Detected Again Today.

Thx for the reply. Yeah this is a toy gun probably from around 1960s or older. Ive been finding all this stuff in my yard. I keep finding coins from around the 40s-60s but no dimes or quarters yet.
Sooner or later A silver dime or quarter will pop up.

KurtS:
Yeah Ive been finding all this in my yard. I remember a week ago I wanted to practice using the detector in my yard and I started finding stuff. So as long as I'm finding stuff Ill keep detecting here lol.
The primer is still intact. The sad thing is there was a shotgun shell right beside it but it fell apart when I held it. The shotgun shell had paper casing.

1913-V: I have, over the years, found a number of dimes and quarters immediately beside sidwalks and curbs, even in areas that are frequently hunted by others with metal detectors. Go slow, work carefully, because the coins can be on edge, and give faint and/or inconsistent signals.

I think what happens is people (men mostly, I suppose) pull their carkeys from their trouser pockets, and out pops a coin or two unnoticed. They fall at the edge of a sidewalk and get trapped in the grass on edge, and there they stay.

Just a thought...do with it as you will. I once found two Barber dimes and three Mercury dimes at the library in my hometown. I was searching along the edge of a small cement retaining wall. The main lawn had been searched many times, I'm sure, because the building is from the late 1800's and just looks like there should be great coins just waiting to be found. But no one had taken the time and made the effort to do a careful search right up against the retaining wall. (The top of the wall was just above ground level, so it was, in some sense, similar to searching along the edge of a sidewalk.

"who knows maybe he liked to hunt."
The shotgun shell might explain that, but the 5.56 blank is definitely military issue--not available to civilians--why I was so surprised. If you're curious, there should be markings around the primer. Mil issue typically has 4 letters or numbers spaced evenly around the base. More info than you perhaps care, but I've found many of these on army bases.

Maybe they kept the gun at their house?

Anyway nice find for your yard!

USA would have heaps buried, but not Australia...