I had a nice Marlin 30-30 growing up, that I left at home with my parents when I moved out to go to college. I would go back home ever once in a while and use it for whitetail hunting in Texas and my dad used it in the oil patch sometimes or on our farm to shoot coyotes. Anyway, I left it there at my parents house even many years after I got out of college. My dad's health faded fast and he passed away in 2008, and I went to get the guns from the gun cabinet and the 30-30 was gone.
Never did figure out what happened to it, but I really miss it just for the sentimental value, and would have liked to pass it down to my sons. I figure one of my no good cousins got it. My dad had dimentia in the end and probably loaned it to one of them and forgot about it, and they probably hocked it for beer or drug money.
