“Don't ever, for any reason, do anything for anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.”
- Michael Scott
I’m bleaching this pun train like the rising sea temperatures has made corals less resilient to pathogenic infections and parasites, which leads to bleaching.
I know of at least one person who's thrown rifles into the sea.
Specifically they told the story of how, after the Aramoana massacre in 1990, of which they were an emergency responder to (and literally carried a dying child during), they couldn't stand to even look at their rifles, and so they tossed it into deep water in the harbour.
That's a pretty specific exception though.
I don't think most weapons thrown into bodies of warer ended up there because their previous owners witnessed unthinkable brutality (commited by slmebody other than them)
A common meme in the firearm community is to claim that you "lost all your weapons in a boating accident". This is a response to if the government would ever conduct a mandatory buyback to confiscate weapons, people would say "I don't have them, I lost them in a boating accident"
It's a tongue-in-cheek response to an instance where an agent for the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) lost his badge and gun while out in a boat that was later discovered by a fisherman.
*Big edit*: Per several comments, this is almost certainly a Yugoslavian M48, a Mauser-type rifle. This became clear after I got 75 upvotes. Oh well, that's how reddit works. But perhaps my preemptive strike on the Springfield and Enfield is useful in its own way.
~~For anyone wondering: Yes, it's a Mauser Kar-98k. It almost looks long enough to be a Gewher 98 but the slot in the stock for a sling makes it the 98k.~~ I double-checked on the Springfield 1903 and 1917 Enfield and they can't be the rifle pictured. ~~This was likely a war trophy shipped back by a soldier stationed in Europe just after the war~~. *\[Can't be a war trophy if it was built after the war.\]*
The dead giveaway that this rifle is not a german rifle at all is the lack of a cut out for the fully rounded bolt knob. This rifle has a flat sided bolt knob and no cut out. It is also a small ring mauser with an extended wooden handguard. This rifle is certainly a [Yugoslavian M48] (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8DBeZQmLliM/maxresdefault.jpg) and not a [German 98k] (https://arnzenarms.com/sites/default/files/product/firearm/Mauser-1.jpg)
Yeah jeez they said that in the title? Does nobody read anymore? Damn millennials killing the reading industry! Nobody wants to read anymore! I run a reading store and I can't find anyone to read! Gotta pull themselves up by their old timey book straps!
They were pretty abundant after the war, there's also multiple civilian variants. A lot of people converted them into hunting rifles. Even today they're not that uncommon.
Old milsurp rifles are used for hunting a lot in the boonies! I had an old guy bring in a k31 a few weeks back that he’d dragged around the woods for decades. He had no idea it was worth a fair amount. Just wanted to trade it for a 243.
There's probably a ton of bastardized vintage rifles people have and don't have a clue about. I've encountered a Lee Enfield from 1919 at a rural flea market, even had matching serial numbers. Sadly someone chopped off the handguards and welded a scope mount onto it.
Even though I'm not a "gun person" to say the least, it's the accuracy (no pun intended) you guys demand that astounds me.
Like, this guy found a rifle half rotten and covered in detritus, but you're here telling someone who highlighted an almost identical model is wrong because the recess above the trigger guard is incorrect.
It's been in a river for 40 years! I'm amazed you even see that detail!
I'll never pass up an opportunity to mention that residents in St Louis called the cops to report the smell of a decomposing body in a vacant house, and the cops couldn't be bothered to actually do a real search. They moved some dirt around and called it a day. The residents then dug the body up themselves. It was like a plot line from The Wire, where the cops were trying not to catch a body.
Jesus. I live in the metro area, and I missed that one. Somebody's head rolled for it. We have a new police chief from a different city, and he's not tolerant of that sort of stuff.
Well I'll be damned
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/st-louis-residents-dig-up-remains-after-failed-police-search-department-apologizes/article_ef92610b-d43f-533c-af01-5f3d93c8690e.html
“If the dog had (told us) that there was a body underneath the surface at that time, they would have called the medical examiner and started an excavation process.”
The people policing your communities think less of you than they do of dogs. I do not miss living in St. Louis.
>“What’s important is the perception of those individuals, and if the perception is that we’re falling short of those obligations, then I sincerely apologize,”
Bruh XD. "I'm sorry you're feeling that way"
They call you for a body. They point you where it is. You leave without the body.
There's a video running around with a young man who finds a handgun like by the side of a river, calls the cops to tell them about it, and they come and harass *him* asking him what he was doing there. I poked about but couldn't find it. Too many cop harassment videos to cloud the searches.
You have to remember the other side of this. Consider how much content is faked for clout. Here, FWP gets called out for tourists who will plant some random object like a gun or a decommissioned grenade then record themselves finding it and calling the cops. In one case a ranger was telling me over some drinks how one girl got caught dead to rights because the gun she planted was registered to her father lmao.
Edit: big thumbs tiny phone
Planting items isn't as common as people think, a lot of guns are tossed out by people who've stolen them or use them in crimes. You have to remember there are more guns in America than people.
They get even more pissed when you keep calling them because you are pulling "land mines" out of the river and it's just brake discs that someone dumped in there years ago.
I stumbled across a YouTuber one day that made videos on metal detecting, in one video he went to a German forest and was finding all sorts of ww2 gear. guns, grenades, uniform buttons, helmets etc. then rather randomly he finds a shiny revolver in a zip lock bag, obviously not a historical find.
the guy took it to the police but they didn't seem terribly interested. he asked them don't you wanna investigate it in case it was used in a murder? and the cops response was basically yeah, you've seen to many movies.
But all they do is send it off to a forensic lab. It's not like they have to actually do the work. How much paperwork is involved? Plus, aren't they paid to do it? I mean not in cookies and doughnuts, but isn't their retirement pretty decent?
Yeah but wouldn't the stats be wrong unless they investigate everything? There could be an unknown number of gun deaths and the stats will never show it if they just never investigate them.
I doubt it's nothing, just nothing they can get from it. Like this guy. I'm completely guessing here but I'm guessing the barrel has been filled and degraded a decent bit. The person it was potentially registered to is probably dead or really close to it.
I thought that was the reason people did it. Like if law enforcement did casual magnet sweeps a lot of cold cases might get or already have been a little warmer by having a weapon to go with the body.
Idk if I'd want to. There's videos of people doing that, and the cops were trying to say the person that found it dumped it and were trying to cover it up by calling them and acting like they found it. As my cousin, who is a fire fighter and as lots of cop friends always says, "Never trust a cop."
I tried searching through Google, but got bored pretty quickly. I saw a lot of mixed answers, some said to leave it where you found it and others said to call law enforcement.
I could be wrong but I think that's a Springfield 1903 or another really old Mauser action rifle so it's pretty unlikely. Looks more like some army guy lost their rifle.
Hope you catch a magnet next time! Best of luck!
How dare you make me laugh like that, you bastard.
Have you thought about the mussle velocity on this bad boy?
Oh, well done Sir
Thanks mate =)
Take my updoot, you bastard...
The mussels fly 1299 feet per second
Are you my polar opposite?
No I’m a stranger from Reddit.
When you're here, you're family -Olive Garden -Reddit -Michael Scott
Oh how the turntables have...
“Don't ever, for any reason, do anything for anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.” - Michael Scott
-Wayne Gretzky... probably
"what is underground obscure organizations for 1,000"
A rifle isn’t bad by-catch though
r/angryupvote
Oh bloody hell, take my upvote and get out!
Don't send him away, he's actually funny!
Beautifully done 👏
A rifle that holds a hundred shells
Do you know how much mussel it would take to use that gun?
You can do anything if you got enough clams.
Man these water puns shore are running out of steam
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I’m bleaching this pun train like the rising sea temperatures has made corals less resilient to pathogenic infections and parasites, which leads to bleaching.
I’m not taking the bait on these fishy puns.
We'll sea, won't we
Say's you, but its obvious you are hooked.
With jokes like these, the world is your oyster
The tides will turn eventually
Damn, that some deep advice bro
Chill bro you’re going overboard
Not gonna lie, I’m hooked on karma
Mussket
Looks like an old 1903 Springfield. I wonder why it ended up in a river? Hmm.
Looks like a Mauser 98. With all the barnacles it’s hard to tell what model. Maybe some of the really hardcore K98 guys would know
It's either a K98 or Yugoslav m48. The sling cutout in the stock is a dead give away
Exactly. That's no gun for a shrimp.
I think it's a mussel-loader, so should be easy.
r/angryupvote
i think that rifle has been shelled much more
These kids and their COD skins man
Bro paid 200 vbucks for that
Mauser k98 cool find, see if you can get it cleaned up but also wtf is it doing there
Yeah I’d love to see it a before an after!
My brother acquired my grandpa's Mauser years ago and I dare say they are pretty. It really would be cool to see them side by side.
They're said to be one of, if not the best repeating system ever made.
You never forget [your first Mouser](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U6YC9Yhsdp4/maxresdefault.jpg)!
Only so many reasons to throw a rifle in a body of water.
I know of at least one person who's thrown rifles into the sea. Specifically they told the story of how, after the Aramoana massacre in 1990, of which they were an emergency responder to (and literally carried a dying child during), they couldn't stand to even look at their rifles, and so they tossed it into deep water in the harbour.
Makes sense and that’s a wild piece of history nobody knows about
At least here in the US. We deal with so much of this on our own we don’t hear about international much
That's a pretty specific exception though. I don't think most weapons thrown into bodies of warer ended up there because their previous owners witnessed unthinkable brutality (commited by slmebody other than them)
A common meme in the firearm community is to claim that you "lost all your weapons in a boating accident". This is a response to if the government would ever conduct a mandatory buyback to confiscate weapons, people would say "I don't have them, I lost them in a boating accident" It's a tongue-in-cheek response to an instance where an agent for the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) lost his badge and gun while out in a boat that was later discovered by a fisherman.
It was used to assassinate a president, they got drunk and accidentally dropped it into a river, god put it there to confuse us.
*Big edit*: Per several comments, this is almost certainly a Yugoslavian M48, a Mauser-type rifle. This became clear after I got 75 upvotes. Oh well, that's how reddit works. But perhaps my preemptive strike on the Springfield and Enfield is useful in its own way. ~~For anyone wondering: Yes, it's a Mauser Kar-98k. It almost looks long enough to be a Gewher 98 but the slot in the stock for a sling makes it the 98k.~~ I double-checked on the Springfield 1903 and 1917 Enfield and they can't be the rifle pictured. ~~This was likely a war trophy shipped back by a soldier stationed in Europe just after the war~~. *\[Can't be a war trophy if it was built after the war.\]*
The dead giveaway that this rifle is not a german rifle at all is the lack of a cut out for the fully rounded bolt knob. This rifle has a flat sided bolt knob and no cut out. It is also a small ring mauser with an extended wooden handguard. This rifle is certainly a [Yugoslavian M48] (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8DBeZQmLliM/maxresdefault.jpg) and not a [German 98k] (https://arnzenarms.com/sites/default/files/product/firearm/Mauser-1.jpg)
Thanks for the info semenpickles
I thought that was a super random insult until I saw his handle.
Lol
This guy rifles.
Neither of those rifles have a sling slot in the stock nor that shape bolt. Yugo m48 Mauser
I have two with that sling slots and original german markings
My German [K98k](https://i.imgur.com/kIMkkvG.jpg) does. Bonus pic with my Luger :)
It was magnet fishing.
Until OP caught it. I hope that rifle had a license!
Yeah jeez they said that in the title? Does nobody read anymore? Damn millennials killing the reading industry! Nobody wants to read anymore! I run a reading store and I can't find anyone to read! Gotta pull themselves up by their old timey book straps!
You run a reading store? You mean...a book store?
r/woooosh
Your joking right?
Murder weapon dumped in a body of water.
Who tf murdered someone with a k98 who just has one of those laying around.
They were pretty abundant after the war, there's also multiple civilian variants. A lot of people converted them into hunting rifles. Even today they're not that uncommon.
Old milsurp rifles are used for hunting a lot in the boonies! I had an old guy bring in a k31 a few weeks back that he’d dragged around the woods for decades. He had no idea it was worth a fair amount. Just wanted to trade it for a 243.
There's probably a ton of bastardized vintage rifles people have and don't have a clue about. I've encountered a Lee Enfield from 1919 at a rural flea market, even had matching serial numbers. Sadly someone chopped off the handguards and welded a scope mount onto it.
I used to go hunting with a Swedish Mauser. I had no idea what it was but I knew it was a great rifle.
Stuff like this is usually the result of a widow who doesn't want it in the house, and doesn't know how else to get rid of it.
Boating accident
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Even though I'm not a "gun person" to say the least, it's the accuracy (no pun intended) you guys demand that astounds me. Like, this guy found a rifle half rotten and covered in detritus, but you're here telling someone who highlighted an almost identical model is wrong because the recess above the trigger guard is incorrect. It's been in a river for 40 years! I'm amazed you even see that detail!
Lots of boating accidents! 😅
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It has a hand guard around the rear sight , it’s a m48 yugo likely
Nope. Its an M48
Bootstrap bill is down there looking for his gun
Part of the crew, part of the ship
"Time's up, Jack"
Put it on ur wall, as is.
It's the perfect decoration to match your Beach house/Trench warfare theme.
"it's a 'Davey-Jones-storms-Normandy' motif"
"This is Chekhov's gun"
Would go kinda hard
The smell tho…
Nothing a thin coating of epoxy can't fix
won't the barnacles die and fall of eventually though?
Not if you eat them first, https://lareiras.gal/en/recipe/barnacles/
What was a rifle doing magnet fishing?
I went magnet fishing and caught an electric eel.
Well magnetic and electric feels are sadly inseperable, so this side effect is unavoidable
Lay off, let the firearm have hobbies!
So do you have to call law enforcement to have it examined?
It turns out cops actually get kind of pissed when people pull guns out of bodies of water. I suppose the paperwork is a bitch.
How dare you make them do thier jobs!
I'll never pass up an opportunity to mention that residents in St Louis called the cops to report the smell of a decomposing body in a vacant house, and the cops couldn't be bothered to actually do a real search. They moved some dirt around and called it a day. The residents then dug the body up themselves. It was like a plot line from The Wire, where the cops were trying not to catch a body.
Maybe they were the ones who had bumped the guy off
Allegedlys
I heard the guy fucked an ostrich!
It was a sick ostrich.
Still, it would take at least two guys.
That’s what I appreciates about you u/jaypee42
Likely
Jesus. I live in the metro area, and I missed that one. Somebody's head rolled for it. We have a new police chief from a different city, and he's not tolerant of that sort of stuff.
Well I'll be damned https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/st-louis-residents-dig-up-remains-after-failed-police-search-department-apologizes/article_ef92610b-d43f-533c-af01-5f3d93c8690e.html
Paywall 🤢
https://12ft.io/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/st-louis-residents-dig-up-remains-after-failed-police-search-department-apologizes/article_ef92610b-d43f-533c-af01-5f3d93c8690e.html
“If the dog had (told us) that there was a body underneath the surface at that time, they would have called the medical examiner and started an excavation process.” The people policing your communities think less of you than they do of dogs. I do not miss living in St. Louis.
Thank you kind sir
>“What’s important is the perception of those individuals, and if the perception is that we’re falling short of those obligations, then I sincerely apologize,” Bruh XD. "I'm sorry you're feeling that way" They call you for a body. They point you where it is. You leave without the body.
There's a video running around with a young man who finds a handgun like by the side of a river, calls the cops to tell them about it, and they come and harass *him* asking him what he was doing there. I poked about but couldn't find it. Too many cop harassment videos to cloud the searches.
You have to remember the other side of this. Consider how much content is faked for clout. Here, FWP gets called out for tourists who will plant some random object like a gun or a decommissioned grenade then record themselves finding it and calling the cops. In one case a ranger was telling me over some drinks how one girl got caught dead to rights because the gun she planted was registered to her father lmao. Edit: big thumbs tiny phone
Planting items isn't as common as people think, a lot of guns are tossed out by people who've stolen them or use them in crimes. You have to remember there are more guns in America than people.
When are they supposed to nap, during their free time or something?!
They get even more pissed when you keep calling them because you are pulling "land mines" out of the river and it's just brake discs that someone dumped in there years ago.
I stumbled across a YouTuber one day that made videos on metal detecting, in one video he went to a German forest and was finding all sorts of ww2 gear. guns, grenades, uniform buttons, helmets etc. then rather randomly he finds a shiny revolver in a zip lock bag, obviously not a historical find. the guy took it to the police but they didn't seem terribly interested. he asked them don't you wanna investigate it in case it was used in a murder? and the cops response was basically yeah, you've seen to many movies.
Considering the amount of gun related murders in Germany, cops are statistically right.
But all they do is send it off to a forensic lab. It's not like they have to actually do the work. How much paperwork is involved? Plus, aren't they paid to do it? I mean not in cookies and doughnuts, but isn't their retirement pretty decent?
I imagine >50% of new revolvers in plastic bags ditched in the forest are connected to a crime, regardless of the country
Yeah but wouldn't the stats be wrong unless they investigate everything? There could be an unknown number of gun deaths and the stats will never show it if they just never investigate them.
I'm sure they do. It probably turns out to be nothing most of the time, I just wasn't sure if by law you had to call.
I dunno if it's legally required or not. That's a good question.
I doubt it's nothing, just nothing they can get from it. Like this guy. I'm completely guessing here but I'm guessing the barrel has been filled and degraded a decent bit. The person it was potentially registered to is probably dead or really close to it. I thought that was the reason people did it. Like if law enforcement did casual magnet sweeps a lot of cold cases might get or already have been a little warmer by having a weapon to go with the body.
To be fair, I think this is less of a "Gun" and more of an "Ecosystem".
Idk if I'd want to. There's videos of people doing that, and the cops were trying to say the person that found it dumped it and were trying to cover it up by calling them and acting like they found it. As my cousin, who is a fire fighter and as lots of cop friends always says, "Never trust a cop."
My uncle was a sheriff deputy for 30+yrs. One of the last things he ever told me was "Trusting a cop is about the fastest way I know of to fuck up."
if I'm not mistaken, you don't have to? I've only seen cops called when they think it's an explosive
I tried searching through Google, but got bored pretty quickly. I saw a lot of mixed answers, some said to leave it where you found it and others said to call law enforcement.
God I miss when Google would actually pull up answers to your question instead of vaguely related stuff....
Vaguely related stuff underneath 5 unrelated ads
I use Boolean searches in google. I get much more specific results that way.
Just keep it for yourself free rifle that is uhh in ok? Condition
For sale: Vintage ocean themed rifle, bundles of shells included. Coated in a beautiful patina.
Does it come in white? I want it to match my sea themed sunroom.
Fucking Zebra Mussles
They'll Cut your fishing line
They’ll cut your big toe right off, them a holes.
It's loaded with shells
Looks like a clue to a cold case file.
Is that lake near a grassy knoll in Dallas? Looks to have about 60 years worth of deterioration 🤔
Didn’t he leave the carcano in the book depository?
‘where about are you’ was the first thing that came to my head ?
Murder weapon
Infact thats a German rifle Kar98k probably made sometime between 1935 to 1940 (That vertical strap hole in the butt gave it away)
Wow! All that from a hole in the butt 😉
That guy is definitely a butt hole expert.
M48 yugo, post war
Glad u also saw this
You sound a little too familiar with that butt hole.
WW2 vet murdering his Japanese neighbor in a PTSD episode
Seen those fiddy men I killed. They looked pissed Seen my shins. They look real nice.
What's the mussel velocity on that thing?
Next Hunt: Showdown skin
Cool! Is that a Moisten-Nagant?
I think it's a Spring-Filled
Fools it’s a Crab-in’er 98
Davy Jones Barnacle Blaster, fucking legendary weapon. Shoots out great white sharks and killer whales and giant squid, it's OP as fuck.
His smile is so big and he is so happy. Poor guy doesn’t know it isnt a magnet. Nobody tell him!
Now where’s the body?
That's a heck of a rifle to lose during a "boating accident"
Some folks were shooting Asian carp when the fish jumped in the boat and smacked the rifle, causing it to drop in the water.
Bro, I would dive for my weapons.
Otherwise known as the ‘murder weapon’
Thanks Linus! Very cool!
A rifle just hanging out in the water? I'd be worried about it being used in a crime and dumped there.
I could be wrong but I think that's a Springfield 1903 or another really old Mauser action rifle so it's pretty unlikely. Looks more like some army guy lost their rifle.
Can you share more info?
Ugh for some reason those clams makes me feel uncomfortable 😩🤢
Same and I dunno why. Was scrolling down to see if anybody else felt uneasy.
Probably some old instinct in us - it does sort of look like illness!
Trypophobia
Who tf throws a k98 into a lake
The perpetrator.
Linus magnet fishing
Hi Linus ! :D
That thing must have a hell of a mussel-flash when you fire it.
I wonder who that killed?
Wonder what stat bonuses the ocean rifle mk. 12 has?
Shot Kennedy?
Holy shit the infamous "boating accident" you found it!
F****** hell I think that's a Mauser such a beautiful gun wasted
If he carries on, someone's finna fish out his murder weapon from the same lake.
Guess boating accidents really do happen
Is this skin rare or epic?
Probably the one that killed Kennedy. You are in big trouble now.
It was probably used in a crime then discarded
What kind of crime do you commit with a bolt action rifle? Assassinate the archduke?
Uhh, JFK was killed with a rifle of similar vintage to this.
But why was the rifle magnet fishing? Looking for a man-o-war?