Camp lead?

DCMatt

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I've read several posts where guys talk about finding CW "camp lead". Can someone describe to me what this stuff might look like?

I hunted (briefly) a CW site a few weeks ago and came up empty on relics (heavily re-landscaped area). But I did find a small bit of lead about the size of a dime. Flat, smooth, and round on one edge. Straight, as if broken off something, on the opposite edge. Could this be "camp lead"? Not sure that this was a camp area, but it was a battlefield (Ox Hill/Chantilly).

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Elvis

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Sure sounds like it, post a photo. Smoetimes this lead looks like it has been melted, it just depends.
 

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Camp Lead:
lead9py.jpg

About 30 lbs worth, that ain't no skoal can in the middle!! ;)

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Thanks for the replies and the education.

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Gribnitz

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camp lead is usually overflow from when they molded bullets around a fire. When it hardens you get a blob of lead. Usually find a lot of it in a campsite, more than anything else really.
 

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