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Lost a really nice AR-15 yesterday. Thought it may have been stolen out of my truck, but there was only one place I went yesterday and I reviewed their surveillance cameras and nobody touched my truck that I could see. Only thing I can figure is that I laid it on top of my bed cover and drove off without putting it in the truck. I don’t remember even getting the rifle to put it in my truck. I do remember getting the range bag and ammo. Those are still on the back seat.

I’ve torn the house apart a dozen times. Ridden and walked the highways and roads I took yesterday. Nothing. No sign of it. Reported it to local PD this morning on the off chance it turns up some day.

The worst part, it wasn’t my rifle. My buddy ordered all the parts and asked me to put it together for him. Now I owe him $2K. Pretty sick about the whole deal.
 
i hope you find it

did you check your front porch, your back porch, your favorite outdoor chair, your garage........it might still be at your house.
 
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Bet this thread doesn’t get many “likes”. I certainly can’t bring myself to do it.

What you need to do is go through step by step everything you remember doing. Type it out here. Make it the longest post ever. I’ve done similar things before and torn my place apart only to realize I did something insignificant in an area of the house I almost never go. Or I took a phone call and got sidetracked. Or went to the shop to get my Wheeler screwdriver set and set the rifle on the deck of my bass boat.
 
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Years ago my Brother and I put a nice shotgun on top of the truck and drove off with it there. Didn't notice when it fell. Woman waved us down to tell us about it (wish she would have picked it up) but when we went back a few minutes later it was gone.

We went and reported it to the police in case someone tried to turn it in, or worse, used it in a crime. Never has showed up again. $$ lesson for us.

Sorry to hear about your AR mistake.
 
I will lose a pencil if I put it behind my ear vs back where it goes. Put glasses on my hat, guaranteed the next thing I will do is swat at a fly with the hat. Who knows how many hours of my life I wasted looking fo keys...

BTDT so many times I just create routines. Stuff happens though. I bet you just did that twice, your first and your last.
 
BigBore44 said:
But this thread doesn’t get many “likes”. I certainly can’t bring myself to do it.

What you need to do is go through step by step everything you remember doing. Type it out here. Make it the longest post ever. I’ve done similar things before and torn my place apart only to realize I did something insignificant in an area of the house I almost never go. Or I took a phone call and got sidetracked. Or went to the shop to get my Wheeler screwdriver set and set the rifle on the deck of my bass boat.
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Yeah...I’ve done all that. I’ve checked everywhere. It’s nowhere on my property. Even walked the roads. Somebody had to have picked it up.
 
Periodically, at our carbine matches, we would later get an email that someone left their rifle at the range. I had a little folding stool. I left it at the US Shooting Academy in Tulsa.

I once saw a women driving away with her wallet on the roof of the car. I yelled at her to stop and she gave me lip about What do you want! I told her and her friend in the car, laughed and seemingly mocked her.
 
I make it a point to never put a firearm somewhere that I could “forget about it”. I was in a rush yesterday. Had to meet a guy at 6:00 to swap vehicles, so the dealership could do some warranty work on my truck. The plan was to go test fire the rifle and zero the scope after I met him. Went to get the rifle out of my truck and it wasn’t there. Thought, “no biggie” I must have left it propped up next to the front door in my rush to leave. Got home, and no rifle. The only place I went before meeting the guy from the dealership was Academy Sports. Their manager was very helpful and allowed me to go with him to review security camera footage. Plainly visible that the rifle was not laying on the bed cover when I arrived and nobody really went near my truck that I could tell. The whole thing just sucks and it’s totally out of character. Sleep deprivation and stress will do that to a man, I suppose.
 
Several years ago couple of ladies I know found a two cased shotguns laying in the middle of a country road. One was an 1100 and the other I forget. Some weeks later they determined who the guns belonged to and returned them. Had been left on the roof of a pickup. It happens.
 
Yah I can sympathize.
Left my DPMS on the bumper of my truck eons ago out in the desert in the hustle of cleanup. Completely forgot about her and drove off.
The sling caught around the hitch and banged/dragged my new carbine around for a while before I realized it wasn't in the cab.
She took a nasty beating. Complete with a rock FIRMLY lodged in the flashhider and internals full of sand and rocks and a busted stock. And lacking a very noticeable amount of finish wear now.

Drove back and looked for about 20 minutes before I looked behind the truck and there she was.


And once left my phone on the hood of the truck... and it stayed there until I hit 65mph on the freeway and wondered what that shiny thing that hit my windshield was. Moments later... where's my phone?
S*** I think I left it... oh no... and that realization of i now know what hit my windshield.
Never found it and caught hell for it.
 
Makes me feel like writing a list every time I go to the range. List of the firearms I'm bringing, and before I drive off, make sure I check that all of them are in the car.

This is just repetitive though, and surely would get exhausting after a while. Plus I'm young and don't have a faulty memory.
On one of my new gun cases, I wrote a note with my name, my number and I think my address, in case the case gets lost somewhere and someone needs info on how to return it. Maybe doing this with all your guns is a good idea.
 
Heir Kommt Die Sonne said:
Makes me feel like writing a list every time I go to the range. List of the firearms I'm bringing, and before I drive off, make sure I check that all of them are in the car.

This is just repetitive though, and surely would get exhausting after a while. Plus I'm young and don't have a faulty memory.
On one of my new gun cases, I wrote a note with my name, my number and I think my address, in case the case gets lost somewhere and someone needs info on how to return it. Maybe doing this with all your guns is a good idea.
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I think you are putting way too much faith in humanity. I feel like if I put my personal info with the gun, I’m just going to have to deal a stolen identity on top of a missing firearm. Lol
 
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I feel like if I put my personal info with the gun, I’m just going to have to deal a stolen identity on top of a missing firearm.
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Yep what I was thinking after I left that post. Maybe just your phone number is all you should put down.
If you have your address on there, they might return it but then peep into your house to see how many more you have..
 
Sorry to hear of your predicament. If you lost it and some finds it and doesn't call the police it's technically/legally a stolen gun(in my state). That goes for anything lost and authorities not notified. I found a large new chain saw recently in the road that had fallen off the tail gate of a pickup truck. I called the PD and the owner insisted on giving me $100. Later, i researched the law regarding finding lost items and the finder is legally obligated to call PD in my state. Good luck
 
Don’t feel too bad. I know someone who left a quarter-million worth of diamonds in a satchel on his car roof once. He was halfway to Manhattan when he realized it. (They were recovered, however). But can you imagine the heart rate?
 
Archer said:
Don’t feel too bad. I know someone who left a quarter-million worth of diamonds in a satchel on his car roof once. He was halfway to Manhattan when he realized it. (They were recovered, however). But can you imagine the heart rate?
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Yeah, Zero when they realized they didn’t have it. 180 a few seconds later.
 
A few years ago, my local trap club had a .410 only competition every week.
I had looked everywhere for my .410, and finally gave up. I spent the 45min drive to the club contemplating what I could have possibly done with that gun.....
When I got to the club, there it was in the rack, in its case.
I had left it there the week before!
 
I think I was about 15, and shot a small buck on closing evening of deer season after not getting to hunt much. I didn’t have my own rifle yet so I was using dads. That night I had a funeral to attend and I shouldn’t have even gone hunting, but I did, and shot a deer which made a busy night even busier. I leaned the rifle up where it would rest between the cab and the bed of the truck while we packed everything up, and the empty rifle case got packed without the rifle. We had to drive back to the farm to get it after the funeral and I got to bed around 4am. Up for school at 6 and my parents had zero sympathy since it was my boneheaded moves that kept making the night more hectic.
 
marksman13 said:
Lost a really nice AR-15 yesterday. Thought it may have been stolen out of my truck, but there was only one place I went yesterday and I reviewed their surveillance cameras and nobody touched my truck that I could see. Only thing I can figure is that I laid it on top of my bed cover and drove off without putting it in the truck. I don’t remember even getting the rifle to put it in my truck. I do remember getting the range bag and ammo. Those are still on the back seat.

I’ve torn the house apart a dozen times. Ridden and walked the highways and roads I took yesterday. Nothing. No sign of it. Reported it to local PD this morning on the off chance it turns up some day.

The worst part, it wasn’t my rifle. My buddy ordered all the parts and asked me to put it together for him. Now I owe him $2K. Pretty sick about the whole deal.
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I'm assuming a hard bed cover and hard or soft rifle case.

If you park in the driveway/garage and particularly if it's a hard casell and bed cover, it may have slid off as you exited the driveway and turned/accelerated onto the street.

If the scenario is like that, I'd start asking neighbors in hopes 1 of them left home soon after you did and picked it up.


Good luck.
 
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