Man does it ever tick me off when people walk away with my stuff at the range.

This post reminds of the time I was at PoCo and some guy comes around asking everyone if they had seen his Browning mag (A-bolt, I think). After pretty much accussing several people of taking it, he closed his rifle case to go home and "ta-da" there it was. It was right where HE put it, on the bench. He hid it from himself when he opened his rifle case. :rolleyes:
 
not firearms but still
when i used to play paintball i brought my own rags, paper towels, spray for the googles and i found out that even if its in your bag but showing people tend to take it but the worst part is that the bastards dont even put it back....the worst is when someone takes the towel that i use to rest my marker when im not playing and wipe freaking paint of themselves with it..... and then there is plain theft, someone stole my right glove from the table, but only the right one.. they left the left glove right were it was, people took my tubes with paint and filled their own guns and after said "oh i thought it was free paint" and lastly someone stole my makrer when i lent it to my brother to play with.... it was the first time that marker saw the feild since i bought it :(

question: what are the chances of someone walking in to the range and taking your firearm if you have more than 1 on you? (newbie question obviously ive never been to a range yet :( )
 
I've never heard of it happening, but i have a feeling if they get caught, they'd regret it....

I know I wouldn't let it slide. I'd place the sh*theel under citizen's arrest... And if they resisted, so be it... When the mounties came to get him, he'd be in awful bad shape.
 
That's just wrong. Pretty risky stealin #### from an armed guy!.
Makes me glad that I shoot at a range where everyone knows you reload certain calibres and if you miss a single piece of your brass that flew under something or into someone elses bag they'll pick it up for you and run after you out the door, DUDE, don't you want THIS one?!:)
That's honesty.
 
HAHA has at least one terrible member. One afternoon I had a Parker Hale 270 booseted out of the rack behind me while I was shooting. What pissed me off more than anything was the fact that the rifle was a gift from my Grandfather. It was back in the days before registration. I contacted eveyone who had signed in the book that day who wasn't at the range. No luck, no one saw anything.:( :(
 
thieves need their fingers broken...
I was on a course one time (military) and they were having a problem with soldiers stealing other peoples kit from their lockers. During our first RSM's parade the base RSM talked about how much he hated thieves and said "if anyone catches someone stealing kit, I want them brought to me on a stretcher"...
 
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I too hate when people steal any of my stuff, but I can say that we're lucky where we shoot in that people are pretty honest usually. We have had people lose pistol magazines and if they get picked up, they go into the stat shack. If someone comes looking for them, they are generally "right over there". What gets me is the people who don't come back for their stuff. We still have some mags that no one has any idea what they are for.

Since I reload all my own ammo, I've taken to using a brass striper that is available from hosercam.com. I know, it's from down here, but I can honestly say that if you stripe your brass, people generally leave it be and may even give you your own brass since only you have that color combo.

Vince
 
cansoldier45 said:
write your name on all your kit.

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indelible marker or engraving tool. Reduces theft significantly and also helps people who borrow your kit remember where it came from. They DO forget honestly sometimes. Especially the old guys that eat your dinner.
 
If I noticed someone stealing anything and I was on a range, I would probably be in jail the next day for some reason :D
 
My fav' are guys that try to collect, and pocket your brass without asking, while you are standing there, and it is falling out of your rifle, and I'm not talking about .22 rimfire. :mad:
 
I've had that happen to me Calum. Some guy and his two kids were at the bence beside me (they didn't even have a gun with them), and the kids made a game out of trying to catch the brass in mid-air as they were ejected out of my sks. I told the father that wasn't the best idea, but he said it's important to encourage young shooters. A little while later, I heard one of the kids whining that his hand hurt :D .
 
There are *ss clowns everywhere. They'll steal the brooms from the range so we end up sweeping up the rimfire brass with a POS broom. They have broken into the day pass money box and cleaned it out...

I forgot one of my rimfire spinners on the range one day. I phoned back to the caretaker when I got home fully expecting it to be gone. It was there but someone had blasted it with something high power and bent it all up and put holes in it. I'd like to slap people like that.
 
Same thing happened to me at a IPSC match. A guy needed a holster to compete in a match and seeing we had the same pistol a Ruger P89, I was using my Colt 1911 I lent him my Bianchi leather holster, which I remember I paid allot for in the states. Well I continued on with my match in the major catorgory and him in the minor and at the end of day that SOB was no where to be found and neither was my holster. On the up side I did win a set of Hornady 9mm reloading dies...
 
hfp75 said:
if he is regular shooter then you will see him again... more importantly you will see your mat again!!!!

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No he wasn't a regular shooter, never saw the guy again and it was 10 years ago and that was last time I ever loaned anyone any of my shooting stuff.
 
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