Ever misplace a handgun?

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It's not a sign of old age, I've done this to other things in the past. I go on a long vacation and sometimes hide/secure items in case an intruder visits while I'm gone. This time I took my nightstand XD and my truck gun Tok 9mm and tucked them away. I have several gun safes, but they were already filled so I found somewhere else and then forgot about it. After two weeks in Hawaii I get home and have NO idea where I put those guns. After a week of sitting in my recliner it dawned on me that the armrests lift up to expose two storage compartments. Until that moment I had no clue as to where they were. I think in the future I'm going to leave a note in my phone as to where to look. Strike that, and I'm not kidding about this, I left my blackberry at the Honolulu Airport when we boarded the return flight.
Maybe it IS a sign of old age.
 
Sure, it happens often. That's why I need so many-so I can find ONE when I need it. Desk drawers, sock drawers, bedroom shelves, clothes baskets, under vehicle seats, and sometimes even in plain sight.
 
Ever since my boys were old enough to carry on their hikes, I misplace them all the time, sometimes for most of a summer.
 
awol???

l LOST A 71/2" REDHAWK FOR 2YRS :eek:


IT WAS IN THE CLOSET ON THE SHELF UNDER SOME OLD JEANS :o

50 IS`NT OLD IS IT ????:cool:
 
Once. A Colt Lightweight Commander, my favorite carry piece at the time. I was in a panic, just knew it had been stolen. Found it right where I laid it down.
Lesson: don't handle a firearm unless you're thinking of the firearm.
 
does this count?

My Dad laid a 10-1/4 Super B-hawk on a rock by the vehicle one evening after hunting. Left it there. I came in the next AM, and there it laid.

On a slightly different note, ....I put a cased mini-30 on the trunk of the wife's car, and she drove off with it

Long story,......... but about 12 hrs later it surfaced,.a guy I knew picked it up off the center line of our county road at daylight the next AM.

Lucky
 
Well, I think I take the record, I lost one for 13 years!

Big fight between my wife and I (family inheritance) and she did not like where I was keeping it. the last I remember (and in those days I never forgot anything!) she took it and that was all there was. We moved sometime after that and the only thing I could figure was someone snagged it out of her stuff (people we knew helping but you never know), my guns were all properly moved and taken care of by me and no one had access to them (of course she put all the keys in a box and then the box got buried and that was a really nasty bit as well which is another one of those things I handle personally and by hand and in the front seat ad nasea)

A while back a brother called me and asked me if I was missing xxxxx. Ahh yea, but you can't have it.... wrong.

I had kept guns at his place over the years as he had a concealed location only a bulldozer could find. No memory of taking it over there, nada. My wife would not, and if she had he would have let me know.

these days I could see it happening, back then, I could remember what mileage I changed the oil on the vehicles and when I did it (and didn't know I did that until I lost it).

Go figure, pretty weird, eerie and beyond unsettling. Not a clue, rings no bells, zip. And I seldom drink, don't do drugs and ........
 
A mechanic working on my gun truck left his M16 on my roof once. That poor guy ran a 1/4 mile as fast as he could to catch up to me. Good thing my window was down and I heard him screaming.
 
I usually keep a SigPro 2022 in the concealment pouch of a bag I use to carry all of my crap in the car. It comes in handy to make sure you don't leave anything when you are in a hurry. After carrying this firearm like this for a few months, I took the gun out for a trip to the range in a proper case. As soon as I got home I returned it to its bag, then promptly forgot that I had done so. :o A few hours later I was going to take it out to the shop to clean it, and freaked out when it wasn't in it's case. Tore the house to pieces looking for it (somehow avoiding my EDC bag the whole time), and was preparing to drive 1 1/2hrs back to the range to look for it. My wife walked in the room to see what all the ruckus was about, and after hearing my complaint just said "I thought you carried that in your bag"... wanna guess who felt like an idiot then?:D
 
"Lost" a Ruger Mk I for a couple years. Loaned the gun to my son in law, and after some months of pointed hints to my duaghter, it finally came back.

Disassembled, in a grocery sack.

Put it aside for the time being, and "lost" it, for a couple years. Looked all over, even thought it might have been stolen.

Then found it still in the sack, in the wife's bedroom. Took me a bit to remember how to put it back together, but I finally did.

I lose guns all the time. Not really lost, I know what room they are in (or supposed to be in), I just sometimes have a little trouble finding a specific one when I go looking for it. It always turns up, eventually.
 
Point of clarification....

If you have one or even 3 guns... versus other's that may have 2 dozen or so...

I'm in the later... it can be difficult especially if I have more than one of the same type of gun. Let's just say I have over 5 Walter P22 alone...

So, Yes it can happen. I have over 5 range bags plus 4 rifle cases... plus numerous assortments of places and safes... so it can happen to those that have lots of firearms.

It's easier if you have just a handful or 1-2 that you really really use to keep track of. But if you have a few more... and cycle through using them. By the time you get back to shooting or wanting to shoot that particular firearm... it may have been a while and you must may have tucked that thing in someplace else you usually stash so it may "disappear" for a time.
 
My son once left his Beretta .45 in a rental car when he returned it to the rental agency. He realized he had done it after a few hours. He rushed back to the agency. When he walked in the door, the clerk said, "I know what you want." He then returned the gun to my son.
 
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