I went fishing today.

that is an awesome find! i wonder how many bodies it has on it lol

>>33307399
Care to elaborate OP?

>>33307445
possibly none. i know alot of guys who have lost guns fishing and hunting on the river or lake.

>>33307505
Yeah man I actually lost all mine in a boating accident pretty recently

run the numbers if there on it

>>33307505
Truly a tragic boating accident.

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>>33307494
>buy a large magnet on amazon for around 20 bucks
>tie a rope to it
>drop it in a lake and fish for metal bits

Makes me wish I lived in Europe so I could find the refuse of WWII. There's a lot of metal collectors on instagram finding stuff.

>>33307513
>if there on it
Really dude?

>>33307523
Neat. Chances of finding a gun are pretty slim though

>>33307399
trolling diy is fun, huh

You killed a thread for this

>>33307552
I know some guy who ended up getting his magnet stuck to an anchor or engine block or something really fucking heavy and had to cut the rope.

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i would be just sad to find guns in that condition

>>33307523
while that does sound like fun, im thinking all id find around here is rust fish hooks and scrap metal

>>33307523
There's some guys on youtube doing that too. One of the guys I follow went up to a mountainside Ju88 wreck and found a mostly intact and fully loaded MG15 mag.

>>33307560
This is why you dont buy a magnet with more pull than you.

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>>33307575
Yeah I'd only do it personally if I lived near a known battlefield or something.

Like shit, I wonder what you could find in the mud near the Volga or the forests around St. Petersburg.

>>33307399
I tried magnet fishing in Sava river in Zagreb.The water smelled toxic and it irritated my skin so I gave up for now.

>>33307623

We do it here in the South. I've done it for years, ever since I was a teenager.

Have found over 30 guns over the past 10 years or so. Now when I say guns, I'm talking everything from Civil War artifacts to more modern items, and sometimes actively seeking out items because I was near a known battlefield/skirmish location.

For the most part, you won't find anything in serviceable condition. Civil War artifacts are pretty much going to be rusty actions only and aren't worth very much money (but make good display items). Other guns it depends on how long it's been under, what it's made of, and where it landed.

Best places to search for are near bridges, especially more rural bridges because people are more comfortable going out to those areas. Search under the bridge, search around the bridge, imagine someone throwing something off the bridge. How far could they throw it?

Mostly, you'll find other things, but on a recreational lake you can find cool shit. I've found several steel pennies over the years, and they're still legally currency so if they're really fucked, turn 'em in for new pennies.

Car parts, lighters, home appliances, you'd be surprised. Lots of hicks have a habit of dumping shit when the water level is dropped for the winter and then during the summer everything is covered up by the higher water level

Has anyone done this in the hood?

I'm sure rivers would yield up plenty of problem solvas!

>>33307986
I drive past a canal everyday on my way to work that runs parallel to projects and have thought about it. This thread has convinced me to finally get the magnet and try

>>33307986
I've caught a sawn-off single shot and 2 Hipoints fishing below the casinos on the Mississippi near St. Louis.

>>33307505
Same here, shucks

>>33307924
Lost a nice fishing rod when one of my buddies got drunk and knocked it overboard so went back with a big fucking magnet the next day.

Found 2 trolling motors, 4 fishing rods (including mine), and a 10lb anchor in like an hour

>>33307986
I know the Dept. head of City Services and he'll occasionally drop off shit they collect in drainage for me to backyard bubba into working order so he can make a buck. Neatest thing they've ever pulled out of downtown was a FN 1910. Then your standard array of problem solvers.

>>33307986
I thought of this before when I lived in Chicago. I used to walk across a bridge that went over the Chicago river to get to school. When the water was clear, I could always see an old 1950s style bike down in the water. Made me wonder what else must be in the river.

>>33308444
>Chicago river
>wonder what else must be in the river
Cholera, MRSA, flesh-eating bacteria of a dozen different strains, decaying mob underlings, and used hypodermic needles.

Only city on the planet that doesn't have to dye their river for St. Patty's Day.

>>33307505

I thought I was the only one! We should really start a support group for this. It was tragic.

>>33308495
Well shiiiit. I kayaked through it a few times. RIP me.

>>33308529
eww.

It's literally the nastiest water I've ever been around, and I've been to Thailand.

>>33308569
LA river where I'm at is pretty fuckin' wretched, my local rowing team had to get express permission from the city to use it cause the waters so damned toxic.

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>>33308569
>he's never been to the ganges
>he's never watched a grody ass corpse get eaten by ravens next to a river raft before

>>33308754
>he's never been to the ganges
True
>he's never watched a grody ass corpse get eaten by ravens next to a river raft before
I have. While 3 people took a shit off the side of the raft and some dude with a rampant case of herpes was fucking a very pregnant hooker against the cabin rawdog.

>>33307523
in my family's summer place one could get a bit frustrated fishing shit from the lake(s), rivers and various swamp ponds, the lake next to the summer place is named after the fact that it was used as a source of "lake ore", meaning there's tons of chunks of magnetic rocks in various bodies of water there, as well as military hardware from Continuation war (years ago my cousin found some spent shells from some kind of cannon there), either abandoned & forgotten, lost in "boating accidents" or maybe even remnants of the late- to post-war weapons cache incident.

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>>33308838
Where was this?

>>33309057
Northern arm of Pasak Chon-something, a big fucking lake with a bunch of little rivers coming off of it in central Thailand.

>>33308838
I think this post just gave me HIV and three different flavors of cancer

>>33308190
Can you actually reliability fix a gun that's been in the drink for over a few years? What course of action should I take if I find one?

>>33309142
Depends on the gun.

Depends on your morals.

>>33309149
I have pretty loose morals desu. As long as the numbers don't run for a serious crime I could care less.

>>33309199
In that case keep it and shut the fuck up about where you got it from. Even if it was used in a serious crime as long as the police never have reason to inspect your guns you're fine.

Depending on where you live you can't just go "hey cops, found a gun, check the serials plz" and they go "it's clean, keep it". Best case scenario they attempt to find the lawful owner and give it back and after probably several years they give it to you after charging you a transfer fee, worst case scenario it rots in evidence holding til the heat death of the universe, you're NOT gonna be allowed to keep it in most cases if you tell the police.

>>33307510
shit, me too

>>33307623
RIP FND.

Welp, I live in what all the locals are calling little Chicago, sooooooooo, I think I know what I'm going to start doing on the weekends now

>live near saint johns river in jacksonville
>have a fishing boat
>think I found me a new hobby

>>33309351
>used to live in what the locals called Little Rwanda
>on any given day you could walk the alleys and find 8-10 pistols just laying on the ground
>you'd usually find at least one corpse too
Gang turf wars over heroin are funny to watch right up until a drive-by ruins $10,000 worth of bay windows.

Most of the people that die in it are due to OD though, niggers can't shoot for shit.

Anyone do this from, say, a river shore?

>>33309142
What that guy said. Some are fucked beyond repair and only look good on a wall. Others have minor pitting and aesthetically look like ass but function about like normal. Some you get lucky and they've only been down there for a little bit. But good rule of thumb is that if the pitting is covering ~60% inside and out or is more than 30% into the frame then forget about it.

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>>33307924
Yeah I mean I live in Arizona so my best hope is finding something out in the desert. The only water near me is Tempe Town Lake and I'm not going to find anything but used condoms from ASU.

>>33309555
What about the Phoenix canals? It just screams "I'm full of Hi Points and Ravens!"

>>33309609
I don't want a shitty barrio blaster though. I want something cool and historical.

Staged. It'd be in far worse shape after even one day in the drink.

>>33309629
someone doesnt understand how corrosion works.

>>33309234
Thanks senpai, good to know. What all should I keep a close eye on when inspecting and attempting to possibly use a lake gun? I understand that crazy amounts of rust is liable just to be tossed back or turned in and anything with wood furniture would need re furnishing but is their any less obvious wear I should be on the lookout for?

>>33309433
my neighborhood is sometimes called Monaco ("a lot of different nationalities & no-one pays taxes"), but instead of being full of rich people dodging taxes it's full of...let's just say you might as well call the main street of the neighborhood "Mogadishu avenue"

>>33309617
>Not refurbishing an arsenal of dindu blasters and selling them back to street gangs and becoming an illegal arms dealer living a life of gritty Tarantino style excitement always on the run from authorities.
>Candyass

>>33309639
Generally you don't have to be worried about wear from use, if it got tossed it was a low round count gun.

Look for broken or missing parts, find the schematics for it on Google. I'm sure there's some hick somewhere that broke a gun and instead of fixing it just tossed it innalake.

The big thing will be rust and rotten wood.

>>33309637
Yeah, OP. He didn't even try

>that time when the ATF literally lost their gun in a tragic boat accident.

>>33309629
In a relatively still body of water the corrosion on a piece of metal will form a layer on the top of the metal but not penetrate it (hopefully).

>>33308860
You're a perkele aren't you ?

>>33309930
kyllä

>>33307505

Very tragic

>>33309991
You could have just said yes, but you went for some pizazz. I like it

>>33309841
actually it depends, with some metals such as zinc and titanium the corroded metal forms a protective layer while with others such as steel the corrosion tends to spread deeper overtime, of course if the steel contains something like zinc the spread of the corrosion may slow down or even stop.

>>33307399
What bait did you use?

>>33307505
Yeah, once I tried to cross a river while tracking a deer. Lost all 43 of my rifles

>>33311111
Fuck me, look at those digits.

>>33307399
I live in a city with a lot of crime. What are the chances of me finding a piece if I do this in the river in hood?

>>33311111

Kek approves, and yeah I feel you. Lost all 6 of my guns last summer.

>>33311111
quints of truth.

>>33311478
look again, there are *five* 1s in a row, that's pentuplets I think, preceded by triplets

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>>33307523
>live in Europe
>find WW1 and WW2 guns and relics
>can't legally keep them because guns r evil guise

>live in America
>find guns literally lost in tragic boating accidents
>get to keep them with little to no legal repercussions

>>33307623

There's a channel on YouTube about metal detecting and stuff, he finds civil war cannonballs all the time.

aren't these guns actually murder weapons?
I mean they aren't evidence by now but you get the point

>>33307523
Euro here with metal detector.

Trust me, it's hard work. You have to check old as maps before because just going out and searching just will waste your time.

Living in western Germany, I also read American after action reports for exact locations. Still I only found tons of brass and a rusty German helmet.

The good times where you could go Inna woods and find MP40s Stgws and the like are over. What's now left is absolutely rusted to one big chunk of shit.

>>33311747
>Euro here with metal detector.
Fun fact: in Russia been in the forest or field with metal detector is illegal.

>>33309555

You have plenty of lakes north of you.

>>33309555
>>33309609
>>33309617

Lake Pleasant would probably be a good place to find stuff. The canals too. Tempe Town Lake might actually be a decent spot since there are ghetto's not to far away. Chances of us AZ folk finding anything historical are slim to none.

>>33314281
Tempe town lake was drained last year and the whole area around it pretty nice, with ASU and corporate offices to the south, Scottsdale to the north and a nice parks on either side. The best place to find stuff if your'e into that sort of thing would be in the canals in mesa and just south of sky harbor airport in Tempe.

I knew a dude who used to scuba dive in the big lakes (canyon, Havasu, pleasant, etc). He made bank off all the shit he would find.

>>33311111
Not even ATF can contest the truth of these digits. Praise Kek

>>33311111
Trips-quints. This is now admissible in a court of law.

>>33314281
>chances of us AZ folk finding anything historical are slim to none.
I've found the remains of two Wild West-era revolvers and a functioning Winchester 1895 in the San Rafael SNA.

>>33307505
Funny you mention that. I just lost most of my guns in a boating accident not to long ago. A tragic misfortune if you ask me.

>>33308068

>inb4 go to the canals and get capped

>>33308730
>need permission to enjoy the outdoors

Commiefornia for ya

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>>33307399
is something like this salvageable or is it fucked?

>>33314670
>Trips-quints
triplets-pentuplets you mean (quintuplet is Latin for "four", the post you are referring to has five 1s in a row which is pentuplets)

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>>33314929
>LA river
>river

most of the water in the "river" is actually treated sewage water and gutter runoff. The LA river is fucking disgusting mate

>>33309555

Probably a ton of guns like this out there.

>some guy walking around in frontier days
>puts his rifle down
>dies

No family, no history, no trace, etc.

>>33314968
4 kids at once=quadruplets(quads)
5 kids at once=quintuplets(quints)

>>33311747
I think there was a case where someone found a SVT-38 in a lake somewhere in Finland. The gun had so much grease on it that it was still pretty much intact.

>>33315401
if you say so, I'm fairly certain I have seen "pentuplets" being used to refer to five of a kind somewhere...

>>33315357
Tbh that's kinda sad but also beautiful in its own way, thank you anon. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

>>33315330
have you seen this boy?

>>33311439
Kek isn't real, and the Egyptian empire has been reduced to a bunch of shrieking Turks.

>>33307505
Truly truly tragic. I, too lost all of my firearms in tragic boating accidents.

>>33307399
jesus fucking christ WTF is this magnet fishing?
is common?

>>33309142
I've seen on YT a guy restoring a Prohibition Era 1911 that was nothing more than a lump of rust after being dumped in a field because it jammed (it still has a live round in it) and the only things he replaced were, the barrel (for accuracy, not safety) and the springs.

>>33314167
is that for real? why?

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>>33309555
>>33315357
Oh shit.

>>33319282
removing artifacts from the zone is risky business anon

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>>33319282
Lots of countries have laws like that to stop treasure hunters from looting battlefields. The US made all of our battlefields into historical sites that you can't take anything from for example.

According to the book Aftermath by Donovan Webster, there used to be fields that surrounded Stalingrad that were just covered in corpses and gear. The clean-up was pretty much left to the farmers and peasants so a lot of the more remote areas were still littered with thousands of dead even into the 90s. They're almost gone nowadays because since then, people have been going down there to grab Nazi paraphernalia to sell as artifacts.

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>>33319527
get out of here stalker

>>33309736
Thanks for all the advice, man.
Purchased a 450lb rated supermagnet that looks like it should do the job this morning. Pretty excited to start.

>>33321077
I'd recommend getting a little but lower, 50 pounds is more than enough, trying to pull off a 450 pound magnet off of an old washing machine is begging for a capsized boat.

>>33307505
Yeah I lost almost my entire collection a while back. Went boating with some friends and we had an accident. Everything went overboard.

>>33314315
You ever been between Tempe and Scottsdale. 48th street is ghetto not like Southside ghetto but not somewhere you wanna live.

>>33315447
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/quintuplet

>>33307513
Stolenguns.com (a real site)

>>33307510
my nigga

>>33315330
Yeah no shit. I've crashed at least 5 cars down there

>>33311111
Quints means insurance has to pay out for your drowned gats

>>33314968
I bet you where that one kid in class that would spaz when someone used who instead of whom weren't you kiddo

>>33319527
Underrated post

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>>33309555
You can get maps of old roads scattered across the state, and some of the old 4x4 trails might have some cool stuff. I've found lots of wheels that I could take a wire wheel to and paint if I wanted to, but if you want to find stuff like pic related you might want to try closer to the border

>>33308068
Dont forget to post results!

>>33311529
Aquachigger? Chill as fuck

>>33307505
What a coincidence!

>>33308068
Post your finds dude

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>>33311111