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Reloadron

Reloadron

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Years ago a friend needed money so I bought this gun.
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I planned to sell it but after shooting it I grew fond of this little gun. Hell I am anything 1911 anyway. My wife is a cancer patient and like many one step forward and two back. Kathy was in rehab about 4 years ago so it was myself, Pilgrim and Charlotte and the latter being the dogs. I kept that gun handy on a coffee table as I was sleeping on a living room couch. During the days when I was out I normally just put the gun out of sight under a couch cushion. One evening I had a friend over and we enjoyed some fine bourbon. I apparently decided to put away the gun. Next morning before going to rehab to see Kathy I wondered where the damn gun was? Looked in all my super secret stash places and no gun. What the? For weeks I searched and never found the gun. Did bourbon on the rocks take away my memory? The gun had to be here somewhere, the infamous somewhere. I never found it. I replaced it since I liked it so much.

Fast forward about 4 years. My sister Cindy volunteered to come up here and hang out with Kathy for a few weeks so I could escape home health care for a few weeks. I have friends in Florida I haven't seen in years and Florida is a nice change from NE Ohio in December so I was out of here. Cindy wanted pictures of palm trees which I had not done yet. Then I get a text from Cindy with a picture of the gun and I knew it was not the replacement as all guns were secured in my safe and neither Cindy or Kathy could get to them. She was holding it captive till I sent palm tree pictures. Started sending plenty of palm tree pictures real fast. Cindy likes to clen and she was cleaning a closet in the laundry room and under old supermarket bags on the closet floor she found the gun. Kathy told her the story. Was nice to get home and also see that gun of which I now have a pair. Go figure.

Anyone else ever misplace a gun?

Ron
 
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
 
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.
 
I've found guns I don't have a clear memory of acquiring. I guess if I don't remember exactly where they came from or what they cost me, they're like free guns, right? Have had them turn up in places that were seemingly pretty random. Like maybe I needed the restroom badly and just kinda tossed it down...then got distracted x10. But if I'm not looking for them, they're technically not lost. I think.

AND
It's nice to see you back in these parts @Reloadron
Looks like your wife gets a matching gun when she's ready for it.
 
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I've told this story before, but its a pretty good one.

Years ago, before wife and kids, I went to the range prior to starting a 12 hour Friday night shift at the bar. Got home exhausted from work around 4AM so I just piled all the guns and gear on the kitchen table before heading to bed. Went to clean and stow everything the next morning and couldn't find a Ruger MK2. Called the range and they said none had been found or turned in the day prior, so I figured someone got themselves a free Ruger. Ugh.

Fast forward about three years and my newly live-in future Mrs.Nightlord was putting away the laundry for the first time and found the MK2 in the bottom of my sock drawer. Now, I was not then (or ever) in the habit of storing guns in my sock drawer, and I have no recollection of putting it there. The only thing I can figure is my delirious and sleep-deprived brain thought it was a good idea at the time. 🤪

Future Mrs.Nightlord wasn't amused, but it didn't scare her off either......:)
 
Welcome Back Ron! Glad your missing pistol showed up. Hope your Wife is doing ok.

My Wife recently passed away and I couldn't find Her concealed carry pistol. I looked everywhere (almost), both vehicles, every drawer in the house, Her purse! Where did it go??? I told the housekeeper it was missing and to please watch for it. She says oh, She took it out of Her purse when y'all left for the hospital and left it under a towel on the bar. I put it on top of the refrigerator! The only place I didn't look!
 
Couple years ago I was engaged in ADC 3-4 days a week at a ranch about 60 miles from home. My partner and I were usually alone mid-week, but bunkhouse was used by hunters over weekends. When breaking camp, I had a redundant routine of changing from camo to street clothes in which I removed the Mod. 60 in holster, laying it on top bunk along with everything from my pockets, then stowing it in my awol bag before leaving.

One trip I got a call from my wife, the day before we were scheduled to leave, that her blood pressure was on a rampage, so was in a rush to get packed up and get home.

The next week, went to the safe to retrieve the pistol, found it was not there! The pistol did not turn up after thorough search through all my gear. Thinking back, the only thing I could reason was that, since the top bunk is a bit above my eye level, I must have left the pistol on the bunk. Long story short, I hurried back to ranch and asked the cook if the pistol had turned up. I began to panic when he said no, as some of the weekend hunters had young kids that came along...what if one of the kids found the pistol?? Then I went out to the truck to retrieve my snake boots, which reside in the back of my truck, and they were noticeably heavier than usual. You guessed it, in the rush, I had dropped the pistol in the boot in the rush instead of following my normal procedure. (My truck is locked in my garage at home, so no one was at risk, but needless to say I spent several tense hours prior to locating the pistol!)
 
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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Envious of your home's location/view. Great view of city lights.
 
theotherwaldo said:
It didn't reappear for over a year, then I found it in a place that I'd already looked... .
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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!
 
Three years ago, when I first came down with COVID, I emptied my pants pockets and put the contents into the tray that I had mounted on top of my bedroom RSC,
When I had recovered I found that I couldn't find my little Bear and Son Executive folder.
After a short search I gave up and ordered another one.

Last week, while getting ready for work, I noticed that little knife sitting on the top of that RSC, right in plain sight... .
 
lightman said:
Welcome Back Ron! Glad your missing pistol showed up. Hope your Wife is doing ok.

My Wife recently passed away and I couldn't find Her concealed carry pistol. I looked everywhere (almost), both vehicles, every drawer in the house, Her purse! Where did it go??? I told the housekeeper it was missing and to please watch for it. She says oh, She took it out of Her purse when y'all left for the hospital and left it under a towel on the bar. I put it on top of the refrigerator! The only place I didn't look!
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Very sorry to hear about your wife, condolences.
 
Mark_Mark said:
I found a Beretta DT11 at the trap range. In the case, next to the firepit
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Nothing like that ever happens to me.

I worked for a while as a sales clerk at Buds Gun Shop. One day a customer told me that he found a very nice Kimber .45 auto in a nice holster, under a clump of grass out in a field (in my county! ). He said he was walking through the field and felt something hard under his foot, so he moved the clump of grass aside, and there it was. He said he asked the local police if anyone had reported that gun lost or stolen, and they said "no", so he kept it. It had been in the field for a while, and while a stainless model, it had a small amount of corrosion on it from being outdoors on the ground. He sent it off to Kimber and they cleaned that up for him. He showed it to me...it looked brand new.
 
Savage30L said:
Nothing like that ever happens to me.

I worked for a while as a sales clerk at Buds Gun Shop. One day a customer told me that he found a very nice Kimber .45 auto in a nice holster, under a clump of grass out in a field (in my county! ). He said he was walking through the field and felt something hard under his foot, so he moved the clump of grass aside, and there it was. He said he asked the local police if anyone had reported that gun lost or stolen, and they said "no", so he kept it. It had been in the field for a while, and while a stainless model, it had a small amount of corrosion on it from being outdoors on the ground. He sent it off to Kimber and they cleaned that up for him. He showed it to me...it looked brand new.
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I turned the Shotgun into the Range. I’m too pretty for Jail
 
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