Re: Identifying you gun?
Yep good advice, these days it's so easy to keep pictures of everything now that most everyone has digital cameras if not 3. Another easy trick is I used to scan receipts for things, it's actually easier now with any decent camera to set it to macro and just photo the receipt.
Serial numbers of course and lots of pics, anything that is rare or a collectors item wouldn't hurt to have it appraised either. Also most insurance companies are flat out pissy about any big item that you try to claim that you can't provide a receipt for these days. A lot of us spend a lot of money on accessories for our guns etc. so it's important to have receipts for all that stuff. I mean how many guys have $1000 of stuff added onto a $1000 rifle. I've known several people that really had to fight with their insurance company and in most cases didn't get everything covered because they could not provide either adequate proof of ownership, or their policy didn't cover replacement cost it covered basically the "used" value of the item.
It's also best to have copies of that info (usually DVD, hardrive, thumbdrive etc.) in at least two places (and one off-site). It won't do you any good if your house burns down or it's in the safe that gets stolen etc.
It sounds crazy anal, and it was a huge amount of work to do up front, but now if I get anything I just can easily add the pics it to the folder and update the backup every now and then. I've seen too many insurance horror stories not to protect myself as much as possible. It also goes a long ways with your insurance agent because it saves them a lot of work and them arguing with their people on what to cover for you. If you help them out they are that much more likely to go to bat for you in the process.
