Hidden treasures.

[Uncle Saggy]

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[Drycreek3189]

The guy that processes my deer used to tear down and salvage old houses. He found an 1877 model .41 Colt “Thunderer” in the wall of one house they tore down. The nickel finish was about all gone, the gutta percha grips were nearly worn smooth, which indicates to me that it was carried a lot. The innards didn’t quite work right, which is pretty common for that revolver. The fact that it was hidden in a wall indicates to me that someone might have used it in a crime, but was not quite through with it yet. That kina stuff is out there, you just have to be lucky to find it.

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

I found an 1899 Colt frontier in 38LC along with a 22 rolling block of unknown origin. The 22 was sawed down from a rifle to a pistol. The only numbers on it were 1374. These were found in my wife’s grandfather’s house when we were remodeling after he had passed. I wonder if he hid more stuff in those walls.

[Pineywoods]

According to what I read on the internet, The Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered by a shepherd who fell into a cave on the northern shore of the Dead Sea, and found clay pots containing several scrolls. Gravity strikes again.

I would like to find Jim Bowie's lost silver mine, if it ever actually existed.

Actually it was two boys chunking rocks up into caves up on a rock face. When they threw rocks into a certain cave they heard something different. It was pottery breaking. That's when they explored and found the containers holding the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pretty cool stuff.

I've always had an adventurous streak in me. When I was younger and spent a lot of time in the Ozarks, we would dig for points in caves and explore some massive caverns on private property that were secret. The landowners didn't tell many people about some of the caverns because they were afraid their land would get taken. Some of the caverns we explored were bigger than some I've paid to see. It's amazing to think what outlaws, natives, etc explored or used those same caves and caverns. The land we used to own in Oklahoma was very close to Robbers Cave which was rumored to have been a hideout for Jesse James.

[EarleyBird]

When I was a kid one of my dad's buddies got a metal detector for his birthday one year, a pretty nice one. We went to a neighbor's land down the road where there was an old, dilapidated shack that was built in the 1800's and was the home of freed slaves after the civil war. We found a double-bit axe with the wedge still in it, half a knife blade, and just under the edge of the shack, in the back, was a clear glass whisky jug about a quarter full of pennies. I don't remember the exact dates but some of those pennies were from the 1800's, I think the newest ones were from the 1920's. My dad called the landowner and I think he donated all that stuff to TAMU. It was pretty cool.

But the best one I ever heard of personally was from a customer of one of my mentors. This was in a little community called Brandon, outside of Corsicana. The man's name was Price and over a few years he kept finding old horseshoes and hand-forged lever arms in the same corner of a pasture where he planted cover crop every fall. The disc would scare them up and he'd stop when he heard it, thinking a disc blade was loose. After filling up a few 5-gallon buckets over a few years he hired a guy with a metal detector to come investigate. The guy was retired and was well-known for searching old civil war battlefields. He found the old brick floor of a blacksmith shop, with rods run through the bricks to keep it level. They got a trackhoe out there and found all kinds of stuff. Mr. Price then went to the library at Navarro and after a little digging found that there was a blacksmith shop and a cotton gin at that spot from when that little community formed in the 1850's. It was pretty amazing how much stuff they found. I've got an old draft shoe he gave me, and an old Heller hoof knife from the early 1900's. I think he gave most of that stuff to Navarro college.

Cool thread, okrattler.

[okrattler]

Pretty interesting stuff. I know back in the day there was towns out this way that ain't there anymore. There's actually a historical site by Beaver, Oklahoma that used to have a town on it. It's private property as far as I know but I think it'd be an awesome place to go walk around with a metal detector. Back then some of the towns I know now were called something different back then. There are probably old coins and things in peoples yards and they don't even think to look. Because the location didn't change. The structures people lived in and the names of the towns are really the only thing that changed over time.

Shoot at one time Liberal, Kansas was basically just a camp where gambling and prostitution was the main reason people went there.