Dirtdigger
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- Vancouver Island, B.C.
Found a M-14/305 mag on a logging road this week, Little surface rust but servicable. Oh it was pinned 
Have you ever found a gun in the bush?
- Thread starter Rob
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I've found several guns, mostly pistols but two shotguns, divided between Saskatchewan & Alberta. Spent MANY hours in the dark, in crappy weather, snow, wind etc. looking for them too.
I'm on a Search & Rescue team, and it's very common in many jourisdictions for the local SAR teams to be called out for evidence searches after the commission of a crime. Tends to be a good deal for the Police; SAR teams are all Volunteer, and every Province requires members to qualify to a specific standard before being allowed to participate in searches; one of the qualifications is a Police enhanced security check. End result is the Police get a lot of qualified, trustworthy & experienced people out for the cost of an urn of coffee or couple flats of bottled water, many more feet on the ground looking, and the people doing the looking usually have a lot more experience searching for things than the average street constable does.
I've never been involved in finding anything really exotic, but I know of a B.C. interior team finding a loaded & fully functional MAC-10 just off the side of a secondary highway. As I recall it was a road used regularly for smuggling narcotics across the border, & the weapon was connected to that "industry".
I'm on a Search & Rescue team, and it's very common in many jourisdictions for the local SAR teams to be called out for evidence searches after the commission of a crime. Tends to be a good deal for the Police; SAR teams are all Volunteer, and every Province requires members to qualify to a specific standard before being allowed to participate in searches; one of the qualifications is a Police enhanced security check. End result is the Police get a lot of qualified, trustworthy & experienced people out for the cost of an urn of coffee or couple flats of bottled water, many more feet on the ground looking, and the people doing the looking usually have a lot more experience searching for things than the average street constable does.
I've never been involved in finding anything really exotic, but I know of a B.C. interior team finding a loaded & fully functional MAC-10 just off the side of a secondary highway. As I recall it was a road used regularly for smuggling narcotics across the border, & the weapon was connected to that "industry".
I know a woman that found a rifle... so she takes this thing home and has it sitting by her fire place for 20 years before a friend and I show up... we told here what the laws are and she freaked out about it... but she wanted it so my bud took the rifle and stored it till she got her PAL now it is stored correctly and some times she takes it out and still puts the rifle right by the fireplace again... By the way when we took it to store it the thing was loaded and chambered with the safety off, not safe at all for a .45-70.
Not much to say about finding them, one came with a house I lived in the owner of the rifle died and the family did not want it so it just sat their till some family found it. and a few old barn guns now and then.
Not much to say about finding them, one came with a house I lived in the owner of the rifle died and the family did not want it so it just sat their till some family found it. and a few old barn guns now and then.
Found a sawed off Cooey .22 single shot someone had tried to make a Saturday Night Special Pistol out of in an old couch I brought home. Was quite the surprise when I was cleaning it up to recover it. The couch was brought over from England in the late 1800's and still had horsehair and flax straw in it for padding. Lovely couch now. I talked to one of the owners and he remembered cutting up this old .22 back in the late '40's or early '50's. I'll bet there are still lots left laying around up in Northern Manitoba.
About 25 years ago I found a beautiful Beretta over under 12 gauge on the side of the road. My Dad had it checked out by a couple of his cop buddies and they confirmed that it was not reported stolen or suspected to be used in any crimes. I had it for a short while.
A relative of mine was telling the story at a local drinking establishment. A guy at the next table overheard the story and knew the fellow that lost the shotgun. He gave the fellows phone number so we could contact him. My Dad called the guy. The guy goes off on my Dad! Furious, asking why we had not turned it in to the police. My Dad replies to him that it does not matter about the gun because it had been driven over by our truck and was no longer useful to anyone.(even though it wasn`t) He then proceeds to hang up on the jack wad.(in those days there was no caller I.D.)
About 20 minutes later my Dad calls the guy back and tells him to come pick up his shotgun. He did give me $200.
A relative of mine was telling the story at a local drinking establishment. A guy at the next table overheard the story and knew the fellow that lost the shotgun. He gave the fellows phone number so we could contact him. My Dad called the guy. The guy goes off on my Dad! Furious, asking why we had not turned it in to the police. My Dad replies to him that it does not matter about the gun because it had been driven over by our truck and was no longer useful to anyone.(even though it wasn`t) He then proceeds to hang up on the jack wad.(in those days there was no caller I.D.)
About 20 minutes later my Dad calls the guy back and tells him to come pick up his shotgun. He did give me $200.
