Vaughan Garretts Favorite Find of the Month (International) Finds of the Month, August 2014 WINNER My international favorite find for August 2014 is the WW II Service Revolver found by Tomo L from Slovenia. First is some background of the revolver discovery told by Tomo. I have just started metal detecting for about 6 months now. I first bought a cheap MD from China, which was great to start with this hobby, but I wanted a real detector, so I bought a Garrett Ace 250. The first day the postman delivered it, I went on a place near my home where older people said to me that a Slovenian soldier killed himself there with a grenade when he ran out of ammo during WW2. He was alone in a bunker when German soldiers went by and spotted him, so instead of letting himself be killed or captured by the Germans he used his grenade and killed himself. Thats the story others told me. Here is the moment of discovery told by Tomo. So I was searching the location of the supposed bunker for a long time and found nothing, just junk and some ammo. Then jackpot, maybe 6 inches deep in the ground, I found a gun! I was shocked and amazed. A few months of my new hobby and I found a gun - a revolver! Maybe the gun belonged to the soldier…I cant know for sure…but I want to believe that I own a piece of local history. (The landowner of the place where I found the gun approved that I may have it.) I searched the internet for the gun and found out that it is Rast-Gasser M1898 which was a service revolver used by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and various armies in World War II, such as Yugoslavian army…one more reason to believe that the gun is from the mentioned soldier. And now for Tomos conclusion. I cleaned the gun and used electrolysis and the result is amazing. All the parts are now moving, and the gun opens! Since then I found a lot of great things…but nothing better than the revolver yet…but I am only at the beginning of my hopefully long career of a metal detectorist. Hope you like my find half as much as I do! Thank you Garrett for introducing me to the world of unknown lost treasures…and also thanks to the show Diggers on National Geographic - the reason I started all this. Well done Tomo! Great discovery, and may you have many more with your new AT Gold! Tomo WINS a Garrett AT Gold!
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:47:16 +0000
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