AT Pro sniffs out some battlefield relics

Dwight S · Jan 4, 2012

A friend & I went out to some private property that was a battlefield 150 years ago and hunted for a few hours on Monday. Key saves included this 3-ringer at about 10”. Signal was weak, no VDI but a good repeatable high tone. And this “poker chip”. I think it's from a pounded out musket ball, not the typical 3-ringer chip you see most often. It was about 6” deep and on edge. When I came upon it, I got two identical signals about a foot apart, I thought I'd found a couple of bullets. I decided to dig one, then the other. Upon digging down, I kept getting the signal, but I couldn't find it & the ProPointer couldn't find it either. After a few minutes I decided to expand the hole to the other target and within a couple of shovel scoops, it was out of the hole and the other signal was gone.

Other finds for the day included a few pieces of melted lead and a couple of whatsits. The small piece looks like a percussion cap base, but the top confuses me… The two clips are small and the eye/slots are tiny. They’re too small to be suspender clips, and I don’t think they are garter clips. I've also posted these items in the What Is It forum for help on identifying them.

relicminer · Jan 4, 2012

Man that AT PRO is finding some small stuff, makes my choice of the AT PRO even feel better.... :icon_thumleft:

Dwight S · Jan 5, 2012

relicminer said:
Man that AT PRO is finding some small stuff, makes my choice of the AT PRO even feel better....

The AT Pro will find small stuff, and that's with the sensitivity down two notches, I can't run my sensitvity full while I swing in the cotton stubble at this site, I get some falsing. NOTE: I couldn't run sensitivity full using my White's XLT either, I tried it...

I find that if I get a good signal that is repeatable but with no VDI, then I'll increase sensitvity to full and slowly sweep the target. This will usually give me a number...

Also, with the small stuff, a pinpointer is a must have!

The small item pictured above was ID'd as a boot eye-hook. Funny thing, two of these were recovered from this field, a couple of hundred feet apart...