The Find of a Lifetime!!!! *Update With Pics*

[Chris J]

Thats simply an awsome find! I think it came out very well considering al of the corosion that it had. What a great piece of history.

Would love to see more if your buddy continues to restore it further.

great post! thanks for sharing!.

 

[Rammjäger]

....Do you know someone who can get a stock for cheap?

I really have no idea,but I think it will be rather difficult to get an
original one
There is always though the possibility to make yourself a good one based
in photographs and exact measures -if I were your buddy,I would try it....
just an idea.

 

[KellycoChick]

Kolby this is REALLY cool!!!!! Amazing.

 

[Kolby72]

I really have no idea,but I think it will be rather difficult to get an
original one
There is always though the possibility to make yourself a good one based
in photographs and exact measures -if I were your buddy,I would try it....
just an idea.

Kolby this is REALLY cool!!!!! Amazing.

I can get an original through on e of my German buddies but I was seeing if you knew where one was for cheap

Thanks Kellyco chick!

 

[Wanda]

Sweet!

That for sure is a great find! Love the way you showed the clean up procedure. Looks real nice. Congratulations!

 

[Kolby72]

That for sure is a great find! Love the way you showed the clean up procedure. Looks real nice. Congratulations!

Thanks Wanda you helped us find it in a round about way!

 

[gordygroover]

Am I the only one that keyed in on the original story in which the gun-finder got a signal and asked to borrow a pin-pointer??
I mean holy smokes..some folks do have a bit of trouble with the 250 in pinpointing but a freaking machine gun should be pretty easy to uncover..
Great thread..To walk a battlefield is just so amazing to us here in the states. Besides civil war battlefields and a tour of the Custer grounds we don't have many battle sites we can really call our own.

 

[Kolby72]

Am I the only one that keyed in on the original story in which the gun-finder got a signal and asked to borrow a pin-pointer??
I mean holy smokes..some folks do have a bit of trouble with the 250 in pinpointing but a freaking machine gun should be pretty easy to uncover..
Great thread..To walk a battlefield is just so amazing to us here in the states. Besides civil war battlefields and a tour of the Custer grounds we don't have many battle sites we can really call our own.

Haha I think some of the people aw what I wrote and thought "I am not reading all of that crap" I can tell you that when you start to dig up mess tins with peoples names on them or dog tags from the war you get a connection to the individuals that gave so much for us. I love digging up this type of history it's amazing!

 

[FIB]

I've really enjoyed reading the entire thread. You did an excellent job on the restoration.

 

[Kolby72]

FIB I think the restoration went well, this is a great example of what depth, soil density and the type of environment have on an object that is left in the soil or tossed in a lake. Electrolysis is an awesome tool, I have used it many times with great results. Thanks for reading the thread everybody!

 

[havin_fun]

You find the most awesome stuff! Checked out your album, cool, very cool!

 

[DirtyRob]

Wow!

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Lord love a duck

From the land of the Bluenose.....think that sort of hunting is a tad on the wild side and a tad more on the crazy side especially iffen big booms are around. Having said that it is indeed a super find!

 

[Kolby72]

You find the most awesome stuff! Checked out your album, cool, very cool!

Wow!

From the land of the Bluenose.....think that sort of hunting is a tad on the wild side and a tad more on the crazy side especially iffen big booms are around. Having said that it is indeed a super find!

Thanks Havin Fun! I am happy to show you guys!

Thanks Dirty Rob!

Leslie this stuff has to be dealt with extreme caution but I dont think it's crazy. I know a good bit about explosives and I know what to touch and what not to touch. I dont disarm any of it or take it home, if you want to detect in Europe this is part of the game

 

[GaBeachsweeper]

Mp44

STURMGEWEHR!!! What a find.

 

[Kolby72]

STURMGEWEHR!!! What a find.

Thansk GaBeachsweeper we found some awesome stuff in this forest and we are still pulling stuff out of there. I am giong to start cleaning some mags and other things we have found

 

[Lerenfort]

Nice MP44 find! Only got the one in my collection now, not a dug one. Nice to observe the little clues with your find;

No magazine, safety catch on, front gas guard missing, ejection port shut. All these sorts of things make me wonder how and why such items were lost or discarded.

Cheers,
Simon.

 

[Kolby72]

Nice MP44 find! Only got the one in my collection now, not a dug one. Nice to observe the little clues with your find;

No magazine, safety catch on, front gas guard missing, ejection port shut. All these sorts of things make me wonder how and why such items were lost or discarded.

Cheers,
Simon.

Simon you have a very observant eye, I noticed the same thing when I was working on it. My guess is that these men surrendered, I think this because the end of the gun is bent. A lot of times when someone surrendered the opposing side would smash their guns against a tree to prevent it form being used again. Also I have never heard of a combat soldier carrying a gun with no magazine....

 

[FIB]

Simon you have a very observant eye, I noticed the same thing when I was working on it. My guess is that these men surrendered, I think this because the end of the gun is bent. A lot of times when someone surrendered the opposing side would smash their guns against a tree to prevent it form being used again. Also I have never heard of a combat soldier carrying a gun with no magazine....

I've heard that too and they would remove the bolt from their K98k's and throw them away so their own rifle couldn't be used on them. I think that is why so many of the Russian capture K98k's don't have matching bolts.

 

[Kolby72]

I've heard that too and they would remove the bolt from their K98k's and throw them away so their own rifle couldn't be used on them. I think that is why so many of the Russian capture K98k's don't have matching bolts.

Yes this is very true as well, my buddy has found lots of rifles in one spot with no bolt. And then further on down the forest he finds the bolts scattered about.