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I'm ashamed to report that one of my pistols is lost/stolen, and I don't know how! *** UPDATE (p. 5): Major embarrassment, because I found it. ***
July 24, 2017, 05:38 PM
mark_aI'm ashamed to report that one of my pistols is lost/stolen, and I don't know how! *** UPDATE (p. 5): Major embarrassment, because I found it. ***
I misplaced a shield for 5-6 months. I was positive I'd hidden it when my nephews popped over for a surprise visit.
I looked and looked and couldn't find it anywhere. Finally I found it where I thought I'd stuck it. I apparently didn't look good enough.
Didn't let the nephews come around for that entire time. I just wan't comfortable thinking that if I turned my back for a second they would find it.
New rule is no one comes over w/o calling first so that I have time to put things away properly. I KNEW it was in the house but I almost filed a report 3-4 times...
So glad I found it.
Mark
July 24, 2017, 05:46 PM
deepoceanquote:
Originally posted by rburg:
Sure enough, in the sock was the M60.
That's some story. Do you still have the M60?
July 24, 2017, 05:50 PM
V-TailWhoo hoo!
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים July 24, 2017, 05:52 PM
Woodmanquote:
Originally posted by rburg:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodman:
Wait a minute here. You're telling us you keep looking after you found the item? Of course its the last place you look, because for most of us we stop looking when we find the item. Really.
No, I've looked in the same place twice for something and found it the second time. Or the third time. My mantle is cluttered with lots of "important"
stuff.
The last time I "lost" something important ... it was in a safe place I put it. And I swear, I must have glanced right at the spot six times
July 24, 2017, 05:53 PM
NavyGuyGood deal. I'm glad it turned up and there was no shenaniguns at the dealership. A good lesson for us all.
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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arfmelI'm glad it turned up.
July 24, 2017, 06:53 PM
Excam_ManYou might feel bad for everything, but think about this... at least its not is the hands of a thief, felon or on the streets causing chaos.
That should make you feel better.
Happy outcome!
July 24, 2017, 06:55 PM
wcb6092My wife was looking for her sunglasses today and they were on top of her head
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July 24, 2017, 07:18 PM
newtoSig765quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
You have socks big enough to conceal an M60? Wow!
flashguy
You don't?
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July 24, 2017, 07:26 PM
SSgt USMC/VetGlad all turned out well, only mistake made is forgetting where the pistol was. No harm done and I bet you will not do that again.
July 24, 2017, 07:38 PM
wcb6092quote:
Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
Glad all turned out well, only mistake made is forgetting where the pistol was. No harm done and I bet you will not do that again.
I have said "I bet I will not do that again" many times. It is very comforting.
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July 24, 2017, 08:09 PM
sigmonkeyI am happy you found your pistol, Quang, and humbled that my post helped.
It is also why I am no longer ashamed of my "footprints" in life.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! July 24, 2017, 08:42 PM
Sunset_VaWell Mr 12131, that was like finding that $100 bill you thought had slipped out of your wallet, but instead was folded neatly between some business cards.
Of course dimwits like myself go spouting off about securing guns, etc..
Glad you found your Ruger.
美しい犬
July 24, 2017, 08:46 PM
Mike SI'm glad you found it!
July 24, 2017, 08:54 PM
lugerguardsYour not alone in this situation, glad you found it.
Nothing here to see!
July 24, 2017, 08:56 PM
lkdr1989Kinda like getting a free gun
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV July 24, 2017, 09:27 PM
LBTRSquote:
Originally posted by 12131:
UPDATE:
After all that, I located the gun.
sigmonkey's post on page 2 about his gun in the hotel room gave me the nudge to search the house again, and, the third time was the charm. Found it, in its case, in the garage, inside the the desk drawer of the AR15 work station that's now use as storage space. Maybe I put it there on the day I took the car to the shop, who knows. I can only speculate now, because I truly do not remember when I put it there.
I feel really bad, that because of my stupidity, I suspected innocent people of a crime that never happened. Apology went out to the dealership.
Also, let the SO know that I've found it.
One good thing that came out of this is a lot of of good advice/comments/opinions I got from the thread. Thank you, everyone, for your time.
Glad you found it and a crime wasn't committed. That said, lets keep things in perspective...you did lose track of a firearm that doesn't appear to have been secured. We can all learn a lesson from this.
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July 24, 2017, 09:37 PM
RedhookbklynVery glad you found the pistol.
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July 24, 2017, 10:00 PM
guardianangel762I did the opposite of this once, I found a gun in my trunk. If you have so many of the things you forget what you own it is time to downsize.
I have been as low as 3 but...good deals and uppers getting lowers keeps the number around 8 (10).
I keep the count low with high end optics and parts.
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But then of course I might be a 13 year old girl who reads alot of gun magazines, so feel free to disregard anything I post.
July 24, 2017, 10:21 PM
signewt....there was that time a specialty historic 22 disappeared in my sector....for months....and months.....to the point
I my friend was going to file report....
after the 32nd 'search everywhere' routine
I my friend searched somewhere else....
it had fallen off the rear of a shelf in the safe and wedged between the wall & shelf. So small it was not visible, but detected due to careful palpation. Boy did
I my friend feel like an idiot....
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