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The bottommost gun case in the 1st pic, I'm going w/Savage/Steven 311.

The TC Hawkins were MUCH better! My .54 cal TC will put 3 round balls touching each other on the target at 100 yards with real black powder.

I have a friend that inherited a farm from an old Gentleman that he had helped over the years. He found a Stutz Bearcat, in great condition, in a garage on the property. You never know what might turn up when you aren’t looking for anything...

Is the previous owner/seller still alive?

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Type 30 Arisaka Bayonet.

If the tc is a kit gun it should have a serial number on the barrel with a K prefix.


Nice gold you found!!!!

Good things happen to good people. Congrats on your score!

Thanks GeoW!

This would have been better if the farm was on Oak Island.

Kingston never would have found anything of value. Now he has at least three good firearms and he hasn't had to spend millions of dollars digging up the place to find nothing but sea water.

Can't wait to see what else was under cover in that work bench...

Well that's just fun. Good on you Sir!

tic toc tic toc

You missed the gist of it.

I found a squirt gun in a ditch once

Cousin found an 870 3” mag on the edge of the pavement while making a run to the trash dump.

Sold it told me $80

Little bit of gravel rash but not bad

Mr.Henry lived up the road from us when I was a kid.He used to quail hunt our pastures and hay field and carried a beautiful high grade .20ga Winchester 23.I remember he kept it in a small closet in his garage.I can only guess what happened to it after his passing.Another time my dad was helping an elderly widow clean out her husbands garage and found a collection of about 50 rifles,shotguns,and pistols.My dad asked to buy them,but was told her nephew had been promised a few.Crackhead nephew showed up the next day and hauled the whole collection to the nearest pawnshop.

Thompson Centers Muzzleloaders are everywhere in Pennsylvania, mostly flintlocks. Flintlock season starts day after Christmas. Percussions are not legal during this season but can be used in an earlier season.

I sold on just like that one because I don't like set triggers but it was a flintlock. lots of fun to hunt with flintlocks.

Spent the day assembling...

Check the headspace on that National Ordinance 03A3. I had one and the head space was way off and I had to get the chamber reamed out a few thousandths before I could shoot it. A round would go into the chamber, but the bolt wouldn't close. I think they were made up out of various parts at National Ordinance and they don't always go together perfectly. Great find though! I'd love to stumble onto a treasure like that!

My buddy donated 2 Smith 629’s on consecutive trips to the Alaskan tundra. By the time he bought his third he listened to me and ditched the uncle Mike’s crap. I told him from the get go that they were junk and that he should buy good leather. He was destined to prove me wrong. After his first ‘donation’ I LMFAO and would rub it in every chance I had. He dug his heels in and replaced the pistol and stuck it in the same POS holster. Months later he got sufficiently drunk to confess the loss of his second revolver which made me cry I was laughing so hard.