I've had a local (<100 mi. away) seemingly knowledgeable fellow work on a nice set of 16 ga. Parker Bros. barrels doing some rust re-blue work. He seems to think the barrels are worth about $2k. He has been paid in full for the work.
He was having trouble planning a trip my way to deliver them. Without my permission or knowledge, he packaged the barrels and gave them to a woman he didn't really know very well (a friend of his wife) to carry them back to my neighborhood. He didn't tell her what was in the tube, nor even indicate the package was valuable.
Well, she "forgot" about them, and left them in some fourth party's car, where they have now been for a couple nights. He called the "friend" and upset her and her husband so badly they are now seeing red, and took it out on me when I contacted them.
Should I be in a snit about this too? Is this just a couple increments of bad judgement on the gunsmith's part, or just bad luck on mine?
What would you do?
He's lucky he got his barrels back.
