I've found guns in odd places...

[Skillet]

so have you, had any encounter where you found a gun laying around whether it was when you were hunting or mowing your great uncles yard that has seen shorter days...
what happened?
what was the gun?
for example.
back in the day when i was doing some community service work with my youth group we had to help clean up and mow this lady's back yard. this grass was probably about 2 feet tall. and by the back fence, under some of the grass, i found an OLD 1911 that was all rusted up probably from world war two. i sent the serial number into the police to find if there was any crimes committed or whatever with the gun, and when they found it to be clean, it was mine!(well lawfully it was my father's) i have never fired a shot through it and never intend to. i am going to take it to get priced as an antique. i have done nothing to it, in order to preserve it's value in case if it is worth anything.

so that's my story.
do you have one like it?
do tell!

well i don't have any pictures that are on digital. i will have to break out the camera and take some. but it basically looks like any other old rusted GI 1911 you've seen. i will have to find the gun though, i think it is in the attic somewhere but i'm not sure where.

 

[rondog]

No, I don't. But I wanted to point out that you forgot the photos of that 1911!

 

[Birdmang]

I once found 2 Carcanos on a grassy knoll in texas.

 

[45XDC]

Although, I have never personally found one; I have had two given to me that were found in rental properties after the tenants moved out. One an old Single 12Ga and a Glenfield 60 that someone left under the bed when they skipped town. My favorite "free gun" was given to me by my neighbor just before he passed away-it's an 1907 Dreyse from WW II.

 

[ENCPirate]

I never have found one. But one of my friends has picked up a pretty nice shotgun and see others at self storage auctions when whoever rented the unit didnt pay their bills.

 

[Oyeboten]

Mid 1980s...I found a 'Raven' .25 Caliber in the Alley...red indicator post showed it to be at Battery.

Picked it up with a Kleenex...called Police...Officer comes over, points it at his face, looking down Barrel, with this finger on the Trigger...Instinctively, I pushed it aside, saying "It's cocked-and-Loaded Sir..."


He says,"Oh..okay" and starts to leave...

I say, "My Receipt, please?"


He seemed put-out then...but, made one for me, as I directed, 'make-model-caliber-serial-number'....


I called in later...they said it was clean and I could claim it...then I never bothered claiming it.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Yep. I've found a few.

 

[ENCPirate]

Yep. I've found a few.

I'm not going to lie, I am a little jealous of the cavalary cannon. Did you end up keeping it? Oh and I forgot to say earlier, me and my uncle quite a few years back, found 2 shotguns under the porch of my grandparents farm. One was a 12ga double barrle sears gun and the other a single shot 12ga with no markings whatso ever. They were in pretty rough shape, but I think he still has them out in his shop somewhere.

 

[theotherwaldo]

The little cannon barrel got donated to the local historical society along with a few other relics. I was told that I couldn't legally keep it, as it was found on private property (not mine) without the owners permission and it was technically still US Army property.

Anyway, we were moving (again) and I could only take about what I could carry.

 

[Erik M]

As a part of a daily routine my grandfather walks to the post office to get his mail. he picks up aluminum cans along the 1/4 mile walk. Last year he found a 4" Stainless Redhawk chambered in .44 mag just lying on ground near where a fourwheeler/horse trail meets the main road. Ive not been able to talk him into letting me have it yet.

 

[Loanshark]

As a part of a daily routine my grandfather walks to the post office to get his mail. he picks up aluminum cans along the 1/4 mile walk. Last year he found a 4" Stainless Redhawk chambered in .44 mag just lying on ground near where a fourwheeler/horse trail meets the main road. Ive not been able to talk him into letting me have it yet.

Nice find!! He must be living right. Good karma! Is his name Earl by chance?

 

[Erik M]

Nice find!! He must be living right. Good karma! Is his name Earl by chance?

I know right, 2 guns in my collection were gifts, and the others I had to save up and purchase. He finds one sitting in the dirt thats a nicer gun than any in my collection. I hope I inherit his luck when I'm his age

 

[JellyJar]

True story!!

After my sister died in NYC I hired a lady to do an estate sale for me. While talking to me she told me about a house where she was doing inventory prior to an estate sale and found a hidden room that was full of firearms including Uzis. I don't know if the Uzis were full auto or not. She called the police and they took it all away.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

wow that sucks on the last one.

i heard that my aunt and uncle, both anti gun found a luger at my grandparents house and called police and had it taken away.

i believe it was a luger, i never saw it and this was years ago when i was a little kid.

 

[GodGuns&Guitars]

Found an old Winchester Saddle Ring Carbine in 38/55 in the attic of an old store. Cleaned it up and found a Winchester collector. Got some good money for it. Found an old rusted up what appeared to be Colt SA around an old house seat way back up in the woods. There were still three cartridges in it of the large caliber rim fire. I could never get it to free up, but a guy came along and offered up a working pistol for it, and I took the trade.

 

[Shooter57]

So would'nt the 1911 still belong to the woman whos yard you were cleaning? or did you just keep it?

 

[CoRoMo]

Found one under the Christmas Tree once.

 

[jimbeam]

back of my dad's store in the fifties I found a double barrel 12 gauge with external hammers along an old foundation. The case fabric, was was left was rusted to the gun. Slugs were next to it, no paper left from case. I forget if the brass was there. Sold it for fifty cents. Was a silver half dollar, wish I had that yet.

 

[cchris]

Found a dud bomb on an island in Lake Murray (that island was the target used for B-25 bombing practice in WWII).

I also found a derringer in a theater in DC once, looked like it had to be at least 150 years old...

 

[rocinante]

Here a couple of threads

this one wasn't found but it was close to it

http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=420714

this one was found cleaning out a shed

http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=416326

 

[Shooter57]

I had a 20 guage bolt action mossberg in the mid sixtys.

 

[Dr.Zubrato]

I was ~3-4 in some chicago apartment at a friend of my Dad's when they left me in the living room alone, my curious hands found a tiny beretta in between couch cushions. My dad walks in with his friend who turned pale as a sheet when he saw me. Haven't seen him since.

My mom found a .22lr rifle with barrel sawn off close to some sketchy apartments when we looked for our lost cat. We reported this to the police, and they took care of it.

Other than that, a switchblade that appeared to have blood and rust on it on my way home from school. I thought better of it and let it be.

 

[CapnMac]

Found what looked to be a Trapdoor used to brace a hit-by-tractor well pump out on a ranch one time. Saw, in town, what looked to be the rear end of a Krag pounded into the soil as a grounding rod (which does not meet NEC <g>).

Found some interesting items around Little Creek, back in the exercise areas.

 

[paintballdude902]

found an fr8 on my BIL's shop

 

[huntsman]

I once found 2 Carcanos on a grassy knoll in texas.

you got that on film??????