HomeGuardDan
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I had a business trip and managed to get out for a little while just prior. I had 2 hours on one evening before the storms rolled in back at my old colonial site and I managed to dig another 12 musket balls of various calibers. It was slow at first until I got into another little pocket and unfortunately the storms began rolling in. Until that, I had only found one musket ball and a few brass tacks. At the end, I had 12 musket balls of various calibers, two buttons (one big tombac did not make it out of the crust complete), two broken early buckles and a piece of pewter that I swore was going to be a cob as it read higher than most pewter typically does.
The next day I managed to meet a good friend and explore a stretch of river (more like swamp) that I have been meaning to get to for some time. It was slow, but steady slow for the day with the occasional bullet here or there. We did get into one hot spot where he recovered a nice US cartridgebox plate and a pile of bullets. he was kind enough to let me join in and dig a few bullets as well. I ended up with 14 civil war bullets for the trip with my best being a nice dropped C.S. Richmond Lab Sharps (I do not have many of these bullets).
Total for the two trips (about 10 hours of hunting) were 26 bullets spanning over 200 years!.
As always, I had fun. We are heading on a vacation and then a 4 day camping trip with my bud Beau again to do some more relic hunting!
HH
Dan
The next day I managed to meet a good friend and explore a stretch of river (more like swamp) that I have been meaning to get to for some time. It was slow, but steady slow for the day with the occasional bullet here or there. We did get into one hot spot where he recovered a nice US cartridgebox plate and a pile of bullets. he was kind enough to let me join in and dig a few bullets as well. I ended up with 14 civil war bullets for the trip with my best being a nice dropped C.S. Richmond Lab Sharps (I do not have many of these bullets).
Total for the two trips (about 10 hours of hunting) were 26 bullets spanning over 200 years!.
As always, I had fun. We are heading on a vacation and then a 4 day camping trip with my bud Beau again to do some more relic hunting!
HH
Dan
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