1918 bullets

[diabolicalbeans]

There is a local pond that was drained, I saw a guy on youtube who's been detecting there and he's finding some really amazing stuff, like old coins and jewelry! It seems like a fantastic spot so I decided to give it a try today, the spots I went had already been detected and I only found bullets. Hundreds of bullets! I fear maybe I missed out on some amazing finds, but the bullets are neat.
WRA CO 18
As far as I can tell they are from springfield armory which is nearby and from 1918.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

WRA CO is Winchester Repeating Arms. New Haven, CT. The war ended before they needed that round. Gary

 

[Jon Stewart]

The 30 cal bullets from the WW1 era were head stamped with the year they were made. I have many that have two digit dates on them from the early teens. I detected these at WW1 army training sites out west.

 

[diabolicalbeans]

Are they worth collecting? There were lots of them but I only took 2.

 

[Jon Stewart]

Well not sure about collecting. I left more than I brought home. Most of what I have are just the casings although I have a few live rounds and a few blanks rounds. I also recovered some stripper clips and put the casings in them and gave them to the grandkids to play with so I guess there is some value. I also gave some to two local gun shops for their show cases that display old stuff.

We were detecting for uniform buttons and other military things.

 

[Wildcat1750]

It pays to research headstamps when you find old rounds like that. Great find!

 

[CASPER-2]

they used to test fire there - im a spfld area native

 

[bologna321]

Looks to be fired, maybe they threw all their duds in a pond lol