Found this today

[walkabout]

.32 cal

[walkabout]

What a coincidence I ran into Kingston to have my pistols put on my daughter's permit then walked into the woods detecting and find this..

[ole bleu]

Oh geez a murder weapon?

[jimboy]

Cool!

[MUSKRAT]

Wow , that’s been there for a long time ….
Was it on land or under water ?
Was it deep beneath the surface ?
That’s interesting….

[1shot1kill]

That's pretty cool.  Have wanted to get into detecting for a long time.

[greensider]

Cool old piece

[walkabout]

Wow , that’s been there for a long time ….
Was it on land or under water ?
Was it deep beneath the surface ?
That’s interesting….

it was next to the hudson River about 4" under ground.. it's well over a 100 years old

[Rickhem]

Very cool find!
I like that you were able to pretty much track it down for what make/model too.
I'd like to hear that thing's story.

[ATS1755]

Nice find!
Surprisingly the grip is in good condition, being buried for such a long time. 

[walkabout]

Yea the grip is plastic one of the first guns to have plastic grips

[swamplover11]

Very cool find! I also would love to know the story behind it. Seems a bit suspicious, but if was used as a murder weapon would they have even had the ability to match the bullet to the gun back then?

[Rickhem]

I think that the time that has passed, and the likely rust and erosion of the bore would make any kind of forensic analysis or matching impossible.  Probably doubtful there is a bullet someplace that needs to be matched to a gun too, don't think they kept them long ago, but who knows?

[MUSKRAT]

Was there still remnants of loaded ammo in the cylinder .?

[walkabout]

Yes I could see 2 empty brass casings