I have some High Standards that have imitated rabbits.
Have You Ever Found A Gun In Your Safe You Have No Memory Of?
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I have some High Standards that have imitated rabbits.
charlie sherrill
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Stamps of the Nazi eagle.
charlie sherrill
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I've got a Russian capture K 98 and it is very well made and a fine shooter. The "Dirty Birds" are still there and a friend has one that Vladimir stamped out. As mentioned above, the Vodka break probably had something to do with it.
charlie sherrill
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Sort of similar, but years ago I thought I had left a S&W model 38 in a Florida hotel room. The gun was very special to me because in 1971 my partner shot and killed a guy with it who was trying to shoot me. I bought it from him a few months later. My wife and fellow officer was shot and killed on 12/31/84. Her father died two years later from cancer. I stayed close to my mother in law until she died. Around 2007 before she passed away she called me and wanted me to look at a gun she had. It was my model 38. My wife had loaned it to her father right before she was killed. I got my MIL another J frame .38 and got the model 38 back. I still have it. My son knows all about it. It will go to him when the dirt nap comes.
What were they?
I've forgotten about firearms that I've had in the past because they've been in the backs of safes for so long but I can't recall ever finding one I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
While looking for a Colt .22, I discovered a Smith 34-1 that I have NO memory of buying, or even looking at for that matter.
I've had this happen with other guns before as well. When one's collection gets above 150, I would think this is easy to do.
I've had this happen with other guns before as well. When one's collection gets above 150, I would think this is easy to do.
yes... While organizing a box with old Mint Set coins.
Tucked in with the coins, was a box about the same dimensions as the others, but with a sleeve.
It was a Berretta M2 Minx.
I don't remember buying it, or even why I would want to.
The receipt was in the box, from a Tampa FL gun store, with my signature, dated 1982.
It needed a little cleaning and Lube, but works just fine.
Tucked in with the coins, was a box about the same dimensions as the others, but with a sleeve.
It was a Berretta M2 Minx.
I don't remember buying it, or even why I would want to.
The receipt was in the box, from a Tampa FL gun store, with my signature, dated 1982.
It needed a little cleaning and Lube, but works just fine.
Modified
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uh, like an LC Smith side by side shotgun, a remington pump action 22, and a single shot .22lr. I think. I don't think I have any of them any more. Maybe the 12g shotgun, I would have to dig through my stuff. Nothing I really cared about. No reg mags.
But they were all so rusted up from being rolled into a carpet that while the internals were fine-ish, the externals were a complete mess.
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Grayfox
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Never one I had no idea where it came from. But I have run across a few that I'd forgotten that I had. Its like "Oh yeah! Haven't seen you in a long time." 
Miami_JBT
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@Terry G, I had a factory 9mm CZ-52. It jammed on every shot.
Miami_JBT
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I know of every firearm I own. I have misplaced one or two before. Like a Colt SP1 rifle. I reorganized the safe and moved it from the front to the back. I forgot I reorganized the safe. So, when I opened it, I didn't see it and spent the day looking throughout the house, until I remembered... "duh, it is in the back of the safe, I reorganized it!"
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Absolutely. Have found one or two or three or four 
D) over the years in safe 'cleanups' that I had no memory whatsoever of acquiring. But, we're talking in the thousands due to a 60 year catch and release program so I don't feel too bad. 
D) over the years in safe 'cleanups' that I had no memory whatsoever of acquiring. But, we're talking in the thousands due to a 60 year catch and release program so I don't feel too bad. - Joined
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You guys that find guns you have no recollection of must have lots and lots of guns...
Fishinfool
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No, but one time I found a little Beretta .25 acp that had been missing for a year or two. I knew it wasn't stolen, just "misplaced". Found it in a pocket of a winter coat hanging in the closet...
Larry
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I use the return envelopes from begging letters to keep a record of the acquisition of each firearm. If a firearm is disposed of the envelope is transferred to the separate bag for transferred firearms.
One concern I haven't seen here is the possible tax implications relating to the transfer of a firearm. Having good records allows me to inform my accountant whether I had a gain or not on a transfer.
One concern I haven't seen here is the possible tax implications relating to the transfer of a firearm. Having good records allows me to inform my accountant whether I had a gain or not on a transfer.
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AJ
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Rock,
Just cleaned out my desk. Found two file folders of receipts. Have not counted how many there are. Not sure I want to know.........It is what I get for a lot of buying, selling and trading toys for years.
AJ
daddio202
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This exact thing happened to me too. Keeping in mind I have way too many. I opened one of my aafes and there in the front was an early 50's western feild EJN 757. I thought wow that's interesting a control feed mauser action. Took me awhile to remember I bought it about 5 years ago for about $350. It's in very nice condition and all original. I figured it's about time to organize and write information down before it's forgotten again.
No, but one time I found a little Beretta .25 acp that had been missing for a year or two. I knew it wasn't stolen, just "misplaced". Found it in a pocket of a winter coat hanging in the closet...
Larry
Lucky guy! All I find in the pockets of my out-of-season coats is money...
Kaaskop49
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No, but I rearranged my guns a couple of months ago, and they are still not fully remembered. I don't open the safes often.
I built a spreadsheet of everything in my safe for insurance purposes. Lots of info there. Purchase date, price, SN, who I purchased it from and who I sold it to if I did. That isn't all of the info but you get the idea. All of the info is on one sheet of paper, a zip drive and my computer.
As a Luddite, I don't know a spreadsheet from a bedspread. I go old school. I put the gun box for each handgun on top of the safe that the gun is in. I have a separate envelope for each gun that contains the bill of sale, state papers and test target with the gun identified on the outside of the envelope.
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I have bought a gun I forgot I already had…a narrow rib k22. At a gun show, saw it, thought that I didn't have one, bought it, get home, nope…identical to one I have. Doh.
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