I've never seen anyone leave anything but loose rounds or targets behind. I've also never left ANYTHING behind on my range trips. I don't really see how anyone could, but I don't let myself get distracted when I'm at the range. I've had a firearm stolen in the past so I'm very protective of my hardware. It doesn't leave my sight.
This has happened to me three times now,,,
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4runnerman
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Have never forgot any thing yet. If i did i have not missed it yet
. Have found all kinds of clothing out there. Keys to a Car or Truck??? ( how did they leave ).
I go to the range every Sat and Sun. SO i usually collect the stuff,Grab a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Write down what i found and my home phone,cell number and work number to call me. Post it on the board they have for all to see. Never did get a call back on the keys?. Have found lots of ammo left over,but i do not collect that. The only thing i can say i have left ( by accident of course )
Is parts and peices of my chrony
:. I swear it was right and then i think it just jumped in front of my bullet
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. Have found all kinds of clothing out there. Keys to a Car or Truck??? ( how did they leave ).I go to the range every Sat and Sun. SO i usually collect the stuff,Grab a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Write down what i found and my home phone,cell number and work number to call me. Post it on the board they have for all to see. Never did get a call back on the keys?. Have found lots of ammo left over,but i do not collect that. The only thing i can say i have left ( by accident of course )
Is parts and peices of my chrony
:. I swear it was right and then i think it just jumped in front of my bullet.g.willikers
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I've only done that once, with a brand new shotgun.
It was still there about a hour later, right where I left it, though.
I once left a huge stack of targets and stands at the range.
Two weeks later, it had all been moved to under shelter and only a couple of targets had been used.
Nice folks at most ranges.
It was still there about a hour later, right where I left it, though.
I once left a huge stack of targets and stands at the range.
Two weeks later, it had all been moved to under shelter and only a couple of targets had been used.
Nice folks at most ranges.
The only thing I have ever left was a spare mag, and I realized it as soon as I got home and starting cleaning and stowing stuff. Called the range, where they knew me well enough to rag on me for a minute before telling me that they found it. Since then, I do a little inventory count of pistols, mags, and such as I pack up.
Never forgotten a gun at the range. One of my coworkers used to carry a NAA mini at work. The in-charge found it in a bathroom stall, in a site where firearms weren't allowed. (not prohibited by law, but by company policy)
He let the guy sweat it out for as few hours before asking, "You didn't happen to lose something, did ya'?"
I did once lose a Kel-tec P11 around the house. I had gone to the range with a rifle. As an afterthought, I decided to run my carry ammo out of the kel-tec on a plate rack. When I picked up, I didn't have a case for the pistol, so I just put it in the case with the rifle. When I got home, I took the rifle out to clean it, put the case up on the shelf, and forgot about it. I went to carry the P11 about a month later and it took me a couple of tense weeks to figure out where the pistol was.
He let the guy sweat it out for as few hours before asking, "You didn't happen to lose something, did ya'?"
I did once lose a Kel-tec P11 around the house. I had gone to the range with a rifle. As an afterthought, I decided to run my carry ammo out of the kel-tec on a plate rack. When I picked up, I didn't have a case for the pistol, so I just put it in the case with the rifle. When I got home, I took the rifle out to clean it, put the case up on the shelf, and forgot about it. I went to carry the P11 about a month later and it took me a couple of tense weeks to figure out where the pistol was.
8MM Mauser
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I have never forgotten a gun for sure, but I did once leave a box of 50 clays. I've left targets, paper and otherwise, at the range.
A friend of mine once almost left his father-in-law's dad's Ruger Standard .22 at the range. He was borrowing it and wasn't thinking about having it with him. He also left about 100 rounds of 7.62 X 54R at the range. Gone.
The range we go to is an open range on public land run by the Boy Scouts, only patrons are ever there however, I think about once a year the Boys scouts come out and clean it up. The point is, there is no control, no range officer, and no bulletein board to post on. It's nice to be free to do things like put 100 rounds of .22 downrange in as many seconds, but sometimes there is a downside.
A friend of mine once almost left his father-in-law's dad's Ruger Standard .22 at the range. He was borrowing it and wasn't thinking about having it with him. He also left about 100 rounds of 7.62 X 54R at the range. Gone.
The range we go to is an open range on public land run by the Boy Scouts, only patrons are ever there however, I think about once a year the Boys scouts come out and clean it up. The point is, there is no control, no range officer, and no bulletein board to post on. It's nice to be free to do things like put 100 rounds of .22 downrange in as many seconds, but sometimes there is a downside.
BPowderkeg
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me too ! it is a Tasco 20X-60X-50mm in a plastic case, in a trash barrel at a range i went to before the owner went bankrupt. i put it in my truck after i saw what it was, when i got home i got to looking it over for the possibility the owner had an ID on it, none, then looked thru it and found the objective lens has a lot of tiny pits in the glass, which shows up black, not useful for range, but still makes a pretty fair bird watching scope.
Never got lucky to find anything useful at the range, just old rusty steel cases and corroded brass and a bunch of trash.
About 2 years ago I did find 3 loaded FN Five-seveN mags in one of our courtesy loaner cars. At that time I had never seen 5.7x28mm before, so I was intrigued. After a lengthy chit-chat session with the client, I learned that the mags were for a Five-seveN, neat gun by the way.
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About 2 years ago I did find 3 loaded FN Five-seveN mags in one of our courtesy loaner cars. At that time I had never seen 5.7x28mm before, so I was intrigued. After a lengthy chit-chat session with the client, I learned that the mags were for a Five-seveN, neat gun by the way.
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yep, I was packing to go for an afternoon bow hunt and was packing the car. I was takin one of my sons friends hunting and he showed up late and we were throwing stuff in the back of my suburban. As I carried my bow out, a neighbor came over and started to talk about something or other. I placed the bow on the roof rack of the suburban. We talked, I noted the time, my hunting buddy jumped in the car, I ditched the neighbor, we drove south. As we were going over a rather large bridge, I heard a "noise" on the roof, and as the gears clicked, I saw my PSE SR1000 slide from the top of the roof and bounce over the vehicle behind us, then over the side of the bridge to the depths below. I loved that bow. I could shoot circles around everyone with it. I never missed a deer with it.
I never slowed down, just kept on driving to the bow shop south of our city. Ended up buying a "buck" bow that I would have gladly thown off the bridge. Months later I bought a Mathews and it eased the pain but oh how I relived that little noise on the roof and the vision of that bow heading to the pavement.
A year later, my son had taken his girlfriend shooting in my suburban and when packing to come home laid his 10-22 on the roof. You know the one tricked out to look like an AR. When he got home he was unpacking and couldn't find the gun, then remembered the noise he heard coming off the interstate. He raced back to the area and found the pieces, never to be repaired as it was fubared.
Neither of us like to talk about those "incidents".
Of course there was the time when I was on duty and got sick. Procedure required I go to the med dispernsery for a check up. Got there and put my two inch S&W on the shelf above the desk. Was dog sick, threw up in the waste basket etc. Doc came in, said you have a 102 fever so go home. Got home and realized I had an empty holster. Flew back to the dispensary and found the 2" on the shelf. Threw up again and went home.
Other than that I've never lost a gun, I think.... I do have guns all over the house and the barn... but know where most of them are...I think... That Freedom Arms .22 is so hard to keep track of.... Should be in the pants by the bed....I think.......
yep, I was packing to go for an afternoon bow hunt and was packing the car. I was takin one of my sons friends hunting and he showed up late and we were throwing stuff in the back of my suburban. As I carried my bow out, a neighbor came over and started to talk about something or other. I placed the bow on the roof rack of the suburban. We talked, I noted the time, my hunting buddy jumped in the car, I ditched the neighbor, we drove south. As we were going over a rather large bridge, I heard a "noise" on the roof, and as the gears clicked, I saw my PSE SR1000 slide from the top of the roof and bounce over the vehicle behind us, then over the side of the bridge to the depths below. I loved that bow. I could shoot circles around everyone with it. I never missed a deer with it.
I never slowed down, just kept on driving to the bow shop south of our city. Ended up buying a "buck" bow that I would have gladly thown off the bridge. Months later I bought a Mathews and it eased the pain but oh how I relived that little noise on the roof and the vision of that bow heading to the pavement.
A year later, my son had taken his girlfriend shooting in my suburban and when packing to come home laid his 10-22 on the roof. You know the one tricked out to look like an AR. When he got home he was unpacking and couldn't find the gun, then remembered the noise he heard coming off the interstate. He raced back to the area and found the pieces, never to be repaired as it was fubared.
Neither of us like to talk about those "incidents".
Of course there was the time when I was on duty and got sick. Procedure required I go to the med dispernsery for a check up. Got there and put my two inch S&W on the shelf above the desk. Was dog sick, threw up in the waste basket etc. Doc came in, said you have a 102 fever so go home. Got home and realized I had an empty holster. Flew back to the dispensary and found the 2" on the shelf. Threw up again and went home.
Other than that I've never lost a gun, I think.... I do have guns all over the house and the barn... but know where most of them are...I think... That Freedom Arms .22 is so hard to keep track of.... Should be in the pants by the bed....I think.......
Hmm...in the 'make lemonade when life hands you lemons' line of thought maybe you could use this to your advantage.
Some time when you're old, (I claim none of us here are 'old' yet-we're still reading and writing and shooting) and you forget something, and some namby-pamby (like maybe one of your family) wants you certified or have your firearms taken away you can say in all honesty 'Heck I'm no more forgetful now than when I was back in '12!'
Hopefully that will quiet them down.
Some time when you're old, (I claim none of us here are 'old' yet-we're still reading and writing and shooting) and you forget something, and some namby-pamby (like maybe one of your family) wants you certified or have your firearms taken away you can say in all honesty 'Heck I'm no more forgetful now than when I was back in '12!'
Hopefully that will quiet them down.
Shadi Khalil
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I leave stuff everywhere... At our local grocery store, I'm known for buying hundreds of dollars worth of food then leaving without my bags. I also have a bad habit of leaving my cell phone practically anywhere I set it down. Despite all that, I have never left a gun behind.
I have never forgot one of my guns anywhere but I have found one before. A lot of my family members will go shooting on some family property that used to belong to my grandparents. One day when I went shooting I sat down beside a tree while I reloaded a magazine and found something hard under me. It was a Remington 870. Turned out one of my cousins had lost it off his ATV almost a month earlier and couldn't find it because it was camo and blended in with the ground.
I've never left or found any guns at the range, but I did find a couple of vintage looking boxes of Western Brand .22 Long ammo at the range a few months ago. One box was completely full and the other had 10 or 15 rounds missing out of it. I brought the boxes home and may use them for a photo prop or something one day.
Human nature is wow look what I found, I'll keep it (free) Most of us thou have that person with the halo on our shoulder that says do the right thing. By doing so karma becomes a wonderful thing and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Somewhere down the road that good deed will come back at you.
Most of us thou have that person with the halo on our shoulder that says do the right thing. By doing so karma becomes a wonderful thing and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Somewhere down the road that good deed will come back at you.