Have you ever left a gun at the shooting range?

Have you ever left a gun at the firing range?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 4.6%

  • No

    Votes: 268 87.6%

  • Witnessed someone who did.

    Votes: 24 7.8%
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I met up with a fellow who was kind enough to let this fool have a pair of ear plugs (I left mine at home) and struck up a chat with him. To make a long story short he ultimately got distracted with the conversation, the next thing I knew he drove off leaving some fairly expensive guns behind in a large steel plano case. I picked up the case and locked it up in my truck and wrote the poor guy a note. I have your guns and I will stay local until you get back. Well, he got back to me with a phone call. Very relieved and embarassed he explained to me that one of those cherished firearms was passed down to him by his own father and he had it all of his life. I went back to the range and made the switch.
I was wondering how many of us high roaders have ever left a gun at the range?
 
I could see this happening. The only time I have seen/heard the firearms being left is at home, and then not finding out they are not in back of the SUV until at the range for a match HAHAHAHA talk about funny. :D
 
had to pull over on the way home a couple of times to check, but so far so good.
*shiver* right up there with leaving the kids at the supermarket......
 
No, but I get all OCD and check about 4 times before leaving my position and then check again when I get to the car.
 
I can see it happening with other things besides guns. Ive certainly made some bumbles over the years.. things like keys locked in the car, pizza box left on top of the car and driven away.. that sort of thing. I can't see it happening with guns though. I'm obsessively careful with them. Like Wedge, he above poster, I do get OCD about it and check many times.
 
I was shooting at the range one day when the nice fellow a few lanes down finished shooting, packed up his stuff, came over to say goodbye then drove off. I went back to shooting and when I took a break a few minutes later found he left his rifle cased up on the bench behind the lanes. I was the only one up there so I just left it, planning to take it to the sheriff when I left for the day. About an hour later the guy came back and said he realized he forgot it when he got home. Worst part was, it was a friend's rifle and he was borrowing it.

After that, I always double check the range after I pack everything up to leave because I could easily see myself doing that.


I've gone to the range a few times and found that I grabbed the wrong magazines or ammo though.
 
It just happened to a buddy of mine. We went to a range in Maryland with a bunch of pistols, rifles, and shotguns. It was a rural unmanned range with no range officers.

Well, when it was time to leave we loaded up our gun cases in the truck. I made darn sure I had my M1A, Glock, and shotgun. I even said to him "you got all your guns?" And he said "yup yup" all impatiently.

Well, 30 minutes later we get back to a friend's place and his face turns white and he begins freaking out. He left his $1500 Benelli over/under in a case sitting at this rural unmanned range. :eek: And to make things worse, as we were leaving two shady-looking white gangster mall-ninja types showed up.

As I said- no range officers, no buildings, not even a place to call. Well, he raced back to the place on his own (30 min drive) and fortunately a father and son had saw him leave it and kept the Benelli with them until he returned. Thank goodness there are some Christians left in this world.

Oh course I had to make fun of him for it and I asked him where the "Leave your $1500 Italian shotguns here unattended" sign was. :)
 
I was just thinking about this, and if this happened here in NY, I'm not sure what I would do about it if the guns included handguns. Even with a carry permit, every gun you have has to be individually registered and listed on the permit. So a person could be in serious trouble if they were stopped while in possession of someone else's handguns. If it were an indoor range, then obviously the guns would go to the range officer/storefront/whatever. If it were just me at an unmanned outdoor range though .. I'd want to help the guy, but on the other hand taking the guns would be a big risk to my own legal status .. that'd be a tough call.
 
Nope. I did, hewever, leave a bow where I parked my truck to hunt once.

I leaned the bow against the back bumper of my truck and got distracted. I drove off and the bow stayed. When I got home and realized what I did, I about ***** my pants. Luckily I went back and the bow was on the ground where my truck was parked, undamaged.
 
In the Winter time I forget my coat in the range quite often. I get all my stuff together and when I'm about to head out the door I notice something isn't quite right :banghead:
 
NO!

I'm OCD about that, too.

A friend of mine left his shotgun leaning against the car after coming out of a duck slough and having a cup of coffee, though. Drove off and realized what he did 5 miles later. Returned to the exact spot and drove over his gun!:eek:

Said he never shot that one very well anyway.:rolleyes:

Poper
 
I have never left a gun, but I have forgotten all sorts of other stuff like ammo, muffs, a cooler, targets, et. et.
 
haven't left a gun yet, but it is a big worry in the back of my mind...

a few weeks ago I took a drive to the range (24 miles) and when I got there, I had my rifles, but left my shooting bag at home. I could not do anything without ammo and everything else, so I just went back home for the day...
 
I triple check before I leave the range every time. However, a friend of mine had the exact same shotgun case as I did and we accidentally got our weapons mixed up. He had my 870 tactical and I had his WWII rifle. Quite the switch.
 
Once I bought a can of snuff and forgot to get it as I left the gas station...

Seriously, I've only ever been to a rifle range once, and that was for my hunter's education. I do all my shooting on private property. I have left a gun at my grandparent's house, though.
 
i used to shoot at an indoor range almost everyday. It generally turned into an hour of shooting, and 2 hours of BS.

One night I left to pic up the Chinese food (friday night is Chinese night!) and had them put my gunbox behind the counter. When I left for the night, I forgot to get my gunbox. Oops.
 
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