Yeah, he's out in one of the western states now. It seems they found what appears to be a wooly-mammoth skeleton and he took his explosives out there to excavate it...............LOL.

Early he used the “W” word.

Easy now. He was wrong in his "cleaning" efforts but come on..."old man's hands"?

LMAO 😂😂😂😂

And a hammer.

Powder blast

Unbelievable brutality nobody is really that dumb. I don’t understand why he didn’t just grind the rust off

That's good.

Dang! You sir are obviously a professional.

Hahahaha…..funniest thing I’ve read all day…..how this ended up in my suggested I’ll never know but I enjoyed all the comments.

This is a quaility comment

I did the same thing, but just skipped the blow torch part.

Same here. Except I can't watch the whole thing. This idiot is destroying something more valuable than he is. He should have turned it over to a museum, or at very least a professional to conserve it. And we won't even talk about him washing it in the kitchen sink and not even drying and oiling it afterwards....

Guard Dog I agree, that relic should be returned to the battlefield museum at little big horn.

Right..I was thinking they have lasers that can remove rust without destroying

I stopped watching when he pulled out a grinding Stone. What an idiot

@Boston My Home Town . You are right that it is his gun but only to a point. He bought a gun that was illegally removed from a highly protected site and he likely didn't know anything about the gun or where it came from at first. But, that doesn't excuse his idiotic behavior in his quest. He posted the video to impress viewers and since HE opened the box, HE let Pandora out and as such HE is the one that must suffer the consequences for his stupidity. Not to mention his total disrespect for the relic and his absolute disregard for the ultimate in stupidity of one Colonel Custer that lead the Trooper to his demise. Heck the gun could very well have belonged to Custer himself. What this dude not only did but he did so trying to impress all the while he was destroying the a piece of very important history of this great nation. And all this coming from a Native American...

haha

LMAO 😂😂😂

More like handing your two year old an original Michaelangelo sketch and telling her to draw a masterpiece.

In a school bus with kids

I almost stopped the video when he said he had dropped it that left a crack and then he began "tapping" on it. I was sick at watching him

roy stump (electric wire wheel and a file should do the trick)

Someone drop this dumbass on crack him . Wtf is wrong with this guy

10 - 4.!

The problem is - he was using modern *criminal lab* scientific techniques and, unfortunately, historical value is (usually) irrelevant in those cases. Cops want Make, Model and Serial Number - ballistics if you can get it. He got some *terrible* advice. Not all that long ago, it wasn't uncommon at all for many police departments to have the seizing officers electro-pencil their initials and the date, on any "removeable part" - and I've also seen those department's pay out later when the court orders the return.

Hay I would let this guy wash my dog.

@@barbarasteed3966 that's funny! 🤣

That's not the case as a coin here. Proving that the serial number on the Colt frame matches the cylinder totally increases the value of the gun. Basically proven it was from the battle and in the 7th Calvary number range.

Brings the whole family, and the cameraman.

I almost want to report this to KZfaq for abuse. This man must be stopped!😟

Omar Dumbrell , makes me cringe...

I must concur......

obama...but then he needed it in 2008

Dumbbell good name.

WTF is this moron doing to that fine relic ? Really ? Isn't the 1 number enough ? They didn't swap cylinders back then, they were made by hand 1 at a time . He should be flogged .

the one who owns it

Robert Lohr its butchery.

@@robertlohr1860 I agree, it's HIS gun!

@@sugarnads go get your own old beat-up gun and sit around and look at it.

he should store this gun in a bucket of water.....

@Hunter Of Liars-I kept thinking of grinding away on an Anglo Saxon sword from a dig to see if the steel was pattern welded or crucible, or on an item from the Sutton Hoo burial.

You tube has a video

@@terrillrausch3006 link?

Nice reminder. My Mother & I both followed through the Gazette very closely ourselves. Thank You so much.

@@DS-gg2dp - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLF0nrCQ35m-eGw.html - this deals with Fox's survey of 1984 - nearly 40 years ago now, but remarkably comprehensive.

25 years,ago,i talked to an old guy in a bar in Billings montana called the eagle's nest.he was 80 something at the time and he says he grew up among the people on that reservation and as a small kid,he says the natives had battle souvenirs hidden in their houses.george said he saw saddles,bridles,boots,pistols,rifles etc.they kept them hidden because they were afraid that the government would confiscate them.

I’m hoping this is a joke and he is the professional restorer that the real owner brought this relic to work on. Omg…

He's only thinking about the money he's not thinking about the history for some money means more then who had it when they died sick just plain sick

i wonder how many native americans this gun murdered

At the very least if owned by 7th cavalry im glad the racist bastard got what he deserved scalped stripped and left for dead that battle was begin beginning of the end for my people

@@thefutureairmen8046 it's called manifest Destiny . You aren't complaining about all of the benefits you use from it . IE. Cars , cell phones , AC , electricity , TV , internet , etc .

Diminished the value .

Michael Conway if you find a Comanche arrow, do you ask yourself how many soldiers this probably killed? Or if you find a Sioux knife, do you ponder how many settlers it probably scalped... nope, I bet you don't lol

If you use "browning" instead of "bluing", it is actually putting a protective rust coating back on the relic, which is different than bluing, which decreases the value to collectors.

Don’t think this guy bothered about the preserving part

And you know this how sickness ? ONCE you grind it away,it's gone TRY SOAKING rusty metal in white vinegar.IT works.. I have restored knives this way.. YOU have to be gentle,not mental. HAVE a rotten day.

old school toolmaker here. but walter is correct.

I have redone some severely rusted tools with white vinegar. Its really a m azng. I bought an old sauerkraut cutter and it cleaned up good. Thanks for the input.

You really are hard trolling people here and your ..YOUR actual lack of a clue is rather childish and annoying. Yes I realise you are mad about your Hillary losing, YES we all realise you THINK you know what you are trying to talk about...and YES you are being a small minded simple minded snowflake. But, in the meantime, all the rest of us are trying to say is, for a relic this old, and this fragile, the best thing to do is NOT use a grind stone to remove rust. There are far better and actually simpler ways, even on a relic as old as this, to achieve better results. However, no matter what the correct method would be, nothing can compare to you being a little liberal asshole. A childish sniveling jerk. Another internet troll with a small mind and no wit. But thank you either way for your entertaining folley.

walter chiappini c

It has no value now.

Papa Frank, you're a US veteran?

Best comment !

No question about it of course he always hits the gong. Are you from Kentucky?😅😅

Only if he threw it!!

If only this wasn't entirely bullshit.

A good engraver could have chipped and cleaned the numbers without doing that much damage. This reminds Me of a person that was touring the battlefield and seen a reflection and left the assigned boardwalk and pried up a pair of binoculars, didn't turn them in at the information center. Took them home and tried to sell them on eBay. MISTAKE - He was caught before His auction was over, and was awarded a Federal Offence for His troubles. The binoculars were returned to the Bighorn battlefield museum. Yup.

@@GottliebGoltz needless to say how he said he cracked it when he dropped it.

the entire video was one big body cringe for me.

MultIplay3r 0

@@GottliebGoltz , Wow, you are so correct!! He "looted" this from the LBH and then destroyed it by using a wire brush! He screwed himself both ways!

yep, you're all triggered. its none of your business.

You are 100% Correct !!

TRUE

no it would not it ruins any leftover finish underneath as well, it would be in the white

all rust is part of the original metal, thats what rust is, decaying metal, you need to stabilize it and than go as little as possible just enough to get the desired info,

Damn another for the idiot brigade!! Yeah that's what professional preservation is all about, some acid, a grinder and a hammer! You always see the three in their tool kits... I must confess when I watched this and I thought how the hell can ANYONE be that stupid. Then you commented and I thought ah yeah, quite easily lol...

lol... my ex was professional restorer, used to work for the British Library in London, he'd have a heart attack if he had watched this video. It does beggar the question where the brains are with some people, let alone common sense. I know they use a lot of sonic cleaning tools, and they do it very very slowly haha.. Can't tell you how many times he has done private work and I've had my kitchen table strewn with small tools and that constant humming of the damn sonic thing cleaning items. They also use tiny tiny little water jet things, don't know the names lol... :D But I tell you Nick there are many of them around sadly. You only have to look at bad restoration of paintings for that truth!! Brakes my heart to see what he did to that gun...

@@oldnick4707 I know, it's very very sad that every day our history is simply being destroyed by have a go idiots, with no idea of what they are doing. :(

Didn't you have any schooling at all? where do you think rust comes from - the Metal Fairy? It is part of the item.

Dumb ass

i, also, have restored many antique tools. I also restored a Lehman .36 cal trade rifle - very slowly and carefully. I did not attempt to get it back to original condition, only to remove superficial rust and grime. BTW, the first item on the agenda was to measure the depth of the bore to determine if it was still loaded. The critical key is knowing when to stop - or in many cases, not to begin.

When he gets a toothache, he probably says “never mind the dentist, i got me some tools…i can do it myself”😂 What an idiot.

He can get a job in the museum cleaning & polishing their stuff?

no

I was waiting for him to tie it to the rear bumper of his car and drag it down the street.

Dave -in-NJ pfff - is the old relic a religious artifact for you? Really? And old broken revolver? What’s wrong with doing a little cleaning up to try to read a serial number? It’s not like this hunk of rust has been attributed to someone famous like John Wilkes Booth or Al Capone. It’s a rust relic, a paperweight at this point and it’s his property let him do what he wants with it.

@@tango-bravo the battle of little big horn, Custer's last stand???? Yeah it is important you dumb shit.

you are as stupid as he is!

No. he did it to self-gratify...... not to authenticate..........

Radiography (non Invasive) would not reveal the numbers

Bill Bright .. Gound it all the way to a pile of dust and no numbers? ..then you sneezed, and now, nothing but a cloud of dust! Dangit. Reconstruction may be alittle more time consuming, no?

correct....this guy is a dumb asshat!

it is fucking painful to watch

It is certain further grinding is not going to reveal more of that first digit.

AND he called himself a jeweler and collector, I would hate to take a ring to get resized by this idiot before I saw the vid

I just screamed!!!!!!!!! TG somebody else reacted!!!!..... Feel the urge to punch an old man.

He's never heard of electrolysis?

Spaghetti Bolinnase. Thank you.

Are you joking? Not even close.

@@b.randal5404 OK then please educate us on the current forensic technique.

Some exceptional resources: ACHP - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Turnbull Firearm Restoration TRSA Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies Colonial Williamsburg Institute Pennfoster Gunsmith Restoration Accredidation CCAHA - Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts School of Historic Preservation George Washington University - Historic Preservation Program Getty Conservation Institute The list goes on should this not uncover an effective path.@@ir8d8rads

@@b.randal5404 I said forensic. This method was long used by police to determine the serial numbers of guns which had been removed or damaged. Still is as far as I know. It isn't perhaps proper treatment of an historic artifact. Note that this firearm's history or status as an historic piece was unknown prior to the discovery of the serial number... Unless any rusty Colt SAA should receive proper museum level treatment. I am not sure that in this condition the money would be justified to conserve the piece if it were just an old military issue. By the time of the Little Bighorn more than 30,000 Colt Army pistols had been produced. Over 300,000 by 1940. Just because someone said it was at Custer's last stand doesn't justify the type of treatment you are suggesting. Yes it could have been determined via Xray or electron-beam scanning. I just doubt that anyone would spend the money doing that on a completely ruined piece out of speculation.

Not Custer he had a Webley Bulldog.Now that would be a find.

The idiot childish remarks that abound on here make me wonder at the character of the individuals blasting this fella who authenticated the weapon and what the fuck is wrong with you people. He did a fine job of it, and you poses? It STILL is what it is knucklheads. If it was a big hunk of rust you would leave it as is??? Fuck off.

Ego I think .

Because he was so stupid, that's why you don't take any thing to jewelers to be restored, they have no fking idea.

He didn't know how to delete it, he tried grinding it off KZfaq now his phone is fked..smh

she was Cecilia Giménez, a Spanish lady.

😂

Lol

facinating news about the auction and well written commentary.

Trap door....

@@craigmignone2863 Yep, and the serial no. was very clear but other parts rusty. You could tell the way the gun had lain in the mud. Stock was broken and you could tell it had been used to strike something.. Leo had the serial no. looked up and they know the name of the trooper that carried it and the skull of a white man was found along the creek bed not 20 from the rifle. His daughters have the gun now. And because they were not too nice to Leo before he passed in 2017 I'll give you his last name, Bruce. (Leo Bruce) He was my mining partner for the last 5 years of his life. He was a Blackfoot Indian.