Replaced a stolen .22 pistol yesterday
Posted: 31 Jan 2016 22:19
Many years ago, a gang broke into our rental home at the time and stole a Browning Buckmark .22 pistol my wife and I took often to the range. So often, in fact, one of us had gotten distracted and instead of putting it in the gunsafe, left it in the range bag where it got gone. The thug that stole the gun used it in a crime and basically bludgeoned another man to death with it. It now resides with the Gainesville, GA Police Dept. The thug, got out of the US and they've been unsuccessful in getting him back and have never returned that gun. With it's last use, I'm not sure I even want it back, as it is very likely damaged beyond use and rusted/pitted from dried blood.
So after years now of trying to get my Browning Buckmark .22 pistol back from the Gainesville Police Department, I finally get tired of it and give up on ever getting it back as long as they haven't been to trial with the thug who got away to Mexico.
All that time, in the top of the closet was a green canvas bag with pouches I'd used as the pistol range bag. It held magazines for my Browning Buckmark and my CZ bolt action rifles. For some reason, the mags were not taken and were all still there. Sitting right there in that closet. Recently, as in less than two weeks ago, I showed the bag to my wife Donna and said we have to decide soon what to do with these Browning magazines.
Two nights ago, I'm looking around the Bass Pro website. Low and behold, I find a stainless steel version of the exact some gun I have and my original pistol both. (They were the new "standard" type with the slab barrel and the URX grippy rubber grips.)
Here's the one I used to own that was stolen:
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Buck-Ma ... /10218122/
When I bought the above version, I could not afford the extra cash for the stainless version, nor could I find the new fiber optic front sight any where or even who made it.
Here's the stainless version I found on the Bass Pro website:
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Buck-Ma ... /10218123/
After reading several of their descriptions, they revealed on the Bass Pro website who made the fiber optic front sights for Browning: TruGlo. So I went online and sure enough, you could buy a Truglo in a nice green for $25.00 delivered to your door from Amazon.
So I showed the stainless version to Donna and told her we either had to sell those magazines for a loss or make a decision if we wanted to buy a new .22 pistol. Donna loved shooting that pistol, as did I and all she didn't like was it didn't have the fiber optic front sight she had seen on another of the models back when and wanted. I showed her we could buy the site on amazon and that was it, she said "let's go get another one." I was quiet outside, elated inside.
So we headed down to Bass Pro (a 45 minute drive if Atlanta traffic was good, it wasn't) to look at this new stainless .22 Buckmark and see if it was "worthy of Donna." A couple minutes handling and yes, Donna wanted it, as she remembered what it pointed like.
So we buy it and bring it home. And of course, it only came with a single magazine. No problem, I have a green canvas range bag whose pouches are full of Buckmark magazines. I go to look in the closet where it's sat since we moved into this house we live in now and it's vanished into the homeowner's black hole. Can't find it in the house after looking through three rooms. It's like the old cow mags know there's a new bull cow pistol and don't want anything to do with it, so they've bailed out of the pasture into the woods and disappeared.
Ain't it always the way?
So after years now of trying to get my Browning Buckmark .22 pistol back from the Gainesville Police Department, I finally get tired of it and give up on ever getting it back as long as they haven't been to trial with the thug who got away to Mexico.
All that time, in the top of the closet was a green canvas bag with pouches I'd used as the pistol range bag. It held magazines for my Browning Buckmark and my CZ bolt action rifles. For some reason, the mags were not taken and were all still there. Sitting right there in that closet. Recently, as in less than two weeks ago, I showed the bag to my wife Donna and said we have to decide soon what to do with these Browning magazines.
Two nights ago, I'm looking around the Bass Pro website. Low and behold, I find a stainless steel version of the exact some gun I have and my original pistol both. (They were the new "standard" type with the slab barrel and the URX grippy rubber grips.)
Here's the one I used to own that was stolen:
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Buck-Ma ... /10218122/
When I bought the above version, I could not afford the extra cash for the stainless version, nor could I find the new fiber optic front sight any where or even who made it.
Here's the stainless version I found on the Bass Pro website:
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Buck-Ma ... /10218123/
After reading several of their descriptions, they revealed on the Bass Pro website who made the fiber optic front sights for Browning: TruGlo. So I went online and sure enough, you could buy a Truglo in a nice green for $25.00 delivered to your door from Amazon.
So I showed the stainless version to Donna and told her we either had to sell those magazines for a loss or make a decision if we wanted to buy a new .22 pistol. Donna loved shooting that pistol, as did I and all she didn't like was it didn't have the fiber optic front sight she had seen on another of the models back when and wanted. I showed her we could buy the site on amazon and that was it, she said "let's go get another one." I was quiet outside, elated inside.
So we headed down to Bass Pro (a 45 minute drive if Atlanta traffic was good, it wasn't) to look at this new stainless .22 Buckmark and see if it was "worthy of Donna." A couple minutes handling and yes, Donna wanted it, as she remembered what it pointed like.
So we buy it and bring it home. And of course, it only came with a single magazine. No problem, I have a green canvas range bag whose pouches are full of Buckmark magazines. I go to look in the closet where it's sat since we moved into this house we live in now and it's vanished into the homeowner's black hole. Can't find it in the house after looking through three rooms. It's like the old cow mags know there's a new bull cow pistol and don't want anything to do with it, so they've bailed out of the pasture into the woods and disappeared.
Ain't it always the way?