What would you do in this situation (another shooter at the range forgets his rifle)

[Coolbreeze8804]

I have gotten a half a dozen very nice free small bore rifles at my range that way. I show up to shoot and these pretty little things are laying there all lonely and forlorn. I usually shoot for as long as I can and then I take them home. Without exception some horrified young shooter calls a day or so later asking if I found a gun... and then they and thier parent unit shows up on the porch to take the poor creature home... Our range/club has a phone listing of all members, and the kids just start at the top and call until they find their gun because only members are allowed down on the small-bore range... It usually provides the finder with a free lawn mowing or raking, depending on the season.

It's a nice warm feeling when they show up on a strangers porch and you can tell by the look on thier face that they know it's a good guy on the other side of the door. The parents never seem that happy with the kid, but it's always a nice way to meet though.....

I think you did a good thing and did it right.

 

[evan price]

Last year I was out at the state range, shooting pistols, and a very colorful fella was also there practicing with a SAA clone. I say "colorful" because he was wearing his CASS getup- tassled jacket, hand-tooled leather gear, etc. One heck of a shooter. We wound up talking a bit, he opened up his range bag to show his other SAA off, then he shot some more and then went down to the rifle range to shoot his lever-actions. After chatting with the RO and me he loaded his rifle cases in the trunk and got into his car and left.
Unfortunately, when I went back down to the pistol range, he had also left his range-roll with his nice leather hand-tooled belt, fringed holsters, and two SAA revolvers laying on the bench!

The RO and I carefully stowed everything, we also picked up all his 45 Colt brass and put it all back in his range bag for him and locked it up in the range office.

About an hour later, and maybe 5 minutes before the range closed, his car came tearing up the access road and screamed to a stop. Before he'd even got out of it we had his range bag there ready for him. He was quite relieved and very grateful.


Gary, I hear ya about the heat stroke. A couple years ago I was shooting in the summer sun for a lot longer than I should have and didn't bring water. I was policing my brass when I started getting naseous and nearly passed out- realized I hadn't been sweating for a while. Had to go sit in my car & drink water with the AC on. Range was a very busy Saturday crowd. Almost an hour passed before I realized I'd left my Sig sitting on the firing line. It was still there and the guys shooting said they'd kept an eye on it for me.

 

[Patriotme]

HAPPY NEWS!!!

The owner of the gun just called me, thanking me profusely for holding onto his gun, we will meet back at the range on Sunday where he will bring his proof of purchase and driver's licence to verify ownership and I will release the gun back to him



Problem solved, everyone's happy

It's nice to know that there are some decent people still out there.

 

[Broken Anvil]

You did exactly right. The last thing I would do is call the cops and get them involved. I made the mistake of turning in some items I found and when I called back a month later to make a claim, they didn't know what I was talking about......??????

 

[MacTech]

Final update;
Went to the range today, tested some Rem CBees in my 10/22 and Marlin 25, shot a few 1/4" groups with both guns at 25Y once I determined they like CCI Blazer best, discovered that CCI Subsonics get wildly erratic when air temps drop below 40F (36 degrees here, some Subsonics ended up going supersonic due to air density

The Savage's owner showed up, all I.D. Matched, and the gun went home with him, he gave me five 100 round boxes of CCI Green Tag for a thank-you

Cool, I always wanted to try GT, but thought it was too expensive…

I thanked him for the ammo, he set up on the pistol range with his .38 Special and some handloads (after putting his Savage in his car first ) but called it after 12 rounds as it was getting much colder, it's around 34 now and dropping, cloudy, and I wouldn't be surprised if it snowed today…

All in all, a happy conclusion to an interesting tale

 

[cleardiddion]

I would've done the same thing.
You did good