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It would be nice to embed a device that upon activation, would transmit a signal, into the butstock of a rifle or shotgun....such device to be the size of a large marble or so. It sure would help to find the gun if it was stolen! Does anyone make such a device? /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | ||
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Like LoJack, or maybe "On Star"?  _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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I wonder if you could insert a Breitling Emergency into the stock with a remote trigger. It's got an EPIRB (emergency position indicating radio beacon) kinda expensive :-) | |||
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I believe there's an electronic chip/devise that's implanted into dogs/cats or other pets that's designed as a locator if the pet is lost or stolen. Why wouldn't one of those work? | |||
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Those devices will not find the dog rather once you have a dog they will tell you whose it is. Most devices like this are read only and have to be within a few feet of the reader. Toll Tags on your car work the same way. To locate your missing rifle would take an "active device" that could transit a signal. Its possible, there's enough room in the stock to house that. Ray ...look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. | |||
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I have a friend that has a collar for his coon hound that transmits a signal and he can find the dog a couple miles away by using some kind of receiver.....Looks like something from Hogan's Heroes show  It's too big to install in a gun stock and works all the time..... The device I'm looking for has to be activated by a remote signal and then start to send a signal of it's own..... Rental isn't going to cut it as it's a one time purchase and probably never used in it's lifetime... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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I am thinking if we just started hanging thieves we would also solve the problem... Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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I was thinking we should catch them first /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Yes! But with Mike's thinking you'd only have to catch them one time only. Kinda like catching a pop up rather than three strikes, you're out. Slow lazy night! Get back to the reloading i9n the morning.  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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There are devices like that Vapo. They are a bit bigger than a marble though. They work through the GPS system. If you want to follow its movement you go to the URL that you are renting, and select update. The computer then gives you the present lat/long. These things are smaller every year. If the cops are looking for you in earnest, and you have not disabled the GPS feature on your cell phone, they track the phones location in a similar manner. You can track your prized dog for a much greater distance than a few miles with an activated collar unit. If you spend your time close to home there are units that when the gun is disturbed will give a unit that you get used to having with you all the time (it is much more comfortable than a full sized 45 ACP to carry around in your man purse). That system basically works like lo-jack. The prices come down every year, as does the size. The best use of these is when you give your teenage offspring a hard curfew. An old acquaintance back east did that. Unfortunately he caught little miss perfect doing the horizontal bop with a real low-life. She was seventeen, he was nineteen and his video recorder caught in the blaze of his one million candle power night varmint hunting plug in light....The "boy" is doing a hard five in a medium security facility and "miss perfect" had to get up in church, go to the front and tell the entire congregation exactly what she had been doing that night. She also got to re-start high school (at a boarding school) exactly at the point that her grades had started to slip. We'll see. Vapo, send me a PM and I will get you started tracking..... in the right direction.  | |||
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Just Duct Tape it on the Barrel near the Chamber with a small sign that says "Strain Gauge(Thingy)", dangle about 30' of two lead wire from it and wrap the entire entanglement around the Scope. They will just think you are a Haphazard SGS user. | |||
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