Well I'll tell the Ruger story anyway.

I was about 15-16, and a group of us go out to the country to camp. We all had a bon fire going and were drinking like mad men. The cops came a couple of hours later, and I had my ruger on me, so I got up and took off running since I was on probation for a previous gun charge. I ran off into the woods, and found a small tree that was tilted at a 60deg angle. I covered the ruger with some leaves at the base of the tree, and went back to the camp site. The cops ended up leaving 30min later, so I went back into the woods to get it. I searched ffor over an hour, but could not find the tree. I waited till morning and searched for it for anouther 30min, and still could not find it. It started to rain so we left. The next day hurican Fran came through so it was non-stop rain for a week. After the week was over, I went with two of my friends and offered the 40$ if they could find it. I gave them the description of the tree and we went searching. I figured it would be a solid chunk of rust, or a good bit of rust from the rain, but still wanted to find it. After 10min my friend calls me, and I go up to it, and it looks just as clean as I had it if not cleaner from the rain, lol. I took it apart on the way home, and there was not a spec of rust anywhere on it. That is when my respect for rugers jumped from 7/10 to 10/10.