First beeps

[denny-o]

Well, took the wife's Christmas present out for a hunt (gone shopping
This is a Classic II SL I picked up off Craigslist yesterday for $50...
Brand new unit about 3-4 years ago, said he used it once for about 5 minutes and it has hung on a hook in the garage since... Still has the original batteries in it and they are still good... The unit shines like a new nickel..
Went over to our other farm... Farmhouse is early 1900's... Started working the yard but quickly discovered that when they put aluminum siding on, the trimmed ends ring just like a coin and no amount of tinkering with the settings and sensitivity would discriminate... And the siders threw hundreds of the pieces everywhere and it has been enough years that they are well under the grass - arrrrghhhh

OK, so wandered down the lane at the fence line (nearly a half mile) until I spotted a large cement post that was the corner of the fence line around the 40 acre wood lot next door... Figured on a hot summer day they would sit up against the post and take a break... Started going around... Found a few short lengths of fence wire - 3" or so, the discriminator was making the beeps diddle so figured that out and quit digging them... Was walking back to the car when I got a solid signal...
(Is that the way it always works - just as you give up?)
I was suspicious but kept swinging it and lifting up an inch at a time... Got to 6 inches high with the sensitivity back off and was still getting a nice sharp chirp... Started digging (heavy sod and tree roots and hard to dig)... A good 4 inches down found what looked like a rectangular block of iron coated with mud... Oh well, tossed it in the trunk... After I got home ran the hose over it and it turns out to be a rifle clip - looks like an M1 Garand - with 4 rounds of 30-06 round nose still in it... The metal clip is heavily corroded and the spring loaded shoe under the rounds is immoveable... The rounds look almost normal...
Further down the lane found a pair of .270 rifle cases... And at the end of the fence line dug a good 7 inches down to find a big piece of pipe, heavily corroded - back in the woods a half mile from the nearest buildings ?!? Finally quit at that point...

So, did not find much of any thing but had a good time...

denny-o

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

One way to start on your detecting adventures
Bury a few different coins / jewelry and see how the detector works
on those as far as signal.
One way to learn what the signals are trying to tell you.

 

[TIM CLARK]

One places I like to go is school yard there is always coins there to learn the sound of a new detector

 

[widebody]

[size=large]would like a pic of the clip. the m-i used rounds mounted on a slightly spring loaded clip the you put into a slot on the top of the rifle and pushed the five rounds into the holding area of the rifle. is that the type you found?

HH[/size]

 

[Monte]

As you described, they are different. A 'clip' holds rounds by their usually rimless bases, and then those are pushed down into the 'magazine.'

Some 'magazines' are fixed (and loaded with a 'clip'), and some are detachable, and it sounds like denny-o found a 'magazine'.

Monte

 

[denny-o]

Yup, it is a magazine, not a clip - I was careless with my words,,,
It does not match the above M1 description of a 'loader'...
This is a magazine, looks like it would hold 5 or 6 rounds.. Has a release button/catch the the right side of the magazine near the bottom... Button shaped like a truncated cone (or used to be)
It's just an interesting piece of junk... I haven't bothered to pry the rounds out - no point...

Anyway, was out in the South Forty today... I knew there was a steel anchor from a tower screwed into the ground that had been bent over and plowed under. I knew just about where it was so it only took a couple of minutes to find it.... Took longer to get it out as the screw end was about 4 feet down and bent so that I could not unscrew it...
Then I went looking for a piece of 5/8" rebar that is vertically driven into the ground flush, and roughly 3 feet long... No joy there as I only know the location within a 300 foot circle, or so.. I will probably find it with the planter when it wrecks a $1000 worth of coulters, electric eye seed counter, and liquid fertilizer tips......

denny-o

 

[widebody]

[size=large]while in the usmc i trained with the m-1. then the m14. your clip doesn't sound like it came from either one.you may have a very cool find. and you say the bullets are still attached? come on now. ya gotta find what it fits. sounds like you need to hunt with a bulldozer or back-hoe. ya got some pretty big targets.have a great new year.

HH[/size]

 

[bula]

It could be from a BAR they were 06 caliber.

 

[denny-o]

Sorry about hte delay in reply... Just back from my Grandson's 16th Birthday (Near Cleveland) over the weekend.. Grandmother said we were going, period...
He is worth it...
He also graduates from High School at the end of this month as the school says it has nothing more to offer him...
He starts at Akron Honors College in January and is accepted into their Biomedical Engineering program...

Anyway, I went to upload a picture of the magazine but the list server won't accept it... Gonna get some help...

 

[denny-o]

Here tis..

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[widebody]

[size=large]as the man said. might be for a BAR. for sure not an m-1 or m-14. had very little training with the bar. the one we had was a model and was way bigger. a mock-up version but that looks like it could be the real size clip. and the bullets are still with it. amazing!!
WENT TO GOOGLE AND ALL PICS I FOUND WERE 20 ROUND CLIPS ONLY. MY THINKING IS IT'S AROUND THE SAME CAL. BUT DIFFERANT RIFLE. MAYBE YOU CAN GET IT TO A GUN SHOP FOR ID. caps was left on. too lazy to fix.

HH[/size]

 

[Spursky]

Ha~Ha don't quote me on it BUT it looks like to me it's a clip for a Remington 742 Woodsmaster semi auto rifle, had 2 of them in 30-06. I think Browning mags we're different. I hoped this helped. HH

 

[denny-o]

Interestingly, the assistant manager at the airport used to work as a gunsmith and he said the same thing as soon as I handed him the magazine... He said 740 / 760 series Remington...

 

[widebody]

[size=large]some guys on the shooting ranges would actually release the clip from the rifles when learning them. i wonder if someone suffered buck fever or something like that and lost this clip. any old rifle ranges in that area? still a very cool find.

HH[/size]

 

[denny-o]

Well, the guys at the airport are wags...
One said the hunter probably lost it in the snow/weeds when he stumbled and it was either catch the whiskey bottle or the magazine and he caught the important one...
Another said buck fever (mentioned above)
The biggest laugh was the guy who said:
I know those poachers that live out there... He was probably running from the DNR officer in the dark and threw it away so he wouldn't be caught with a loaded gun.
The police officer, Jason, offered to pry the rounds out and take them apart
Anyway where I found it is right on a deer trail through the high grass at the corner of the woods... Logical spot for a hunter to be...
Yeah, it will stay intact and be the centerpiece of a bucket holding all the useless junk I have found so far...

Just came up with an old axe head - heavily corroded, which was a good 11-12 inches down... This is in the back yard of a farmhouse dating back to the turn of the century, so it has been there awhile... The side cheek of the hole for the handle is gone on one side, looks like it was broken off, so likely they threw it into the junk pile and it gradually migrated deep over the years... It would be nice to find out the story, but those folks are long dead now...

 

[widebody]

[size=large]well thanks for the updates and info. hope you find a bucket of treasure next yr.

HH[/size]