A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

[Smartin]

A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

Hope the pic works ok, I've had trouble with the camera.
Some lincolns, 5 dimes , a quarter, a Presto Jar & Closure Lid Co. cap ( with the "Good house keeping Seal" stamped on it), a broken file, nail, copper wire, bud cap, misc tabs, in the middle a 50 Caliber musket ball ( modern day however , hard to tell from pic ).
All this from about 8hrs hunting this weekend. I keep saying each dig could be the "one", this is not the one.

Quarter ID#from quattro 38
penney ID # 36 - 37
dime ID # 34 - 36
pull tabs ID# 17 to 20
Lead ball 32 - 33
alum. lid 38-40
bud cap 38-39
broken file discriminated ? just happened to be there
20 gauge shell 26-27

Hope to post more soon, and hope to get pictures right.
Thanks for looking at my junk.

Smartin



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[Daniel964]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Looks like you have your disc. set right to find the good stuff. It'll happen. Just keep going out. Anytime you can come back with money is good thought.

HH
Daniel

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Well you found way more than I found today....cuz I didn't go out.

How can you tell that was a new musketball?

 

[Smartin]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Well you found way more than I found today....cuz I didn't go out.

How can you tell that was a new musketball?

Some of ridges left from molding are on the perimeter, which I'd believe would make it modern, but I'm not an expert.It fit perfectly into my brothers 50 cal mold.

Smartin

 

[Getty]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

great assortment of things smartin!Thanx for giving ID#s,I think these are the types of things that help others.WTG!!

 

[Burdie]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

WTG on your finds and I wish you luck in your next outing. HH Burdie

 

[EDDE]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

cool junk throw us some better stuff in a few months,keep learning..

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Smartin,

glad you were able to get out.

have a good un..............

 

[willie d]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Good job on the picture, Smartin. Nice assortment of finds.

 

[treasures4me2find]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Congrats on your finds, looks like you found a nice assortment of things. WTG

Ken

 

[Leon]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Clad and bullet is better than them nasty old pull-tabs...
Better luck next time, & Happy hunting~

 

[birdman]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Way to go !! Good bunch of finds. When are you heading back to Germany for a hunt?

 

[Smartin]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Hey to all, Thanks for looking. I've got some really good potential sites to hunt, I'm kinda waiting until I feel more experienced with the Quattro. It may say ready to use out-of the box (and it is), but you'd be digging 99% of the time.

Smartin

PS: I'm still trying to get better pictures for posting.I've got some advice so maybe the next ones will show a little more detail.

 

[Smartin]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with some junk----

Way to go !! Good bunch of finds. When are you heading back to Germany for a hunt?

Birdman, I'd really like to make it back this summer or fall. The wife hasn't ever been to Europe and I've never detected there!Got to get the annual Florida vacation done first.

Smartin

 

[Charlene]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

Sweet Smartin, WTG, my goodness I hope theres never a last dig. Keep on Hunting.

If you're using a digital camera, see if it has a Macro mode for close ups. I wore myself out trying to get good pictures when I gave in and drug out the owners manual.

 

[Smartin]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

Charlene,
Thanks for the advice, I think I may have figured out the problem. If you look at the photo KB's now they are smaller than when I posted them. I need to use a different format (i THINK)?
Smartin

 

[Nana40]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

I like finding those old bullets.

Congrats on your finds SM!

 

[Southcacalaky]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

Neat finds. Congrats, HH Art...

 

[JakePhelps]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

Some of ridges left from molding are on the perimeter, which I'd believe would make it modern, but I'm not an expert.It fit perfectly into my brothers 50 cal mold.

This just says that it was made in a mold, and musketball molds have been around as long as musketballs It has a possibility of being old

 

[nevrdundetecting]

Re: A 50 Caliber shot & some pocket change! with junk----new musketball picture

cool finds smartin.....I found a presto jar lid last weekend....just like yours, I had never seen one of those before, lots of writing on them

HH