Heres the thing many moons ago my house was broken into and the only thing stolen that really bothered me was my marlin model 60. My first real rifle given to me by my step grandpa an old army ranger with a great heart. Someone who knew my family and our schedule very well waited until no one would be home and broke in the house and stole it back in 03. Later on coming near time to graduate a teacher of mine showed me a story that a former friend had written explaining how he planned to break into his "friends" house and how the explanation thereof was extremely close to mine and my familys description and entailed what he stole of which was pretty much a listing of what went missing from my house. This was felt to be hearsay and not enough to follow up on by the local pd. I know from talking to common friends that he had a 22 that didn't belong to him but no one ever claimed it and that his dad took everything when he got arrested later for armed robbery. He has since reformed started a family and is doing better as best I can tell. Do I take the chance on what is mostly hearsay and try to retrieve what is rightfully mine or let it be? As much as he committed a very personal and dubious act against me I do not want to cause any problems for him or his family. I don't know I feel like I am sitting on a concertina fence on this one.