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Savage 110 Carbon Tactical - Unmatched Precision - Viking Arms
I'm sure I can't be the only one on here who's put his rifle down, started doing something else, and then forgotten about the rifle?
Surely someone else has woken up in the middle of the night, remembering that their rifle is leaning against a tree in the garden?
Mistakes happen. We're all human.
 
VSS said:
I'm sure I can't be the only one on here who's put his rifle down, started doing something else, and then forgotten about the rifle?
Surely someone else has woken up in the middle of the night, remembering that their rifle is leaning against a tree in the garden?
Mistakes happen. We're all human.
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You sound like an FEO on a stitch up 🤣
finnbear270 said:
Forever leaving sticks & other gear out all night, I even left an extremely expensive pair of Swaro bino's on a Hochsitz one season, but NEVER the firearm.
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Never when shooting. Catch me at work when I've got a machine in bits and I'm looking for a screwdriver for 5 minutes... that's in my back pocket 🤣
 
VSS said:
I'm sure I can't be the only one on here who's put his rifle down, started doing something else, and then forgotten about the rifle?
Surely someone else has woken up in the middle of the night, remembering that their rifle is leaning against a tree in the garden?
Mistakes happen. We're all human.
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Clears throat
 
VSS said:
I'm sure I can't be the only one on here who's put his rifle down, started doing something else, and then forgotten about the rifle?
Surely someone else has woken up in the middle of the night, remembering that their rifle is leaning against a tree in the garden?
Mistakes happen. We're all human.
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Aye a tree maybe but in a city, on the pavement, as a professional. Meant to be alert to danger or an abrupt escalation.
Err no.
 
VSS said:
Some folks jungle is concrete.
Same but different.
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Do ambulance drivers lose their ambulances?
Do firemen loose their breathing air tank?
Does a pot hole inspector loose his white spray marker? Do the bin men mysteriously loose their wagon?

I have lost knifes stuck in a tree and even found one a year later but I've never gone home and wondered what happened to my gun, or rifle.
There was a time I left my bag of possibles when out using a muzzleloader but the gun was always in my hands.
 
Didn't a firearms officer leave their pistol in a toilet a few years ago.

Can you imagine the "I'm sure I had something weighty on my hip when I came in here"......
 
I’m well acquainted with a guy who served many years ago.
At the end of a 3 week exercise the unit was moved into a camp site to prep for RTB, the young man 18 at the time, put his SMG down of the tank of his 3 tonner RL when assisting in taking down the camp. The party was under the CSM with a full Pln to do the work.
As the last of the trucks was loaded, the CSM called for everyone to get their kit/weapons and Fall In. Said lad couldn’t find his SMG, had totally forgotten where it was.
The CSM of course organised a search, after 15 minutes or so, he remembered where it was.

Managed to get away with this as he’d found it not anybody else. A good man was the CSM 🤦‍♂️
 
I recall a SA80 was lost by a soldier on Dartmoor during a training exercise. Unsure if it was ever found.
D
 
I'm liking this out of the box thinking.
I reckon leaving your gun in the highseat , with a loaded mag , would be a very efficient move.
You wouldn't have to remember to get it out of the safe , and you wouldn't have to carry it.
All you'd need is a flask of coffee , and marmalade sandwiches , and you're good to go.
 
finnbear270 said:
In many, if not all groups of trained individuals concerned with possible “Contact”, the mantra is never be over an arms length from your personal firearm.
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I highly doubt the police officer involved will be crawling back to their weapon system that they misplaced like what would happen in other organisations.

They probably couldn't physically handle it and I also hear tarmac is ouchy and harsh words really do hurt....
 
My brother, God bless him, or maybe not...but anyway. In the early 1980s once was on a detail giving perimeter cover, or "overwatch" when Mrs Thatcher came to visit Lord King of Wartnaby. He was equipped with his usual "to role" 'scoped rifle as the "sharpshooter" and as a sidearm a Model 10 revolver. When she was due to leave, late in the evening and after dark, she came round and thanked the perimeter cover people. My brother who was lying prone said that as he got up his revolver decided it wasn't going to get up with him and came out from its not very well designed holster. This was a holster problem that was an ongoing issue with that particular holster if the user lay prone. So as he got up he stood with both his size twelves on top of said revolver in the hope that no one would notice. Which they either didn't or perhaps out of politeness disregarded.
 
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