Pistol found by detectorist in QLD.

[Tathradj]

Going back a few years now I found an Officer's Pistol from the Light Horse Brigade.
It was wrapped in greased leather and brown paper, buried a foot down and looked like it was brand new.
Yes, The officers name and identity was tracked down and it is now in a museum.
All there was of the house site was a few bits of iron and fruit tree's.
You never know what you can find.

 

[SCROUNGER]

Going back a few years now I found an Officer's Pistol from the Light Horse Brigade.
It was wrapped in greased leather and brown paper, buried a foot down and looked like it was brand new.
Yes, The officers name and identity was tracked down and it is now in a museum.
All there was of the house site was a few bits of iron and fruit tree's.
You never know what you can find.

That would have been a cool find Tath? Did you donate it to the museum or was it found on a heritage type site?

 

[Tathradj]

They are holding it for me under trust.
Apparently there are not many of them around.
It is a Colt 45.
It really lit the coppers faces up when I took it in for safe keeping.
.
The site was out in the middle of a paddock.
Happened in 1993.
.
Not quite the same but very close.

 

[Ramjet]

A great find Tath.

 

[SCROUNGER]

They are holding it for me under trust.
Apparently there are not many of them around.
It is a Colt 45.
It really lit the coppers faces up when I took it in for safe keeping.
.
The site was out in the middle of a paddock.
Happened in 1993.
.
Not quite the same but very close.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2436/1449017928_colt.jpg

you can't see me mate but i'm green with envy

 

[user 5415]

Great find Tath, not sure I could have let it go, but the museum is the right place for an historic item like that, well done

 

[Tathradj]

Yes it was a great find.
Better than digging up old dynamite. :8

 

[bushpig]

Nice one Tath they can be worth quite alot of money.

 

[Tathradj]

I wasn't worried about the monetary value at all.
To me it is a very precious piece of Australian History.

 

[Keen Ken]

You want to be careful, hope the person who owned the firearm is not watching this forum, you might get a knock on the door in the middle of the night, Hope that photo's not geo-tagged.
Glad you handed it in though, a kid could have found it playing in the dirt.

 

[Ramjet]

It wasn't my find. The guy who found it has it all over FB and this forum strips data from images.

 

[Guest]

this forum strips data from images.

That's good to know, cheers Ramjet.

 

[Moneybox]

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.

Interesting location ozziii. My brother owned the 20 acre block on the Logan River where the hospital now stands. I ran my business Logan Fabrications from there until I closed it to move to WA in 1982.

I'm not surprised though with Woodridge, Kingston and Loganlea nearby. We used to see too many undesirables throughout that area.

 

[Guest]

I have a suspicious concrete footpath out the back of my place. When I run the Home made bfo over it I get 3 rifle-sized signals, non iron/compound. Could just be 3 bits of water pipe. I won't be smashing up the landlords path though. At least not til he's back from Qld.......... The previous owner was from South Africa, and this is also a WW1 soldier-settler house, so it could be anything.........

 

[Ramjet]

REO?

 

[Guest]

Would that give a non-iron signal? (silencing on a BFO tuned to the non-ferrous))? And there's only a signal in one of the three path slabs.

 

[silver]

Just lift it from the side,...don't smash the slab(use an iron bar to slip in under the side and lever it up) haul it up and check it out.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, but the slabs are all joined- I'll just wait for the Landlords return. On a similar note, here in SA we have a gun amnesty running from now til June next year, and they are considering making it permanent. Finally some common sense prevailing. Just take your goodies into your local gun shop, and they will register or sell or dispose without fear of criminalisation (too much of that all round these days).

 

[Baldy]

I thought it would be rusty ..guns are made of steel and love to go rusty..is it steel or alloy..from the photo it looks like alloy..?

 

[Chewy]

The internals might be a bit worse for wear than the the outer. By the looks of it, it has nickel plating. I had a 45 with nickel plating when I was in the Impact shooting club.