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I gave up on the creeping up and calming method after a while and just chased it on horseback and used the lasso to capture it, that worked really quickly.

I've managed to pick up a decent carbine repeater which has overwritten the worn version and now appears as owned in the gun shop. I found it in a place called Hill Haven Ranch near Mattock Pond just north of Rhodes, it's inside the ranch house leaning against the wall.

Didn't work for me.

I'm now stuck with a worn carbine repeater which does stay in my inventory when I log off, but according to the gun shop I don't own one any more. I've picked up worn versions of other rifles and shotguns but they don't stay on my character if I have a decent version already. I have to conclude therefore that I haven't overwritten my carbine repeater by picking up a worn version so I must have dropped it somewhere. You can drop weapons during a fist fight, if your opponent disarms you, but I'd assume you can't actually lose the weapon if you fail to pick it up afterwards. Has anyone tested this?

I liked that system too but they ruined it by allowing other players to shoot your horse.

No solo sessions then? Is it going to be peer-to-peer like GTA?

Don't pick up a worn version of a weapon if you have already picked up non-worn version of the same weapon. I picked up a decent cattleman revolver off a dead NPC and later on picked up a worn cattleman revolver after a mission, I dropped the sawn off shotgun when I picked up the worn cattleman because I knew the shotgun would just end up on my horse so I wouldn't lose it. I did however lose the decent non-worn cattleman instead.

No, just look at the bridge, it's easy enough to see.

I've lost my carbine repeater too, I don't know when or how. Replaying the mission where you acquire it doesn't help because the game does a checkpoint kind of thing which you return to after the mission. So far Rockstar support has only given me the instructions to reset the console, the 'pull the plug out, etc.' thing they always suggest when you lose items online. Any carbines I pick up off enemies are always a 'worn repeater' which only last the session.