2 hours worth of CW lead

[mirage83]

5 bullets, not bad at all for this area and the area I was hunting.



I had to toothbrush a solid crust of dirt/mud off of them (left enough to highlight details), and ended up with a few interesting ones...



The one on the far right has a definate slant to it, figure it hit the ground at a very low angle and ricocheted before coming to a rest where I found it. The center I presume was a low-velocity hit on something solid as it really flattened it but the bullet wasn't grossly deformed by the impact. It's the bullet on the left which has me guessing though.



Can't figure what it struck which left such nice angles on it. Thought it was carved at first, but once I got the majority of the dirt/mud off of it there's a ridge near the nose formed when the lead was pushed to the side.

Thanks for looking and for any idea's on these finds.

 

[Skelly607]

Not sure what it struck but very very nice lead!

 

[{Sentinel}]

There you go...some nice Civil War lead....keep at it, should be some buttons hiding around there somewhere

 

[mirage83]

Wish I could find a few nice buttons, but no real luck so far. Found a small handmade brass button in the same area as these .58's, and a larger brass one with a face or something missing off of it, but nothing nicer than that. Hunting buddy found a Union cuff button there though, about 70%-75% of the gilt still on it. Nice find that one.

 

[ModernMiner]

Nice CW lead Mirage. When you can dig up pieces of history like that it's a very good day.
Congrats,
MM

 

[Alarmadillo]

Nice bullets! The area where you found them, was it intrenched during the war? Your bullets show impact deformation typical of striking soft dirt (like a pile of recently shoveled dirt) at relatively long range. The one with the two gouges on the nose would have struck rocks in the dirt.
CW bullets are fascinating relics; good luck with your future hunts.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That's not bad any where!

 

[mirage83]

Nice bullets! The area where you found them, was it intrenched during the war?

Not in that immediate area. These five finds were all on the eastward slopes of a couple of the rolling hills in the Resaca area. I figure they're the remains of Confederate fire from the flats over by the railroad on day two of the battle after the Union forces had pushed beyond Camp Creek. These hills are pretty rocky under an inch or two of topsoil, so practically everything I'm finding there that was fired is beat-up to one degree or another.

Here's a pic of my most recent find on those hills...




The dirt on those hills is nasty, sticks to all these bullets like it was glued on. But I'll take lead over iron nails, railroad spikes and assorted garbage any day. Each one is a little story all it's own.