Indyfan73
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Ok I has been a disappointing five years since I have been able to go out thanks to a drunk driver and five surgeries on my back. Well I went out for about an hour yesterday and had a strange day. I went to a river that I have been looking at for some time now on the way back and forth to the hospitals. My father knows that I sold my last detector for the money because of what happened to my and decide that he was sick of me not going out and forgetting about my worries and brought me a new one last week. While becoming acquainted with it in the back yard again I finally decide that is was time to go out and try my river. I found the normal sinkers and beer cans not a big deal I pick them up for the scrap and didn’t feel right leaving them on the ground. I decide to try an area that was hard for me to get to and after putting one foot in the water and then the other but not by my doing I got there. And right away got a strange very high pitch so I sat down and started digging with the hand shovel. Got about 2 inches down and found the coin (showed) it is a 1946 dime with massive toning issues. So I stood up and moved the detector over it again and it was still hitting so I knelt down this time and stuck my shovel in and hit this. I worked around it to free it not knowing what it was. Got it out and to my SUPRIZE it is an old gun.
I set it down and smoked a cigarette to think of who to call. I marked where I found it and didn’t move it any more or attempt to clean it in any way. And went to my truck and call the local police nonemergency number and to be hold I had five cops show up with in minutes light and all going off. I explained to them what I was doing and that I was picking up trash that I dug and filled the holes back in they were happy about that fact. We walked about a mile to where the gun was and we worked a difrent was to the location (this direction I didn’t get wet) and then the DNR showed up and we talked about it for a few minutes. They had me bag and carry the gun out. We talked a little more about it and discussed that this was a strange thing to be out here. They told me that they needed to take and check the gun for theft or crimes and I didn’t have a problem with that. What am I going to do with it other that clean and mount it? They let me take some pics of it and they were off. This morning I had a detective show up and get me up at 7 am and we discussed the gun. HE informed me that the gun was reported lost out there back in 1951 by a man fishing with his grand kids. He informed me I can get the gun back as soon as they make sure the gun will never fire again and that I can pick it up at that point. I asked for the information on the original owner to maybe give it back to the family and he said he would get me there information if there are any still around. But still I hade a good day out for the first time in so long.
i think the police cleand it to the point of finding the number but i know in INdiana that there is a data base of lost gun eather way i get my find back. what happens from ther i dont know i will have to see when i get it back. and then decied what to do with it. im heading out to a park today with my daughter after she is out of school to see what we can find there. hopefully my luck is going to keep growing and i can get a partnere to join me on my days out. anyway i need to get more in before the weather chang for the winter.
I set it down and smoked a cigarette to think of who to call. I marked where I found it and didn’t move it any more or attempt to clean it in any way. And went to my truck and call the local police nonemergency number and to be hold I had five cops show up with in minutes light and all going off. I explained to them what I was doing and that I was picking up trash that I dug and filled the holes back in they were happy about that fact. We walked about a mile to where the gun was and we worked a difrent was to the location (this direction I didn’t get wet) and then the DNR showed up and we talked about it for a few minutes. They had me bag and carry the gun out. We talked a little more about it and discussed that this was a strange thing to be out here. They told me that they needed to take and check the gun for theft or crimes and I didn’t have a problem with that. What am I going to do with it other that clean and mount it? They let me take some pics of it and they were off. This morning I had a detective show up and get me up at 7 am and we discussed the gun. HE informed me that the gun was reported lost out there back in 1951 by a man fishing with his grand kids. He informed me I can get the gun back as soon as they make sure the gun will never fire again and that I can pick it up at that point. I asked for the information on the original owner to maybe give it back to the family and he said he would get me there information if there are any still around. But still I hade a good day out for the first time in so long.
i think the police cleand it to the point of finding the number but i know in INdiana that there is a data base of lost gun eather way i get my find back. what happens from ther i dont know i will have to see when i get it back. and then decied what to do with it. im heading out to a park today with my daughter after she is out of school to see what we can find there. hopefully my luck is going to keep growing and i can get a partnere to join me on my days out. anyway i need to get more in before the weather chang for the winter.
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