How to find guns, the easy way..

[MuckyBottles]

Big rivers and the bridges over provide an excellent place to find displaced guns. I was instructed by an old retired cop who told me that the sheriff's department used use magnets to pull up at least a dozen pistols in a few hours on the Hudson....I know where I am going this weekend with my anchor magnet and my kayak. .

 

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[texasred777]

Hmmm, sounds interesting! An uncle used to use grappling hooks and magnets to find lost fishing rods. He found quite a few.

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

Mucky would you have to turn the guns in to the police ? I am not sure, they could have been used in a crime. They could have been lost by a boater also.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Mucky would you have to turn the guns in to the police ? I am not sure, they could have been used in a crime. They could have been lost by a boater also.

If they are modern guns absolutely, However the area I'm going in also has musket and plenty of cannon balls as well as two missing cannons

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I remember seeing a documentary where the FBI (I believe) was dumping a boatload of firearms into the Atlantic.

What a waste.

When I was growing up a friend's father was a SCUBA diver and he had recovered a couple pistols near a bridge across the Chenango River. I recall he came up with a relatively fresh one and turned it over to the local police and it was linked to a local shooting.

PS - a spear gun will put a hole through the siding of a garage . . . and this is a startling thing for a pair of 12 year olds!

 

[ItsSawGood]

Whoa, whoa....forgive my relative newbie naivety and excitement here...but you mean to tell me this will work?

Forget modern weapons, Im talking Civil War era? So if I know a location where a skirmish was fought across a river or stream, I could feasibly take a ride in my jonboat and cast away? Which Im sure noone has thought about around here...heck, most don't even know Southern forces came through here. They fought across one and loaded up powder kegs to blow another B&O bridge to smithereens.

Wow...I love this forum!!! Im learning everytime I pick up my IPad, from magnet anchors to dumpster diving to optimizing my settings on my Tracker IV!!!!

 

[LimitlessClad]

crazy never would of thought that

 

[Rawhide]

I have a harbor freight magnet and some 5/50 cord from walmart to check deep dry holes here in rock crevasses. Works real nice cleaning up after my neighbors roofing job too.

 

[jeff of pa]

It may work in certain areas where the current is Strong enough to keep Dirt from settling on top,
yet not strong enough To take the weapons with.

I would "think" holes would be the hardest spots to get luck in, But Rocky areas good
But only a guess Being I never tried it.

I have recovered probably close to 2 Dozen Rods from a lake bed
& every single one was a few inches under the Mud.
this is why I would say there would need to be a steady Current involved
to Move not Collect the soil washed from the banks during floods
but rocks to catch anything heavy moving with a strong current.

 

[jeff of pa]

I remember seeing a documentary where the FBI (I believe) was dumping a boatload of firearms into the Atlantic.

What a waste.

When I was growing up a friend's father was a SCUBA diver and he had recovered a couple pistols near a bridge across the Chenango River. I recall he came up with a relatively fresh one and turned it over to the local police and it was linked to a local shooting.

PS - a spear gun will put a hole through the siding of a garage . . . and this is a startling thing for a pair of 12 year olds!

Not the same one but...

Deputies Dump Buyback Firearms In Atlantic Ocean - Orlando Sentinel

 

[jeff of pa]

This October 1934 Video shows Slot machines Being Dumped









Stock Footage - Slot machines are smashed under an anti-gambling campaign in New York led by Mayor LaGuardia.


for Research purposes on this event :


http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-423665.html


This Was done in Rivers, Lakes, quarries, Stripping Pits etc.
in many cases Honest Agents did not empty them,
as the Money was considered illegal.
I got mine here.



the rest are under a few ton of Rock in a Now Protected County Park

 

[jeff of pa]

 

[MuckyBottles]

Jeff the area I go in the current does move, not only does it move it rips when the tide flips, that being said, I have pulled many of fishing rods and anchor chains doing the exact same thing. My magnet has a lifting strength is roughly 120 lbs so well see, I have seen stranger things when people try to get the treasure in the hudson. .such as using clams rakes with a screen basket in the shallows for treasure

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

A keyword for trying this is SAFETY. I am not a boater so I will never try it, but if I did or anyone reading this forum trys dragging the bottom of water for relics, I am sure there has to be a safe method. Just using common sense without even trying it like I said, I would think if you were going too fast and hooked up with something heavy, it could jerk the boat upside down and flip it, like I said, I don't know. Can anyone give safe tips on how to do it, it seems a few posters sounded interested in trying it for the first time.

 

[MuckyBottles]

A keyword for trying this is SAFETY. I am not a boater so I will never try it, but if I did or anyone reading this forum trys dragging the bottom of water for relics, I am sure there has to be a safe method. Just using common sense without even trying it like I said, I would think if you were going too fast and hooked up with something heavy, it could jerk the boat upside down and flip it, like I said, I don't know. Can anyone give safe tips on how to do it, it seems a few posters sounded interested in trying it for the first time.

Dave, I totally agree. I was going to go out in my sea kayak today, but due to the visibility and a 2-3ft chop it wouldn't have been a fun day. As for safety, I don't think that there would be trouble with a boat flipping, its not were using massive rare earth magnets, but I get your point.

Here is a video I found about what I am talking about

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

Wow I watched the video and never thought of standing on a river bank and tossing the magnet. I might try it myself, lol.

 

[ecoast]

....I know where I am going this weekend with my anchor magnet and my kayak. .
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ooh, ooh ---I know where you're going too!

(I am there several times a week for work)

 

[MuckyBottles]

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Ironically I know exactly where that wreck is, got the coords

 

[Higgy]

What size magnet should be used?

 

[augoldminer]

i have a large magnet i hang from the back of my truck.

they are called Magnetic Sweepers and used on construction sites to clean up thing like nails.
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So far i have found a couple meteorites in the desert and a lot of tools on the shoulders of roads and highways.
I also have found .50 cal and 20mm bullets along with bomb frag.

I over the years have found so many nut and bolts along roads i some times wonder what hold peoples cars together.

over the years the highway patrol had seen me running the magnet along highways and stopped to see what i was doing.

One of them must have logged my name as one evening i got a phone call asking if i would help with a problem they had.

A truck had lost about 200+ pounds of 3/4 inch bearing ball on the high way and when cars drove over them the would fly.

I went out and used my magnet and recovered most of them and since no trucking company ever reported them missing i got to keep them and they made great cannon balls for a home made black powder cannon.