Bamadirtfisher
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Fatcat's Picket Site - My first finds there
Hi folks. I’ve been reading your site (and a few other sites) since Feb of this year when I purchased my Whites T6, but this is the first time I have found something even remotely of interest, to anyone, to post.
Fatcat has been letting me tag along to the picket site he found and until this past Sunday I had not retrieved anything of note. He (over the last three trips) had found buttons and bullets, but alas I was digging shotgun shells, non-identifiable metal and square nails. While we knew that the nails came from the same CW era as the buttons he found, after the first ten in my pocket, they lost their “excitement”.
Last Sunday I had luck in digging three .69 cal three ringers. Fatcat was then subjected to watching a little old fat man do the “happy dance”. The three ringers have been on my “to find” list since I acquired my new MD machine early this year. Of note: one of the bullets had been a “pulled” bullet. That same bullet also appeared to be of Southern manufacture (the flattened area inside identifies) which adds a curiosity since the site is a Union Picket encampment.
My thanks go to Fatcat for his taking me along on his forays and for not laughing when I did the Happy Dance.
Pictured below are the pieces that I feel are related to the CW site. Part of a horseshoe, square nails, bullets and yet unidentified metal. All were found from 3 to 12 inches deep.
Hi folks. I’ve been reading your site (and a few other sites) since Feb of this year when I purchased my Whites T6, but this is the first time I have found something even remotely of interest, to anyone, to post.
Fatcat has been letting me tag along to the picket site he found and until this past Sunday I had not retrieved anything of note. He (over the last three trips) had found buttons and bullets, but alas I was digging shotgun shells, non-identifiable metal and square nails. While we knew that the nails came from the same CW era as the buttons he found, after the first ten in my pocket, they lost their “excitement”.
Last Sunday I had luck in digging three .69 cal three ringers. Fatcat was then subjected to watching a little old fat man do the “happy dance”. The three ringers have been on my “to find” list since I acquired my new MD machine early this year. Of note: one of the bullets had been a “pulled” bullet. That same bullet also appeared to be of Southern manufacture (the flattened area inside identifies) which adds a curiosity since the site is a Union Picket encampment.
My thanks go to Fatcat for his taking me along on his forays and for not laughing when I did the Happy Dance.
Pictured below are the pieces that I feel are related to the CW site. Part of a horseshoe, square nails, bullets and yet unidentified metal. All were found from 3 to 12 inches deep.
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