Flood Damage

[VIP3R 237]

On September 11, 2012 my home town of Santa Clara Utah after 3 inches of rain in just a couple hours was flooded after an earthen dam broke. In all about 30 homes and businesses were damaged from the floods. Thankfully no one was hurt. Unfortunatley in many of the homes were numerous firearms and collectables.

My cousin is a local gunsmith that i occasionaly work with when he needs an extra hand, after the flooding we've been taking in many of the flood damaged firearms and here are some pictures as we've been trying to clean them out.

Browning A5 20 gauge.












And here's some general flood pictures taken the day after
The dam i walked across every day in middle school.












Mods i wasnt exactly sure which forum to post this, so please move as needed.

[nineteenkilo]

That's a hell of a mess right there brother. Hope all ends well for ya'll.

[goodoleboy]

That's enough to make a grown man cry like a baby.

[VIP3R 237]

Its been almost hearbreaking, as soon as we've open up these guns dried mud and clay just fall out. So far we've rescued 2 browning auto 22s, 5 A5s, 4 BARs, and 1 benelli super sport, all from the same collection with about 10 more to come.

Heres one of the BARs.

[Pappabear]

That is just not right.
Good luck brother

[VIP3R 237]

A pretty bad XD after we cleaned the rust off. A lot of pitting was the result.

[C-grunt]

Do you have one of those solvent baths? That's about the only way I could think of to get all that shit out of those guns.

[VIP3R 237]

Do you have one of those solvent baths? That's about the only way I could think of to get all that shit out of those guns.

I wish, that would have made the job much easier. Most of the work was done with simple green, brushes, and toothpicks.