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Thieves broke into our Tucson home this week and stole, among other things, 33 of my rifles and shotguns. Several are distinctive or rare. If you see them at a swap meet, gun store or yard sale, please call the police or sheriff's office: 1. A Ruger No. 1 in .270 Winchester. This is unfired, new in box, and just one of 50 adorned with a medallion on each side of the receiver. One side features the 100th anniversary of Wyoming statehood; the other features the 50th anniversary of the Lander, Wyoming, One Shot Antelope Hunt. 2. A Model 70 Super Grade .375 H&H. This was presented to me when I retired from SCI. The right side of the butt stock was professionally laser carved with my name and words commemorating my producing SCI's publications from 1983-1999. It also is unfired and new in box. 3. A Browning Citori 28 gauge in a black leatherette-covered Spanish-built take-down box. This little shotgun is like new, but has had about 100 rounds fired through it. 4. A Remington 700 BDL in 6.5mm Remington Magnum. It has a 3x9X scope with duplex reticle on it, but I've forgotten who made it. Most 6.5mm RM were made as carbines, and the 700 version is rare. 5. A custom Mannlicher .257 Roberts made on a Japanese Arisaka action, with the custom smith's name (Frank Wells) on the barrel. The stock is quite beat up. There is a receiver sight, but no scope. It was my saddle gun when I still had horses and a mule. 6. A flintlock .54 caliber early Kentucky-style muzzleloader. I built this rifle from parts and a chunk of Texas walnut. I carved the area around the cheekpiece with a floral design. 7. A half-stock muzzleloader with a pewter forend tip and walnut stock. I also built this rifle. There is a photo of it in my boook, Sixty Years A Hunter. 8. An original .45 caliber early Dixie percussion muzzleloading long rifle. Never fired. Its stock is stained a reddish color. 9. An early Belgium Browning 12 gauge superimposed shotgun. It was reblued, but the stock was never refinished. It was used extensively by a trapshooter before I bought it years ago, and it breaks open very easily. 10. An early .303 Savage model 99 Savage. I swapped its original curved buttstock for a straight butt and installed a scope and sling swivel. (The front swivel went on the barrel, but is missing now.) The other 23 firearms include a .257 Roberts tang safety Ruger 77; an old Savage pump 20 gauge shotgun, a new-looking side-by-side Spanish 12-gauge shotgun; a 16-gauge single shot Winchester shotgun that I had started to checker and quit; a Model 70 Super Grade .458 Win Mag rifle with a 4-power Leupold scope; a Remington 700 BDL .22/250 with 4-12X scope; a Model 70 pre-64 Winchester .458 WM; a post-64 .30-06 Super Grade Model 70 with a 3x9 Burris scope; an old S&W Smith & Wesson .38 special revolver; etc., etc. Also stolen were the bleached skulls of black bear, mountain lion, javelinas and African lion, and two authentic Massai spears. . Bill Quimby