anyway he got a flat and thought the spare was really heavily, but he put it on and drove home but it shook like mad, when he got home and he put his new tire on and decided the tire was really really heavy, so he pulled the tire off the rim, inside was about 14 kilos of pot.
A buddy had dropped a bag of reloadables in my truck and I had forgotten about, Trooper had a good laugh once we got it cleared up.
Once later on, rented a car in tampa, had a blow out, went to change the tire and there were three pistols under the spare, a junker Maverick, a 1911 or argentine clone, and a really nice S&W 29, I called home and asked a buddy to run the serials, all came up hot so I ended up calling the local cops, They took a statement but never heard anything about them. But during the statement one detective walked up and asked why I had called Minnesota to check on the guns, I said "cuz I did not know anyone in Florida". he chuckled and smiled and said thanks for calling. A distant cousin bought a car in chicago many years ago. During the seventies, anyway he got a flat and thought the spare was really heavily, but he put it on and drove home but it shook like mad, when he got home and he put his new tire on and decided the tire was really really heavy, so he pulled the tire off the rim, inside was about 14 kilos of pot.
Was once walking thru an airport in Brussels coming back to the States. I reached in my pocket and felt about 10 .22lrs. Across from me was one of the local cops at the security station. They carry machine guns in airports in Europe (it was during the 80's). I puckered and gently dropped those .22s into a neaby garbage can.
During the 90's, there was some sort of terrorist attack and the fed put up security checkpoints at airports. The officers could ask you to open your trunk, etc. before you got near the terminal. Anyway, I was going to pick up a friend at the Phoenix airport and was stopped by security. They opened that hatchback of my Honda Civic, looked around in the backseat and waved me on. When I returned with the frien, we opened the hatchback to put his luggage in. There in plain sight were two boxes of 12 ga Winchester AA 71/2. Guess the security guard was a hunter?
During the 90's, there was some sort of terrorist attack and the fed put up security checkpoints at airports. The officers could ask you to open your trunk, etc. before you got near the terminal. Anyway, I was going to pick up a friend at the Phoenix airport and was stopped by security. They opened that hatchback of my Honda Civic, looked around in the backseat and waved me on. When I returned with the frien, we opened the hatchback to put his luggage in. There in plain sight were two boxes of 12 ga Winchester AA 71/2. Guess the security guard was a hunter?
My dad bought a used Volvo in 76. Knowing that there are goodies to be found in used cars I pulled out the back seat and found 20 rounds of 30.06
bronze tip and 13 silver dollars.
I kept the ammo and gave my dad the money.
Finally almost 30 years after the find I shot the ammo out of a Savage 110.
bronze tip and 13 silver dollars.
I kept the ammo and gave my dad the money.
Finally almost 30 years after the find I shot the ammo out of a Savage 110.
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