So many boating accidents

[msinc]

Honest to gods truth...a buddy of mine was told by his MIL that if he quit smoking she would buy him the gun of his choice. He is a real huckster so he agrees and she buys him a Diana grade Browning OU that is like $7k!!! He promptly sold it for pennies on the dollar. This idiot gets caught smoking and she says "lets have that shotgun!!!"
Seems he let his brother take it duck hunting and it fell out of the boat in rough weather. They were lucky to survive the 12 foot waves. They did drop a decoy the second it fell out of the boat to mark the spot but the wind and waves were so severe the decoy was blown way off the spot where the gun was dropped. He "hired" two different divers to try and retrieve the gun but neither was successful. Imagine that!!! True story.

 

[Frank46]

Lost mine in a tragic way. While transporting the guns in my boat crossing da bayou a large waterspout blew up and around in circles we went. Well truth be told that waterspout caused the ground below the water to open up and everything gun,boat and almost me to get sucked down underground only reason I survived was I was wearing a life jacket.I spoke with a geologist who said that they had records of things like this happen and on record. Then I asked what about getting the guns back?. he replied "to the best information we have anything that goes down below ground stays there never to return" I've made up a gizmo of a 175 pound pull magnet and a couple hundred feet of nylon rope. Numerous attempts have been made but so far nothing was retrieved. Frank