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bearbqd

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32 Spencers in one hole!!! Turned out to be 35!

:safety-goggles:After finding a few meager things in the morning, my afternoon ended fantastic. After lunch, I hit a section of woods that I hadn't been in before on the huge property I'm hunting. A running civil war battle was fought nearby, but the finds in the woods I am hunting have been few and far between. I walked right up to a spot where I got the tell tale signal of what sounded like a horse shoe. Sure enough, one popped out and I wondered if this was a cavalry horse shoe since I knew there was cavalry posted at a spot about a quarter mile from here. Immediately after I dug the shoe, I got multiple jumpy signals right beside where the shoe had been. I started digging one of the signals and out came a Spencer cartridge intact. YESss! I had never found one completely intact before. I placed my probe in the hole and got another signal. Cool, maybe more than one in this hole. Out came another one broken apart. Probe back in, another signal, another Spencer. More signals. Holy smokes, what have I stumbled upon? More signals, more Spencers came pouring out. I kept widening the hole until it was over three and half feet long. All told, 32 Spencers came out of one large hole and I managed to extract seven of them intact. I couldn't believe my good luck. Everytime I thought I was done, I would run the coil around the hole and get another signal and another three to four Spencers. What a great day it ended up to be and the weather was incredibly gorgeous.
Other finds include a nice condition 1891 indian, a small sword keeper type hook. Although I'm not sure that's what it is because of how small it is. Some fired lead, part of a spoon, and a what's it button or something. Thanks for looking





 

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Holy COW! Definite cartridge box or pouch spill..Way to go!
 
Man that is totally awesome! What a great find. I bet your heart was racing, I know mine would have been. HH.
 
NOW! thats a good Day:thumbsup:
 
Absolutely amazing, congrats!!! that poor soldier must have dropped his ammo pouch and just got the heck out of there.
 
That's a lot of lead in one hole, Nice fine, Congrats.
 
Honey holes are few and far between

But they sure are sweet!

Congrats!

Side question: What does everyone do with full bullets? Aren't they still dangerous?

Great finds!

HH
 
Well u got a lot o ammo now haha. Great finds
 
Bearbqd.... Great finds for sure. That is a lot of Spencers. Your little brass hook is a carbine sling hook. Tennessee digger
 
nice find WTG!!
 
Impressive! Congrats
 
sweet relics!
 
​Jackpot. Great finds.............. HH..
 
Way to go to get 7 Complete Spencers!!! That was a dream dig, Congrats! Nice Indian too!
 
Upload the videos to YouTube.com and then you can bring the link to the forum post. It automatically puts the video on your page.
 
The IH seals it! nice bullets too
 
Videos are up now
 
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[TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #FFFFFF"]Thanks for the replies everyone. I am super fortunate to finally find what appears to be a virgin site. This is a small area in the woods and there aren't a ton of relics there but what has come out so far have been super finds. You might have seen in my recent New York button post that I went back and found three more Spencer's by that hole, two of them being intact. So, that makes 35 out of that hole with nine total intact. I couldn't be happier.
My gut feeling is that there are at least several small areas like this on this mountain. It is within shooting distance of a running battle that took place. I have maps where different Union troops were suppose to be posted at the time, but this is the only one I have found by accident so far. I have hundreds more acres of woods to search so I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I stumble onto another good load. I'm really, really hoping to pull a Maryland or Louisiana plate out of here as I know they were there. But now that I have found buttons from three other states, that would be incredible to find a plate from any one of them. I know there was a house site where I think the one cavalry position was during the battle but I haven't been able to find it yet. I think it has been completely engulfed by the elements. I wish I had gotten to this site in the winter as vegetation is starting to get thick where I am finding everything. I'll keep you posted as to what else comes out of there. It's supposed to rain this weekend so that sucks. I may just take the AT Pro and go anyway. It's time to chrisin that thing by water anyway.


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Talking about "Get the lead out!" Really great job.
 

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