Ever find anything in a gun??

[29aholic]

The recent Winchester 97 thread got me to thinking (dangerous). Several years ago I had a customer that bought a 97 at a garage sale and the stock was pretty rough. He wanted to refinish it so I sold him a Birchwood Casey stock kit. About 2 days later he came back to the shop with something cool. When he took the butt plate off He found a 1936 Oklahoma hunting license rolled up in the stock bolt hole. Fast forward a few years I had another customer come in with a 97 he wanted to trade in on a Ruger #1 I had on the rack. I remembered the garage sale 97 and relayed the story to him. Well I ended up making the trade and stuck the 97 on the rack. It got to working on me and about 2 hours later I took the butt plate off. Lo and behold there was something rolled up in there. With a cleaning rod and a piece of tape I pulled it out. They turned out to be a 1946 and 1947 Indiana comb hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses.
Ever find anything???

 

[ia1727]

Just Rust--came from a guy that stated his gun was 98-99% with no rust, pitting etc.--it went right back to him.

Steve

 

[Evil Dog]

Had a muzzleloader once that I found powder and a ball in.... does that count?

 

[roundgunner]

a paper clip in my wifes purse gun.

 

[29aholic]

Had a muzzleloader once that I found powder and a ball in.... does that count?

Actually I acquired an old Shapleigh Hardware swamped 40 cal ML barrel years ago that still had a load in it...blackpowder and a shot charge!!!

 

[Tom M]

I bought a Colt Python that had "dust bunnies" in the action. Guy I bought it from told me it was his sock drawer gun, and the evidence was there to support the claim!

 

[m1gunner]

Found a sight in card in the butt of an M1 Garand. This rifle was sent to Denmark during/after WW2.

 

[deadin]

The standard soldiers name on a slip of paper under the buttplate of a Swiss K31.
Also found a Shinto prayer written on a piece of rice paper and stuffed down into the bottom of a holster for a Type 14 Nambu.

 

[David LaPell]

So far just trying to decipher the numbers on the right side of the grip frame of my Model 57. I did find a couple of old patches and nipples in a patch box on a muzzleloader.

 

[klondike]

My neighbor bought a Sharps Carbine and on removing the butt plate found
a sheet of paper reading, " Christopher Gellbach, Troop G 1st US Cavalry of Horse,(and then a 5 or 6 digit #)". I tried to research trooper Gellbach but since the Carlisle fire all records were destroyed. Troop G saw some hot action here in Oregon and Arizona from the end of the CW to the mid 1870's.

 

[luis]

I once helped a friend of my mother-in-law with some old guns her late husband had stored. The pre war Colt 1911 was fully loaded and a registered magnum with the rolled up receipt in the cylinder.

 

[GKC]

Not what you intended, perhaps, but...when I was a young boy, I had a single shot .22 rifle (I don't remember what model.) The stock had gotten pretty scratched up; the original "finish" looked like primer that had been applied with a paint brush. So, I took the stock off, sanded it down to bare wood, and varnished it...it had the most beautiful light, grained wood hiding under that ugly finish. It turned out very well, if I do say so myself.

I don't recall what happened to that rifle...

 

[panther]

I bought a Franchi 20ga shotgun years ago and found a 1971 hunting license in the butt stock. It was the name of a well known restaurant owner in a big city near me. I knew his restaurant had recently closed and I was pretty sure he had recently passed away.
I also had a Mossberg .22 rifle that had the owner's manual stuck in the butt stock. It was probably from the 60's or 70's, from the age of it.
A guy at my local gun shop told a story of finding money, about $10-20, in a hunting rifle butt stock once, that's what got me checking mine.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Winchester Model 1886 takedown .45-70, manufactured in 1912. Something rattling around in the buttstock, so I took off the buttplate, found a dozen kitchen matches, a needle & thread, 3 fishing hooks and a coil of braided fishing line. All set up for survival in the woods.

I love that old rifle, but it kicks like a mule.

 

[J.P.60]

When I qualified on the range, in boot camp, I found a note in the buttstock of my M14. It read: I qualified with this rifle at high expert - you have no excuses. The rifle will do its job, will you? It was dated 3 years before I found it.

I couldn't get over it and thought about it as I shot. Oh, and yes, I did qualify expert with it! I added my date and platoon number to it and put it right back in the stock. I've often wondered if anyone else found it.

 

[msinc]

"Ever find anything in a gun??"

No, but one of my moron brother-in-law's used to hide money from my sister in the barrel of his 1897 Winchester...then one day at the turkey shoot the idiot blew $600.00 all over the range!!!

 

[shoot]

model 48 smith with the original owners name and address on a piece of paper under the grips.

Chuck

 

[K.38]

I haven't but a friend did. He took a K98 Mauser out the stock and found a letter written in German in the barrel channel. I asked him if he got it translated and he said he didn't know where to go. I then asked him if he ever paid any attention to the ladies at the BX that half of them are from Germany and could translate for you.

To this day I don't think he ever got it done which is to bad as that letter could prove to be very interesting.

 

[handejector]

I haven't but a friend did. He took a K98 Mauser out the stock and found a letter written in German in the barrel channel. I asked him if he got it translated and he said he didn't know where to go. I then asked him if he ever paid any attention to the ladies at the BX that half of them are from Germany and could translate for you.

To this day I don't think he ever got it done which is to bad as that letter could prove to be very interesting.

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[kshock]

My grandpa's Model 12 shotgun has several of his old hunting licenses (from the 30's I think) rolled up and stored in the stock bolt hole under the buttplate. I wanted to take them out and put them somewhere like an album but Mom threw a clink in that and they stay right there.