shanegalang
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To start the new year off Buckleboy invited a couple of other tnet members to come down to Louisiana to do a little digging in the sugarcane fields. I was unable to join them all on the first day but on the 2nd day I met up with BB, Vol1266X and Dman for a day of muddy boots and coil swinging. We did some rows where the previous day had given up a near complete spur and an old nickle. There had been some known history of CW occupation relatively close by. As usual I get aggravated pretty quick with silty clay mud that weighs 12 pounds on each boot so i opted to walk the turn row which is flat and has a bit of grass on it. It wasn't very long before i got a nice solid signal on my Cibola that i actually thought would have been a discarded can that a farmer had thrown out, I had been over this same spot before with my Cortes and probably let that screen deter me from digging. Out came this bullet mold which at first glance i somehow thought was part of a spur of some type. Walked over to BB and asked what he thought it was and he immediately seemed pretty excited so I knew i had something good. We called the other guys over and Vol1266X confirmed that it was a bullet mold and what caliber and also a little bit of history about it. I've also included a picture of how the pistol would have came with the mold and a flask. It's my understanding that soldiers often brought these along to battle as a back up pistol. This one obviously has seen a plow many times thus the bent handles.
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