Guns and Roses

[ModernMiner]

Well, it's 60 degrees and sunny here today, so you know what that means.....
I hit the farm again for a quick lunchtime hunt. It was a VERY productive lunch I must say. I found some more CW relics and another bracelet which I will post tonight once I get home and clean them off a bit. For now, here are a few other finds.
*I has getting a lot of hits around the old flower garden area, and dug up some rose tags. I'm sure there are more, but I was in a hurry.
*A shotgun shell head - "Winchester Nublack No. 12"
*A very strange bullet casing. I know this sounds strange, but the shell (casing) is metal of course, but there is WOOD inside. What the heck did I find? I don't see anything on the headstamp area. This may be a very stupid question, but were there bullets with wood inserts in them? (Don't laugh)
Did the wood grow into the casing? It was the same length as the casing.
I'm dying to hear the answer to this one.
Thanks for looking,
MM

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

Looks like a bored troopie pounded the casing into a piece of wood. I may have done something like that when I was a troopie. HH, Mike

 

[theloadroom]

Could the casing be the same diameter as a wood arrow shaft? If so someone probably made a "blunt" for practice shooting or keeping other farm animals out of the garden

 

[Monty]

A propelleant called cordite was used in Britian beginning in about 1901. It resembled sticks of wood placed inside a cartridge case. Don't know what it might look like after years in the ground though? Monty

 

[grogmug]

thought u were talking about my favorite band for a second there. I found something similar to your tags in a Civil War houses front yard. What exactly are they?

 

[ModernMiner]

thought u were talking about my favorite band for a second there. I found something similar to your tags in a Civil War houses front yard. What exactly are they?

They are tags from rose bushes.
Hey, wait a minute...... Rose bushes & Axl ROSE. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
By the way, that was the last concert I ever went to. Aerosmith and Guns & Roses out in Calif. back in the 80's. Yeah, Baby!!!
-MM-

 

[Ridley]

MM,
Those rose tags make quite a tone. Don't they? Kind of hard to ignore.



Ridley

 

[goldencoin]

cool, i have the same plant tags 8)

HH
-GC

 

[ModernMiner]

Well, I pulled the wood piece out of what I thought was a bullet casing. (I couldn't resist)
The small hole on the end goes all the way through (you can see through it now). Now I'm thinking it's not a casing at all, but something else. Oh well. Thanks for the guesses anyways.
-MM-