This Memorial Day weekend will be one to stick in my memory. In short, my shop got burglarized. I am dealing with insurance company now. PLEASE take pictures of all your bows,knives,guns,binos.... clothing and even duck calls :) ! It will make it a lot easier for both parties. I basically have little proof of anything i owned. The best is to keep receipts and/or pictures. I SHOULD have had just had ONE SD Card with a pic of each prized possession. Pictures would have been so easy in this digital age. It would have been so simple........wish me luck
Sorry to hear of your misfortune. Thanks for the heads up.
Another thing to keep in mind is to not keep the SD card in your house. Keep it somewhere else, with your agent,saftey deposit box, etc. That way if your home was to burn down you don't lose all the pics and back to square one!
That's one thing I've been meaning to do, just haven't.
That's too bad, I hope you can get it all sorted out.
My most painful losses were things i had traded or recieved from friends. My Tippit Skinner was worth a jillion dollars to me....SafeCo probably another story ....we will find out....Some how i found a 15 year old Zeiss Bino receipt....$993. 10 x 40....they still cost that or cheaper
I purchased valuable personal property insurance for my firearms and optics as well as my wifes camera equipment. They wouldn't do the bows though.
Man that stinks..you can borrow one of my bows if needed. Just let me know what draw weight @ 28"..
Sorry to hear that!
F-Manny
I hate a thief!!!! I really hope you get your stuff back instead of an insurance pay off. Good luck.
thanks guys for the PMs . Fortunately they left all my bows. but taking a knife Biggie gave me, it stings.
Sorry for your loss.
Being burglarized is such a shock. Only happened once to me, but I was a few minutes trying to figure what happened.
That's a good heads up on the pics, though. Thanks for the tip.
Good luck with the insurance and better yet catching the scumbags.
That sucks Joe. Sorry.
That is awful..
Odds are it will happen to many of us eventually.
Good luck with your insurance company, perhaps it will end well.
I am also sorry for your loss. Not to take this thread off on a tangent, but we all need to be extra vigilant in this age of Facebook and other social media programs. My family and I just went to Disney, and it was a challenge trying to convince my wife and daughter to NOT share picturs of the vacation and "status updates" in real time. I explained that we didn't want to advertise to people that our house was home empty while we were distracted, a thousand miles away from home.
Best of luck with your insurance company, and I do hope that they make you whole again (or as close to it as possible, considering the circumstances).
Joe, man this really stinks! Sorry to hear this happened.
+1000............here in MS Delta. it's routine for a family's home to get robbed during a funeral.
Good advice Joe, my wife and I have started a regiment of taking pics. of everything here recently, just in case.
My Pit Bull is a great deterrent but if they want it bad enough he will be expendable.
Sorry to hear that Joebuck. I will take pictures of the stuff I have as a lesson . RC
Ouch!!!!! Sorry to hear that Joey.
So sorry to hear! Hope the insurance people treat you right.
Glenn
Oh man Joey, that really stinks! I wouldn't even know where to begin. I do have pictures of some stuff, but need to go through and do that again. Easy job, just needed the reminder. Sorry it had to be you to give it.
I hate hearing about theft. Some things are just not replaceable.
Being burglarized is the closest I think a man can get to the feeling of being raped! :scared:
I had my storage unit in MT and my truck in MT broken into while living there... everything they took had personal meaning beyond the base value of the items...
I never felt so paranoid and "violated" in my life.
I feel for you Joey! I truly do. The loss can be overcome but that feeling lingers. I hate thieves!
Ditto! Years ago I lost everything bowhunting to a fire. 13 custom bows, 25 Screaming Eagle treestands, 2 pair Swarovskis, 3 pairs swanndri camo, you name it, I lost it. No receipts, no pics, no nothing. I had a very difficult time explaining it to the insurance guy. Needless to say, I recovered less than 1/10th of it. Take pictures and save them somewhere safe.
Now, I've got 8 custom bows and that is about it.
Hard to replace what it took a lifetime to acquire!
justin
I learned this lesson as well but I found all my serial number info after my home was robbed in 2003. Still mad that I had to install a safe inside my own home.
so sorry to hear!!good luck to you..what a SHAME
That is terrible news Joey.... I know that no words can change this but I hope in some small way it helps to know that we're all saddened and angry at hearing this. God Bless!
Ron
Sorry to hear of your loss. This is a great reminder to take pictures of our bows.
Man that is terrible. You have inspired me to do pics when my wife and I move into our new house next month. Man I hate thieves/burglars. If I ever catch one there will be zero mercy. About 6 years ago I was living in Miami. I woke up on night to hear a commotion out back in the parking lot behind my place. Looked out the window: 3 dudes breaking into my car going through my things laid out on top of my trunk. Didnt have my piece with me at the time, but I was just plain MAD!! I went out and went straight towards them and said 'get your hands off my stuff and get on the ground, now!!' Two of them broke into a sprint...I detained the third and dialed the police. Just some 20 something hoodlums. Well, he went to jail and had to pay restitution on the vehicle damage and whatever was missing. The prosecutor interviewed me at her office- she was like "you were unarmed at 3am and attempted to detain 3 men...in Miami??!!" I just smiled and shrugged. I'm crazy like that.
It takes a pinko, commi, thumb sucking, bed wetting, low life to steal a mans sporting gear.
Just an Update... thanks everyone for the pm's. This site is definitely a family and i am so humble to have access to it.
Insurance Company had been great. Fast and has taken my word for all$$. I provided very little reciepts but enough pictures. We are having a small argument on what a collectable duck call is worth :) but i am very pleased with SafeCo.
Note , i also have replacement value so even though they gave me $210 on my Zeiss 10 x 40..When i buy some new ones for $900..they will mail a check for the difference. helps a ton.
Still i would rather have my Tippit Mississippi Skinner and Biggie Cable knife back. If they would have taken my bows......i would have been committed. My safe was untouched thank goodness
get your stuff listed/ photographed and look over your policy!
Glad everything is working out JoeBuck. I`m here to help Brother so I will roll up to Biggies place and give him some more shooting lessons and have him send you another knife as payment....And to make sure you never go bow less in case this happens again go ahead and build a swamp rooter longbow and send it my way...for safe keeping of course.RC
I work criminal investigations/ intelligence operations and I cannot warn everyone enough, to please never use social media to post where you live, who you are, what your family looks like or anything that can pinpoint your location.
As someone already stated: have your family stay of Facebook, Twitter, etc, while traveling. The amount of personal information posted by people simply astounds me. I know, I use social media myself in tracking people. Remember, you are nothing but a target to most people in the world, protect your identity, your family, and your residence.
Joe,
very sorry for your invasion. social scum like that need to be shot...someplaces I have worked, they would have been , if caught.
TG members need to read this, and, take photos of your equipment.....
This is a terrible story but also some great advice. I have to admit I had never thought about most of this. I guess I figured my loaded Model 1100 next to my bed was security ... well it's not because I'm not always in my bed. Anyway, thanks for sharing this even though it is tough for you right now.
Chuck/nineworlds, you are obviously a madman! That's a great story, and one that I would never try!
I sorry for your loss. My truck got hit when I was loaded up for a weekend of scouting and fly fishing last year. Insurance just doesn't cover everything especially the sentimental items.
Just an update......my insurance valued some highly collectable duck calls as face value of date of purchase then Depreciated... Collectable value is not valued.
So what this means if for example you have Paul Shafer Signed Silvertip T/D.....get that item "scheduled" on your policy for what it is really worth not what you bought it for 20 years ago. All taxidermy should be schedule also to recoup value n case of fire.
I don't own anything of value.
However, because of this thread I just took pictures of all my junk that would be a bother for anyone to try to pack off.
TTT for those who missed this........
Yes! 'Scheduling' an item or adding a 'rider' to your policy is a great idea folks! You and the insurance company agree on a value, you provide pics and documentation/receipts that go on file, that way there are no debates later. This thread is great and is making me reevaluate a few things myself.
Joe, Best of luck with the insurance. sorry about what you are going through and thank you for the advice.
Sorry of your loss and violation. I have been stolen from before myself and know the feeling.
Apparently Thieves think they have nothing to lose in their exploits. I hope I never really catch a thief red handed, especially deep in the woods.
Joey, just saw this thread. Makes me mad for you, I despise a thief. Glad the insurance company is standing up for you, too often they get a bad rap.
Anyway, if you need anything give me a call, I owe you one for the Maasai's.
i hate thieves
Sorry to hear that Joe. Thieves are the worst. Hope you get all your stuff back and all goes well.