some firsts for me

[mapo]

I rented a cabin this past weekend that I have rented for 15 years now. It is my favorite place on earth(so far). Having only gotten my 1st detector this year, I brought it with me, of course. Many people come here yearly so I figured I had an acre tot lot to myself, if nothing else. Yesterday produced my 1st silver! A sterling ring, plus this cool old derringer. It was 4 inches down and complete so I figure it was purposely buried. I'm thinking it was used in a cool-aid stand robbery. No other way to escape the lawn mower. I also found a cool manufacturing tag from the old USSR. Coins were all clad and totalled $2.13. My best day out by far, plus I needed the weekend away because work has me whooped with 60 hour weeks including commutes. The derringer dates from 1960. It is fully operational as well.

 

[allen]

thats gun is one awesome find !!!

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

That was an amazing hunt. Aren't you glad you took the detector along!

The gun is great find!
SKD

 

[JJTheisen]

That gun looks pretty vintage! You should clean that thing up and get a precise date on when and where it was made. It could always be a museum piece!

Great Finds!

John
(Newbie)

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job on the ring mapo!

 

[Trond]

That's a nice find, i hope you find more.

 

[Unicorn]

Some very good finds their mapo.......Congrats

 

[BIGNICK]

great finds !
Im pretty sure your pistol is the real deal but i remembered seeing a toy one like it. check it out
look at the link "hide away" on the page http://www.timewarptoys.com/gallery.htm

 

[terryinr.i.]

Thats funny, i found a derringer exactly the same a couple weeks back, not as good in condition. found it around a old celler hole here in R.I.

 

[STH69]

Very nice, cool gun!

 

[bellapoison]

Gorgeous scenery! Reminds me of a trip I took to Cannon Beach in Oregon. Glad you got some rest and some neat treasures.

 

[Rickiowa2009]

I rented a cabin this past weekend that I have rented for 15 years now. It is my favorite place on earth(so far). Having only gotten my 1st detector this year, I brought it with me, of course. Many people come here yearly so I figured I had an acre tot lot to myself, if nothing else. Yesterday produced my 1st silver! A sterling ring, plus this cool old derringer. It was 4 inches down and complete so I figure it was purposely buried. I'm thinking it was used in a cool-aid stand robbery. No other way to escape the lawn mower. I also found a cool manufacturing tag from the old USSR. Coins were all clad and totalled $2.13. My best day out by far, plus I needed the weekend away because work has me whooped with 60 hour weeks including commutes. The derringer dates from 1960. It is fully operational as well.

Cool Gun! Great picture too

 

[mapo]

Thank you all. Yes I know it is a cap gun, BIGNICK. That's where the cool-aid stand robbery came into play. They sure made em good back then! Bella, Klahloch is every bit as pretty as Cannon Beach without the people and private property. You just can't detect it. National Forest Land(SIGHS). I'd like to hunt with you again, detectingfreak. I am getting better at it. We didn't get to talk much either. I was too busy bothering juju with questions. You two are pros. I'm still really into it, just don't have much free time. Take care all, Mark

 

[John (Ma)]

Great looking finds!

 

[fender346]

Wow, nice scenery shot!
I wanna fishthat lake !
nice find on the gun as well

 

[juju]

Thank you all. Yes I know it is a cap gun, BIGNICK. That's where the cool-aid stand robbery came into play. They sure made em good back then! Bella, Klahloch is every bit as pretty as Cannon Beach without the people and private property. You just can't detect it. National Forest Land(SIGHS). I'd like to hunt with you again, detectingfreak. I am getting better at it. We didn't get to talk much either. I was too busy bothering juju with questions. You two are pros. I'm still really into it, just don't have much free time. Take care all, Mark

Glad ya got out Mark. Cool finds to boot. You're still more than welcome to hunt with us whenever you get the chance. Just shoot me a call, or a PM. Keep diggin there are plenty more firsts to be found.

JuJu

 

[Ray in CA]

Some very nice finds, Mark! That cap gun is COOL! So is the silver ring. I have a favorite cabin I go to as well every year, but it's in California. I always come away finding a Chinese cash coin at the very least.

By the way, I'm only about an hour and 15 minutes south of Tacoma, so if/when you call on Juju to go detecting give me a buzz too and I'll see if I can make it.

Ray

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice looking deringer

 

[BIGNICK]

Oh..., "kool aid stand hold up" haha
you'll have to excuse me, Im from the detroit area when you say cool aid stand hold up, it usually means "literally"
you still found stome nice stuff

 

[Moonshadow]

Very cool stuff! What a beautiful place to be away from WORK!!!

HH,
Moon