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Years back I bought an old cab-over pickup camper, used. Later "junked" it, and as I was parting it out, found a little AMT "Backup" .380 semi-auto under the refrigerator - I guess stashed there by a previous owner? Still had a loaded magazine in it, and was fairly clean. I did a little "touch-up", added new grips, and shot it some - functions fine. Decent little pistol, has a grip safety - like a 1911, and is all stainless.
Mike Holmes
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hate to admit this but it all worked out in the end. lost a stainless remington 700 off the back of my flatbed. put it in case and laid it on back and just drove off like a fool. that was back when i was fresh married and had a boy on the way and gun purchases were extremely thought out and planned and budgeted for months and just made me sick.
the next year my equipment repair business was going and blowing and i was going thru a big lot of repo'd semi tractors from the west coast. i was contracted to a large auction company to do make ready work for a sale and i was told to empty everything out of the trucks.. under the sleeper matress in one was a remington 700 6mm with a old weatherby scope wrapped in a shipping blanket. its a fine shooter too this day and that weatherby scope is pretty dang clear for 1970's glass
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Back in 2004 I was hunting in Montana for mule deer and tagged out with a nice 4 X 4. I packed up all my gear into my car, saving my TC Icon .308 for last. I still had a 1000+ mile drive home to Michigan and in the morning darkness I forgot about my rifle. When I arrived home the .308 was nowhere to be found. I called the outfitter and luckily one of his hunters turned it in. The hunter was also from Michigan so when he returned home I drove the 25 miles to his house and retrieved it. I offered the guy the six pack of beer I’d brought, but he preferred the marijuana which he had a legal permit to smoke. I passed on his offer of a doobie.
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Had a client of mine drop a $15,000 Italian SxS 12 gauge overboard in chest deep water on a duck hunt. It’s still there, we never found it. OUCH! I knew a gunsmith that lost his stainless Ruger Red Label, when his duck hunting canoe tipped over. I forget what he told me, about how the canoe capsized. The dog jumped in and rolled it, or it tipped over when he tossed the decoys in, something like that. I don't remember, but he wasn't in the canoe when it went over. He never did find the Red Label.
Thoroughly enjoying Alaska since 2001.
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