JimK
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Hello all.
I have never posted in Todays finds but, Saturday the weather decided to cooperate a little(almost 50 degrees) and we managed to get out for our first official relic hunt. A friend got us on a place that had a Civil War camp on it. It has been pounded fairly hard over the years but as they say a place is never really hunted out if you are willing to put in the effort. We started out finding a few horse shoes and the usual junk. Then I found some melted lead. A few minutes later my wife came over to show me a cool pistol bullet she had found. And before she could get back to her detector I came up with a nice three ring bullet. Now these finds finds may be mundane to a lot of you but we are very excited by them. I managed to find a plain flat button (with shank), some type of buckle, some melted lead and a camp spoon. But as excited as I was with these finds They sort of fell short compared to my wifes finds. She came up with the pistol bullet, the tip of a smashed 3 ringer, a US cavalry picket line hammer, a general service eagle button (with back and shank), What we believe to be the button part of a J-hook (stem is there but the hook is missing) and the two complete horse shoes. But the best of allwas a Eagle breast plate in really good condition. We both found the usual barbed wire and quite a few square nails. Does anyone know if the horse shoes are civil war era? Is there a way to tell? Anyway thanks for looking.
JimK
I have never posted in Todays finds but, Saturday the weather decided to cooperate a little(almost 50 degrees) and we managed to get out for our first official relic hunt. A friend got us on a place that had a Civil War camp on it. It has been pounded fairly hard over the years but as they say a place is never really hunted out if you are willing to put in the effort. We started out finding a few horse shoes and the usual junk. Then I found some melted lead. A few minutes later my wife came over to show me a cool pistol bullet she had found. And before she could get back to her detector I came up with a nice three ring bullet. Now these finds finds may be mundane to a lot of you but we are very excited by them. I managed to find a plain flat button (with shank), some type of buckle, some melted lead and a camp spoon. But as excited as I was with these finds They sort of fell short compared to my wifes finds. She came up with the pistol bullet, the tip of a smashed 3 ringer, a US cavalry picket line hammer, a general service eagle button (with back and shank), What we believe to be the button part of a J-hook (stem is there but the hook is missing) and the two complete horse shoes. But the best of allwas a Eagle breast plate in really good condition. We both found the usual barbed wire and quite a few square nails. Does anyone know if the horse shoes are civil war era? Is there a way to tell? Anyway thanks for looking.
JimK
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