Lost and found.....again.

[bobm]

I was at the range this morning right at sun up. Wanted to fire a box of 7-08 before the heat set in. Found this back pack left behind from the day before on a bench. I will get it posted found on our website very soon. Packed to the gills with ammo, magazines, ear protection but....NO OWNER ID inside!!! I left a big note there as finding it with my phone #.

Last fall I found a Ruger 77 .30-06 left in a rifle rack. The owner got it back a few days later.

Guys. Slow down. Look around before leaving the range. Most of our membership has a 90 minute drive to our remote club.

 

[EOD Rob]

Wow, that kind of mistake could get very expensive very quickly! I dont think I have ever left something like that at the range, however with as many shots to the head I have taken over my career, I do have a tendency to play hide and seek with myself throughout the house! LOL Kinda fun from time to time.

 

[TAJ45]

Rob. The Hide n Seek w myself is waaay too close to home.

 

[Bill Norris]

Wow, that kind of mistake could get very expensive very quickly! I dont think I have ever left something like that at the range, however with as many shots to the head I have taken over my career, I do have a tendency to play hide and seek with myself throughout the house! LOL Kinda fun from time to time.

I am really good at hiding things from myself at home but I try to not leave anything laying around anywhere.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

"Hide and seek".....glad to hear it's not just me.

The best way to find something you've misplaced, (from experience) is to purchase a new one. The 'lost' item will suddenly appear "out of nowhere" making you feel even sillier (and older). Now you've got two....until you lose the first one.

 

[GuitarmanNick]

Recently spent some time cleaning up my storage room and found a host of "lost" items that I knew I had put "somewhere safe". Apparently, it is a condition that is contagious!

 

[Rsadams]

This is so easy to do if you're not careful.... Always check your bench before driving off.... I bet I look 5 times and then end up stopping at the gate and looking in the trunk again before leaving.... We have a gentleman who is bad during this heat in central Texas about leaving his over/under at the skeet range.... We are all friends so it's spotted by someone very fast.... Unfortunately not all people are as honest , bravo OP for being one of the good ones....

 

[joshb]

This is so easy to do if you're not careful.... Always check your bench before driving off.... I bet I look 5 times and then end up stopping at the gate and looking in the trunk again before leaving.... We have a gentleman who is bad during this heat in central Texas about leaving his over/under at the skeet range.... We are all friends so it's spotted by someone very fast.... Unfortunately not all people are as honest , bravo OP for being one of the good ones....

That’s what I do! Put everything in the car. Go back and look around the benches. Go back to the car and take inventory, then go back and look under, over, and do a 360 slowly.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Probably owned by the democrats new ATF appointee, he forgets his duty gun in bathrooms.

 

[farmerjohn]

I was at the range this morning right at sun up. Wanted to fire a box of 7-08 before the heat set in. Found this back pack left behind from the day before on a bench. I will get it posted found on our website very soon. Packed to the gills with ammo, magazines, ear protection but....NO OWNER ID inside!!! I left a big note there as finding it with my phone #.

Last fall I found a Ruger 77 .30-06 left in a rifle rack. The owner got it back a few days later.

Guys. Slow down. Look around before leaving the range. Most of our membership has a 90 minute drive to our remote club.

As I get older I have learned why check lists are mandatory in aircraft operation. At my age l keep a check list for EVERYTHING. Hell, without one I can forget why I went to town.... John

 

[bobm]

The very happy owner was reunited with his pack and just left my house. He drove out to the range at at 1 pm. and saw my note held down with a rock on that bench. He called and ID'd the contents. I love a happy ending.

 

[tangocharlie]

Very familiar with the “Tag! I’m it!” game. Sometimes it’s fun, most times it’s frustrating. What this thread does is reaffirm the fact that, far and away, most of our fellow shooters are just like us. They want to help and be helpful. I will continue to do that.

 

[Sparky 141]

Awesome that the owner got his gear returned . Kudos to the OP.

I'm convinced in a in a few years i will be able to hide my own Easter Eggs

 

[epc308]

I finished a rifle build a couple weeks ago. I *knew* I had 100 new and 50 fired cases to load. Tore the house apart, multiple times, tore the reloading room, which is the middle of a severe, much needed overall cleaning, apart, multiple times. Checked ammo cabinet, etc. Reached down to grab my range bag 4 days later for pistol league. Almost set my hand on both boxes of brass.
They were right on the corner of my bench, in plain sight, the entire time.
Hide and seek, indeed.

 

[PhilC]

"Hide and seek".....glad to hear it's not just me.

The best way to find something you've misplaced, (from experience) is to purchase a new one. The 'lost' item will suddenly appear "out of nowhere" making you feel even sillier (and older). Now you've got two....until you lose the first one.

Been there, done that. Beauty of it was it I replaced the hidden items only to find them a month later, now I have four.

 

[Sandstorm]

Thats excactly what I love about the shooting brotherhood and sisterhood..solid people.
Bravo OP...nice indeed.

 

[DiffEQ]

"Hide and seek".....glad to hear it's not just me.

The best way to find something you've misplaced, (from experience) is to purchase a new one. The 'lost' item will suddenly appear "out of nowhere" making you feel even sillier (and older). Now you've got two....until you lose the first one.

I have a few extra guns, wrenches, screwdrivers and staple guns for that very reason.
Only left a set of electronic muffs at the range. Never got them back, but I hated them anyway (howard leight).
Now, if I only wrote down whom I loaned stuff too.....

 

[ND shooter]

Lost my safety glasses the other day (couldn't find them anywhere and KNEW I had brought them with me) and had to go back to pickup for backup pair. When I went to put them on they wouldn't slide over the pair I was already wearing and looking for!!!!! On my face the whole time!! Glad no one saw me searching and cursing. All that "partying" back in the 70's is catching up...

 

[Rick in Oregon]

All that "partying" back in the 70's is catching up...

Okay then, at least now I know what the issue really is!

It's a wonder many of us even survived those wild days back then.

 

[TAJ45]

Mary Ann Faithful: Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end . . .