Missing gun What should I do?

[oldman45]

I looked almost everywhere for a .22 rifle once. I even asked my neighbor and my brother if I gave it to them.
Two years later it turned up beween two studs in my gun room and I swore I looked there several times.
I hope your's shows up too sooner than mine did.

It will turn up eventually. Where and when is the question. I only paid $89 for it sixteen years ago. I tend to get upset when I find I am missing a gun. All my guns are accounted for other than that one gun but I am still looking.

But I have to ask, how did you let your gun get between two studs?

 

[Iggy]

Quit looking for it. It will show up when you least expect it.

 

[BarbC]

Did you hear about the guy whose genie wish was "I wish I were a stud?"

Poof! He ended up on a snow tire in Alaska.

 

[DeathGrip]

You'll find it in the last place you look.

D.G.

 

[Brian41]

I guess that sounded odd. My gun room is also the mechanical room and the back side of the finished basement's walls. I must have put the rifle between two open studs by the water heater and it got covered by an outdated world map mounted to a board.
I just knew I'd looked there or thought so before.

It is a cheapie Romanian surplus trainer ($50.00) and just no room in the supposedly 56 gun safe. It's still there as I just checked to be sure it didn't go lost again.

 

[oldman45]

I guess that sounded odd. My gun room is also the mechanical room and the back side of the finished basement's walls. I must have put the rifle between two open studs by the water heater and it got covered by an outdated world map mounted to a board.
I just knew I'd looked there or thought so before.

It is a cheapie Romanian surplus trainer ($50.00) and just no room in the supposedly 56 gun safe. It's still there as I just checked to be sure it didn't go lost again.

I keep buying safes because none of them ever hold what they say. But you gave me an idea about where to store some guns. All I have to do is remove some paneling temporarily.

 

[m657]

I had one go missing for nearly 2 years. Its reappearance proves multiple dimensions exist, as it rematerialized in the gun safe where I had searched a dozen times....

 

[GyMac]

Same thing happened to me yesterday. Went to pull a .22 Ruger from the safe and it wasn't there. Turned out I had gotten sidetracked a couple of weeks ago on my way to the range and had left it in the bedroom. Keep looking. I hope it turns up soon.

 

[Maddog 521]

I thought I was the only one who lost things. I just keep looking and sooner or later "my stuff" shows up. Hmmm I wonder where I put that weight check set, its been gone for 3 months. Keep looking

 

[M29since14]

Quit looking for it. It will show up when you least expect it.

This is the best advice, but it too will drive you crazy.

 

[oldman45]

Mission accomplished

The missing gun is no longer missing. It was located this morning when I retrieved a fresh handkerchief. After trying to figure how it got there, the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings told me she remembered placing it there a few months ago after my daughter carried it to the range with friends. It seems the daughter left it on my desk so I could clean it and some visitors came by so the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings put it in the first drawer she came across.

Do not think I went for months without obtaining a fresh handkerchief either. As they were washed, the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings would place them on top of the gun and it would up being on the bottom of the stack. When I got one today my hand touched the bottom of the grip and i checked to see what was there that was not supposed to be there.

 

[rimfired]

Well done! That's the way stuff happens when "other folks" try to help by touching your "stuff".

 

[feralmerril]

Oldman, you remind me of a old friend I had that always referred to his other half as the mother of his children. He never married her.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

This whole thread would have really had its emotional ups and downs if it had been some interesting revolver, rather than just a 422. Still glad you found it.

 

[BarbC]

the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings

At least she serves a purpose.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The missing gun is no longer missing. It was located this morning when I retrieved a fresh handkerchief. After trying to figure how it got there, the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings told me she remembered placing it there a few months ago after my daughter carried it to the range with friends. It seems the daughter left it on my desk so I could clean it and some visitors came by so the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings put it in the first drawer she came across.

Do not think I went for months without obtaining a fresh handkerchief either. As they were washed, the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings would place them on top of the gun and it would up being on the bottom of the stack. When I got one today my hand touched the bottom of the grip and i checked to see what was there that was not supposed to be there.

Just goes to show that you should always rotate your stock-this is doubly important with drawers

 

[loutent]

As I keep lecturing my wife - most problems in this country can be traced back to 19A

 

[Tom K]

I figured that you'd find a chunk of cheese in your gun safe, which would lead you to find your gun in the refrigerator.

 

[gregintenn]

I'm glad you found it. I was about to ask MY wife where your gun was, as she knows everything. I've never lost a gun.....I don't think. I have found a few I'd forgotten I had.

 

[TennTony]

If it had not shown up by Sunday night I was going to suggest buying another just like it. That usually forces my lost items to appear.