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Make sure its something no one wants or be lucky enough to have honest folks around! Was out to the range today shooting a Ruger .44 Special and a 1911 in 9mm. As I was finishing up around two in the afternoon it started raining rather hard so I packed my gear and headed home. Now I normally pick up my range bag and check the bench and ground around it to be sure I have everything before I leave. Meanwhile later at home about 9.30 in the evening it was time to clean up the guns. It seemed that I was missing a mag for the 9mm, rooted through the range bag and thinking back on the range visit I couldn't remember doing the "do I have everything drill" so off I went to the range {only four miles) at 10 o'clock at night. Sure enough there it was in its little plastic bag right where I left it. From the .223 brass that wasn't there when I left there were folks there after I left.
Either not many people have a need for a 1911 mag in 9mm or there was honest folk about, I prefer to think the latter! Now I can sleep tonight without wondering if I am going senile!
 
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Not quite a range story but a couple of months ago I was at the grocery store and putting my cart in the receptacle in the parking lot. The cart in front of mine caught my eye. Some woman had left her purse in the cart. I just picked the whole thing up and took it to the courtesy counter in the store. Have no idea what happened next. Hopefully the lady was happy when the store called her and told her to come and pick up her misplaced purse. It's called Karma.....
 
I was the last one at the range earlier this year, as I was packing up I noticed a case that was left behind. A very nice spotting scope. The shotgun office was still open so I dropped it off there. Heard later the guy came and got it a couple days later. It could have been an $$$ mistake.
 
Years ago I was going to the gun show to rent a table for just one day. My captain/friend wanted me to take a winchester M1 carbine along with all the tools etc in the packing box. Think he wanted $500s for it and this was in the early 70s. At the time I remember thinking he wanted almost double what it should be worth but took it along as a favor to put on my table.
After the show I went to look up a old GF that lived near by. I got home the next morning, was unloading my truck and NO M-1!!
I called up the show promoter as it was now sunday, he went and looked and said he couldnt see it by my empty table. I decided to drive the almost 200 mile round trip and look for myself. I had already made up my mind to pay frank the asked for $500s and just tell him it sold. That would be close to $3,000s in todays dollars!!
I went to the table and found the crate with the rifle and all accessory`s in it under the table!
The guy at the next table said he seen the box but never really thought about it! I had a bunch of stuff That I was wheeling to my truck and had set his gun under the table the prior evening and had overlooked it! I was so happy I probley almost cried!
 
all i ever find left at the range are the caps that cover the adjustment knobs on scopes,however one time i found 2 boxs of black hills 308 empty brass with "free to good home" written one them,and yes they came home,i left 2 boxs of 223 with same note
 
While I haven't done it, several times a friend has driven off from the trap/skeet range with their gun still in the rack. There has never been one missing. Usually one of the other members takes it inside and gives it to the manager to put in the safe. We're talking $1000 to $8000 guns.
 
Probably 15 or 20 years ago we were on vacation I was shooting at a gun club in Amarillo, Texas. After shooting for awhile I went back to the car and the trunk lid was up and I panicked. I hadn't closed the trunk when I removed my other gun. When I looked in the trunk my double case was open with a M21 Winchester and an eye glass case with $5000. was still there. There is no way to explain the relief I felt. Larry
 
I "lost" a Harris bipod

It was on the tray in the open gear box in the back of my PU. Only group of people that were there were a group of Boy Scouts. Did not pitch a fit because I had no proof, but as Sherlock said.. If nothing else is possible...

Very disappointing!
 
geddylee10002000 said:
Not quite a range story but a couple of months ago I was at the grocery store and putting my cart in the receptacle in the parking lot. The cart in front of mine caught my eye. Some woman had left her purse in the cart. I just picked the whole thing up and took it to the courtesy counter in the store. Have no idea what happened next. Hopefully the lady was happy when the store called her and told her to come and pick up her misplaced purse. It's called Karma.....
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We were on the receiving end of the honesty of a good samaritan when my wife did this very thing with her pocketbook. She didn't realize until she got home. Called the store. Her ID was in it. They told her a gentlemen brought it to service desk. Had $175 cash still in it.
 
Not long ago I was leaving Wally World and saw a car in front of me with a purse on the back. Flashed my lights at her and she she saw it and waved. I drove on. Can you imagine trying to backtrack to find a purse? Lots of agony in a lost purse.
 
Got to my car after a gun show last week and the trunk of the car next to me was popped open and no one around. Obviously stuff in the trunk but I didn't really look too closely. Waited a few minutes but did not see anyone headed in that direction so I closed the trunk. I suspect that someone accidentally hit the trunk popped button on their key fob after getting out of the cat and didn't realize it.
I would like to think that no one would have stolen anything and whoever it was will never know that it was left open or that I closed it and I have no way to know if anything was missing or not though I suspect that it wasn't open very long or not many people noticed it.
 
I dropped my wife off at the airport and because I had time, I stopped to shoot at an indoor range absolutely new to me.
This place was in a sort of rough part of town and when I found it I almost passed.

But inside it was clean, seemed well monitored, and people were observing sate practices.

So I dragged in my range & ammunition bags and shot a couple of hundred rounds.

I packed up after a couple of hours and drove the 110 miles home. About 10:00pm I discovered that I didn't have my prize Jim Clark 1911---I then had a flash of memory—I had left it at the firing line after clearing it.

I called---they were closed—I called in the morning---RO said he didn't know, I would have to wait for the manager to come in; call after noon.

Yes, said she, it's here in the safe waiting for you. She said the night guy had watched several people go over and look at it, no one touched it, and one customer came out to tell them it was there. "Do you want us to clean it for you?"

I left her a big tip to give the night guy.
 
Glad to see that I'm not the only one! Usually I forget to take things to the range, like ammo and no guns or guns and no ammo, that sort of thing. What had me wondering about senility was at first I could not make up my mind if one was really missing. Did I have two mags at the range, did I have three or four Metalform 9mm mags? Oh well, one of these days I'm going to need a check list to go to and leaving the range!
 
A few years ago my wife and I went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game at PNC Park. I lent her my $250 Pentax binoculars so she could do some people watching. Midway through the game, I asked her for the binoculars. She couldn't find them! She then remembered taking them off her neck in the ladies room to keep from splashing the lenses while washing her hands. Left them on top the trash can!

She went back to the bathroom, of course they were no longer there. Off to the PNC Park office. I described the binoculars and told them the story. To my great amazement the gentleman said a young woman had turned in just such a pair of binoculars a half hour ago! Have to appreciate honest people!
 
That reminds me...

I'm a range manager for a small private shooting club. Over the past 20+ years folks have left a number of things for me to look after:

-a Berretta 391 Shotgun (had it in our safe for 7 months)
-An Uzi 9mm carbine
-many pairs of glasses and ear plugs
-a pair of diamond earrings
-ammo (but not lately)

...and once, a seven year old child. In fairness, they came back for him after about an hour.
 
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