Had a toy gun goal for this year..... Dug a real one.

[x.marks]

Hello everyone. I had a very unusual find today. I was at a city park that I have not detected before. A man that lived across the street told me this park use to be a cemetery back in the early 1900's. He said they exhumed all the corps in 1920 and relocated them. After this conversation I was feeling a little funny about detecting here. I gathered up my detector, digger and pin pointer and headed for the car. Of course I was swinging on the way back to the car. The addiction is strong with this one. I hit a high possible silver signal and had to stop. I hit a very big tree root and my pin pointer nailed it right under the root. I dug out the sides and pulled a hunk of metal out of the ground. It took a minute to realized what I had in my hand. I said oh cool. My finally nailed my toy gun. I put it aside and rescanned my hole looking for that silver sound. It was the gun. I was so pleased to find this heavy duty toy and thought they dont make them like this anymore. Half way to the car I realized this was not a toy. It was caked in wet mud and the more I wiped off mud the bigger my eyes became. It is a .22 but I am told it may be a starter pistol. What ever it is there is a round in the cylinder. Truly goes to show, you never know what you will find.

 

[djm of PA]

now that is AWESOME, great find

 

[juju]

Cool dig. My hunting buddy Pulltab Otis dug this 9mm at the beach a couple months ago. We ended up with the police pickin it up, and confiscating it. It was wrapped in a dollar store bag under a few inches of sand.

JuJu

 

[Newt]

He won't do that again, will he? Did he get it back?
Newt

 

[teleman 2525]

real awsome find

 

[kuger]

He won't do that again, will he? Did he get it back?
Newt

Would you want a weapon that was probably used in a crime?

 

[Newt]

real awsome find

I got carried any away and didn't mention that. I agree, a great find!
Newt

 

[Newt]

He won't do that again, will he? Did he get it back?
Newt

Would you want a weapon that was probably used in a crime?

Even if it wasn't, he wouldn't get it back. I should've been clearer in that post.
Newt

 

[kuger]

He won't do that again, will he? Did he get it back?
Newt

Would you want a weapon that was probably used in a crime?

Even if it wasn't, he wouldn't get it back. I should've been clearer in that post.
Newt

I guess it depends on where you are but that isnt entirely true.I have a rifle and a pistol that I found and after the Police had cleared them and they were not claimed,I had to register them and they are mine

 

[aa battery]

wat a find

 

[Newt]

He won't do that again, will he? Did he get it back?
Newt

Would you want a weapon that was probably used in a crime?

Even if it wasn't, he wouldn't get it back. I should've been clearer in that post.
Newt

I guess it depends on where you are but that isnt entirely true.I have a rifle and a pistol that I found and after the Police had cleared them and they were not claimed,I had to register them and they are mine

Exactly what I meant.
Newt

 

[Skelly607]

Sweet find!

 

[yo6oej]

awesome congrats

 

[x.marks]

Thanks for looking. This truly was my find of the year so far.

 

[Marbleguy]

Looks like an early Italian Saturday Night Special

Must be 1950s/early to mid 60s. Just out of high school in 1964 I bought an Italian Intercontinental Dakota .357 magnum revolver. I think I payed $30 for it. During the mid 1960s the gun market was flooded with cheap revolvers made in Italy and Germany. Their frames were often made of zinc. I blew up an H&R .32 S&W Long revolver by hand loading cartridges for it using Keith type bullets and huge amounts of #2400 gunpowder producing .357 magnum ballistics. I threw what remained of the gun on the ground in what's now the Angeles National Forest above Los Angeles. Someone will find it with a metal detector some day and figure the guy that last shot it lost his hand. Nope,my hand's in fine shape. The cylinder and barrel burst but I did'nt get a scratch.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Cool dig. My hunting buddy Pulltab Otis dug this 9mm at the beach a couple months ago. We ended up with the police pickin it up, and confiscating it. It was wrapped in a dollar store bag under a few inches of sand.

JuJu

Jeez.
Now I'm sure that one was used in a crime.

 

[RON (PA)]

That is an awesome find. It would be interesting to hear if it is a starter gun or a real one.

 

[Tattooguy67]

Hey there x.marks that is a really cool find! and if you google brevettata model 999 it brings up some info, looks like it's a starter pistol, and maybe in a way that is a rarer find then a real pistol, has to be a lot fewer of those made then real ones, course on the other hand maybe more likely some kids could play with that, so....either way that is a cool find!

Chuck.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Thats a cool find either way

 

[Trond]

Niiiiice, I have always wanted to find a beautiful handgun. The only thing i have found until now is a old flamethrower.