Have you ever found a gun in the bush?
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Nice! If things are old enough, I like finding old stuff in the bush, especially if there is a tree growing thru some part of them.
I once came across an axe leaning up against a pile of stove length birch fire wood. The birch bark was still good but the wood
had rotted and the axe handle was looking fragile so I just left everything where it was. I like to imagine that somebody worked
all day but could not find the wood pile the next day.
I found a single shot 410 on the weekend while out deer hunting. It was on a trail so I suspect it fell off someones quad. It has some surface rust on it but otherwise it looks good. I think it was only there for a month or two. I already stripped the wood and removed the surface rust. Probably try doing a bluing to the barrel, try to make it as good as I can without spending too much on it.
In my aunt's back yard, on her farm near Foldens Ontario is a great big apple tree. About 10 feet up in the trunk at the first Y is an 1822 pattern "pipe backed" sword. The entire blade is sticking out but the hilt has been completely grown around. 30 years ago when I was a kid, I thought it was a scythe but it was way too thin and sharp on the wrong side, or the tigne from a stone picker or other implement but it was the wrong profile. It wasn't until I started collecting swords a couple years ago that I realized what it really was.
When we were clearing the Sarcee training area in Calgary 1998-2000 timeframe, we had a ground penetrating radar. We had to dig up many old slit-trenches. Mostly old ammo cans and belts of 7.62 nato but also some Bren mags, .303 in cloth belts that fell apart when touched, several sten guns and enfields that were likely accidentally buried as trenches were filled at the end of exercises.
Another crew found a jeep (don't know if M38, M38a1, M151) with no engine or transmission under a cam net in a copse of trees. Likely left in place permanently as part of a "why things are seen" lecture.
When we were clearing the Sarcee training area in Calgary 1998-2000 timeframe, we had a ground penetrating radar. We had to dig up many old slit-trenches. Mostly old ammo cans and belts of 7.62 nato but also some Bren mags, .303 in cloth belts that fell apart when touched, several sten guns and enfields that were likely accidentally buried as trenches were filled at the end of exercises.
Another crew found a jeep (don't know if M38, M38a1, M151) with no engine or transmission under a cam net in a copse of trees. Likely left in place permanently as part of a "why things are seen" lecture.
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I found my bird in a bush last night.
Nice! If things are old enough, I like finding old stuff in the bush, especially if there is a tree growing thru some part of them.
I once came across an axe leaning up against a pile of stove length birch fire wood. The birch bark was still good but the wood
had rotted and the axe handle was looking fragile so I just left everything where it was. I like to imagine that somebody worked
all day but could not find the wood pile the next day.
Agreed.... 59 Pontiac found 300 yards from any road.... Trees around are dense and 40 feet tall.....
southwest maddog
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Speaking of finding a gun in the woods I bet that there are some gunnuts who will be able to post what movie these lines came from;
"I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs hereby leave my barr rifle to whatever finds it. Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle and kilt the barr that kilt me. Anyway I am dead. Hatchet Jack"
"I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs hereby leave my barr rifle to whatever finds it. Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle and kilt the barr that kilt me. Anyway I am dead. Hatchet Jack"
maple_leaf_eh
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A friend of mine managed to lose a pair of binoculars. Not the huge 10x50 WW2 REL jobbies but the nicer (at the time) ELCANs. A big difference in price too. So he is grousing about this, flapping his jaws actually, when the fellow beside him announces that he is the Item Manager for optics. These things happen, he says. Sometimes serial numbers don't run sequentially, you know. Boy, I've got a scratchy throat. The Scottish part of me is thirsty. A few bottles of good single malt later, and my friend is free and clear. Those binoculars never existed. (And who says officers are incorruptable?)
Agreed.... 59 Pontiac found 300 yards from any road.... Trees around are dense and 40 feet tall.....
If I found this in the forest, I would consider that I had found a secret treasure. Just for me to admire and wonder about.
Indeed it is.
Don't know if this counts but I went to a garage Sale a couple of years ago and saw the guy had a bunch of junk in the back of his truck. I spotted a butstock sticking out of a gun case and trying to act not too excited I asked what was going on with the stuff in the truck. He considered it all garbage and it was going to the dump with whatever didn't sell at the garage sale. I asked about what was in the gun case. He said it was a shotgun with a ruptured barrel. Sure enough a Remington 870 with the barrel split open. I said I had the proper license to buy it but he said I could have it ( !!! ). Haven't done anything with it as yet.
Pirates don't MIX their rum
Agreed.... 59 Pontiac found 300 yards from any road.... Trees around are dense and 40 feet tall.....
similar thing around my place... easily 800 yards from any road surrounded by thick old trees. Easily has been there longer then ive been on this earth... The terrain is crazy also, would have a hard time with a good 4x4 if there wasn't all the trees... No idea how it got there... Not much left but a frame and engine....
