Did I just find a Murder Weapon? No, probably not... but it felt like I had. Mudlarking adventure.
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- In my quest to explore all of my local rivers, including the ones that run through rough areas... I went to the place featured in this video, and stumbled upon lots of evidence; evidence of littering, and of theft, and of drug abuse, and maybe even of murder!
I didn't find much in the way of historical artifacts, but I hope the video result of what I did find is enjoyable.
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I've learned from helpful viewers that thankfully no, I probably didn't find a murder weapon. Although it did hold live bullets (according to the police sargeant), and may well have been used in a crime (perhaps armed robbery, or a mugging); it could not have been fired. It certainly felt like I was finding a potential murder weapon, I'm glad that it wasn't.
Yeah that would be disturbing. A conundrum of do I want to know about it or no I don't.
I am so pleased to have come across your video's Tom, I live right on a river in Northumberland in the same place I grew up as a child.The river was our prime source of entertainment, fishing with nets, building rafts out of anything we could lay our hands on. Swimming, makeshift Tarzan swings, and on many occasions coming to the rescue of many wildlife that were injured,or distressed. Our finds and treasures from the river beds got us so excited, We built dens in old bomb shelters and Lord Collingwood's watch tower we would decorate with dumped chairs and old carpet.How we took pride in our makeshift humble abodes, and very territorial with lookout Windows for any approaching enemy! And as dusk descended upon us we would sit around watching the bats flying,and squeaking high pitched sounds, giving us the perfect setting to recite the jabberwocky, the weird stone of Brisingamen. We were always on the lookout for our Stig of the dump,we often scared ourselves so silly we would run home in terror.Such happy days. And because of mud larking video's such as yours and others I have returned to the river once again in search of treasure and adventure, for when you are wading up a centre of a river alone it is a different viewpoint that those up on the bank side do not see. So aswell as mud larking, I bought a powerful magnet and I fish out any abandoned or discarded metal, or iron objects, and for all our river is relatively clean, It also gives me a sense of pride and pleasure to clear out any trash.It is very therapeutic and calming too to be alone with your thoughts and nature, and anybody who is shy of doing a bit mud larking should get out there, I'm sure they will come to love it, Sometimes I have complete solitude,and other times I have inquisitive souls intrigued to find a woman wading up a river throwing out a magnet on a rope, or children wanting to help to pull out old bike frames with me, so it can be a unsocial or social hobby depending where you decide to go that day. Keep sharing your video's Tom, you have a knack with the camera and editing to make it more entertaining for viewers, something I couldn't do.
Your description of your childhood is at least 75% the same as mine! Most of the differences are only geographic. I'm glad my videos are inspiring people back to the rivers, just as I was inspired by other mudlarking video makers. I hope you get some good finds. I'm hoping to get up to the Northumberland coast sometime for some fossilhunting, and hoping to get a decent magnet soon to give magnet fishing a try. Thanks Mandy, for a lovely comment, and lovely encouragement.
I am looking forward to getting out more once the weather picks up, and there are plenty of river to explore, as well as other areas in the North. With magnet fishing you don't usually have a visual straightaway on what it has latched onto, so for a moment there is a mix of trepidation, and excitement while you pull the rope in to discover your find. But my imagination runs riot to ascertain what is, what was its purpose, or the person who used it, all good fun.. I too have small fossils in my home, and it would be nice to find some more, so happy hunting Tom for when you come North, I will look forward to seeing the video of anything you discover 😀
Happy hunting to you too for when the weather stabilises nicely for summer. I hope you get some excellent finds, and have lots of fun. 😀
your narration is poetic and your cadence is relaxing, even if your finds are few it is still enjoyable to join you
Thank you.
It’s nice how you clean up the streams .
Thanks, I barely scratch the surface, but I do at least inspire a few people with my videos to do similar.
Kind and thoughtful: left the wire so as to not disturb the native ladybirds. The world would be a better place if more people were like you. I would enjoy a video with no "finds", as it's the journey, not the destination :-)
I am planning a few river walk videos in some of the nicer places. Don't know what I would talk about though, my voice and words are the attraction for quite a few people.
r. ridderbusch don’t know if you would be interested to know, but, here in America we call those beetles Ladybugs. 🐞🐞🐞
Always enjoy your videos, Tom. It’s interesting in all that you find in a river. It’s also a shame at what people put in the rivers! Thanks for cleaning them up!
Your videos are very interesting and calming. This is what I use to do as a child in Texas. Some people thought it was boring but creative people love it!
Thanks Myth Diagnosis, I agree, it does take a bit of creativity and imagination to really enjoy this hobby. The imagination to link what you find to the history of an object, and imagination to dream of what you might find. 🙂
I came across this video tonight and really enjoyed it. Not because of the finds (the gun was awsum) but because of the architecture, the sound of running water, and your soothing voice. I'll watch for more of your videos.
Thanks Mikel, I hope you enjoy some of the others I've made which don't have the architecture that this one shows off.
Really enjoying these videos, getting to see seldom explored areas of my locality. Particularly enjoying your music and narration, makes a world of difference to the whole experience. Looking forward to seeing some more of your artwork and what you create from your finds.
Thank you. I hope you'll continue to enjoy my videos when I go a little further afield ;) I'm hoping to get to the coast some time for some beachcombing and fossil hunting.
As you walked down I heard the distinct mating call of the mudlarking welly. Very rare.
Despite the rubbish, still a beautiful and romantic river. I am glad that you did share it with us.
Thank you. I agree, it's got some great old architecture along it. I'm aiming to go back there soon, to get to those tunnels under the Chocolate factory and beyond. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 I am glad you don't let the negativity stop you from seeing its beauty
Hi Tom, I live in Canada where it is currently very cold. I have enjoyed your videos immensely and hope you continue making them. We have a much shorter history here, and our mudlarking and beach combing are not nearly as enchanting as in the UK. It is great fun to go along with you and the other enthusiasts..... you all deserve two thumbs up for sharing. 😊❤️❤️❤️
WOW glad you found that gun and delivered it to the police. Nice to see that you care about the environment by cleaning the trash up. Wish we had more people like you in the world!! Thank you for what you do and stay safe!! 👏😷
Incredibly calming and enjoyable. I have just discovered your channel and look forward to watching all of the videos.
Hi Tom, i am so glad you decided you make this video. I miss hearing your voice. You have such a soothing and calming voice ( i am repeating myself). Looking forward to your next video and hope you have a great haul! God bless, Tammy🌻
Thanks Tammy, yes, the haul in the next video is pretty good. :)
I've had a bad day, and this made it better. So glad to see a fresh video. Thank you Tom!
I'm sorry you've had a bad day... glad my video helped a little.
It did feel a little shady but I was anticipating the big reveal.
Lovely area and wonderful videography.
Hello from USA. Thank you for your efforts in your mudlarking adventures and taking us along. The uploads and commentary are very interesting and I look forward to seeing your uploads notifications. I am amazed that people think that by throwing something in the river it will be "washed" away, never to be found or considered again. The trash, the bicycles. Yes, finding the gun is upsetting; could tell you didn't like finding it. Hope you will keep us posted on the, probably unpleasant, outcome. Hang in there.
Thanks smartoldlady... such things amaze me too. I doubt I'll hear anything from the Police, but I will post an update if I do.
Enjoyed that Tom and the mud flooded buildings bet that looked nice when it was built
Thanks Jay, yeah... there are some beautiful old industrial buildings around here, I hope I can showcase some more of them in future 🙂
Thank you Tom for the different video.As said before your river banks are quite something,keep us posted on the gun situation, Cheers. 🇦🇺.......
Cheers Roger. I'm not really expecting any information from the Police, but if there ever is any, I will share.
Another mesmerising video Tom. Thank you!
What a lovely walk thru town and down to the water. I am so glad that you was the one to find that gun and not some child! You did the responsible thing and, of course, I wouldn't expect anything less of you! Love the coke bucket and the little worm piece of cement, both keepers! Take care till next time! xx ~Jen
Ps... found the cube game instructions! Didn't know how to send it to you, so messaged it to you on Facebook! :)
Thanks Jen, shame I didn't get to finish the planned walk... I'll have to go back there someday soon. I want to explore the tunnel beneath the chocolate factory. Thanks too for the game instructions!
You are very welcome!
I liked this video, at the beginning ,it took me back hundreds of years as you walked near the factory ,all the lovely walls of old stone ,interesting
Thanks, I do love those old factory buildings, and their associated river structures.
Love your videos and admire you for cleaning up as you go . 👍😃
Thank you. 🙂
Glad it was a safe mudlarking for you! If I were mudlarking along some of my local streams and rivers I would not be terribly surprised to find a gun although I doubt if any of our local gangbangers are bright enough to remove the handle pieces or barrel!
Was thinking I know that place. Looks familiar. Then spotted my car! Duh. Great video as always.
Ha, yes... very recognisable place really. I'm going to go back and film there again sometime soon 🙂
I found a gun in the side yard of a mental health facility that I was working at in Portland, Oregon. It looked to as it had been tossed over our privacy fence. I know that feeling one has when finding a GUN. It’s too real. Unfortunately, finding drug paraphernalia, usually hypodermics, is so common that my 9 year old grandson knows to look before he walks in his favorite neighborhood park. Says something about the human condition, what we discard. I’m glad you found the gun and you were unharmed instead of someone’s grandson finding it. Thanks for the videos.
Personally, the finds are secondary to where you go. As you wander along the trails and streams I thoroughly enjoy the scenery and the occasional history, and find myself in quite a tranquil state of mind. The accompanying music is delightful and I see it is your own creation, which I shall investigate upon quitting this post. :-) Edit: well I cannot find your music online. Is it available for download? Thank you. :-)
Very kind comment, thank you. I'm afraid I haven't finished any of the music I've recorded for the channel yet, it's all just short accent pieces so far, none of them worked up into full songs. In time perhaps, but it's halfway down my list of projects and at the very slow rate I'm going, it's a long way away.
@@tomburleigh9261 Heh, I've got one of those lists so I totally understand. :-)
Hey, I super love your narration style and your videos in general. Thank you for posting them, I hope you keep doing so for the foreseeable future! I’m from the NW of the US, and our rivers have very very few historical artifacts dating more than 200 years or so, although rich in actual pretty stones (agate, nephrite, lots of petrified wood, jasper, sandstone mixes, basalt of course). I wish I could walk down a river and find pipe stems and teapot necks! You have a similar eye as I do for things that are both objectively trash and somehow worth appreciating anyway.
Thanks oddsweet. The NW of the US is certainly high on the long list of places I'd like to visit one day; for the rivers, the woods, the rain and the adventures that could be had there. Rocks were the first thing I collected, I was limited here but still found some wonderful things, including fossils, meteorites, and a few totally out of their natural habitat, and as a result; badly malformed crystals (like an amathyst with only one discernable facet). I hope to be doing at least 6 more videos that I've already recorded; and I love going out mudlarking, so hopefully many more after.
I used 2 find little bottles like that n the 1 had a label that read smelling salts, your information is much more exciting, humorous, informative and riveting every time. Fab vid as always. Never stop doing what u do.
Ah, smelling salts! Yes, I hadn't thought of that, thank you! Thanks too for the supportive complement!
Thanks for the video Tom. Always interesting.
Thank you
Way cool thanks for sharing and caring x
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thanks again binge watching these are enjoyable .
Liked the Escher walk on the river wall starting at about 9:50. Also, liked the variety of your own music on this video. Very nice, low key tunes. :)
Thanks Gene.🙂
Super Video ! 😊💗👏👏👏
Thank you, I'm glad you think so. 🙂
I really love the bucket!
Me too; I currently use it to store bottle stoppers... it's getting good use. 🙂
I love that you clean every where you go. I have I thought why don't you contact a bicycle repair shop and tell them where to find all this bikes maybe they can make a few dollars off them. And maybe get them out of the river.
Another enjoyable walk along the river. I love your commentary and the guitar music is very relaxing. I do despair of how humankind is slowly trashing this beautiful planet. I have this silly idea that, if I had a superpower, I would make one day a year when everyone who has ever dropped litter and trash gets the whole lot raining down upon them from a great height. 😀
I hope you do get that superpower! Not least because someone having a superpower so visually confirmable would fill the world with a new sense of magic and wonder that's sorely missing. :) I'm glad you enjoy what I do.
All of the bikes, wire, and other rubbish looked like it was wash from flooding, except for the hand gun, good of you to turn it over
I think you did a well job there. No apologies needed.
Thanks!
Another good one, always interesting thanks
Wonderful walk. Scary find, that gun with a bullet still in it. But everything worked out.
Thanks Misty, I was unsure of whether I could make this one work, but the reaction seems largely positive.
Thanks Coni... I'm hoping to return there one day, and finish the walk I started, including exploring the tunnels beneath the chocolate factory.
Great that you help clean up as well as salvage! I have enjoyed your videos! Happy hunting!
Thanks Brian, glad you enjoy them.
Thank you Tom. 👍🏼
Always welcome Diane 👍🏼
It is interesting to see such a pretty brook so polluted. The town should have a cleanup day. We have brooks like this too but thankfully people are more aware of pollution's damage to the areas around it. Stories in the past about polluted drinking water like Flint, Michigan USA have spurred communities to clean up green areas.
I hope my videos do raise awareness a bit, I haven't really shared them on local forums but perhaps I should if the end result could possibly be a public clean up effort. Thanks 🙂
Tom OMG! keep them coming I never thought you would find a gun!! Let's get back to Cod bottles and the like!
Aww... I've never found an intact Codd bottle. Fingers crossed for the next time I head out. :)
I live not too far away from your area and I am trying to find a clean up to get involved in locally . We beach clean every time we go to the coast but would love to try help our own lovely Yorkshire too I have never mud larked but am really interested in trying it too . Well done with finding and removing the gun it doesn’t matter whether it is real or not it should be in a river for children to find and play with Thanks Tom
Your finds r always interesting.
Your a real good young man cleaning up I also clean up the ground here in America Thank you
Thanks to you Mj Mj for doing rubbish cleanup too 🙂
Tom..I think you are also, or if not, a writer... you have a wonderful way of explaining and speculating.
Very true
Yes, I have written a book and some comics and short stories; I'm not very prolific or high profile though... and I'm hoping to get more motivation to write through a convoluted plan involving mudlarking videos. Story ideas do seem to arrive in my head when I'm busy making videos.
Those blasted lady bug imitators are miserable here in the Midwest as well. Decent looking gun, not sure why it upset you so, but ...are they illegal there or something? It probably was used in a crime. Oh well. It happens. Pretty cool finds all in all, and not at all grim! It was gentle and babbling brook with man made sides, and a rock bottom, all of which are completely unusual in my neck of the woods. It looks so very old and medieval. So shallow and unusual. Other than the large rivers that are managed here, most rivers and creeks just wind around however they naturally do, with mud and gravel bottoms. No big stones, and no bricked walls. So fascinating! Thank you for another good adventure.
Hi Maureen, yes... handguns are illegal in most of the UK (Northern Ireland being the exception), and gun crime is fairly rare. I was a little shook by finding it because of the way my imagination works, which gave me a blast of every possible type of crime that the gun might have been used in, all at once, and me in every role; victim and perp. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, I hope to go back there one day and finish the planned route I meant to take, including the tunnel under the chocolate factory.
@@tomburleigh9261 I hope you go back quite soon. Seems nothing to be afraid of, and so much to see!
It is really depressing that all of the waste and those bikes end up in the river. It’s concerning for the environment but I worry more about what happened to the child who owned the bikes.
Yes, I find it depressing too. I've had bikes stolen from me before, and it was a shock each time; not on the same level as a home burglary which I've also experienced, but unsettling and saddening nevertheless.
New subscriber from the U.S. and enjoying your uploads immensely. We love your protectiveness regarding rubbish in your streams and rivers. Will you ever sell your finds or altered glass bottles on Etsy?
Thanks Mary. Yes, I do intend to sell some finds eventually, when the energy and intent coincide with an unbusy time. It might be a while.
That is the time we live in now. Here in America, hand guns and rifles are found magnetic fishing all the time. I've not found a gun, but ammo, yes. In a playground area where children play. Scary times. But even with the disarray of the river, it was still peaceful and relaxing to walk it with you.
Yes, increasingly scary world. Part of my motivation for starting to do these mudlarking videos was I was becoming too absorbed in the news cycles, and all the horror there, and I wanted to do something calm, peaceful, and non-political. Finding the gun is an intrusion into that by something I wanted to avoid... but thankfully it's a rarity here.
If you had one of those small lightweight plastic childrens sledges, that are almost a little bit boat like in shape you could pull it along the river with things in. Its probably a stupid idea but it just occured to me. I was thinking it would be good to get one or two of those kiddies bikes out to someone who could use them for spare parts but I dont expect you want to & I don't blame you. Actually if you did want to & there is a path behind either of the walls alongside that river it would probably be easier to tie a rope to the bike & tie the other end of the rope to a lump of wood & throw it over & then walk round. But I do not imagine you want to do that either, even if it is possible. You could do with a couple of local environmental volunteers to follow your adventures & clear things up a bit.
🙂 I got to that site by climbing over walls, I could certainly lift a bike over with a rope, or for kids bikes, just lift it over by hand... but sadly, I don't think I've got the time, energy, or resources to run a bike recycling operation, and I know the ones that exist already have a glut of cheap, mass-produced bikes being donated.I'd certainly love a team of environmental volunteers to go whereever the problems are, I'm hoping that my reports to the Rivers and Canals Trust gets something happening though rather than having to be any sort of leader of it myself.
Nice job. I enjoy your adventures. Your camera has such amazing clarity. However, all the litter makes me sad.
Thanks Janine, the rubbish makes me sad too. I pick out what I can, but it's a bigger job than I could ever manage alone.
You have the most soothing voice!
Thank you.
Love your videos! But some (like this one) are just heartbreaking! Something that is absolutely essential to life, is considered and used as a trash dump....
That would be very frightening
It was certainly a shock to find something that felt like it could well have been used in a crime; my mind ran through so many possibilities.
Thank you ! Very Interesting !
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing that there are so many hand laid stone walls, even in some of the bottom of the water way. Can't imagine the man hours and labor required to lay the stone. Awesome too that stone work changed seamlessly along the way. Wonder about the people and the history of where you mudlarked. Thank you, I enjoyed your journey.
Thanks Karen, it's got a lot of history, that little stream...the town was a part of the beginning stages of the industrial revolution... and industry remains there even today, to a lesser degree. It's a bit neglected now, but in it's hayday it would have been a vibrant, fast growing town with a huge amount of construction and change. 🙂
Interesting video and one thing i would say is not to point weapons at yourself when handling them. Whilst it didn't have a barrel the fact there were potentially live rounds in it meant they were pointing directly at yourself. Please take care as crazy accidents happen.
Thanks Andy, I don't think I did actually point it at myself, I held the camera over it... long time ago now though, so I'm not too sure. My next video will be back in that stream, I do wonder if the Johnsons would like it too.... hunting for coins and relics in the cracks between cobblestones. They've filmed in the lower reaches of the stream, (they generally stay in a hotel near there), and that's where they found Manky. 🙂
Sir Tom,
Someone may have said this already but what I saw of the gun it appears to be a 45 long colt which is also known as a “cowboy gun”. The barrel doesn’t come out like a “normal” revolver to load it you have to load the ammunition 1 at a time.
Thanks for the informative comment. I did find get told a lot about it, but I hadn't been told that 🙂
Tom Burleigh - I had my husband look at it and he agreed with me about it being a 45 long colt.
Anyhow, Thank You for your replies to my comments and will see you (your silhouette😆) on your next adventure!!
Blessings friend. Have a great rest of the week.
Thank you, and you have a great week too!
The gun looks like a replica Colt .45. The barrel appears to be solid, so not one that can be fired. Live ammunition would be lethal to anyone trying to fire it with a solid barrel, but it could probably fire a blank charge for the sound effect. It’s also not the style of gun used today. Mostly they’re used by Wild West reenactment groups.
Thanks for the information. The context of where it was, and the stripped down state of it suggests that it might have been used to threaten someone, perhaps in a fake armed robbery. I've learned a lot about guns and replicas from finding this... I hope I find more someday; even if their histories are crime related and sad, I learn a lot. 🙂
Firstly let me say another great video Tom ❤😊
But sadly yes so much trash and it doesn't matter where you live in the world some people just don't care about the environment and just throw their trash wherever they feel like.
If I go bushwalking or walking at the beach I try to always take an extra bag to remove the trash. It's just sad what some people do
Indeed, it always saddens me. I take what I can manage, never feels like quite enough. But... my videos are raising awareness marginally, and there are a few more litter pickers as a result 🙂
good job finding the gun
Turned out to be a replica in the end. Real bullets in a replica... quite likely used in something like an armed robbery, but I haven't heard anything from the Police so I don't know for sure 🙂
It's shocking just how much rubbish is dumped in that stream. Our poor planet.
Yes, I totally agree. I try to take as much rubbish out as I can carry, but that stream is far beyond what I can do alone. 🙁
brilliant, realy enjoyed the show , might take up mud larking >
Thanks, and if you do, I hope you have lots of fun and find some decent treasures!
Respectfully Tom,
I watch many different mudlarking and metal detector videos. One of the metal detectors started using a camera that he wears on his head. This leaves his hands free. I decided to share this because at times I feel your frustration when you are trying to extract a troublesome item.
Just a thought.
Love your personality.
From videos I've watched, I think chest mounted cameras probably give a smoother ride in general. I'll have to do some test shooting... neither are particularly ideal, I think another camera would be good, so wear one and have one to point by hand. Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 Thank you for replying. Best of luck!
Keep those videos coming. I wish we had great mudlarking places in the U.S.
@@velialombardi2164 There are some pretty good spots, Aquachigger seems to find a lot of civil war sites. A few other channels go after crystals or fossils... I guess it depends a lot on which bit of the US.
Oh my! Real/active or not, that's quite a thing to find and would give most anyone a start, I think! '..and now, back to our original programming...!
Yep, not the sort of thing I expected to find. Next time though, I might be more desensitized and nonchalent. "Oh, a gun. And moving on... is that a Pipe Stem I see before me?"
@@tomburleigh9261 (chuckles) ; )
It's nice of you to clean up some of the river... if only more people did.
Thank you. At least some people have started after watching my videos 🙂 Bit by bit, people doing small amounts here and there will make a big difference.
I usually enjoy your mud Larkin adventures but this one was familiar. I had a find in my garden years ago that was linked to a crime. It does stir up a sense of dread. Let's go back to the treasures and nature they are more valuable.
Love the sound of the river! That gun is some find....I could see that your usual calm manner and voice was a tad shaken! Or was it excitment? 😊
A bit of both. I didn't like finding it, but it was a memorable experience.
What cool location.
Thanks, I agree... aside from the rubbish in the brook, it's an interesting and sometimes impressive place; I'm planning on going back soon and tackling the tunnels underneath some of the big mill complexes that I didn't quite get to in this video. 🙂
Great video tom im so pleased you took that gun out of river and handed it in to police x kids love to play in streams and rivers so could of easily found it well done we need to keep guns and knives off our streets xxx
Thanks Julie!
I call those less vivid ladybugs "old ladybugs" onery old invasive things. My first introduction was in Middle Tennessee, USA.
thanks Tom. Great video as usual. hugs from the US. . Sad about the Lady Bugs. The are such a lovely bug . fun to draw.
Thanks, I can't hate the little harlequin ladybirds, even though I know what they're causing. They're just going about their lovely bug's lives.
I thought it was a great video, keep them coming.
Thank you!
So sad. So much trash. If i lived nearby I would be cleaning it up twice a month at least.
Indeed, me too... this one's quite a way for me to go though, most of the ones I go mudlarking in are, my really local rivers are too clean without much to find. There's always something to find, but not always enough to make a decent video.
Do you have an organization like our Department of Natural Resources? Here they check rivers and streams and remove things that are blocking the flow of the water. There is also an organization called the Corps of Engineers that do a lot of good for our forests, rivers and streams. You won't see things like that here very often as they do a really good job keeping everything clean.
Not that I know of. There's the Corps of Royal Engineers, but I think they're usually army work, and only sent out to help civilians in times of extreme need, like flood response. We do have an environment agency that's supposed to look after a lot of our rivers, the canals and rivers trust which looks after others, the National Trust and local councils... all of these are underfunded, and have to prioritise other things.
Shocking really, those are found quite often in US rivers and whatnot. Another great vid! Enjoy the visit by our president this week! Should be fun.
Ah, how to respond to such an ambiguous comment, which gives no explicit indication of which side of the divide you fall on. I myself, would probably be classed as a radical leftist in the US, and am more of a fan of the protests than the POTUS. But even if you're a fan of his, I'm glad you enjoyed my video, I started making them because I was getting too engrossed in the theatre of world events, particularly in the US.
And there it shall remain. I will enjoy your contribution to world entertainment and your dry British wit, because they are both marvelous and I look forward to your special on BBC1.
Hiya tom nice work mate 👍🇮🇪
Thanks Sid :)
Enjoyed you video, that gun looked like a western replica still a real firearm glad you turned it in. I like your voice some people are just jackasses don't let them bother you.
Thanks! I expected this to be the first video I'd get a considerable number of negative comments on, and I thought I'd be told it wasn't a real gun; or that I planted it, or that it's a toy. I thought it might be modeled on a Western gun... but replica or not, the bullets were live. The police were glad I turned it in too, last time they were called out in that town by a member of the public, who'd thought they'd seen someone flashing a gun, it turned out to be a toy; but they still had to shut down part of a street and deploy armed police; probably costing thousands when they're already overstretched and underfunded. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting
Thanks!
l want to thank you for releasing this video. l hope finding the gun wasn't too up setting for you, that might sound thoughtless, it is hard to say what l think l should or what l want to say. l hope you are taking good care of yourself.
That was not a real revolver Tom. The profile looked very much like a Colt Single Action Army from the last quarter of the 19th century However the construction is definitely that of a non-firing replica. The seam down the middle of the frame is a dead giveaway The round( you called bullet ) is a snap cap. There is no chamber to the barrel and in a true SAA the barrel is screwed into the frame ,a very viable feature. There are many non-firing replicas and deactivated firearms in the UK. It's the total ban on firearms that have fueled that market. Here in the US if a collector wants a firearm which is no longer legal to own we can order a de-activated on such as a Styre Sub Machine Gun with all the proper markings and functions as the original but has the chamber and barrel plugged. These are wonderful historical examples of the genius it took to make such a machanical marvel
Was your find used to intimidate someone ,,,probably so.
BTW the serial numbers would be on the frame and the cylinder. Not the grip panels.
I enjoy your mud larking video and I applaud you for picking up all that trash.
Thanks Howard, I'm glad it wasn't a real gun, I've amended the video title a little to reflect that and pinned a comment now. Thank you for the most comprehensive and informative comment I've had on this video... I've learned a lot.
Hand guns weren't banned in the UK but you have to have a reason to own one, self defence and sport aren't accepted as a reason, terrier men controlling fox in the ground, deer stalkers, pest controllers, vets etc can justify ownership, we can own historic guns that have an obsolete calibre, we can also own and shoot black powder cap and ball, the gun in the river looks like one of the Brocock made revolver that shot pellets out of a pre charged .38 cartridge all you had to do was drill the barrel to the right size, they never banned ownership but stopped Brocock making them.
Oh!! one the Video. Super Video
Thanks!
That’s disgusting! Mattress, trolly, bike, just rubbish. So very sad.
I agree. Thankfully, most of the rivers I explore aren't that bad.
You got a great speaking voice. Explore being a voice over artist.
Thanks, I'm putting videos out there, and maybe one day someone will offer me a job; perhaps reading audiobooks, though a dream offer would be narrating nature documentaries. 🙂
Tom, my butcher wasn't in that area for sure. I'm positive he would know not to be close to a gun as his weapon of choice is a knife. What a strange place for mudlarking. I was startled by the amount of ladybird beetles. Here we release them to consume aphids on crops and help bees to spread good pollen. I will have to look up this fungus and different type of beetles.
But what about the butcher's apprentice, who has strange and wild ideas about the future of butchery? Does he have an alibi?
Ladybirds are used here too for aphid control, but the harlequin ones are from Asia, and are immune to the infection they're spreading.
@@tomburleigh9261 So they are little harlequins with different evil purposes. How dreadful. I can only imagine you walking about the rivers with a hand pump spray can and a mask, humming a tune about fly away home! Aw, alas they no longer have the energy to fly so to the ground to become fertilizer. What are we to do with the apprentice? You must take him for tea or coffee to get his DNA off his cup for testing.
The apprentice declined my invitation, he's a wily one for sure. I love the ladybirds, even the ones that are invasive and spreading disease... they don't mean to, they're just going where the winds take them.
The part of a gun you found resembles an 1800's colt, I own a reproduction that is somewhat similar, the type I have was frequently converted into that type in the late 1800's and early 1900's. So it's possible you found a ruined antique.
Thank you, interesting information and a new avenue to read up on :)
Al mirar el video. He descubierto una diferencia enorme entre tu pais y el mio. Aca nadie tira una bicicleta. Supongo que tu primer mundo consumista descarta el pasado tirandolo a los desagues. Bien podrias llamarlo el arroyo de las bicicletas olvidadas. Sobre el arma es un revolver no una pistola. Te cuento algo, que tal vez te llame la atención. Cuando un chico muere en un accidente de transito, se pinta el asfalto con una estrella amarila y si es un ciclista se deja aparcada una bicicleta blanca en el lugar, para que todos lo recuerden con su nombre. Encadenada por supuesto en eso coincidimos los ladrones estan en todas partes. Saludos desde Argentina.
Sí, el Reino Unido se está alejando lentamente de sus tendencias consumistas ... pero es frustrantemente lento. El vertido de cosas viejas en los ríos es más endémico aquí, creo que en gran parte debido a que nuestra población está concentrada en pequeños espacios. En los lugares muy rurales de aquí, no hay un nivel similar, pero en las ciudades más grandes es evidente y obvia. Londres, por ejemplo, tiene tanta basura en sus ríos que es compatible con la afición de cientos de mudlarkers ... Nunca he visto a otro mudlarker aquí. Esa es una tradición hermosa y conmovedora ... por lo general son solo flores colocadas aquí en el sitio de eventos tan tristes. Saludos desde el reino unido
I found it a sad sad place to visit. Hope you don’t go back. However enjoyed your company.
It looks like a magical place.... if it weren’t for all that trash 😢
I agree!
First off, the gun is not real, as other's have already stated. What I find interesting about this video is how similar old mill towns in the UK look to old mill towns in the US, specifically old mill towns in the Northeast part of the the USA. The former mill towns in the US suffer from the same kinds of problems...lack of investment, poverty, drug addiction, etc.
Not an oil burner bottle its more like a small car air freshener they screw that bottle into the harness which is ususmally clipped onto the air vent
Sad that the rivers are used as dumping ground!
The pistol looks as if it had been deactivated before the barrel was sawn off, as you can see it is blocked off. No danger to anyone.
I didn't feel in any danger when I found it. I just have a crazy imagination which showed me all the possibilities of crime that it might have been a part of before being dumped. The Police sargeant inspected it, said both it and the bullets were real.
Thank you again for a great adventure. Just curious to know. How do you use the wires you find? I am imagining maybe in your art work.
Yes, I use the thicker wire in Polymer clay models, and the thinner wire in art-works (well, I've only done one of those pieces so far, but want to do more). I've also got plans for when I can afford a mini-forge, to melt some of it down and use it in lost-wax casting sculture.
@@tomburleigh9261 so glad they can be used rather than wasted.
You should use a backpack and put your good stuff inside it