Posted: 3/26/2006 10:03:05 AM EDT
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What is the coolest stuff you have ever dug up or found? I like to relic hunt, I have found knives and other crap. |
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When I was a kid (high school age) I went out to cut the front lawn and found a switchblade in the grass out near the curb. This was in a quiet residential suburban community. Very little crime, mostly elderly folks (at least back then)...I couldnt have been happier! I always assumed that someone was in a car trying to dodge the police down a side street and tossed the knife out the window. It was later taken away by a worker on a nearby construction site a few months later. Guy saw me and a friend playing with the knife, he came over, took it, and said we shouldnt have it. He made out well, from what I remember it was a good quality switchblade. Also found a 12GA live shell in a field I was playing ball in. As a kid I always loved shooting, I knew exactly what it was the second I saw it laying there in the grass, and I took it home and kept it on my shelf (my ammo display back then) for many years. As a kid, it was a treasured find. Most expensive thing I found was a diamond pendant, in the mud, by the waters edge of a local fishing hole. I was casting from the shore and saw something shiny on the ground. Took a closer look and picked it up. Figured it was just a cheap pendant at first, but the metal was fairly solid and then I saw that it was 14k gold....so I put it in my pocket and kept it. Cleaned it up when I got home and realized that the stones really sparkled, so I figured it was worth taking to the local jewlery store and see the deal....sure enough, 7 real diamonds. They offered me $150 for it but I decided to hang on to it for a good luck charm. Eventually had it redesigned into a necklace for my wife...she still wears it all the time 
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I was a 15 year old kid taught to respect my elders. When an adult told me what to do, I did it without asking a lot of questions. If more kids were taught that today.....never mind. It was a sweet knife though
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I understand the 'finders keepers' thing. I also understood that switchblades were illegal for adults, much less kids. Better that guy than a cop that would have told my dad. I was brought up to not question authority. I didnt get this way until I started paying taxes
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when i was 16 i worked at a truck rental place.... here a customer rented a truck, left a fanny-pack with $1400 cash in it... returned the truck, we then rented out the truck again to another customer, who returned the truck without finding the cash. checking the truck back in, i found the cash but there were checks int here written out to the customer so i turned it in as for the above .50 cal rimfire.... 
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| 1948 headstamp 7.62x51 brass case just above Israel's Elah Valley on a hilltop. The primer is intact, but the bullet pulled. (Probably not intentionally, as the neck is bent a little on the side and it probably was damaged/fell out.) I consider it cool because it has the 1948 headstamp and the star of David. |
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I found A class Ring once in the Middle of the woods. It was sitting on a log with Moss Growing on it. Very Very Strange that I found it. The Guys name was on it, so we got it back to him. What are the Chances. ETA Probably 5 or 6 years ago, I found an empty case at the Range that was just strange. .22mag Rimfire it looked like necked down. Basically like the .17HMR, but this was years before I had heard of such a thing. |