Have you ever FOUND a gun?

[jojo200517]

I have found 3, 1 a "fake" aka toy gun, and 2 shotguns.

When I was working at the local home improvement store I was outside with the lift driver kid one night bringing the lumber and what not inside for closing, he picked up a bundle of blocks and I yelled stop. Laying behind it and pointed right at me was a quiet shiny chrome looking pistol. I pulled a pencil out of my vest and slid it down the barrel all police movie style as to not disturb the prints and lifted it up, instantly realized then it was some type of cheapo bb pistol because it weighed very little. Called the manager down there on the radio and he nearly had a stroke when we showed him until he realized it was a fake. We pondered what to do for a few minutes, then noticed the plastic was already cracked and broke in a few places. He made the call to just trash it so we rolled over it with the lift truck a couple times until it was reduced to pieces and tossed it in the nightly trash.

The 2 shotguns I found were at different times when I was working at a gun club. 1 was found when closing up 5 stand shed for the day. Picked up a couple empty shells on the ground and as I stood up I noticed something nice and shiny over a few feet away. Walked over and it was the choke tube on a nice Benelli semi auto camo hunting shotgun. Slung the sling over my back and continued my closing up routine figuring the guy that had left probably 20 minutes earlier would come back up before I finished work in an hour. No show by quitting time so I locked it in the safe for the night. He was waiting at the gate the next morning when I got there to open up praying that his shotgun was still there. Turns out he got home and went to clean it and had no gun in his bag to clean.

The next one was left in a gun stand under the porch by a skeet shooter. I personally knew the guy and called his cell. He had me stick it in the safe until the next morning when he came back to shoot some more. Had just forgot all about it.

In the course of 2.5 years working there I probably found 150 rounds of 12 gauge ammo that had been dropped into the other shells out sporting clays course, found a couple partial boxes left on the last stand twice. Shot them all up myself. Found an entire box of 20 gauge shells on steps to skeet house (which were claimed a couple weeks later by the shooter, only reason I still had them was I didn't have a 20 gauge gun). Strangest ammo find was about 300 rounds of .22lr in 50 rd boxes in the trash can at the pistol range along with about 20 rounds of loose 22lr snake shot shells. The boxes were wet and had been left there the day before as I found them in the morning when I was getting the trash out of the cans. Let them dry out in the storage room a couple weeks and shot up a box of them in a borrowed 22 revolver one day. Good bit of smoke but I figured that was just because they were plain lead bullets. No fail to fires out of that box, shot a couple of the shot loads and they seemed fine too. Still haven't got around to shooting the rest of them but I still have them.

 

[CHEVELLE427]

yes

 

[wkumatt]

Found a Winchester model 55 leaned against a tree while cleaning out fence rows. Now it hangs on the wall in the farm shop, barely enough left to figure out what it was.

 

[Daveboone]

my father was cleaning out an employers attic back in the '50s, and found a Colt 1860. As they were told to toss everythining up there, he kept it for a while (forgot to tell the boss about his find). I hear different stories about what happened to it. I have pictues of him shooting it though. He says it was in great shape. When I had a paper route back in the mid 70s, I saw a gun barrel sticking out of a garbage can on pick up day. I pulled out a Winchester model 94, missing its butt stock and a number of action pieces. It was an obvious discard, so dad and I ordered up the needed parts for about 60 bucks and got it shooting. About 20 years ago I was poking around an abandoned home out in the country the owner was about to tear down. Under a couch in a gun case I found a mid 50s production Browning patent pump 12 gauge in good condition. I forget the brandl on it. I swapped it for something.
Only a year ago, my best friend was clearing out his dads home work shop and found a forgotten Browning patent model 1922 .380 which his uncle picked up on D Day. It still had his discharge paperwork with it. None of the family was interested in it, so I very happily and proudly have it. I needed to order a new recoil spring and firing pin, but it now shoots and functions perfectly.

 

[FROGO207]

Does finding a mint Savage 24 at a yard sale for $20.00 count???

 

[gym]

I can't even find a quarter.

 

[NRA_guy]

I haven't (unless you count those I found at gun shows), but my brother did. About 40 years ago he and some friends were swimming in a small river and they found an old 32-20 revolver.

I cleaned it up and bought the only box of 32-20 ammo at a local hardware store and shot it.

I was just a kid.

I would not shoot such a gun now.

Not sure what ever became of the gun.

We figured that somebody tossed it in the river to get rid of evidence.

 

[Erik M]

my grandfather found an old Charter Arms Bulldog in the ditch along the road by his house when he was out hunting aluminum cans. It was loaded but had a spent round in the cylinder as well. He called the State Police and they sent a trooper by to pick it up. I'd do the same thing if I found one randomly.

 

[geim druth]

When I was about 7 or 8 my brother found what we thought was a toy revolver behind a bush in our front yard. He was real good about letting us all use it. We played with it for about a year. Shot at each other, practiced quick drawing and shooting, broke the grips using it to hammer nails just like they did on the shows on TV.
Then one day I asked my Dad why those spiral grooves were cut into the barrel. It was the first time I ever saw a man turn white. The gun was stolen from someone about 2 blocks away. I don't think the owner was too pleased with the care we had taken with his gun, at least he never thanked us for finding it!

 

[medic-rod]

I foud 1

Would love for it to talk. working on a hotel room air conditioner found a 38 s&w short 5 round with 4 live 1 spent shell and a 7-11 bag with $148 in it ??? I gave it to Las Vegas Metro PD

 

[animator]

Couple years ago, I had a project G3/HK91 rifle I was building, along with a beretta handgun stolen from me. I "found" them wrapped in a trashbag on my front porch a week later.


Also in that bag was a Japanese Nambu pistol. I had to call the cops to amend my original report, and to get my handgun's serial number off the "stolen" list. I asked what they wanted to do with the Nambu, since it wasn't mine. They kept it, and said if no one claimed it, a judge would be able to release it to me. Never did hear back on it. But I was happy to have my G3/HK91 and beretta back.

 

[danprkr]

Yeah, well sort of, I just popped my safe the other day and 'found' an AR15 I'd forgotten I had. I remember distinctly building it for my wife now, but one thing or another got in the way of taking it out and testing it etc and then training her on it so I stuck it in the back of the safe and forgot about it.

 

[anomoly40]

My dad worked in a yard that bought wrecked and abandoned cars from insurance companies between jobs. He was cleaning out a car and looked under the seat and found a 9mm that was probably a "Saturday Night Special". It had serial numbers on it still. He asked his management and they told him to keep it. He brought home all kinds of CD's, change, etc but never a gun until or after then.

 

[7mmstalker]

Not me, but a good friend who travels alot in his work, picked up the corner of the mattress as his usual routine when checking into his hotel room and discovered a Browning .380. We took it out shooting a couple of times and couldn't hit a pop can at 15 paces! I think he later traded it for a rifle.

 

[hatchetbearer]

I was out hunting deer when i was maybe 16 or 17, and I found a brand new Remington 870 sticking muzzle up in a tree stump. When we made it back to the vehicles, It ended up belonging to another hunter in my group who had gotten turned around while relieving his self.

 

[2ndAmFan]

Nope.

 

[rscalzo]

We have had some mebers leave guns at the range. One left a boxed handgun on the roof and drove off dropping it in the road.

 

[ol' scratch]

A friend found a musket once.

I have never personally found a gun. I was around and know someone who did...What a gun it was too! A few years ago, they were contesting the actual site of Fallen Timbers battlefield near Perrysburg Ohio. A bunch of friends and I took our metal detectors down to help the historians locate anything that may have been from the battle. One of my friends actually found a musket with his metal detector. He wasn't allowed to keep it. Apparently, if they ever put it on display, they are going to put his name on it. On another note, there were areas where guys found buttons in a row. According to the historians and archeologists, they believed that the reason the buttons were lined up in that manor was that someone died there and those were the only remains left.

 

[bigbomar4]

Those were the only remains left? Is it not more likly that a shirt was just left there than everysingle other trace of a human body and all other things he had on him just disappeared? I know its a long time ago (Aug 20 1794 if anybody cares) but still I would think you would find a few more things besides buttons before you said yup somebody died here.

 

[Cast of One]

I've never found one, but my dad has. When he was a kid, he was metal detecting an old house site on my grandparents property and found a rusty gun and a spur. I've seen it and the site, but cannot identify the gun. Truth be told, I really don't want to know what it is because I still imagine that it comes from the gold rush or at least the 1800's and don't want to find out that it was made in the 1920's.

 

[chevyforlife21]

Can't go wrong a Chevelle and a gun

 

[Justin Holder]

The closest I have come is when I found the .22 magnum cylinder to the Single Six that was stolen from my cousin years ago.

 

[TYFOOON]

Found a 9 shot High Standard .22 revolver under the spare tire of a 74 Monte Carlo once....Shot it a ton. Pawned it...regret it.

Not this one but just like it. Maybe a slightly less quality grade though.

 

[RDCL]

No guns......but I did find a dozen or so ammo cans fully packed with .50 cal. BMG, both linked & un-linked.

FWIW....this happened back in the early 1970's. I was about 13 at the time and was living at Cherry point, N.C. Marine base where dad was stationed. I don't know about now days, but back then base housing was surrounded by a lot of wooded area and so my buddies & I went hiking through the woods down to the river which flowed through the base. In the weeds along the river edge there they were! Can't remember exact count but HAD to be at least a dozen cans FULLY packed. It was not "blank" practice ammo either......live FMJ.

Well, my buddies & I were quite excited about our find. I remember trying to wrap a belt of the stuff around my bike handle bars to take home and show dad. I ended up just leaving it there. Went home. Told dad. He came down after making a call.......a bunch of Marines took it all away. I do remember what a fuss our discovery made though. The Marines combed those woods for a couple days after & wondering how & why all this ammo was stashed out there.......and I suppose "stashed" would be a more appropriate word than "lost".

Russ

 

[xdfan_nc]

My dad and I found two older Flint locks in a hidden area in the attic of my moms aunt. We were just looking around and happened to hit the right piece of board. That's the nice part of it. The bad thing is that find set off a fever to look for more hidden stuff. We could have torn the house apart looking for stuff. My mom swears there was stuff buried in the yard because that is what her Uncle would do. That was a fun summer.