I can't be the only one.

[praveen]

Remember the VW Rabbit that sat for a week on a New York street with the doors unlocked and the keys inside?

Wife’s car generally stands in the driveway and one morning she saw that it was broken into. Her phone charging cable was gone but... a phone was left on the passenger seat. We thought maybe some dumb kid did that so we started to look for contacts on the phone. Found a number for Mom. We called her and told her what happened and that we have her kid’s phone that we found in our car. She started screaming at us for accusing her precious kid... ‘My son could never do such a thing’. We simply said OK and just handed that phone over to police. Never heard about it again. Just mused about another level of dumbness.

 

[Charles]

I was lucky on a elk hunt in New Mexico we stopped to zero our guns and then went to pick our last hunter as luck would have it he wanted to check his gun so back to the same range when taking the guns out of the truck mine was missing i could only have left it there, not a good feeling went to the range officer and someone had seen it and turned it in. Happy hunter Very good people in this world

 

[Field_2_Fork]

I'm sorry but you found a gun at the range and just kept it? No attempt at finding the owner? Doesn't sit right with me, must the be Canadian in me as no one else seems to have an issue with it, surprising. .

 

[Adam in WI]

Reading comprehension is a perishable skill, not everyone exercises theirs regularly.

 

[Hohn]

I can’t imagine have so many rifles I wouldn’t miss one.

But I’m the kind of guy that would rather have two $5k customs than 20 $500 rifles.

 

[jonbearman]

Buy a lottery ticket now because in my 63 years I only know one person who ever found a rifle in all places but a junk pile in front of a house not a mile from me.

 

[Joe Maisto]

Chit ..I need to be going to your range ...
I never find any guns any where. Heck I don't even find fishing lures when I pull up a 3 section limb.

Maybe someone else pulled up that 3 section limb and pulled off the lures !

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Only once. Helping my son move and we found a pistol in the rented moving truck, under the driver’s seat. We turned it in to the rental agency thinking they could trace it back to the previous renter, but I doubt if the owner got it back. I didn’t even take it out of the case, didn’t want my prints to be on it!

 

[Field_2_Fork]

"At this point i went to the gun shop that sells our range membership passes and told him i had found a rifle while at the range and left my name and number in case anyone came in to see if their 30-06 had been found."

Doesn't quite sound like "no attempt".

My apologies, I honestly don't know how I didn't see that.

 

[Terry_M]

Renovating a house, years after it had been abandoned, we were tearing the lathe off the walls to upgrade to sheetrock and upgrade the old tube and insulator wiring to Romex. Ripped into one wall next to the chimney, also being removed, and there was a 22 pistol in there. House was made in the 20's, we were gutting it in the 90's. No serial number on the gun, I was a HS kid, so the foreman kept it.

 

[bluealtered]

Now for the good news. As i was walking out the door yesterday i got a call from someone saying their son had left his savage at the pistol range, (this is where i found the rifle) and then went on to describe the rifle i had found, right down to the missing mag release button on the side of the stock.

We met and he and his wife were very happy to get it back since our deer/elk rifle seasons are just starting up and they were about to have to buy him a new rifle if they didn't find it. Darn, ... i should have asked for a piece of back strap if they were lucky!

Heck, they already were lucky. Good ending here.

 

[antelopedundee]

Now for the good news. As i was walking out the door yesterday i got a call from someone saying their son had left his savage at the pistol range, (this is where i found the rifle) and then went on to describe the rifle i had found, right down to the missing mag release button on the side of the stock.

We met and he and his wife were very happy to get it back since our deer/elk rifle seasons are just starting up and they were about to have to buy him a new rifle if they didn't find it. Darn, ... i should have asked for a piece of back strap if they were lucky!

Heck, they already were lucky. Good ending here.

All's swell that ends swell.

 

[divingin]

The US does not have gun registration as of yet.

California sure does...

 

[YEW PLUCKER]

I have never really thought about this over the years but it keeps happening so maybe i should. Years ago while living below Yosemite on hwy 41 I happen to see a shotgun sitting along the road and i stopped and picked it up. I called the sheriff's office and gave them the serial number and my name, It wasn't stolen and i kept it for years. Years later while working in the woods i came across a pistol, it wouldn't shoot so i fixed it and after turning in the serial number i kept it as a truck gun for years.

Fast forward to about a year ago and while at the pistol range it happened again, i walked over to put my targets in the trash barrel and there was a Henry's .38/.357 sitting in it. This one had made someone very mad because it was shot almost to pieces, and was way beyond being repaired, however I picked it up and ran the serial number at work to see if it was stolen, nope it wasn't.

Which brings us to a couple of days ago, at the same pistol bay i was hanging targets to try out a little LCP II i had just gotten and there laying in the gravel was a complete savage "J" series 30-06. It had a new Nikon 3-9x40 scope on it and a bi-pod, it was at best a truck gun but it was complete and went click when i worked the action.

I haven't had any 30-06 ammo in many years so when i got through shooting the pistol i went to work and checked the numbers and again not stolen. I took it home and started looking at it and saw that the scope was very canted, so i fixed that and then took it apart and saw that someone bedded it but it was Rubbing on the the front of the stock to the point of rubbing off the bluing. So i corrected that and put it back together, (it couldn't have hit a barn the way it had been.)

After that i went to a buddy's house and borrowed a few 30-06 rounds and headed to the range just see if it would shoot. It shot great and now whoever owned it had a hunting rifle if they ever claimed it.

At this point i went to the gun shop that sells our range membership passes and told him i had found a rifle while at the range and left my name and number in case anyone came in to see if their 30-06 had been found. He simply laughed and said i was the fourth one to come in, in a week to report a found rifle at our range. Wow!

I have never been so lucky. Amazing!

 

[Fuj]

Found a nice Case knife on a not so traveled trail in the
Allegheny's while hunting greys. Figured someone had
lost it during a deer drag after spotting some rotting
blood rags a few feet off the trail. Story in North East
Pa was a severely rusted Musket and just a bit of wood
hanging on, found sticking out of dry creek embankment.
Dating put it around very early 1800's.

 

[mrmurl]

California sure does...

He said the US.

 

[Downhill]

Got a buddy who is a veteran police officer. He does Honor Guard detail from time to time. He was attending a funeral for a former military officer, the Air Force unit did the Honor Guard and rifle salute. When my friend was leaving after the service he found a M14 leaning on a monument. He promptly had it returned to the base. We always wonder about the epic ass chewing the airman got for leaving the rifle.