Fisherman catches gun in river

[TallPine]

Maybe I should take up fishing again ...

What type and size of hook is best for catching guns?

 

[DWS1117]

"What if my son would have been there?" Becky said. "Or what if it would have been loaded and it would have went off? I was just stunned.

I can understand. It really puts a damper on my day when one of my guns just goes off without any help.

I guess I'll never understand this fear of inanimate objects.

 

[bosshoff]

My grandfather died in the 1950's. It was normal for my grandmother to walk my mother to school. They would walk along the Chicago river. After he died my mother remembers every once in a while on one particular day, my grandmother would reach into her purse, pull out a gun, and toss it into the river. I guess she just wanted to make sure there was nothing in the house. F.Y.I. my grandfather was a bootlegger during proibition, and had a number of bookie operations, but was not in the Mafia. This was prior to the point in which Sam Giancanna took over gambling in Chicago, although he did attend my grandfather's wake. Kind of interesting family history.

 

[Owen]

AZ Jeff is correct about the stainless grades.

 

[pmcbooks]

She says when she pulled back the covers, an unloaded handgun fell onto her foot.

I don't know guys. First those Garands bite you on the thumb. Then handguns jump on your foot.

Why just the other day I was trying to get the trigger assembly back in my SKS.

SKS:
Me:
SKS:
Then it kicked me in the shin and scurried under the bed

 

[CajunBass]

I've found a lot of guns. Colts Army and Navy cap and ball revolvers mostly. A few bits and pieces of rifled muskets. Of course they'd been under Virginia soil for 100 years or so, and aren't much more than hunks of rust. I just wish they could have talked.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I found a gun at the bottom of a lake once. I'd paid the owner the grand sum of $5.00 to tell me where he was when he dropped it overboard. It was a Colt Trooper Mark III that ended up needing almost all new guts and some new stocks, but it shot well. I sold it at a modest profit, and wish now I'd kept it.

 

[mnrivrat]

"What if my son would have been there?" Becky said. "Or what if it would have been loaded and it would have went off? I was just stunned.

Geeze am I tired of the " What if " people when it comes to firearms. What if a pile of poop fell out of an airplane and hit them in the head ! I can only hope .

 

[22-rimfire]

My brother and I found a 30-06 rifle once along the highway when we were kids riding our bikes. Looked like it was stolen. Dug up a German Luger in the foundation of an old farm house once. Rusted terrible.... I was looking for gold and silver coins as the place had burnt down and I knew there was a fair stash of coins that were never recovered.

Mtrivrat: I have the same feeling about the woman in Tyler motel. Keep it and count your blessings!!!

 

[Kamicosmos]

What if a pile of poop fell out of an airplane and hit them in the head

Remember the scare in the late 80's of 'Blue Ice'? Big chunks of ice 'could' develop on airliner wings, and 'might' fall off and land on someone.


Sheesh. But, I guess that type of Chicken Little stuff is better than some of the stuff people freak out over today...

 

[24kshooter]

I believe this has a leg up on your concerns over falling ice -

http://www.4utah.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=6D1C9E1C-3B7C-4873-9222-8C9B02D16E5E

 

[griz]

leg up, leg down, whatever

 

[Father Knows Best]

316L stainless steel will not set off an airport metal detector, even in substantial quantities.

 

[Navy joe]

Call 911? Everybody knows you are supposed to throw it back and wait for its grandaddy, the transferrable SAW to show up. Geez, imbeciles! :banghead:

 

[scubie02]

dammit! I live there--I'm going to have to go fishing and see if there are any other guns there! Its not too far away...

 

[Art Eatman]

Kamicosmos, that "blue ice" came from seepage from the aircraft restroom, falling from the fuselage.

That led to the comment that you don't have to live in a high-risk target area to get hit by an Icey BM.

, Art

 

[RocketMan]

Becky says she did get a refund on her room and new bed sheets. The original ones, she says, were stained with gun powder.

Gunpowder? Not hardly. You don't want to know what it was, believe me.
Saw an expose on a news program once. They were testing motel and hotel bedsheets for cleanliness, showing what is often left over even after the sheets are changed. Ugghhh!