Jodo_Kast501
Senior Member
I got out detecting this afternoon without finding anything earth-shattering, but I did manage to find a pistol. I thought that it was a toy at first (haven't we all found at least one or two toy guns?). It turns out that it's an RTS Vanguard, a starter pistol (for races, etc.) that, as best as I can tell, was made in the 1960s and earlier. It fires .22 caliber blanks and is built to be incapable of accepting rounds with projectiles. Starting pistols apparently are classed by the ATF as firearms, so this is technically the first firearm that I've found!
Other finds were $2.35 in clad and a surprisingly large amount of scrap copper.
Other finds were $2.35 in clad and a surprisingly large amount of scrap copper.