I didn't, but my brother lost a Remington shotgun. Can't remember the model, but it just preceded the 1100 series coming out. This is going back 20+ years, I borrowed it and gave it back to him. About 2 years later he asked if I still had it. Nope, told him I returned it. We double check the safe just to make sure and it wan't in there. To this day we have no idea what happened to that shotgun.

How do you lose a 12ga shotgun with a 28" barrel?

Was grilling one night and when I went to bring everything in, I guess I had my hands full and my brain firmly switched to “off” and left a Glock 19 on one of the plate shelves. Looked for it for two or three days, had no idea where I could’ve left it. Happened to look out the back window and saw it during breakfast. Good thing our yard was reasonably private there, would’ve been easy for someone to snag it if they’d seen it.

You leave it laying on the hood of your car or truck and forget and a friend comes by and you go fishing with him.....

Never lost or misplaced a gun but have forgotten that I owned a few before. That happens more with ammo than guns, but it has happened a few times with firearms when digging around in my safe.

One morning while on duty and off my beat area, I stopped in at a high traffic area gas station to use the restroom as they had outside access and always clean. Being off beat, I didn't check out on the radio and, of course, I get a priority fight in progress call on my beat. Jumped up, geared up and took off to the call. Walking up to the call, I realized that I had left my S&W Mod 58, .41 magnum lying on the back of the toilet at the gas station. I yelled at the offenders to "work it out" and raced back to the gas station with the red and blues flashing. Ran to the restroom and there it was, on the back of the toilet where I had left it. Talk about relief.......

A 92 compact when we moved, found it after about a year in the guest bedroom in a mini safe under the bed, right where I put it

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Originally posted by jcsabolt2: How do you lose a 12ga shotgun with a 28" barrel?

Apparently my dad was worried about the house being burglarized as he got older and hid two family "heirloom" shotguns in the old upright piano in the living room. They were old but not expensive shotguns that held a lot of memories. After he passed away I was crushed to find them missing when I inventoried his collection. No other guns were missing, and after digging through the house we were left to assume that he had given these two away to one of his many visitors to the house.

Five years later we moved my mom out of the house. When the movers lifted the piano onto the moving dolly, the entire lower panel under the keyboard fell off. As I was picking it up I saw two long, dusty items laying in the bottom in front of the strings. I pulled them out and they turned out to be the two missing shotguns neatly wrapped in individual blankets. Neither Mom or I had any idea that he'd done that. It was a happy day to have the Prodigal Shotguns back in the collection!

I strategically placed handguns around my vehicles/property in case I needed emergency access. Now that I'm moving I collected them except for a few that I apparently hid too well. When I did my first shipment of furniture/possessions I found the rest when doing a proper search (don't need a Turks and Caicos experience but with a loaded pistol and spare mag in the furniture). The problem with hiding weapons and valuables is that sometimes they're hid too well and forgotten.

Never.

I had one of my 9mms out of the safe for some reason and left it sitting on a shelf. Weeks later I went to the safe to take it out again only to find it wasn't there. I almost freaked, but I was 99.99% sure that I hadn't taken it out of the house. It took about 4 months before I stumbled across it again.

I’d say never, but I’m reminded of the old saw that, “There are two types of retractable gear pilots, those who have landed gear up and those who will.” As with the RGs, I’m still working diligently to remain in the latter category.

Never lost or misplaced a firearm inside or outside of the home. I have lost a carry magazine twice. Took that many times before I came to the conclusion carrying in a cargo pocket they slide out. Went back to restaurants frantically searching. It was difficult to screw up the courage to ask if a spare magazine had been turned in. Both times they had slid out while driving and were recovered in the vehicle.

I'm definitely not throwing down on any forum members but I am surprised by those that have "misplaced" a firearm.

Math gets involved.

Some people misplacing a gun would be 100% of them.
Some people misplacing a gun would be .25% of them.

I have not, but about 15-20 years ago my Dad and BIL lost their scoped bolt action 30-06 rifles after a day of hunting.

They came out of the woods at dusk, each of them unloaded and packed them up their gun in a case and then placed them in the bed of my BIL' s truck. To this day they still squabble about who "closed" the tailgate.

They then drove about 10 miles to the hotel where they were staying at the time and went to the back and found the tailgate down and both cases gone. They retraced the route back to the property they hunted on but never found the guns.

The gun my BIL was using was gifted to him by my Dad after he had married my sister. Because of this, my Dad still had papers on it so to speak and was able to make it look like both guns were his and claim a loss on the firearms rider he had on his home owners insurance so they were able to get replacements.

My dad also filed a loss report with local LE and went so far as to make up reward posters to post in the area. When he went to the local sporting goods shop in the town where the hotel was located, the owner was very blunt and said while it was a nice thought someone would do the right thing, in his opinion the people in that area would have looked at it as a "mana from heaven" scenario and kept them.

I/we still keep an eye out when we look at shops or gun shows in the area to see if they might turn up all these years later.

My wife while traveling left her LCR 22 WMR in the Hotel Drawer and traveled 5 hours home. I was so calm when she figured it out. We called the hotel and they had found it and kept it in their safe. We drove back the next day and retrieved it. Rockford, Il. So for quite a few hours I imagined it in the hands of some scum bag and when I got it back, I felt like I won the lottery.

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Originally posted by Frenchy1004:
…To this day they still squabble about who "closed" the tailgate.

They then drove about 10 miles to the hotel where they were staying at the time and went to the back and found the tailgate down and both cases gone. They retraced the route back to the property they hunted on but never found the guns….

I have a tonneau cover onmy truck bed that prevents me from seeing when I’ve left the tailgate down. Got tired of that so I have a reed switch now that runs a little flashing light near my gauge cluster. When the tailgate is down, the light flashes. No more driving around with stuff dropping out.

Have never lost a firearm, but definitely a magazine for my P225 (and replacements are NOT cheap!), and my UpLula mag loader for my AR-15...

Not yet

Left my CCW in a hotel room safe once but realized it within a few minutes of leaving and went back to retrieve it.