Recent Finds

[Crow Terminator]

War relic hunting has started to heat up for me now that deer season is over. You all saw the plate a few days ago. Here are some other items that I've dug in the past week. Mostly 3 ringers but one spencer with part of the casing on it. I love this stuff. I wish I wouldn't have got out of it a couple years ago and sold off all my reference books. Because those reference books I paid $25 a piece for back 10 years ago or so...are now relics themselves and selling for $75-$130. I'd like to have a couple of them again but I ain't payin that much. LOL.

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[Chaneylake]

all that civil war stuff is fascinating to me. when i was in college i had a friend that goodie hunted all the time. he was from the adamsville area. he once told me that he found a belt buckle and had a guys initials and last name scratched on the back side of it. he found in the archives where the guy was killed in the battle of shiloh. he later found the guys descendents and sent the buckle to them. all of this was pryor to 1973 when he told me this. great story whether its true or not

 

[Physiksgeek]

nice finds....

 

[scope eye]

What are the things on the far left side of the picture?????

 

[HornHunter]

it looks to be lead slag where the melted bullets or was making bullets

 

[Crow Terminator]

The melted lead blobs are just that....lead blobs. That's one sure sign to start slowing down when you are metal detecting and looking for a civil war camp site or picket post. You'll start hitting the lead blobs, bullets, or start hearing iron signals.

The minie balls and other similar ammo had paper crimped to the bullet that held the powder. That paper made great fire starters for the troops since bullets were so plentyful. So often times after the fire got started they would just chunk the bullet to the side, throw it in the fire (thus the lead blobs), or carve on it with their knife.

 

[Locksley]

nice finds....