I had a friend put his brand new shotgun (Browning Gold Hunter) on the roof of his car, after a bird hunt. He realized his mistake, when he got home. He drove back to the parking lot, and searched the area, but he never found it. He contacted the police, and gave them the serial number and reported it as lost. This happened before the days of Craigslist, so he put an ad in the local paper with his name and phone number. He got several crank calls over the next week, or so, calling him a dumbass and asking how he could be so stupid. I felt bad for him. His wife gave him the shotgun as a birthday gift, just a few days before he lost it. I don't think he ever got his shotgun back.
I never found anyone else's firearms.
