Flabbergasted ! ! !

[Big Bri]

Did your insurance pay for the gun when it got stolen?

no my deductible was $500 so it wasn't worth filing

 

[Big Bri]

Brian, one of my brothers was much luckier than you. In January, 1987, his apartment was burglarized in Anchorage, AK. Last summer (2010), a police officer from a little town on the Oregon coast called him to tell him they'd recovered one of his shotguns (2 were taken in the burglary). It seems a 54 year old man with no prior record, who said he bought it from an individual several years ago, tried to pawn it and the pawn shop owner called the police. The gun was a Mossberg Pump AT500 Trap Special and my brother said when he got it back, it looked as good as the day it was stolen. So it was recovered 23 years later, and my brother had moved at least 7 times since then and was a full time RVer when the Oregon police tracked him down.:laughing:

That's a great story. Do wish mine had turned out that way but i'm still happy to get it back.

 

[Bartcephus]

I had a Sig P229 stolen as well. When the Sheriff's office recovered it, they had attempted to scratch out the serial numbers. I hated that aspect. Had about $3K to $4K of damage and other stolen specialty tools that never were recovered. I HATE theives.

Bart