Pistol found by detectorist in QLD.

[Ramjet]

This was found by a fellow detectorist today. Police were called and he waited for them to arrive and take it away. He's hoping to get it back but I doubt he will. Great find.
If you ever find any type of gun please call the police.

 

[SCROUNGER]

I believe there were quite a few hunting rifles greased up, wrapped in waxproof paper and plastic and buried in Tassie when the Howard government outlawed the semi automatics and was doing the buy backs. I'm surprised some of them haven't been detected over the years, or if they have i haven't heard of it.
There wouldn't be too many 'legal' handguns buried though i would have thought.

 

[Ramjet]

By the look of the plastic bag it was burried deliberately. No one who owned it legally would bury it.
When the gun amnesty was on people in the know we're buying guns cheap and then handing them in... sometimes.

 

[rocketaroo]

My holy grail find right there, would most of us hand it in?

 

[SCROUNGER]

My holy grail find right there, would most of us hand it in?

I probably would because as ramjet says, highly unlikely it's a 'legal' handgun just buried to safeguard it. imo more likely been used in crime or stolen and you wouldn't want to get sprung with it if it was. Even owning a 'legal' handgun without a licence isn't looked upon too favourably i imagine. Be a cool find though :lol:

 

[Ramjet]

My holy grail find right there, would most of us hand it in?

I hope you would. Could even solve crimes.

 

[GaryO]

My holy grail find right there, would most of us hand it in?

I hope you would. Could even solve crimes.

Exactly.

 

[DAN77]

Imagine doing time for something you didn't do. "But I found it officer, I swear"

 

[rocketaroo]

If it was an old Silver plated Deringer....no handing that in

 

[Ridge Runner]

In 93 i knew someone who Buried 2 wheelie bins full of guns and stuff, Some of it cam back from Nam, I helped him move house and one night he went down in the bush on his property and dug em up and that night he went and buried them on the new property he had just bought, I never did find where he put them, lol.

 

[ozziii]

The pistol is a model 1911, (not year), same model used by the US army, it was only 1 inch deep, under a bush near a park near Logan QLD & had a rock sitting next to it, possibly a marker for someone to come get it one day but they probably forgot about it.
He can't get it back, permits etc needed to own them & it has to be tested & checked as it could of been used in crimes.

 

[user 1769]

I believe there were quite a few hunting rifles greased up, wrapped in waxproof paper and plastic and buried in Tassie when the Howard government outlawed the semi automatics and was doing the buy backs. I'm surprised some of them haven't been detected over the years, or if they have i haven't heard of it.
There wouldn't be too many 'legal' handguns buried though i would have thought.

There's not a big proportion of Tasmania where it's worth swinging a detector, and this might have more to do with it than anything...

 

[SCROUNGER]

I believe there were quite a few hunting rifles greased up, wrapped in waxproof paper and plastic and buried in Tassie when the Howard government outlawed the semi automatics and was doing the buy backs. I'm surprised some of them haven't been detected over the years, or if they have i haven't heard of it.
There wouldn't be too many 'legal' handguns buried though i would have thought.

There's not a big proportion of Tasmania where it's worth swinging a detector, and this might have more to do with it than anything...

Thanks mate, yeah Central Highlands and east Coast ranges area where i'm thinking about.

 

[Ridge Runner]

The pistol is a model 1911, (not year), same model used by the US army, it was only 1 inch deep, under a bush near a park near Logan QLD & had a rock sitting next to it, possibly a marker for someone to come get it one day but they probably forgot about it.
He can't get it back, permits etc needed to own them & it has to be tested & checked as it could of been used in crimes.

Looking at the age of the thing, IE about 15 to 20 years, It might of been used in a crime or as you say just hidden there for later and forgot about it, there again maybe they have turned their life around and don't want nothing to do with it, Personally I would have buried it deeper So that tells me it was buried in haste and maybe they were burying it for someone else ??, most likely the owner is in jail or gone to that Gold field in the Sky.

 

[ozziii]

Not saying it belongs too or was from one, but there were a few of the well known biker clubs up that way, hand guns are popular with alot of them so its a possibility.

 

[husky]

Quite an interesting find, if only it could talk i bet it would have some stories to tell.. if someone wanted to get rid of something like that i would imagine dumping it in deep water somewhere would be a better way rather than burying it?

 

[husky]

Maybe i watch too much television also though

 

[AtomRat]

Im suprised i dont find more of the sort amongst my walks. I come across some pretty nasty things that make most backtrack in thier steps. I find broken and cracked safes / cash registers dumped by river banks, and then bags of wallet + purse and mobile phones. Pretty daunting things and thats just the light side of what ive seen. Theres several people still missing in my hills, i hope i dont stumble across them one day, or what caused them to go missing. I dont trust whats in the hills here at all and expect anything. Bad enough with bush dangers, let alone psycho dangers.

 

[cracka]

Yeah, and bushrangers to.

Cracka.

 

[casper]

If it was an old Silver plated Deringer....no handing that in

now that you mention it ...... In the 1970's the son of a workmate of mine was working reblocking a 100+ year old house in Yarraville / Kensington area west of Melbourne when he discovered a whiskey shot glass at the back of a stump he was digging out. He had knocked it on it's side when he was wiggling the stump to loosen it and the contents spilled out. It was apparently brimfull of the coarse gritty gold which was now spread across and hopelessly mixed with the loose dry dirt near the stump hole. And then whilst trying to scoop some of it up he discovered a weighty metallic object at the edge of the hole that on examination out in the sunlight turned out to be a very rusty Deringer pistol. The boss got the pistol and finder kept the shot glass which i saw when his dad bought it in to work to show around - there was a fair amount of gold still adhered to the inside of the glass mostly on the bottom.

casper