Any one on here lost a rifle? in the Reefton area. I believe it was a Parkerhale found on side of road,rather strange I must say. Anyway just thought I'd put it out there. The plod I believe are now holding this rifle.
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Any one on here lost a rifle? in the Reefton area. I believe it was a Parkerhale found on side of road,rather strange I must say. Anyway just thought I'd put it out there. The plod I believe are now holding this rifle.
Cheers
Going to be an interesting conversation with Police when owner goes to claim it. How does someone forget a rifle?
Left on roof of car or on top of trailer and forgotten about?Quote:
Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
I found one years ago the guy put the quad on the trailer sat the gun on the back of quad when load his dogs etc on ute, thought his wife had put gun in ute and drove away.
Driving down the track at night i thought what was that, back up over the stock :) and there in the headlights was a gun.
In te same way you forget to put up the outboard at the ramp before pulling boat out.Quote:
Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
But there is a audible warning usually when that happens as you can hear the $$ being ground off the skeg.
Usually happened to me when "helpful" people interrupt your "post fishing" routine asking questions or trying to do stuff when they are not familiar with boats
Fear of losing FAL, high chance they will write it off and not claim it.
Bolt in or out?
This is true :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
i know someone who had the same happen with a pistol locked in a box on the roof
the cops were all good about it
The Police have done similar things with their firearms over the years so they can't get too stroppy about it!
Come on doc, you've been in the game long enough to know that the rules that apply to us unwashed heathens do not apply to the blue gang ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gundoc
Few yrs back, I had spent several hrs bumbling about across rough country with 2 large red hinds in my pack, was so done when I got to the truck, I parked my rifle on the truck wheel and promptly forgot the thing, drove off. Got lucky, remembered later and went back and found it, had it been the next day it would have been some random picking it up and going "how do you lose your rifle"?Quote:
Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
And then there was that cop from Paeroa, quite some years ago, who on getting out of his mates car at home realized he had left his rifle behind in the bush...he jumped in his car and went back to Clements Road and there was his rifle still leaning against the tree where he had left it.
Who was this?? I have never heard that one beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by DavidGunn
Well, thats the second one, I picked up the first 25 years ago laying in a heap of road gravel on the side of the road between Reefton and Inangahua. Swede 6.5 complete. Plods got that one too.
As a teenager I was out duck shooting with a mate, his Dad and Uncle. Driving back to town after about 7ks we went around a sharper bend in the road to hear a scraping noise on the roof of the old cortina. Right before seeing mates uncles shotgun fly onto the road and smash to bits. He was a very sad man that evening.
I guess he wouldn't have wanted it known 'all over town' at the time, so not surprised you may never have heard about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tac a1
Wonder what's with this Reefton area eh..crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huntertoo
maybe it was one of Bunjis........ cant have been shooting 1/4" groups at 600 yards anymore so got left behind.
I know a bloke who spent the day hunting ducks around the Duntroon ,Tokarahi Earthquake road area,.
At the end of the day he piled the dog and ducks and decoys under the black Tonneau cover and into the ute,[leaving breathing room of course, for the woke], put the ammo in the back seat, himself and other gear in the front and drove not slowly home
He pulled up in Oamaru 30-40 0dd minutes later at a work mates place to give him a brace of ducks , when he got out he quietly took the black shotgun off the cover and placed it into the backseat of the ute and went about his business.
A mate of mine's father sold his aerial topdressing business many years ago and decided to treat himself to a new Purdey sxs shotgun, flew to the UK for the fitting, paid the deposit and waited 2 years for it to be built. Upon receipt he took it out for a wander round some North Canterbury hills for a blooding. Back at the car he laid it on the roof to change out of his boots. An hour later he was home and couldn't find his gun, so another hour later he found it lying on the side of a shingle road. It went straight back to Purdey for refinishing. He never did that again! That would have been 35 years ago now. The gun is still in the family.
A hunting party heading out of Thompson's Track were met by their pick up vehicle a couple of kms up the track, one rifle was put to one side while they loaded their gear, of course they drove off and left it behind...a person I know picked it up and dropped off at local police station, the rifle 'user' when they came looking for it was told by me where it was, off to the police station he goes but oops, no license so had to give 'owners' name, double oops "why did you give your rifle to an unlicensed person"...we were told by police that he lost both his license and rifle.
Yeah its not like they can take away their firearms license.Quote:
Originally Posted by ebf