A Montana rifle manufacturer returning from the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in St. Louis reported that his truck and rifles were stolen from a Kansas City, Kan., hotel.

Kirk Bryan, president of Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Co. of Big Timber, Mont., said Wednesday in a telephone interview that he discovered Tuesday morning that his pickup truck and everything inside was missing.


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They sy he lost 70000 dollars worth of rifles.

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reported that his truck and rifles were stolen from a Kansas City, Kan., hotel.

Sorry but if he left valuable items in his vehicle in a motel parking lot in Kansas City overnight he was an idiot.

What is your home base Skinner? Packy

I won't leave my guns in a truck ovenight and people dont even know where my town is.

HATE IT TO BE THIS WAY BUT LAZY WILL GET YOU IN THE SHIT EVERY TIME.


SLEEP IN THE TRUCK OR UNLOAD IT

Well, here in Montana we're not quite as used to thinking about theft as the rest of you in this country... still, not the brightest move.

$70,000 = about 10-12 rifles.

If anything the next drive by shooting in KC might be pretty spectacular with the gang bangers going all Quigly

Anyways,

Nobody but me can start my trucks, I have a system built in to ensure that.

I also have a 'safe' in the truck bed that firearms, binos, spotter, etc, etc. go into that someone would need a cutting torch to break into.

And if there's a way to hook up a stun gun type system to punish anyone who get's into my truck I'd love to hear about it.

This realy sucks for these guys sorry to make lite of it.

I had a good friend loose his personal guns the same way it just ruins you on people for a while.

That sucks! I met the vendor at the show, and he was one of the best ones to talk to. He had one rifle there with a tag of $27,000 on it. The materials and craftsmanship on those rifles is simply amazing. I hate to think what's going to happen to all that stuff. I don't suppose it'd be that easy to conceal that many rather bulky, unique products for long. He might get his stuff back somehow.

Too bad as they are nice folks. They should take the sons of bitches that did it and have them run around there shooting range in Big Timber if they can out run the 45.70 they can go free if not no love loss. It's assholes that did this that cause our sport a bad name and pocket books to increase in size.

I'm very sorry to hear this too. Always wanted a Shiloh Sharps. I think it will be real hard for the thieves to unload those rifles though.

HERE ARE THE SERIAL NUMBERS FOR THE GUNS THAT WERE STOLEN ON APRIL 16TH IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS:

2997B SPORTER #3
B2000 CREEDMOOR TARGET (FULLY ENGRAVED)
2823B CREEDMOOR SILHOUETTE (FULLY ENGRAVED)
2149B SPORTER #3 25LB BULL BARREL
0524B SPORTER #1 (FULLY ENGRAVED)
B9634 SADDLE RIFLE (FULLY ENGRAVED) INITIALS L K ON LEVER
B595 HARTFORD 16LB BULL BARREL
B200 QUIGLEY RIFLE (INITIALS R C B)
B3120 SPORTER #3
1274B LONG RANGE EXPRESS
0363B SADDLE RIFLE (FULLY ENGRAVED)
2864B MONTANA ROUGHRIDER
2884B MONTAN ROUGHRIDER
COLT 1911 OFFICERS MODEL PISTOL (45 ACP) SF17530E

Kirk and Heather are great people who build truly unique and beautiful rifles. Kirk indicated that all of the rifles were non-firing with no firing pins installed. I wonder how long it will take the idiots that stole them to figure that out?
I hope they call Shiloh to get the parts- I'm sure Kirk will deliver them personally!

Keep an eye out for some cheap shiloh's.

How in the hell are these guys going to fence rifles of this quality?

What a shame.