no button, lots of bullets

[JC dig's]

In one of my previous post I wrote about how my sons found the back half of a CW button. Well my plan was to go back in my yard and try to find the rest of the button. Unfortunately I did'nt find the rest of the button, however, I did find several pistol bullets and one rifle bullet and some other stuff that I hav'nt cleaned up yet. I was thrilled to find some bullets in my yard I even found two in one hole! These were all found within a 15 foot radius about twenty yards from my house. Who would of thunk it! It just make wondefr what else we can find out there........

 

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[JC dig's]

oh yea if anybody has any idea what the rifle bullet is please let me know....thanks, -JC

 

[d2]

Top bullet looks like a Sharps and the rest look like Colt pistol bullets to me...d2

 

[JC dig's]

Thanks for the info d2, I think I need to get some kind of book that has this sort of stuff in it. Any ideas ?

 

[johnreb1980]

There are several great books out there,one of them is Civil War Projectiles 2 small arms and field artillery with supplement. By W.Reid Mckee and M.E. Mason Jr. I agree with d2 on the identification of the bullets.

 

[TomB]

jc....check out www.cwbullets.com..lot of information there. TomB

 

[ringfinder]

Nice collection of bullets. Were you using your Whites XLT? How does it do in the soil in your area?

HH, Ringfinder

 

[JC dig's]

Thanks everybody for al of the info. Ringfinder I was using my xlt I am very happy with this machine it blows away my fisher. As far as the ground here goes, its very mineralized and I think any machine would be sensative to it but with the XLT there is a lot of options as far as the settings are concerned and you can get peak performance most of the time. On a side note I had marked some targets befor they were dug amd the fisher hardly responded to them.

 

[ModernMiner]

JC,
Some great bullets, and in your OWN YARD!!! I'd be out there MDing all the time.
Congrats,
MM

 

[Genool]

JC...I'm wondering if that top bullet looks like the one I posted. It looks like it has those course rings at the bottom. Do you have a closer picture of it?
Great finds....Pretty cool..Keep us posted.

Genool

 

[CenterHit]

I'm with d2 looks like a Sharps and colt pistol bullets from you pic. Use the link below to get a positive Id on them.

http://www.baymediapro.com/collection/bullet_search.asp

 

[dorkyguy]

I said DANG!
now that is a honey hole!
you can go out there in your own yard and find relics, How cool is that!
Can't wait to see those bullets...bring them to work!
K

 

[Bridge End Farm]

still some very nice finds