Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking birds
 

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

I have an old single shot shot gun, made in 1894-ish that my FIL gave me.

The story behind it was that some time in the 70's, a friend of his got it from apparently less than honorable means from some old guys [abondoned?] house and gave it to my FIL. My FIL showed it to his grandfather, who he lived with at the time (he was in his teens) and grand father told him to get rid of it. Well, he did. He went to pond a ways away from the house and chucked it in a lake. Either that or he had it out on a boat and it fell overboard, I cant exactly remember how or why it wound up in a lake, but it did.


Heres a picture from when I first got it.

It sat in that lake for 8 years, until the FIL uncle happened upon it somehow one day fishing. (This is all from memory, and its a little hazy). ANyways, the uncle brought it over and said "hey, look at what I found int he bottom of such and such lake". My FIL recognized the gun and said "yeah, I threw that in there 8 years ago".

Long story shorty, my FIL wound up with the gun, held onto it all these years and gave it to me a couple years back. It is in immaculate condition, more or less. It could fire if it had to, but I dont want to find out. It a little loose at the breech and its a damascus steel barrel from the 1890's. The stock is original and in great shape.

Its my own little piece of history.


http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m.../100_15011.jpg

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Dude, clean up your room... :4_1_72:

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

yeah, I know I was a bit of pig back then :moon: :rofl:

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

nice tactical slippers :tongue_ma:

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Yeah, note the urban camo.

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Yeah, well jokes on you guys. See, theyre going to be looking for tacticool dudes running around with AK's and AR 15's decked to the nines.

But theyll see me in my wifes white-cherry slippers, with a purple bathrobe sash and a camo visor and just think I'm some sort of odd crossdresser.

Yeah...so there! :RockOn:

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

I swear there are some funny ass bastards on gim.

FYI, I picked up an FN SLP Mark 1 which uses the Winchester SX3 system. Since FN owns Winchester not sure who designed it, but this is a serious zombie killing machine.

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Yeah, that FN SLP is certainly a sweet shotty, but can you leave it in a cattle tank for a year and it still be fine? lol

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Things don't rust much underwater, there's not much oxygen in water. The Titanic is still where it sank, and that's in salt water.

Re: Benelli M1 shotgun submersed underwater for one year - no rust, still taking bird
 

Back in November of 94 I and a do-do head friend were canoeing down a flood stage Big South Branch of the PM river in Michigan at the tag end of deer season. SOB was in back steering while I was in front looking for deer, do-do steered into a Y shaped branch that caught under his chin and turned the canoe over in 8-10 feet of ripping fast water. We survived a damned cold dunk and LIFE 101 wake-up call, but both rifles[both mine] went in the dark brown waters of the south branch.

Late August the next year on the third trip back I found one. Model 94 Winchester SN 101xxx made in 1898. Horribly deeply pitted over all metal surfaces except the bore that must have clogged with sand. Took a lot of TLC and a new extractor but I did get it in fireing condition again[tied it to a tree for the first few shots]. The super accurrate 1894 Swede made in 1901 is still down somewhere on the bottom of that river.

Depends on how much oxygen the water carries, the condition of the steel that is dunked.