Pre Halloween Relic Finds with Dman-Video

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Pre Halloween WEIRD Relic Finds with Dman-Video

With Josh unavailable this week, Dman & I returned to the Williams Cleaner camp to hunt a little while between rain storms. We dug a few relics (shown in the pic) but the crop stubble severely restricts a decent coil swing. I recently verified with Butch & Anita of American Digger Magazine that the next issue (Nov.-Dec.) is at the printer and the Williams Cleaner Camp article is in it.
We attempted to hunt the Hartsville Battlefield/U.S. camp on Oct. 7 but only got to hunt less than 15 minutes due to storms. I went on a solo hunt there on Oct. 9. The finds from my last 4 short hunts there are shown with the Eagle cuff button in the middle of the pic. The iron canister shot is CS per the Cannonball Guy.
Some unusual relics have turned up for us recently (see the pic & watch the video for more views) so I traveled to Doug's store (pic) during the Friday rain to make pics & a video of them. Doug cleaned a bullet from the Williams Cleaner camp that he dug that appears to have a face carved into it. It’s hard to get a good pic with contrast but you can see the 2 eyes, nose above the top ring, & mouth. That bullet has been intentionally hollowed out. I dug two bullets fused together at the Williams Cleaner camp. Doug thinks they may be from a mid-air collision but they look more like a product of being thrown into a campfire together instead to me. It’s unusual for us to dig 2 bullets fused together. Last Saturday, I dug a cast iron stamp at the Hartsville U.S. camp with a “Y” on it that resembles print typeset. During the few minutes that Doug & I got to hunt on Oct. 7, I dug a .69 cal. round ball. I noticed a flat on the ball after cleaning. The flat had a pin hole where a straightened paper clip would go in about one quarter inch deep-not from pulling because no puller produces a hole that small. Tenn. Digger & John Freeman think that it was a molding flaw and they should know from the many thousand bullets they have dug.
If we are digging these weird relics during the first of October, what next? HH, from Doug & Quindy.

 

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[Nana40]

Y is for yankee. Now to find the D. hahahaha! I love all those weird finds! Especially the mummy face! Great going ya'll!
Nana

 

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GREAT post and video. We got some Weird finds too! Lemme tell ya, anytime you get Dman talking on a video, it starts looking like halloween to me.

Scary isn't it Will?-LOL. I know everyone will enjoy your upcoming post from this weekend. You & Molly made some very interesting uncommon finds for LA. HH, Q.

 

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For a long time, back when I began, I hunted almost exclusively for relics and Civil War stuff. I kind of got out of it and became just a lowly coinshooter in my old age. But, ya know, every now and then, I really do miss that part of my life. The resarch, the hunts, the talking with older people in the area to get tips. Let alone uncovering a nice old bullet, button or accoutrements.

Those were good times and I am envious Quindy.

WAF, my wife continually tells me that we make it look easy but we hunt sites that were hunted out 20+ years ago for the most part. We are North of Stones River & hunt local camps and the Hartsville Battlefield area. You know how much fun it is to feel that heavy CW bullet in a clod or see that green CW button in the edge of a dirt clod. Many people who hunt have never experienced that pleasure like we have & I never take it for granted as good sites continually disappear every year. HH, Q.

 

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Y is for yankee. Now to find the D. hahahaha! I love all those weird finds! Especially the mummy face! Great going ya'll!
Nana

That does look like Doug Nanners-LOL. Are you & Lisa going to post your recent outstanding finds? HH, Q,.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Great video as always Quindy

That carved bullet is pretty cool for sure..

~Blaze

 

[Breezie]

Quindy, You've made another nice video and post; the orange and black background/fonts didn't go unnoticed, but where is the SPIDER WEB pic? Are you saving that one for Halloween?

Way to go to you and Dman on kicking off the hunting season. GREAT article too!


Breezie

 

[ModernMiner]

Just got back from Hoosierville. Loved the post and the video Q. Congrats on the finds. When I grow up I want to own an F75 too. I'll have to stay with you a week so you can show me how to master it. Won't that be fun?
Those were some very unusual recoveries. I love the fused bullets and the carved face.
Speaking of face, can we see more of Cortney and less of Dman in your future videos? LOL. (Just kidding Dman. I love ya Buddy)
Thanks for the post Q.
-DUHg-
P.S. I crossed over the Cumberland River on my way up to Indiana and couldn't get the song you put in your videos out of my mind.

 

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Quindy, You've made another nice video and post; the orange and black background/fonts didn't go unnoticed, but where is the SPIDER WEB pic? Are you saving that one for Halloween?

Way to go to you and Dman on kicking off the hunting season. GREAT article too!


Breezie

Per your spider web request Breezie, here's the pic I made as I checked on cows calving on the back of the farm in the early morning last week. HH, Q.

 

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Great video as always Quindy

That carved bullet is pretty cool for sure..

~Blaze

Dman thanks you JB. Even that was a bullet that had been loaded per the ramrod marks on the tip & probably pushed back through the front of the barrel after the breech plug was removed, it never hurts to clean & look at them. HH Bud, Q.

 

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Just got back from Hoosierville. Loved the post and the video Q. Congrats on the finds. When I grow up I want to own an F75 too. I'll have to stay with you a week so you can show me how to master it. Won't that be fun?
Those were some very unusual recoveries. I love the fused bullets and the carved face.
Speaking of face, can we see more of Cortney and less of Dman in your future videos? LOL. (Just kidding Dman. I love ya Buddy)
Thanks for the post Q.
-DUHg-
P.S. I crossed over the Cumberland River on my way up to Indiana and couldn't get the song you put in your videos out of my mind.

I recall you owned a F75 & sold it MM-LOL. I'll ask Courtney if she wants to be in future videos in lieu of Dman-LOL. The lake house you bought is really cool. I can envision you sitting on the dock sipping on a mint julep. HH my friend, Q.

 

[WHADIFIND]

For a long time, back when I began, I hunted almost exclusively for relics and Civil War stuff. I kind of got out of it and became just a lowly coinshooter in my old age. But, ya know, every now and then, I really do miss that part of my life. The resarch, the hunts, the talking with older people in the area to get tips. Let alone uncovering a nice old bullet, button or accoutrements.

Those were good times and I am envious Quindy.

WAF, my wife continually tells me that we make it look easy but we hunt sites that were hunted out 20+ years ago for the most part. We are North of Stones River & hunt local camps and the Hartsville Battlefield area. You know how much fun it is to feel that heavy CW bullet in a clod or see that green CW button in the edge of a dirt clod. Many people who hunt have never experienced that pleasure like we have & I never take it for granted as good sites continually disappear every year. HH, Q.

Oh yes! I still get the rush once in a while. But, it's usually a surprise. Like the shell I found on my last post. It appears to be a 32 rimfire. Just don't see those much anymore. And this was at the old mansion! LOL

I do have a cornfield where I wander once in a while. Found a boot pistol barrel there last year and an incredibly diverse range of firearm bullets/shells. Some of the musket balls made me wonder if Dan'l ever hunted this far north.

Not only are the sites drying up but the aspect of time is beginning to play in also. I dug a civil war bullet this summer that rang up at a REALLY strange VDI. It was one of the most white covered bullets I'd ever seen! The corrosion was sooooo thick! I suspect that there may come a time when we can't find deeper ones because they're so hidden by the lead oxide!

Keep at it, Quindy. I do enjoy seeing the ole days again.