potato-field find !!

[foy1944]

hi folks ,a farmer near my home picked this up after he worked his land . this happened abouth 12 years ago ,so it was burried more than 50 years...
this is a STEYR-made PIEPER pattent gun ,many german officers kept one in there pants as a back-up gun . maybe some officer lost it or throw it away before capture...

[rbminis]

WoW, what a fantastic relic!

[Dmv]

Cool, pretty nice after 50 years!

[juoneen]

Ive seen guns like that thrown into a bucket of kerosene for a few months free up, and still shoot. You can find plenty of guns in most any lake around denver with a submersible metal detector. Seems they like to throw em after they use em.....and the local lakes are always the target. Nice find...Ive met hunters that found guns leaning up against trees forgotten for a hundred years. There are tons of em the police dump off san diego in the 200 foot hole just off the coast by boat. They drop em over the abyss, or at least they used to. There must be thousands of mp 40s still lying in creek beds, and muddy boggs waiting to be found across eastern europe. Not to mention whats still hiding in attics here in the states.

[james m]

This 1906 Luger in my collection is functional but I certainly wouldn't recommend shooting it! Just for the heck of it I chambered a primed only case,pulled the trigger and it went bang. I consider any firearm that been buried in the ground or submerged for a long time unsafe to fire. The plowed up example that started this thread is a case in point.
jim

[MauserKar98k]

This 1906 Luger in my collection is functional but I certainly wouldn't recommend shooting it! Just for the heck of it I chambered a primed only case,pulled the trigger and it went bang. I consider any firearm that been buried in the ground or submerged for a long time unsafe to fire. The plowed up example that started this thread is a case in point.
jim

Nice Luger. I'm surprised it is still functional after being exposed to the elements for so long.

[Johnny Peppers]

Out of curiosity, can the serial number be read on the Luger?