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Originally posted by Allout:
Please overthink and overanalyze this. Just leave the damned thing there (if the PH even wants it). Let the PH decide how to handle the explaination of acquisition on his end should the need arise. If anyone asks you about it, tell them an elephant stepped on it; Oops, I forgot it, damn the luck; a munt stole it; you dropped it out of a boat into crock & hippo infested waters; etc, etc, etc...
It isn't that hard...
Brian
(edit - now, lawfully, I have no idea how to get a rifle to a PH, but the above works just as well - I have yet to meet a PH who couldn't "make a plan" to keep a good rifle)