More January South Florida finds

[Gary Drayton]

5 lead musket balls and 40 lead buckie balls from the 1830s. This old ammo was found at one of my favorite out of way South Florida beaches using the Sovereign GT with the small tornado search coil. For anyone not familiar with buckie balls, they are part of the expression buck and ball, two or three of the smaller caliber lead balls were fired with the larger caliber musket ball to cause even more damage to the unfortunate person on the receiving end. These finds were fun while they lasted but the beaches are now heavily sanded in and unfortunately I think these are the last of my old finds for a while. It is time to head to the tourist beaches and do battle for the modern tourist bling.
HH Gary

 

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[scrounger d detector collector]

dern sand.....

will someone please invent sandaway ?

 

[BOXING63]

WTG Gary very nice hunt

 

[stevemc]

Nice finds Gary! I am sure you were on rock bottom to find all that lead. Good places are hard to find! Keep it up, Steve.

 

[Lorrain.]

Gary, that was a great hunt! Terrific count on the buckie balls
I know little to nothing about ammunition, but I learned something today from your post

Lorraine

 

[CASPER-2]

Nice Gary

 

[Les West Central Fl]

Nice find, you may find some old coins there.

 

[Bum Luck]

I've found buck & ball myself from a 1832 battlefield near here. Since you're unlikely to blow up a black powder musket, they're a "freeby". They must have been nasty.

The critical difference is that Wisconsin is now frozen in.

Good score.