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Gentlemen,
In October of last year I had a DD Ross Built Rem 700 stolen from my vehicle in the Columbus, OH area. It is not a run of the mill rifle and can be identified if located. I have an idea some knuckle head has it and is sitting on it waiting to try and sell it. I can provide serial numbers if located or a subject is suspected of having it. Please contact Columbus PD or me direct, I am offering a $500.00 reward for the location and recovery. Rifle was outfitted with a McMillian A5 stock, L&S 3.5x10 LR M1 scope, DDRoss bolt handle and extras. 20" bull barrel. I have photos if needed to assist in the location of this item. Other items were with this rifle also, Thanks

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#5
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Know the feeling. I had two rifles and a suppressor stolen from my vehicle last year. Sorry dude. Also I have come up with a good system to preventing this from happening again, PM me if you are interested and I'll pass it along to you.
 
#7
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Best case scenario, you get your rifle back. At worst, the experience will serve as a costly lesson that you just CAN'T leave anything of value in an unattended/unsecured vehicle, especially firearms.

Wish you the best of luck.
 
#8
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Slapchop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">At worst, the experience will serve as a costly lesson that you just CAN'T leave anything of value in an unattended/unsecured vehicle, especially firearms.

Wish you the best of luck. </div></div>

You know when my stuff was stolen last year this is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit people kept feeding me. I will be clear about this. We as citizens of the US have every right to have firearms in our vehicles. And if some scum sucking thief decides to burglarize our vehicles then WE ARE THE VICTIMS AND IT IS NOT OUR FAULT. The blame lies with the lowlife POS that committed a crime. Also for some people it is not practical to not leave weapons in our vehicles. Sure if you work a 9-5 job and work a half hour away from where you live then logistics become simple. However not all of us live like this.

Also ones home IS NO MORE SECURE then their vehicle. Think about it. To break into someones home all one has to do is break some glass and enter through a window. The same goes for a vehicle. And both a vehicle and a home can have an alarm, however the alarm does NOTHING to deter crime. Alarms are a passive device that only alerts people after an act of crime.

Since my experience I have become much more proactive in my efforts at recovery. Recovery is the one part of the whole theft process that we have any control over and it is where we as victims should focus our efforts. Sure if we just left our rifles locked up in our safes at home all the time then they would very difficult to be stolen but that sort of negates the ability to use them. I prefer my weapons to be readily accessible to me. Which also means these weapons are more accessible to criminal scum who wish to take that which does not belong to them, but that is the trade-off in this plan.

So for all those people who believe our weapons should never be left anywhere other then a safe at our homes. You might as well just not be armed. As for those of use that like the idea on our weapons being ready and available for us to use; WE ARE NOT AT FAULT WE ARE THE VICTIMS!
 
#9
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Have any pics? me and a few close friends constantly sift through about 20-30 target,tactical and club websites looking for deals......maybe the idiot will try selling it.

Thats just shitty to hear bro, especially knowing so many people that work hard and long hours and save their ass off for a good custom rifle,then some f*cktard that probably doesnt even know what he has steals it
 
#10
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Longshot38</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Slapchop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">At worst, the experience will serve as a costly lesson that you just CAN'T leave anything of value in an unattended/unsecured vehicle, especially firearms.

Wish you the best of luck. </div></div>

You know when my stuff was stolen last year this is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit people kept feeding me. I will be clear about this. We as citizens of the US have every right to have firearms in our vehicles. And if some scum sucking thief decides to burglarize our vehicles then WE ARE THE VICTIMS AND IT IS NOT OUR FAULT. The blame lies with the lowlife POS that committed a crime. Also for some people it is not practical to not leave weapons in our vehicles. Sure if you work a 9-5 job and work a half hour away from where you live then logistics become simple. However not all of us live like this.

Also ones home IS NO MORE SECURE then their vehicle. Think about it. To break into someones home all one has to do is break some glass and enter through a window. The same goes for a vehicle. And both a vehicle and a home can have an alarm, however the alarm does NOTHING to deter crime. Alarms are a passive device that only alerts people after an act of crime.

Since my experience I have become much more proactive in my efforts at recovery. Recovery is the one part of the whole theft process that we have any control over and it is where we as victims should focus our efforts. Sure if we just left our rifles locked up in our safes at home all the time then they would very difficult to be stolen but that sort of negates the ability to use them. I prefer my weapons to be readily accessible to me. Which also means these weapons are more accessible to criminal scum who wish to take that which does not belong to them, but that is the trade-off in this plan.

So for all those people who believe our weapons should never be left anywhere other then a safe at our homes. You might as well just not be armed. As for those of use that like the idea on our weapons being ready and available for us to use; WE ARE NOT AT FAULT WE ARE THE VICTIMS! </div></div>

In a perfect world your argument would make sense. Unfortunately we live in a world that is far from perfect.

All I'm saying is that an ounce of prevention will go a long way. To each his own.
 
#13
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You know when my stuff was stolen last year this is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit people kept feeding me. I will be clear about this. We as citizens of the US have every right to have firearms in our vehicles. And if some scum sucking thief decides to burglarize our vehicles then WE ARE THE VICTIMS AND IT IS NOT OUR FAULT. The blame lies with the lowlife POS that committed a crime. Also for some people it is not practical to not leave weapons in our vehicles. Sure if you work a 9-5 job and work a half hour away from where you live then logistics become simple. However not all of us live like this.

Also ones home IS NO MORE SECURE then their vehicle. Think about it. To break into someones home all one has to do is break some glass and enter through a window. The same goes for a vehicle. And both a vehicle and a home can have an alarm, however the alarm does NOTHING to deter crime. Alarms are a passive device that only alerts people after an act of crime.

Since my experience I have become much more proactive in my efforts at recovery. Recovery is the one part of the whole theft process that we have any control over and it is where we as victims should focus our efforts. Sure if we just left our rifles locked up in our safes at home all the time then they would very difficult to be stolen but that sort of negates the ability to use them. I prefer my weapons to be readily accessible to me. Which also means these weapons are more accessible to criminal scum who wish to take that which does not belong to them, but that is the trade-off in this plan.

So for all those people who believe our weapons should never be left anywhere other then a safe at our homes. You might as well just not be armed. As for those of use that like the idea on our weapons being ready and available for us to use; WE ARE NOT AT FAULT WE ARE THE VICTIMS! [/quote]


+10000000 Longshot38 you hit the nail on the head
 
#14
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> WE ARE NOT AT FAULT WE ARE THE VICTIMS!</div></div>

Horseshit.

RISK = PROBABILITY X CONSEQUENCE

Of course it's a free country. Put your weapons wherever the hell you want, loaded or unloaded. Keep them unsecured where you have no alarm, no visibility, and obviously no control and big boy rules apply. You can obviously afford to replace them.

You want sympathy look in Webster's between shit and syphilis.

I had a Colt SP1 Carbine stolen from me in 1979 and it still stings.
 
#15
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Sometimes you have no choice. I (or my Alaska National Guard Rifle Team) had a NM M14 stolen at the Little Rock airport on the way to the Wilson Matches one year. We had no control, turned out it was an idiot baggage handler.

He was caught down town waiving it out the window of his car the next night.

All I could do was report it to the FBI, the Airport, and My boss.

Odd thing was, when it was recovered, and the FBI tried to clear it from their computer, they couldnt. It seems the same rifle was reported stolen in 1968 and not recovered. That was 5 years before I joined the guard but it didnt stop me from getting my butt chewed.
 
#16
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Longshot38</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Know the feeling. I had two rifles and a suppressor stolen from my vehicle last year. Sorry dude. Also I have come up with a good system to preventing this from happening again, PM me if you are interested and I'll pass it along to you. </div></div>

Why not just put it up for everybody?
 
#17
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Being required to surrender a weapon (especially if government-owned and in a duty status) for transportation is not the same as leaving a personally-owned at risk by choice.

I've been in several units where handguns and automatic weapons have disappeared in transit by the airlines (twice internationally requiring both federal and foreign government intervention, and once where the guy was robbed of his concealed issued pistol, creds, and passport at gunpoint).

There are several hell-for-stout lock boxes that can be secured inside and to vehicles but like any machine they can eventually be defeated.

There is the "Reasonable man" assumption for guys securing and locking stuff in boxes, as well as the federal/municipal government policies of keeping load-out weapons, ammo, optics, and armor locked in trunks. If departments are willing to take the risk they'll underwrite leaving stuff in trunks -- if they're stolen it's a write-off.

If it's a personally-owned weapon not locked and secured to the vehicle that's a personal choice as well.

I hate moving, but I'd rather lock my guns up in a U-Haul a couple of nights while traveling cross country than leave them with movers and tempt the same knuckleheads who rifle through your stuff.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sinister</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> WE ARE NOT AT FAULT WE ARE THE VICTIMS!</div></div>

Horseshit.

RISK = PROBABILITY X CONSEQUENCE

Of course it's a free country. Put your weapons wherever the hell you want, loaded or unloaded. Keep them unsecured where you have no alarm, no visibility, and obviously no control and big boy rules apply. You can obviously afford to replace them.

You want sympathy look in Webster's between shit and syphilis.

I had a Colt SP1 Carbine stolen from me in 1979 and it still stings. </div></div>

Sinister you live up to your screen name. I never said it didn't sting to loose a firearm. That drag bag I lost was a lot of money and it took two years to get that rifle pieced together. But I never asked for sympathy I just can't stand people trying to turn us (the victims) into the criminals. We the victims did nothing wrong however the bottom feeding criminals did, they committed the crime NOT US. As a matter of fact in my situation the POS to broke into my vehicle committed about 4 different crimes that constituted numerous felonies.

As for them being there in the first place, well reread my post. I work a nontraditional schedule and my place of employment is a significant distance from my home. Thus when I leave home I'm out for significant periods of time and I'm notorious for finding opportunities to shoot while I'm out. And I know I'm not the only one in these shoes. Do leave all my firearms sitting my vehicle for long term storage, no. But I do always travel armed. And I AM NOT AT FAULT FOR THIS. Thus to make me into the criminal after an act of theft is horseshit.

Shot In The Dark, I'm not willing the publish detailed information about my system on the net. I'm willing to share via PM. And as my post stated I now focus on recovery. It is the only part of the whole process I have control over.
 
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