A day of Confederate Camp hunting

[dcooper1]

On Tuesday I was able to hunt with a friend of mine that had done a LOT of Confederate camp hunting in the New Market Virginia area. He was extremely knowledgable of the entire area, knew the location of all the camps, who was in them, when they stayed ect, ect........
It was a long day of swinging, we hunted from about 9am until around 4pm.
All I managed to get was 4 bullets and some type of i.d. disk. Goes to show you that not every day is awesome!!!
Two of the bullets are .69 caliber, one appears to be a Prussian 69. The other is a .58 Gardner, and a round pistol ball.
Not much for 7 hours of hunting but the potential was definately there, I felt fortunate to have the chance to get into a known Confederate camp!!!

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All finds for the day​

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3 bullets. 2 69's and a .58 Gardner​

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The 2 69's, the one on the right appears to be a Prussian​

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The one 69 appeared to be excessively "rammed", possibly "carved"​

 

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[VOL1266-X]

That would be a good day in Tennessee David. Good Finds!!! WTG.

 

[seger98]

That's a neat looking piece of lead, nice finds!

 

[3RINGER]

Nice finds, that one looks like a hat carved on the top of the bullet LOL

 

[John (Ma)]

Great finds, I am sure theres more.

 

[fortbball9]

It could have been worst.
Congrats on your finds

fortbball9

 

[sonny61]

keep at it. It's there

 

[Dman]

Nice bullets. Confederate relics are really hard to find. Looks like the site may have some potential.
Dman

 

[east tx digger]

Nice finds...Kepp going.

 

[johnreb1980]

Great finds.

 

[beetle662]

Looks like a good day to me! Congrats!!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

Good Finds bud. Nice lead, nice nipple protector, and Confederate Gardner All days we dig Confederate Relics are good; some are just better than other. Nice finds

 

[ModernMiner]

Nice variety of lead DC.
Congrats,
MM

 

[rjw4law]

The bullet was rammed repeatedly and hard to compress the powder ... bigger bang

 

[Goldlust]

Nice bullets. More luck to you-Mark

 

[KirkTN]

Nice finds. Anymore info on the 73 I.D. tag?

 

[dcooper1]

Nice finds. Anymore info on the 73 I.D. tag?

No idea, I haven't really tried too hard to figure it out. The guy I was hunting with says they have found LOTS of coins back as far as the 1600's !!!!!! I know its not THAT old but it could be from just about any timeframe.
It's pretty small and the hole for the attachment point at the top is very small so it couldn't have been held on by much. Maybe later when I get a chance I will put a picture up on the what is it forum to see if anyone else has any ideas.

Thanks
DC