WW1 staging area find plus 1890s veteran civil war reinactments

[fishguy]

WW1 staging area find plus 1890's veteran civil war reinactments

found 2 lead projectiles don't know if they are old or what, and an old looking shotgun shell. I know I am on target with my site, I found a 1913 wheaty and a trench communications insulator! 10 square yards down a ton to search yet. Oh also found a shotgun shell casing that my camera died before I got a picture, it has what looks like paper stuck to it and says on the back, NO. 12 US CLIMAX on it. ALOT of modern small arms in area also.

 

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[BosnMate]

You have some interesting finds. In my childhood shot gun shells were made from paper with a brass base. Plastic didn't come along until after the war, and even then most shells were still paper for a long time. If my fuzzy memory is correct it would be into the 50's and even later. There was the brass cup, and the balance of the shell was layers of paper. Your empty brass looks like they were loaded with black powder. Fired black powder leaves salts that eat up the empty brass. When I reload my 45-70 ammo, the brass has to be washed first.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

The military didn't use paper shot shells in WWI. They swelled up when damp. They used all brass until plastic became available.

 

[fishguy]

I was pretty sure it wasn't from wartime in fact I didn't show the 223 casings and 45 bullets that I filled my bag up with lol.

 

[fishguy]

anyone know what the ball and bullet are, just wanted to know if its modern buckshot or maybe an old pistol ball, The 22 looking thing at closer inspection has a ring around the bottom of it and the end is concave, has no rifling grooves on side(that I can see with 10x maginification) and held next to a modern 22 shell its a little bigger. I am sorry I don't own a caliper just was hoping the graph paper and cent would help in size comparisons. I also and assuming that the copper looking one is a modern jacketed round but confused me because it looks like pure lead in the center.