Metal Detecting a New Ford and Bridge 

Exactly! You read my mind :) finding anything haunted is an extra bonus while detecting

It doesn't matter to me if you have a great day or a good day. I like all your videos. I learn something new with each one and enjoy your passion. It drives me to be a better detectorist. Thanks Beau!

At 4:55 the bullet is from a Lee Metford bolt action rifle so from about the mid to late 1880s maybe early 1890s. Good vid and some great finds!

The cartridge is a rimmed case & probably a 30-40 Krag, a common hunting round. The H&R pistol was not used in either WW1 or WW2 - there wasn't one long continous war.

Great videos and nice recoveries! Thanks for sharing and taking us along for the search...Happy Hunting, Chris Turner

Thank you for sharing your experience I have been searching a river here in England looking for a thousand year old ford you have taught me what to look for when I am next hunting a river thank you.

And at 6:28 the right hand rifle cartage is a British .303 round (used in Lee Enfield series) which could be from 1880s-1960s.

Hey Beau, Michael Mosley here(formerly micmoable on youtube) I ordered a new Tesoro Sand Shark last night from Clevenger's and the reason I ordered a PI detector is that I plan on doing mostly saltwater detecting and PI's are real good in salt water conditions. I still may get a AT PRO later on to use for fresh water and land hunting. But I figured a PI would be better for salt water searching--have to dig more junk but you can find a few godies in amongst the junk targets/pPI's are real good.

Great place.... Good finds.... Thanks for sharing...👍👍👍👍

Beau . You find the strangest things sometimes . Lol thanks for sharing .

I respect a man with a hobby :d Keep it up

todays....ford vs fjord - lol- now where did i misplace that distinction? but now i know - thanks Beau

Awesome find on the revolver. Possibly the old ford was where the current bridge is? GL & HH

Great find man! Sweet pistol! If I found something as cool as that it would make my week! Congrats!

I think it would be the same... Lots of old stuff around us... I found an oxen shoe in my yard the other day..house was built in 1919..I need to find some sites..

WAW!!!! I JUST SPENT THE LAST HOUR WATCHING YOURE VIDEOS. I HAVE TO LEAVE , IM LATE FOR WORK. EXCELENT STUF, CONGRATULATIONS.

Sir, your video's are pretty cool, they make me want to come and hang out and help find cool treasures and hidden stuff. AWESOME VIDEOS!!!!!

Wow that's great :)

great job again mate has hit warmer weather here, so researching few old time swimming holes. good luck out there! happy hunting

These are some awesome vids! Great finds!

I was swimming in my creek with a buddy down by a bridge and stumbled across a smith and wesson 38 caliber revolver. That was possibly a murder weapon. Your revolver is a h&r .32 cal blank firing pistol, like the ones used to start races. It was made in the late 80s early 90s. Worth about 50$

thanks fo being awesome brother

Great hunt. That pistol is very cool.

That cartridge looks like a .30-40 Krag round , .30 US Army, ca. 1899. That was the ammo we used in the Span-Am War and Philipine Insurrection. Rounded nose fits, Spitzer bullets become common afterwards. Good find! Too bad there wasn't a Morgan dollar laying next to it. : D

AquaChigger I think that bullet is from a 7mm Karabine(I'm from Bosnia we call it Karabine ) but check the area for hunting regulation ,see if it's for shotgun(sachmara) or Karabine(rifle)

the gun is a modern h&l .22 revolver my grandpa actually has the same one in good condition

yeah sweet man :) love the videos:) just so awesome

Nice vid nice gun find

Jonny Williams people used to toss weapons in the river just because they didn't want them anymore and didn't know what else to do with them. I dove a pond on a property when I was a young man to retrieve several handguns tossed in the pond by my friends grandmother. Her husband passed away and she didn't want them in the home. I did recover every single one of them using a 20 ounce magnet off of a speaker and diving on the bottom in 8 foot of water lucky the bottom had only a couple inches of silt on a hard packed clay. she tossed them in 1951 I recovered them in 1993 was 2 Iver Johnson 32 cal. and an 8 shot 22 Octagon barreled pocket pistol. I know of several folks who tossed weapons in the river because they didn't want the hassle of trying to sell them and didn't want to just give them to the police.

Wow that revolver is gold

Ok good luck figuring it out! One of the fun things about detecting in my opinion is trying to figure out what half of the stuff you find is lol

For deep areas that you can't MD, you should try "Magnet Fishing". Pretty fun, except of course you won't turn up any coins.

don't you ever worry that it's a murder weapon

Hey Beau, in case youre wondering... Thats an H&R model 732. Chambered in (most likely) 32 Long. They were common guns back in the day because they were much cheaper than S&Ws or Colts, and they were built pretty solidly. (sort of like the Ruger of 50+ years ago). The 732 is a later model. It was most likely made in the 60s or 70's. Ive noticed everyone always assumes: "murder weapon dumped in river after a hit, you could solve a case! Turn that into the authorities and overnight they can solve a cold case and catch an assassin"... Which is BS. Ive taken forensics classes and the vast majority of the crap you see in CSI, Bones and other shows is totally impossible in real life. You might get a serial number (prob not because its so rusted) but any possible ballistic evidence was deleted because of the rust. And it wouldnt matter anyway because unless the gun was registered to begin with (unlikely given age, and most places you dont have too even with modern guns). The cops would have nothing to compare it to unless theyre specifically looking for that exact gun. Its more than likely that it was in someones canoe or on their person and it fell into the river on accident. Its happened before. Sorry for the long comment, but there are a lot of ignorant comments on your gun find videos ;) Thanks!

You can almost bet the gun was used to commit a crime, or stolen...Great vid, not every hole is a honey hole! It's good to see it both ways. Thanks for sharing my friend.....The water has got to be getting cold!

If someone threw that gun off the bridge i cant be for a good reason lol

Nice gun find man!

Round nose cartridge looks like a 30-40 Krag. Especially since it's rimmed. The other looks like a standard 30-06.

you have there a H&r model 732 chambered in either 32s&w or 32s&w long, that particular model was made from 1957 until 1986 when the company went out of buisness. They aren't particularly valuble but they do make a fine murder weapon at about 185 current market :). Hope this helps.

nice Beau...man you are more brave than I am. I put my gear up yesterday for the year...cold...brrrrrrrr

Wonder if there was an older bridge down stream from the new one? Ford might be under the new bridge.

The rifle round looked like a 30-30 Winchester, they have been around for a long time but thoese looked new

I love stuff like this! closest I being was finding shark fossils in NC. Might have to invest on one of this neat tools.

somebody done pulled a Shawshank Redemption move, nice find btw.

man thats awsome

i think you were right about the fords location it was probably just picked dry

Sweet find! Oh, if that gun could only tell its story...

Omg you push away coins

Cool finds! Especially the gun. That must've felt good! Can't wait to get my gear and start 'raiding' this place! I'm at work, using the phone app, and I couldn't find the subscribe option. After the whole vid, oh surprise! It was right in front of me! Happy Hunting! :)

Thanks a lot!

Cool place to go hunting and really neat finds. You're lucky. Most of the water along the WI river, where I live, is controlled by the DNR. They put a ban on metal detecting on any land they manage.

just got a metal dector your vids make me excited to check the dreid up river near my house

that was a great hunt,nice gun.haven't came across any yet.GL-HH

At first I thought from the video name that you found a Ford car with your metal detector, lol.

4:55 that looks like a round for the M1 Grand

That cartridge is not a .303 British or Metford or anything like that. It is a caliber .30-40 USA or .30-40 Krag for the M1898 "Krag" rifle. Government loading was a 220 grain round nosed bullet. .303 Brit has a rounded shoulder, that one you found is angled like the Krag round.

one, two, three, potato. Yup, I can count to potato!

Man I'd be thrilled if I found a musket ball, horse shoe...even that gun was awesome! Do you think I would have any luck looking around bridges in New England? Seems like all that cool stuff is down South...

love your vids mate ive subbed you

if you ever played Oregon Trail, one of your options when you get to a river, would be to ford it.

The rifle cartidge is a .30, possibly a .30-40 or .303 British, it looks a little long for a .30-30

Im not even sure there was enough GUN left for testing. ;)

Good finds. But you can't help but think that that revolver was used in a murder and dumped!

you find loads of stuff sir

Post up a picture of it! Not that it woudl be able to be fired, but would probably a much neater paper weight.

I kinda wonder if the horseshoe was washed down from the ford.

Common under bridges, eh? One possible answer, Murder all over the place. Makes me curious as to what's under the bridges near me in DC. :P Thanks again, great vid!

They made sure it was one heck of a toss... Who knows! Someone should look up a cold case there, this may be evidence.

my right ear enjoyed the video

OHHH RIVER BANK SIDE I SEE

3:40 LOL H&R. Even it is was in Mint condition. It belongs back in the river. The dam thing fires maybe 100 rounds before the dam wheel misaligned and it blows up in your hand. The metal used was Very soft and rusted easily too. God Ive came across probably 400 of them in my life and only 9 or 10 were worth keeping. They sold for $10 New what do you want? Yunno.

Watching this stuff is really interesting just thinking of the history(possible murder weapon) that surrounds that gun is fascinating.

the second pointed nose round is i believe a .30-06

great finds i just subbed you!

Another great video! By the way I was wondering if you ever figured out what that large hunk of metal was that you found on the second river finds video that was posted to garretts RU-vid channel...I was just curious about it and we didnt get another look at it in the rap up

The musket ball rolled off the tree at the end when you picked up the pin.Did you get it?

I love the pistol! Could never find a creek that clear to detect in but hey, what ya going to do? Really like the musket ball. Looks like you got lots of iron from that river. Anyways nice finds! HH! -MSS

The bore can identify a weapon also.

me too!

I am trying to get into metal detecting with my new Ace. Where can I get access to old maps like the one you used to find the fjord? Is there a website you use?

Nice

Thanks for the advice. Notch out anything?

that bullet looked like a 7.62x54r mosin round to me

Thanks ;)

THATS LUSSING TIME

I'm totally new to this, but would like to try it. Do you have any advice on what type of detector to buy? I know it can get pretty expensive. Cheers for posting the video.

love your videos mate:) they are awesome where abouts do u live? because i might do this around where i live

According to your logic, a Mustang is only a Ford too.

COOL YOU FOUND IT TRY MORE ANOTHER WAY RIVER

ur right, i noticed that because the over sized rim and the size

This is my 1st time watching you. Good finds. I enjoyed watching so I can learn how to be a better detectorist myself. Is it OK to put my Garrettt pro pointer in the water? I love that tool, and it would hate to lose it by submersion. The more I watch the more I learn. Thank you for sharing

Always enjoying your videos, I've noticed that stream is very very strong.... how far did you go down from bridge? i would defo go it least 500 meters - 1 km down the stream to check stuff

i would think a .30-30 because of the rim on the casing and how common it is and also the round nose

OH WELL, I was just wondering if it might solve a cold case.

Wouldn't it make sense for the bridge material to be down stream from where it originally was.

I love your vids man where is that river?

Another very enjoyable video hunt. Is that gun old enough to have belonged to one of the bridge builders? Perhaps it's from someone who had committed a crime? Exciting, whichever way you look at it. Main thing is that you never know what you're going to find at river crossings. Cheers!! GL & HH :D

heavy items always drop in the holes

I wish I'd find a pistol or a rifle ... well done mate

Ya could be a Crime Weapon...