What is the coolest stuff you have ever dug up or found?

I like to relic hunt,  I have found knives and other crap.

I found a .50 cal rimfire. At least thats what it seems like maybe .45 its a big son of a bitch.

That is pretty cool...Pics?

I once found a live 30mm DU round on Beale AFB while walking to school. I had it in my backpack at school and on the walk home, my buddies and I were fucking around and I ended up hitting him in the face with it. Busted his lip right open.

When I was a kid (high school age) I went out to cut the front lawn and found a switchblade in the grass out near the curb. This was in a quiet residential suburban community. Very little crime, mostly elderly folks (at least back then)...I couldnt have been happier! I always assumed that someone was in a car trying to dodge the police down a side street and tossed the knife out the window.

It was later taken away by a worker on a nearby construction site a few months later. Guy saw me and a friend playing with the knife, he came over, took it, and said we shouldnt have it. He made out well, from what I remember it was a good quality switchblade.

Also found a 12GA live shell in a field I was playing ball in.
As a kid I always loved shooting, I knew exactly what it was the second I saw it laying there in the grass, and I took it home and kept it on my shelf (my ammo display back then) for many years. As a kid, it was a treasured find.

Most expensive thing I found was a diamond pendant, in the mud, by the waters edge of a local fishing hole. I was casting from the shore and saw something shiny on the ground. Took a closer look and picked it up. Figured it was just a cheap pendant at first, but the metal was fairly solid and then I saw that it was 14k gold....so I put it in my pocket and kept it. Cleaned it up when I got home and realized that the stones really sparkled, so I figured it was worth taking to the local jewlery store and see the deal....sure enough, 7 real diamonds. They offered me $150 for it but I decided to hang on to it for a good luck charm. Eventually had it redesigned into a necklace for my wife...she still wears it all the time

You let the construction worker take the knife? You should have just shoved it in your pocket and walked away.

Quoted: That is pretty cool...Pics?

I have nothing to take pictures with.

Quoted: You let the construction worker take the knife? You should have just shoved it in your pocket and walked away.

I was a 15 year old kid taught to respect my elders.
When an adult told me what to do, I did it without asking a lot of questions.

If more kids were taught that today.....never mind.
It was a sweet knife though

I found a wallet with 2200.00 in  a public rest room near a toilet.

Dude, I usually respect my elders, but someone you do not know wanting to take something that rightfully belongs to you?

Quoted: Dude, I usually respect my elders, but someone you do not know wanting to take something that rightfully belongs to you?

I understand the 'finders keepers' thing.
I also understood that switchblades were illegal for adults, much less kids.
Better that guy than a cop that would have told my dad.

I was brought up to not question authority.
I didnt get this way until I started paying taxes

Lots of gold nuggets.

Quoted: Quoted: That is pretty cool...Pics? I have nothing to take pictures with.

You are Full of Bad Ideas and Full of

my wife found a ring worth about 30K about six months ago.....

when i was 16 i worked at a truck rental place.... here a customer rented a truck, left a fanny-pack with $1400 cash in it...  returned the truck, we then rented out the truck again to another customer, who returned the truck without finding the cash. checking the truck back in, i found the cash but there were checks int here written out to the customer so i turned it in


as for the above .50 cal rimfire....

Fossilized mammoth tooth and rib bone, deep sea fishing rod, several spears, a few anchors, lot's of lures and weights, bottles, all while diving.

A rusted out MP-40 in Germany,
A handgrenade, shells, shovel at Verdun France.

Sorry no camera and left them in the field and gave them away before leaving Europe.

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I metal detect, I found lots of stuff. Lot of silver rings, a couple of gold ones and a gold necklace with some ''bling''.

Where did you find that?


That is really cool BTW!

I once found a 2005 F150, also a 1996 BMW, a 2001 DeVille...all they needed were a few wires to get em going again.  Its a shame people just threw them away right in the middle of a Safeway parking lot.

Quoted: my wife found a ring worth about 30K about six months ago.....

HEyy man, I lost that about 6 months ago. Can I have it back??  I'll give you a reward.

1948 headstamp 7.62x51 brass case just above Israel's Elah Valley on a hilltop.  The primer is intact, but the bullet pulled.  (Probably not intentionally, as the neck is bent a little on the side and it probably was damaged/fell out.)   I consider it cool because it has the 1948 headstamp and the star of David.

When I was 12, my best friend and I found an envelope in the woods with $1000 (50 $20 bills).  Most likely drug money, we turned it in to the police and never heard anything more.

I found page two.

anyone?

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a cannon ball when i was at a gettysburg when I was a kid, My mom made me give to one of  workers.

I want my canon ball damn it.

I found A class Ring once in the Middle of the woods. It was sitting on a log with Moss Growing on it. Very Very Strange that I found it. The Guys name was on it, so we got it back to him. What are the Chances.



ETA Probably 5 or 6 years ago, I found an empty case at the Range that was just strange. .22mag Rimfire it looked like necked down. Basically like the .17HMR, but this was years before I had heard of such a thing.