Nice Weather Equals Nice Finds

[Sooper Dave]

It was a nice day to be out digging here yesterday. As luck would have it, I got a call from a home owner needing some help with a few things around the house. I hunted around this place a couple of times last year and had found over 25 CW bullets and some nice old coins. I got my work done by lunch and had about 3 hours to hunt around some. Things started right where I left off with a nice musket ball and up next was one of those huge .69 caliber Minie Balls. I took my time hunting in TTF and sniffed out some nice lead and coins. I've searched the big front yard pretty well and I'm hoping the other parts of the property is holding some nice keepers. HH & GL David.

 

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[JerV3]

Nice stuff

I love finding those three ringers. We have a arsenal here in my city that goes back prior to 1812 and you used to be able to find hundreds of them. Nowadays your lucky you can find one at this site now.

HH Jer

 

[Sooper Dave]

Yeah it's always fun to find old lead. I never get tired of seeing one in the hole.

 

[DirtStalker]

Great Digs Dave looks like you were busy digging yesterday. What is the Pontiac Token?Was this a picket post. It looks like atleast 1 bullet was screwed out

 

[Sooper Dave]

Great Digs Dave looks like you were busy digging yesterday. What is the Pontiac Token?Was this a picket post. It looks like atleast 1 bullet was screwed out

Thanks. Not sure if it was a picket post. I've found several places in this area where it seems the soldiers stood to reset their rifles. Lots of pulled bullets and drops. Some looked to be fired straight onto the ground. But not much brass to be found.

 

[against the wind]

Lots of nice targets,
Congrats

 

[Sooper Dave]

Great Digs Dave looks like you were busy digging yesterday. What is the Pontiac Token?Was this a picket post. It looks like atleast 1 bullet was screwed out

Oh and the Pontiac token is a GM advertisement token talking about being chief of the six cylinders. Probably from to 50's-60's I have found others like it.

 

[Sooper Dave]

Lots of nice targets,
Congrats

Thanks!

 

[A2coins]

love those old coims nice

 

[tony curnick]

That's a lot of ordinance to have found in a garden
...fantastic finds..

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[relic nut]

Nice finds!! I love bullets. Probably buttons there to.

HH, Relic Nut

 

[Trezurehunter]

I like the Ford grease cap & the Pontiac "Chief of the Sixes" token.

 

[Sooper Dave]

I like the Ford grease cap & the Pontiac "Chief of the Sixes" token.

Thanks Trezurehunter. Those are always fun to find.

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice stuff

I love finding those three ringers. We have a arsenal here in my city that goes back prior to 1812 and you used to be able to find hundreds of them. Nowadays your lucky you can find one at this site now.

HH Jer

Jeremy, You forgot to mention that the arsenal (Allegheny Arsenal) blew up the same day as the battle of Antietam in 1862 and bullets were scattered far and wide!

 

[thrifty76now]

Your three ringers cleaned up really nice,mine have all stayed somewhat brown from that crazy red soil in South Carolina.

 

[sutphin]

JUST PERFECT .....

 

[Sooper Dave]

Your three ringers cleaned up really nice,mine have all stayed somewhat brown from that crazy red soil in South Carolina.

Thanks. Yeah they normally come out with that great white patina on them around here. But we have some of that clay this way too that leaves them stained.

 

[Sooper Dave]

JUST PERFECT .....

Thanks Sutphin. It's always a thrill to dig CW relics