What was once lost is now found. :)

Never misplaced a gun, but I did find a magazine missing once. The next morning we stopped at our usual breakfast haunt, and I asked the waitress if they happened to find a magazine on the floor. She said, "Yea...we found it. Figured it was yours. I'll go get it."

I got a better mag holder.

Savage30L said:
That sort of thing happens to me so often, that I've come to believe that I have elves, or fairies, or poltergeists, or some other mischievous spirit following me around.

As an example: a few years back, I needed to go up to the bank to cash a fairly large check I'd been sent for some reason. I walked into the garage and put the check on the passenger seat in my Tundra. At that moment I remembered that I'd forgotten my glasses or something, and went back into the house to fetch them. When I returned to the truck, the check was not where I had left it. I spent the next 20 minutes or so frantically searching my truck, and everywhere I'd been in the house that morning, and could not find it. Finally, about the sixth time I returned to the truck, there, magically, was the check on the passenger seat!
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When that happens at our house, we blame it on "Hootie". That's who my wife's kids blamed everything on.

My own son blamed it on "Some Kid."
 
I moved out of the house in 1980, got married in 1983. I don't remember the exact year but sometime in the early 2000's mom called. She had found a .22 rifle propped up in the back of the closet in my old bedroom. To this day I have no idea where that gun came from. It's a cheap bolt action single shot.
 
StrawHat said:
Hi Ron!

Have not seen your posts in a while. Have I misplaced a revolver? Hell, I have opened my chests and found stuff I forgot I bought! We moved two years ago and recently did a new “complete inventory”. There were more than a few that were rediscovered! One was a S&W Model 1917 Commercial I got in a trade at the same time I got the New Century. The New Century completely overshadowed the 1917 and I misplaced it in my memory.

Kevin
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Yeah, I try to get in here as time allows. When I do have a chance to get away, (thank you St. Cindy) I no longer take the laptop along. Good story there Kevin.

Ron
 
Riomouse911 said:
Gun? No.

Other gun stuff like cases, cleaning stuff, ear/eye protection, targets, etc? Yup.

Nice to see all is back where it should be!

Oh, since Cindy has a thing for palm trees, here is a bonus picture for her of our Christmas palms in the back yard tonight. :thumbup:

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🎅 Ho, ho, ho!

Stay safe.
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Love the palms. :)

Ron
 
Four years ago I gifted this NAA Mini .22 lr to my son as a kind of ”gag” gift for Christmas. When he got back to his house he couldn’t find it in any of the boxes with the other “loot”
He called us to search our house & trash cans, but no luck. Big disappointment.

A year later about a week before Christmas his wife called and excitedly told us she had just found it still in its little gun rug in her wrapping paper box. She had brought her paper over for some last-minute gift-wrapping and the tiny revolver somehow wound up in the bottom of that box during the cleanup after the gift opening.
Six months after the happy discovery, I gifted him the factory belt buckle to go with it for his birthday. 6001A9F0-3E9C-41A3-8893-1F36AB2E9D1C.jpeg B2BFEEC7-14D4-42B0-8584-3730EB6C4146.jpeg
 
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I had a 870 rem with both a slug barrel and a 28 or 30' full choke barrel. Presently I configured it as a short barrel (slug) home defense shotgun. Recently I have searched high and low and the long barrel has disappeared. Must have been upset I had religated it to the safe and decided to move elsewhere.
If anyone sees it let me know and I will apologize.
 
After my uncle passed, his small collection was sold as per his wishes so the money would go to my aunt.
However over the next 4-5 months after that my aunt kept turned up several firearms in fairly obscure places.
There was a little Beretta .22 that was found in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket under some rags and stuff in the van that he used as his primary fishing vehicle.

I'm pretty sure that's the one he said he kept with his fishing gear to shoot at turtles that were going after his fish basket.
 
As a volunteer range officer at a local range, someone leaves a gun behind 2 or 3 times a year.

A few years ago, we had a shooter email us looking for his gun, a semi-custom 1911. The last time he saw the gun was when shooting it at the range...TWO months earlier. He asked us to look on the camera footage but it is only keep it for 30 days. I don't know if he ever found it.
 
Reloadron said:
Anyone else ever misplace a gun?

Ron
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I'm a lil apprehensive to say it, but yes. It will not happen again, while I'm still very disorganized in alot of ways, I hold myself to a higher standard than I did in my early 20's. That is basically saying that I hold myself to a higher standard with every mistake I make. I like to think even though I've done foolish things, only a real fool doesn't learn from their mistakes or look for the lessons. Live and learn.....
 
Gerd33 said:
After my uncle passed, his small collection was sold as per his wishes so the money would go to my aunt.
However over the next 4-5 months after that my aunt kept turned up several firearms in fairly obscure places.
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This is exactly how I ended up with about a dozen guns (and a good quantity of reloading components) from my late Uncle's estate. He was a real pack-rat, and had guns squirreled away in every nook and cranny of the house.

This being after we had divvied up the 30 or so firearms we found initially, amongst his sons.
 
Yep

Sometimes when the sky starts falling I rat hole some ammo w/ a low end firearm.

Chances are there are a few still stashed around. Well I figure if I can't remember where they are or find them no one else will either.
 
Savage30L said:
This is exactly how I ended up with about a dozen guns (and a good quantity of reloading components) from my late Uncle's estate. He was a real pack-rat, and had guns squirreled away in every nook and cranny of the house.

This being after we had divvied up the 30 or so firearms we found initially, amongst his sons.
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My buddy travels up to his late Father-in-Laws' hunting cabin in ND yearly. Every year for last three they have found a gun stashed away. Last year it was a High Standard Sentinel on top of the refrigerator, before that an '06 Winchester in the attic. All were loaded when found and the actions rusted solid so they couldn't be cleared. Ive finished restoring the Sentinel and the pump for him, at least to shooting condition anyways.
There's still an 1873 in my garage needing some attention. The tube magazine is packed full of green sludgy things that used to be .38-55 cartridges, lol.
 
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NIGHTLORD40K said:
My buddy travels up to his late Father-in-Laws' hunting cabin in ND yearly. Every year for last three they have found a gun stashed away. Last year it was a High Standard Sentinel on top of the refrigerator
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A Sentinel of my Uncle's for me, too...but this one is in fine shape, perfectly shootable. In .22 Magnum.
 
Armybrat said:
Four years ago I gifted this NAA Mini .22 lr to my son as a kind of ”gag” gift for Christmas. When he got back to his house he couldn’t find it in any of the boxes with the other “loot”
He called us to search our house & trash cans, but no luck. Big disappointment.

A year later about a week before Christmas his wife called and excitedly told us she had just found it still in its little gun rug in her wrapping paper box. She had brought her paper over for some last-minute gift-wrapping and the tiny revolver somehow wound up in the bottom of that box during the cleanup after the gift opening.
Six months after the happy discovery, I gifted him the factory belt buckle to go with it for his birthday.View attachment 1183670View attachment 1183671
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Should be a lot more difficult to lose that one now! 😁

Many years ago, we had a local gunshop owner who took advantage of a slow business day to disassemble his normal carry gun- a Browning High Power- for cleaning. He did have a pistol gripped 12Ga. under the counter and was wearing one of those NAA belt-buckle guns, so I guess he thought it was an acceptable risk. There was also an 80-lb German Shepherd and a Giant African Parrot patrolling around the shop as well.
As luck would have it, a customer came in and started chatting him up about this and that, luring him away from the main counter, before pulling a .357 and demanding he lock the front door.
The shop owner, caught cold, put up his hands and was moving to comply, when the bird, which had been perched quietly on a wooden roost near the entrance, reached out and clipped off a chunk of the robbers' face.
The perp, momentarily stunned, tried to staunch the wound with his gun-hand, giving the proprietor time to draw and fire his NAA, killing the robber.
Apparently, the bad guy didn't realize either the bird or the belt-buckle gun were real.....

Oh, and the Shepherd just sat on the floor the whole time, watching it go down. The shop owner later had a sign made for the front door that read "Forget the Dog, Beware of Parrot."
 
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NIGHTLORD40K said:
Should be a lot more difficult to lose that one now! 😁

Many years ago, we had a local gunshop owner who took advantage of a slow business day to disassemble his normal carry gun- a Browning High Power- for cleaning. He did have a pistol gripped 12Ga. under the counter and was wearing one of those NAA belt-buckle guns, so I guess he thought it was an acceptable risk. There was also an 80-lb German Shepherd and a rather mean Giant African Parrot patrolling around the shop as well.
As luck would have it, a customer came in and started chatting him up about this and that, luring him away from the main counter, before pulling a .357 and demanding he lock the front door.
The shop owner, caught cold, put up his hands and was moving to comply, when the bird, which had been perched quietly on a wooden roost near the entrance, reached out and clipped off a chunk of the robbers' face.
The perp, momentarily stunned, tried to staunch the wound with his gun-hand, giving the proprietor time to draw and fire his NAA, killing the robber.
Apparently, the bad guy didn't realize either the bird or the belt-buckle gun were real.....

Oh, and the Shepherd just sat on the floor the whole time, watching it go down. The shop owner later had a sign made for the front door that read "Forget the Dog, Beware of Parrot."
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Real Story?
 
Mark_Mark said:
Real Story?
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As told to me by the shop owner. Other local old-timers confirmed that they had read about it in the news. He still had the bird, dog, and belt gun when I met him. He said the only sad thing was the bird almost completely stopped talking after that, which really upset him because he was so grateful to it for perhaps saving his life.

I heard he passed away, probably 20-25 years ago now.
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
As told to me by the shop owner. Other local old-timers confirmed that they had read about it in the news. He still had the bird, dog, and belt gun when I met him. He said the only sad thing was the bird almost completely stopped talking after that, which really upset him because he was so grateful to it for perhaps saving his life.

I heard he passed away, probably 20-25 years ago now.
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I love Florida! best story ever
 
Never misplaced a gun, but I was bewildered for about three days trying to find a TOW replica Hudson Bay trade knife that I knew I had and started looking for after seeing the thread on here about Hudson Bay knives.

Read a story about a woman who liked to hide her Hi-Point 9mm inside her oven. Then forgot about it being in there when she turned the oven on later for baking.
Not sure if the moral of that story is 'Don't hide a gun inside an oven' or 'check your oven for content before turning it on'
 
Never lost a firearm, But found one once at a parking lot on public land. While I have misplaced and thus replaced tons of shooting and hunting supplies/accessories and thus have duplicates of many, most anything with real value has a spot that is safe and yet, still easily accesable.

Earlier this year, several months before archery season, I could not find my Ol' TenPoint Crossbow of half a dozen years, Looked everywhere I could for the dang thing, down at the cabin and at home. Knew I had lent it to my grandkids several times so they could hunt with it, but when I asked, they said "nope. ain't seen it since last year." Figured it musta got stolen, somehow/maybe? So, bought a new TenPoint, practiced and got up to speed with it. About the second week of Archery season, my youngest granddaughter posts a picture of her sitting in stand.......with the "lost" crossbow. Explanation was, "we thought it was the other grandpa's". Like the title to this thread, "What was once lost.........."
 
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