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%
  • Total voters
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Never left a gun, but I did head out to shoot my Remy 597 for the first time. I got to the line and realized I had forgot the stupid green key for the integral trigger lock. Why the heck do they put those things on there!!!!??!
 
I wont act like Im above it... but I shure havent done it!

fortunately, my range is within my property... the few folks that shoot with me are SF... so Id expect to get made fun of for a month before Id get any thing back.. and likewise!

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Haven't left a firearm at the local indoor range, but I did pack everything up and leave a couple of boxes of ammunition sitting on the bench where things were laid out. Still trying to figure that one out. Could have left my head there if it weren't securely fixed to my neck.
 
Personally, no.

However, there was a case recently of a fellow member who left his Glock 17 at the club's pistol range. He came back to retrieve it and, not finding it there, left a note on the clubhouse's bulletin board about the missing gun. To this day, his gun has yet to be returned.

I was not so much disturbed by this fellow member's carelessness in not securing and accounting for all his firearms prior to leaving the range, as I was about the fact that, in all probability, it was another club member who found the gun and decided to keep it for himself.
 
I witnessed a friend of mine, and THR member, leave behind a Mosin-Nagant 91 and an SAR-1. It was a THR get-together, and there were quite a number of folks, and close to a hundred guns. He thought someone had loaded his rifles, and they thought he had done it. Luckily, I was still there shooting, and was able to take the guns to him.
 
Don't let anybody help you carry your stuff.
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That's very true. The only times I've almost left something is when someone tries to help me clean up my stuff. Sometimes I annoy others because I won't let them pack my stuff and I won't let them rush me, but I always know what I have and where it is.
 
Never left one myself, but I was at the NRA range one day when the range OIC (Ed Wages) asked everyone if they had left a pistol. I asked him what kind it was - "it's a H&K". I replied, "oh yeah, that's right! I did leave my HK on the line a little while ago." He just smiled. I'm sure the real owner showed up for it.
 
Nope ... at least not yet. But then I don't take a boatload of guns with me to the range.
 
I could very easily do it as I'm the absent-minded sort, but I haven't left a gun behind. Other things, yes, including staplers, target frames and magazines. :eek: I force myself to check my range bag before leaving the actual range, and check again when I get out to my truck before actually driving away.
 
1. A while back one of our regular's left his Kreighoff on the rack out on the Trap field. When the (new) 16ish Trap boy brought it in, I recognized it right away. "Son, do you realize you're holding the cost a college education in your hands ???" "Yes sir, but I think this is XXXXX's it looks like the one he was shooting, I know he's not a member, but do you know his phone number ???" I just happened to know his cell number and within 10 minutes he was back to pick it up. Gave the kid a $100 tip also.

2. A month or so ago, we're done shooting, I clear all the shotguns and load them in their cases/gunsocks. "Meghan, I gotta hit the bathrooom, can you get these loaded in the car."

"Sure Dad"

Get back from the clubhouse and walk to the car.
"Everything loaded ??"
"Yep."

Get home, unload the car, start to put the guns back into the safe, and I'm one short.

"Meghan, Where's the Stoeger Uplander ??"
"I loaded everything in the car."
"We're short a shotgun."

[sounds of tires peeling] As I head back to our club, fortunately, it's:
(1). A private club, so only members have access.
(2) Sunday night. We were the last ones there when we had left late in the afternoon, so chances of someone taking the gun are very small. Possible, but small.

Get there and yep, there's the Uplander in the gunsock, on the rack.

My fault for not double checking. Won't make that mistake again.
 
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All I can say is get a system down and stick to it. Let it be a learning experience to me and hopefully anyone else. THR is good good for that. You should have seen the relief on the guy's face.
 
I leaned the bow against the back bumper of my truck and got distracted. I drove off and the bow stayed.
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Did the same thing only with a rifle; fortunately I spotted it in the rear view mirror lying in the road as I started to drive off. I haven't left a gun at the range yet but it's something I definitely could do so I've gotten into the habit of walking back to the bench and looking around after I load my stuff in the truck.
 
I was with my father once at the range, me and him were doing some shooting and rented two pistols. We were done and I was doing something at the counter and he decided to go out and wait in the car. He took the rentals with him and when I looked around for them in the store, i was freaking out becuase they weren't in sight.

The range officers hadn't noticed them missing just yet, so I figured he took them to the car, and sure enough he did. Popped the door open and saw the cases and he thought they were mine I guess, so I discreetly took them back in and got my ID and such back ;)

So yea, I've taken guns, not left them
 
Nope. I'm pretty much a fanatic (sadly bordering on obsessive / compulsive) when it comes to keeping track of stuff I own. I usually check, double check, and triple check my guns and range equipment to make sure everything leaves with me.
 
Not at the range, but a few decades ago after a morning of rabbit hunting, I leaned a 12 gauge pump against the pick-up, loaded the beagle and drove off.
When I got home shotgun-less, I called the owner of the farm I was hunting and he said he picked up the gun from the driveway, but the barrel was bent.
Drove back to the farm and got the gun, not a mark on it, big joke, ha ha.
 
I also Try put everything In one case, My next investment will be an oversized palstic case, says it will hold 2 rifles But 4 can be squeezed in plus a few pistols.
 
I am way too paranoid about losing anything of value, be it my guns, my passport or leaving my daughter at the mall, so, NO, I have never forgotten my guns at the range.
 
I've seen people leave ammunition, targets and magazines but not their guns.
 
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