2nd day in Louisiana behind confederate lines

[cwdigger]

Well its a little late but better late than never, I haven't had a camera until today so I just went and bought me a new one. Well myself bobby and Adam went back for the 2ND day in La. to hunt the private land we had permission to, bobby and Adam came out with alot of frags and bullets between the both of them but we only had about 4 hours to hunt on the 2ND day so we didn't come out with that much.

I got 1 Gardner bullet
2 sniper bullets
7 3 ringers
1 poker chip
1 something or another piece of lead
My 2ND 12 pound boreman cannonball (this time nonexplosive) Thank god
2 bigger than normal canister shot
a comb I think
and a what is it

I never would have thought how you had to get these bullets and other relics you cant find them surface hunting you have to dig sorta like a hut basically a 6x6 foot hole anywhere from 4-5 foot deep b4 you ever hit lead. We are planning on going back it will just be a while 16 hours was a long drive 8)

Thanks for looking

CW

 

[Cynangyl]

wow! you guys did awesome!! congrats on some great finds!

 

[TXDIRTFISHER]

Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[outback2000]

Kewl digs!!!

 

[3RINGER]

 

[cooltone23]

Sweet finds! WTG

 

[seger98]

Looks like you hit a good spot, congratulations on the finds!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice hunt and finds! You did well taking the pictures with a new camera. Is the poker chip that round piece of lead? HH, Mike

 

[rjw4law]

First time I ever saw a dug comb.

 

[VOL1266-X]

Great relics!!! Like the lead poker chip. WTG and more good luck at that site.

 

[PArebel]

Hi,
Those "bigger than canister rounds" are grapeshot. I had found a couple during relichunting and being a beginner did not know what I had. Showed them to an experienced relichunter and he told me they are grapeshot. According to Google a canister was "a tinned-iron can full of iron or lead balls". Grapeshot "has fewer and larger balls, held together with iron rings or trussed up with fabric and twine". The canister held about 28 rounds while the grapeshot was 5 or 6. Cannot even imagine the courage it took to attack an entrenchment in formation knowing cannons would be firing grapeshot or canister rounds.
Have a nice day and happy hunting.

 

[cwdigger]

Nice hunt and finds! You did well taking the pictures with a new camera. Is the poker chip that round piece of lead? HH, Mike

The poker chip is the smashed piece of lead that is folded they would often take a 3 ringer smash and fold it to make a poker or chess piece.

 

[nova treasure]

Pretty cool finds,
I Like the piece of the Comb,i dug a complete one minus the wood from the handle. Like was already said,you don't hear about many of these dug on here.

Nova Treasure

 

[Dman]

Awesome finds. Way to go.
Dman

 

[east tx digger]

Nice Relics.

 

[fortbball9]

Another great day behind the lines.
Hope to see some more pics
CONGRATS

fortbball9

 

[River Rat]

Glad you guys managed some good finds down here. Hope y'all got some good eating too...King Cake.

RR

 

[cwdigger]

Glad you guys managed some good finds down here. Hope y'all got some good eating too...King Cake.

RR

I tried the king cake for the 1st time but I was cheap and bought one from wolly world it was only 7 bucks, omg it was messy and it tasted like a 7 dollar cake, also went to the river boat casino and won about 80 bucks, yea we pretty ate good to. To bad crawfish season wasnt in.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Wtg digger! keep up the great work! looking forward to our hunt with dragon!

 

[KirkTN]

Outstanding Finds!