The other morning I walk up the drive way with the pup to get the paper they throw at the end of the dive every Saturday night some time. Off in the far distance I hear a pack of coyotes, A friend lives off that away who I hunt coyotes with a lot. I decide I will call him later in the day and see how his trip out west went, and ask about us getting together over Christmas holidays to see what we can call up.
He is a realtor and his lively hood has been in the crapper since 2007 but has picked up greatly in the last year and a half. Doing so well he decided to take a trip out west to hunt pheasants in N. Dakota, Antelope in Montana and Take a crack at a bear in Idaho. He had returned home on Nov. 10th. Since he had been gone for 2 ½ weeks he decided to take his wife and daughter still at home out to a dinner at a nice place and a movie. They returned home to a swinging door on the garage side of the house and it was wide open. First thing they noticed when they went in was the flat screen TV in the dining room was gone. As was the bigger one in the living room, stereo and speakers were gone. So were four of his guns all were still in the travel cases sitting by his safe waiting to be cleaned and put away. His house has a alarm system but is monitored as they had dropped that when it was just his wife earning any income during the rough times and he had not got around to get it hooked up again.
The four guns were what were missed the worst. A Husqvarna 65.x55 that his grandfather had bought new in 1952 gave to his father and to him just 3 years ago. A weatherly rifle, a Winchester 101 and a model 21 pump also.
With Michigan’s deer season coming up fast he needed a rifle and after the expense of the hunt He could not afford a new complete set up. Off to one of Michigan’s biggest used gun stores (Guns Galore Fenton Michigan) but decided to stop at a pawn shop before he got there. Only one gun got his attention a Husky 6.5x55 that had been his. He called the police who came but there was nothing they could do to get this $2000 gun back because he didn’t know the serial number No pictures of it up close with idenfying marks either.
The pawn shop owner got out the paper work on the buy and there was a driver’s licenses but when the cops contacted the guy he said it had been stolen and there was a police report.
The moral of this story is to record all your serial numbers and get a appraisal, take pictures with close ups of idifying marks.
I just did mine in Sept. Was a pain as I didn’t have enough cases to transport them all at once to the shop I used. But it is done and everything is on a couple flash drives with a copy at my daughters too.


Al