Awesome hunt at an Indian Wars Army Camp in Nebraska! First seated, bugle mouthpiece

[jagchaser]

My first seated!

Bugle mouthpiece! Probably my best find for the trip. Im super excited about this one piece and not exactly sure why! lol

Piles of casings, and 4 intact misfired 45-70 from a trapdoor springfield!

Gilded Infantry Eagle Button


Ended up with 14 Eagle buttons, lots of misc....

UMC headstamp from the very first shotgun shell UMC every marketed. Entirely brass, it was sold unloaded.

 

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[thrifty76now]

Awesome assortment,and a really sweet seated there,

 

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[jagchaser]

What a great hunt, that's an excellent bunch of finds. You must be on a real hotspot because you got a bit of everything. Nice job cleaning that button!

It really is a hotspot! I don't really want to say much about the spot because it might be too easy to pinpoint. I will say that the current owner bought it relatively recently from his uncle. Its been in the family for a century at least and nobody had been allowed to hunt or metal detect until now. Ive got an older neighbor who has detected all the old sites. He has tried to detect it for decades, now he wants me to take him since I have an "in". Ive decided, if he offers to take me to his honey hole ghost town in CO then I will take him here.

 

[jagchaser]

Awesome assortment,and a really sweet seated there,

I couldn't believe it popped out that nice either! The site was abandon only a couple years after 1877 so it was dang near new when it was dropped.

 

[jagchaser]

https://youtu.be/LGbEkmi41r4
Video of one of the Eagle buttons