found old buried gun

[wld1985]

I do construction, the guys dug footers the other day and one of my framing crew guys found. What looks to be an old gun or possibly play gun. .22 or maybe .25 what will work to clean it up some?CLR? I'll get a pic or two later on

 

[Viking1204]

That's neat, looking forward to pics!

 

[jakec]

cool man! i found a 1911 in a mudhole off quintette once. cleaned it up and it ran great.

 

[Viking1204]

You guys that find guns do some research on the guns to make sure they haven't been used in any crimes right? Would suck to find a gun only to discover in a bad way that it was used in a murder and now you're the prime suspect because it's in your possession!

 

[wld1985]

This one will never shoot again. But i thought of that, wonder if this gun killed someone back in the day

 

[TraderDan]

found this one at a yard sale, imagine it was pulled out of the river while fishing. Can't really tell what it was, but it was nicely cut to that barrel length.

 

[wld1985]

 

[gendoc]

cool man! i found a 1911 in a mudhole off quintette once. cleaned it up and it ran great.

I lost that back in the 70's while running from an wild ass blonde's ol'man....ran out of ammo
so pitched it before the heat showed up.
it wasn't accurate, so i'd like it back.............:eyebrows:

 

[FrankT]

WLD, that looks like a 1911 after it has been fired a few times...LOL

 

[RackinRay]

Lines of it reminds me of some of the old Savage pistols.

 

[wld1985]

I dont know, I have a few pics of it.. But for some reason they would'nt load to the forum.. So I uploaded one to Photobucket.. I've got it sitting in some CLR right now to see if it will remove anything else..

 

[ksenter]

I vaguely remember others talking about using naval jelly to remove rust/bluing

 

[Seanpcola]

I lost that back in the 70's while running from an wild ass blonde's ol'man....ran out of ammo
so pitched it before the heat showed up.
it wasn't accurate, so i'd like it back.............:eyebrows:

I can vouch for this. I was the guy he was running from.

 

[wld1985]

I vaguely remember others talking about using naval jelly to remove rust/bluing

Just looked it up,says its at Home Depot. Might buy a bottle tomorrow and see how it works, would like to see what all comes off of the gun.

 

[Welldoya]

Won't diesel fuel remove rust?

 

[TraderDan]

only thing you will find under it is more rust.

 

[Zog]

Evapo-rust works. Orielly auto parts sells it. I am curious how it would fare on something this far gone.

 

[wld1985]

Evapo-rust works. Orielly auto parts sells it. I am curious how it would fare on something this far gone.

Me 2, Would like to know what i can uncover with whatever products is out there..

 

[Seanpcola]

only thing you will find under it is more rust.

I deal with corrosion and rust daily. I gotta vote for Dan's comment. That's some deep rust. Even if you could clean it up to be recognizeable it'll be so compromised on strength and barrel condition it would be extremely dangerous to shoot. I think it would make a seriously cool wall art piece just like it is.

 

[76251]

Ray is right...Savage 1907 it appears