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300 rounds of my ammo disapeared

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#1 ·
I just did inventory on my ammo stock for an upcoming trade i have for some trw parts and discovered 300 rounds of magtech ammo missing. I bought this ammo very shortly before sandy hook and know for a fact i havent shot it. I always put my ammo in my closet and nowhere else. I tore through my closet and entire living space 2-3 times and was very freaked out and puzzled that it was nowhere to be found. I hate to think that one of my buddies jacked it from me but thats the only thing i can think of as i dont believe in magic or little elfs who steal peoples ammo stashes. this has to be the strangest thing that has happened to me that i can remember. has anyone else had this sort of thing happen to them with ammo,parts or guns? Im 100% sane and have never had any head trauma other than having my bell rang a few times in little scraps so dimentia or memory loss is not a culprit here.
 
#33 ·
I lost a couple hundred rounds of 5.56 at the range this spring. I found the empty cases by my bench and holes in the target. Still trying to figure out how I fired so much ammo. Lost several items from where I "always" keep them only to find them there a few weeks later. Has to be an alternative universe.
 
#35 ·
In 1968 I was stationed at Ft. Hood Tx. I had KP duty and a good friend ( Army buddy )asked if he could use my car to go to town. I trusted him and said sure. He ETSed a couple months later. Not long after that I had a flat tire. Opened my trunk and no spare tire. The SOB had hocked me tire. I found it at the pawn shop and bought it back. It`s sad when you can`t trust your friends.
 
#36 ·
I didnt expect so many responses of people that have had similar things happen. I checked everywhere and i mean everywhere. my living space is pretty small so it didnt take long to search. i even went out to my car with a flashlight. Like someone eles had mentioned I had to stop looking because it was driving me crazy. Ive only been shooting one time since i bought that ammo and shot 120 rounds of prvi. even if i had accidentaly shot the magtech there should still be 180 rounds left. I keep getting the urge to keep on searching the same spots and expecting a different outcome but i think that the definition of insanity so Im just gonna accept there gone
 
#39 ·
I just found a case of q3130 I ordered from palmetto back in 2010, never even opened the box. I found it tucked in the back of a drawer in my storage room. Maybe my past self knew about the future craze and stashed it so I could find it later, hehe. Hope your stuff turns up. Usually when something like that happens to me it's usually my fault that I stuck it somewhere different and forgot, not that it was theft. Hope that's the case with your ammo.
 
#43 ·
I couldnt stop myself from doing a full on search agsin today. still gone USN4
but on the bright side i found some ar stuff
See? You're OLDER Than You Think !!!

GI5

CAVman in WYoming
 
#45 ·
You sure you didn't sell/trade/shoot it? I recently spend 4 days worrying about 4 missing new-in-plastic CMI mags and looked hard for them until I went through my PMs and remembered that I'd sold/traded them. LOL
 
#48 ·
WRENCHES!!
Oops, sorry, had the same thing happen with a beautiful set of shiny wrenches. I try to repress that memory, shove it way down. Sometimes things like this trigger that memory make it come barreling toward the surface. Down, bad memory, down!
...They just HAVE to be in the attic....
 
#49 ·
disnt loose it but I did forget about a box of .40 cal ammo I bought. had tossed it in a garbage bag full of stuff when I was cleaning out my car. bag got put in a box and tossed into storage. finally got around to cleanly out the box 6 or 7 years later.

shot most of it up couple months later like it was free ammo. :)

hope you find it...
 
#50 ·
boomer1983, that does suck. OTOH, I'm repainting my reloading room, and have found all sorts of stuff that I don't even remember having. Like Christmas a couple months late. I hope your ammo turns up. Are you sure the dog didn't eat it?
 
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#52 ·
UUUUUHHH!!............28 years, or so ago, I was building a 1911, lost my job, had to move. Just remembered it last year, I found a few of the small parts, but have NOT found the pistol(yet).............I know it's here in storage somewhere, but no idea where. I have a great birthday coming someday! I hope your ammo shows up too.

Redraider
 
#55 · (Edited)
You know, I had a thought about stuff being gone and it being a dimensional transfer kind of thing.

Maybe it went to any of the posters in this thread and is just waiting to be found if we all look.

I'll say thanks for the 300 boomer...just in case it IS in my garage some "safe" placeUSN2
 
#56 ·
I always find stuff in the last place I look . . ;-)

Hope you figger out where it went . . if one of your buds lifted it . . then that there is an ass kickin' well deserved . . .
 
#57 ·
But if you didn't move, or re-org your room or closet, then the obvious, the so-called "usual suspects", do indeed immediately and sadly come to mind. Frankly, given it's rising cost, it may be in your best interest now to build, or have built, a simple plywood chest with a padlock or two on it, to more safely store your valuable ammo and even perhaps a previously and "legally unsafely stored" handgun or three. You can even lag-bolt such a chest into your closet floor, which makes it triply hard to just lug off with a hand ruck.

Yeah, it could also be somewhat easily broken into, but any of your "friends" or possible roommates would also have to make quite a lot of noise, and also make quite a mess with big-time evidence you'd notice quite soon after it happened. You could also fit it with a simple key-armed (visible on the outside for additional emotional dissuasion) alarm system that howls loudly {130 dB let's say; in other words, painful!) from an internal horn that is also hard to get at immediately!

As well, if you fit the inside corners with blind-bolted and/or epoxied-into-place angled steel, even the thinner stuff, and also epoxy-glue the wooden corners, it makes for quite an effort to dissemble this war chest, and those efforts also prevent anyone from just quickly and easily prying it open.

As well, if you don't have a good steel safe (which, in today's litigious society, is more than just a good idea... esp, if one of your firearms is stolen and then used to harm or kill someone!) you an use it in the interim as an impromptu gun safe.

I am personally changing all my ammo storage arrangements given the rising cost and growing scarcity of ammo. I literally can't afford to have mine stolen with no way now to easily replace it!

Well, even as regards ammo, Molon Labe, so to speak!
 
#58 ·
Well, even as regards ammo, Molon Labe, so to speak!

Apparently in this case..'MOLON LABE' was heard as an INVITATION, Not A Warning...

GI5

CAVman in WYoming
 
#60 ·
kangaroo rats. really! they love shiny stuff like ammo. i have lost so much stuff it aint funny no more. like the scout in the ice storm. or my keys, pocket knife, mini 30 five round mag i needed to go deer hunting last week, my transmission tools,..... it just goes on & onUSN4
 
#61 ·
When I had my old hot rod I kept my tools in a craftsman hand carry case in my corner of the garage. Seems the next time I wantd to work on the car it had walked off. I'm sure one of my so called friends (roommate) walked off with it. Pisses me off to think those who you know you best have the nerve to steal from you.
 
#63 ·
I had a good tool set vanish at work,couldn't find it any where. Months went by and I went to help a co worker with his car. He pulls out my set in front of me and tells me they are his. I had eched my initials on them so I took them flipped him off and left him with his car broke down and no way to work.
 
#64 ·
300 rounds is a pretty signifcant weight. I hope it is just misplaced, but I know some "friends" will even help you look for something right after they took it, with no sense of guilt at all.

I am sure it probably just got misplaced though. Six boxes for 357 is a bit much for someone to walk off with.

Recently, about two weeks ago,

I complained to high heaven about Season 3 of ARCHER never being delivered.

Amazon sent me another one free of charge.

Turns out it WAS delivered and in the closet shelf with all my other DVDs.

Old Timer's disease for sure.
I called Amazon and said I could send it back to them and they said it would cost more to process the refund. Just keep it. Hey, I tried.
 
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