Old Dog said:
The pants or trouser clip is a suspender clip. My Pop (grandpa) had some that were leather and would either hook over a clip like that or a botton sewed inside the waist band of the trousers.
OD
Which pic are you talking about?
ivan salis said:
I shoot black powder guns even humt with em during "muzzle loader" season primer caps are very small and thin not even close to that in size---what you have is the "mushroomed" outer copper coating of a bullet ---normally the lead and copper are "bonded" together and stay together--- once in a great while you have a defective one--- where the lead comes apart from the copper---bad news ---and a bit dangerous---a screwed up shot to say the least---that what you got there---trust me on this one---Ivan
I thought that they used a large precussion cap on cannons. I know you guys are right and that its a copper jacket. I just want to get things sorted out right into my mind. I know that the percussion caps for muzzle loaders are tiny, I've fired my own quite a bit. I guess I just assumed that there was more to my little dug trinket especially since I've dug a couple of these just like the one in the pic. Maybe the acidity of the ground here is enough to corode the lead and through the spring thaw the 2 get seperated and thats why I'm not finding the whole bullet. Its definately been a nice conversation piece so far. Thanx for straightening me out. Swizzle
