Heads Up! Protect Yourself... i didn't

[joebuck]

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

[SCATTERSHOT]

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. Thanks for the heads up.

[Robhood23]

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!

[Bowjunkie]

That's one thing I've been meaning to do, just haven't.

[Bakes168]

That's too bad, I hope you can get it all sorted out.

[joebuck]

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

[Bear Heart]

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.

[Robertfishes]

Man that stinks..you can borrow one of my bows if needed. Just let me know what draw weight @ 28"..

[Frenchymanny]

Sorry to hear that!

F-Manny

[Goshawkin]

I hate a thief!!!! I really hope you get your stuff back instead of an insurance pay off. Good luck.

[joebuck]

thanks guys for the PMs . Fortunately they left all my bows. but taking a knife Biggie gave me, it stings.

[Hopewell Tom]

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.

[MCS]

That sucks Joe. Sorry.

[Pat B.]

That is awful..

Odds are it will happen to many of us eventually.
Good luck with your insurance company, perhaps it will end well.

[jebeckjr]

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).

[South MS Bowhunter]

Joe, man this really stinks!  Sorry to hear this happened.

[joebuck]

+1000............here in MS Delta. it's routine for a family's home to get robbed during a funeral.

[moleman]

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.

[RC]

Sorry to hear that Joebuck. I will take pictures of the stuff I have as a lesson . RC

[Duckbutt]

Ouch!!!!! Sorry to hear that Joey.