Pistol found in a pit

[birdman]

A buddy called me and invited mr to a site he scored permission for.
Just an empty lot where a late 1800s home once stood but it had potential . After we arrived he found the first bottle dump within a half hour. Lots of stuff from the 40s . Soda and milk bottles but nothing real rare.
We dug that area for a couple of hours then started detecting. Lots of signals but nothing great.
After about an hour I got a repeatable signal and started digging. It turned out to be an old ironn skillet. I noticed older broken glass in the hole and realised it was a pit! It turned up lots of whiskeys and s few medicines but the best find was a little boot pistol in the very bottom of the pit. We had s blast and I hope electrolysis bath will save the pistol for display.

 

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[ArfieBoy]

Looks mighty fine after the bath. Congratulations! After 50+ years I'm still looking for a firearm to dig out of the dirt! Thanks for sharing with us all.

 

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[birdman]

A buddy called me and invited mr to a site he scored permission for.
Just an empty lot where a late 1800s home once stood but it had potential . After we arrived he found the first bottle dump within a half hour. Lots of stuff from the 40s . Soda and milk bottles but nothing real rare.
We dug that area for a couple of hours then started detecting. Lots of signals but nothing great.
After about an hour I got a repeatable signal and started digging. It turned out to be an old ironn skillet. I noticed older broken glass in the hole and realised it was a pit! It turned up lots of whiskeys and s few medicines but the best find was a little boot pistol in the very bottom of the pit. We had s blast and I hope electrolysis bath will save the pistol for display.

 

[birdman]

I think this is it but not sure.. an
Iver Johnson Tycoon spur trigger

 

[Cletus]

Wow you guys scored big !!! congratulations !!

 

[Blak bart]

Nice hunt birdman....gotta luv finding guns !! Congrats on a great dig !!

 

[dognose]

many good finds for sure. The old gun is icing on the cake.

My buddy and I were hunting Indian relics in the Ozark foothills in the mid 80s when he found a gun after a flood. That was an amazing week after the flood as I found many points.

on the slow times of arrowhead hunting I would hunt the hills for bottles. My record was 33 complete bottles in on day.

My question on this find:
When you first located the site, how was the dump located? Where bottles exposed? Did you have to remove brush cover then dig after receiving a metal signal?

I am asking because in Missouri when searching the hillsides I found bottles tossed out in the 20s onward on top of the ground often due to leaves rolling off during rainstorms.
In Indiana I have searched in areas of old homesteads. No luck yet but not due to not looking. Most dumps are on hillsides or creek bottoms and have a lot of silt and leaves.

 

[devldog]

Nice saves and finds on the boot pistol and the bottles. Well Done.

 

[birdman]

many good finds for sure. The old gun is icing on the cake.

My buddy and I were hunting Indian relics in the Ozark foothills in the mid 80s when he found a gun after a flood. That was an amazing week after the flood as I found many points.

on the slow times of arrowhead hunting I would hunt the hills for bottles. My record was 33 complete bottles in on day.

My question on this find:
When you first located the site, how was the dump located? Where bottles exposed? Did you have to remove brush cover then dig after receiving a metal signal?

I am asking because in Missouri when searching the hillsides I found bottles tossed out in the 20s onward on top of the ground often due to leaves rolling off during rainstorms.
In Indiana I have searched in areas of old homesteads. No luck yet but not due to not looking. Most dumps are on hillsides or creek bottoms and have a lot of silt and leaves.

We probed for bottles but this dump was located just by digging iron.
There was an iron frying pan in the top of the pit and the detector hit on it.
I don't have a bottle probe yet but my buddy had his and we found a 1940s pit earlier in the day.
Pretty addictive for sure.