Posted: 2/3/2007 2:45:47 PM EDT
| Ok, so I went to the gun club today (private) and found that someone had left target pasters and a cheap machine rest there. As a rule if a shooter leaves targets, pasters or factory ammo it's fair game to the finder. At least at my club if you don't take it someone else will. If it is expensive then you leave it or hold it and post a lost and found on the bulletin board. What say the morals po po on ARFCOM. |
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If you didn't buy it. If it wasn't given to you. Then is isn't yours. I "find" things all of the time at the public range. I leave it there until I am ready to leave. If it hasn't been claimed, I take it to the range office. That is except for brass or others things that are oviously discarded. |
This is exactly the problem here in the National Forests . People leave their targets , pop/beer cans , CRT's , dishwashers on and on . Slowly we (the folks that shoot there) are being trained to bring extra plastic bags to clean up after others . I've made it my bidness to warn others of possably losing our shooting spot and encourage them to at least take their crap . "Pack it in pack it out" |
+1 In Florida, there is no such thing as Finders-Keepers. Under this situation, things left behind WOULD NOT BE ABANDONED property. Thus, if found, must be turned into law enforcement... FSS 705.102(1) Whenever any person finds any lost or abandoned property, such person shall report the description and location of the property to a law enforcement officer. (4) Any person who unlawfully appropriates such lost or abandoned property to his or her own use or refuses to deliver such property when required commits theft as defined in FSS 812.014. Leave stuff alone... the owner will most likely be back... |
At my club there are 250 members some come out to shoot once or twice a year! I have seen stuff that had been left for over a year and they just don't care to come back to claim it. I found a cheap o Timex kids watch 3 months ago, still hanging on the bulletin board. Rarely is ammo left, brass and targets are fair game in my book. I've left mine out before and they were not there the next week when I came back. I also snag targets that the police dept's leave after training. I figure I paid for some of them anyway and they are the big silhouettes. Reloaded ammo that has been left for a long time becomes a target.
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