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Offline Mike Brooks

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Treasure Found!
« on: September 27, 2010, 11:57:54 PM »
So, as you can imagine I'm packing for "The Big Move". :P Found a pair of 10"  swamped .60 pistol barrels by Paris! Just like Christmas! ;D I wonder what else I'll stumble across? ;)
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

Offline David Rase

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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2010, 06:04:01 AM »
Mike,
Moves are great.  When I moved into my new shop earlier this year after spending 24 years in my basement I found lots of items I did not remember having.  Unfortunately, most of my finds needed to go to the dump.  Congratulations on your find.  May you discover more treasures.
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Offline Dave B

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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2010, 07:23:29 AM »
Mike, what a great find. I know that there are a few things that I hope to locate when we move in the not to distant future. My son now 17 was only 2.5 yrs old when he toddled out of my shop with a pair of set triggers in each hand. He would climb up the stool to my work bench and Help me at times. I told him to go put them back which he did but I have never found them. Maybe over the next month of packing I will.
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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2010, 10:09:50 AM »
    Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now an then. ;D   AL
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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 12:54:25 PM »
My dad died in '90. Yesterday my mom had a heat pump installed and in a closet between the wall and the old ductwork the installer found two of my dad's pistols that had fell down in that space from the closet. I remember them from my childhood and can't wait to pick them up today.   :o


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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2010, 05:26:39 PM »
Congrats ! Now that's a real find.
Smo

Good Luck & Good Shootin'

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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2010, 08:28:50 PM »
AHA! - double barreled 60 cal pistol in the works!

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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2010, 11:24:18 PM »
...like this:

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Offline Steve Bookout

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Re: Treasure Found!
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2010, 07:08:57 AM »
Now that is one handsome pistol!  If you'd leave me in your will, I'd force myself to give it a good home.  ;D  Thanks for sharing.  Cheers, Bookie
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