Civil War bullet.

Garabaldi · Aug 2, 2009

I was digging a rocky area that was exposed during low tide. Digging was difficult. My Whites pulse diver has no discrimination, so I dug a bunch of iron. Then BAM! I dug this civil war minie musket bullet. Made my day. Found about 76 cents in clad. Is an iron relic ever valuable? Once you see an orange streek in the sand, should I stop digging and bury it back up?

spartacus53 · Aug 2, 2009

WTG, nice bullet. Well I would dig it up and if it's garbage throw it away. Last month on July 12th I had one heck of a good find. All I could see at first was rust, but pulled out a tin of costume jewelry. You never know what you will find. If it were garbage I would have tossed it in the nearest can. There is no need to return to a site and dig that same bad signal.

allen · Aug 2, 2009

congrats on that nice looking c.w bullet !

Garabaldi · Aug 2, 2009

Good suggestion Sparta. Ty allen.

SomeGuy · Aug 2, 2009

Garabaldi said:
Is an iron relic ever valuable? Once you see an orange streek in the sand, should I stop digging and bury it back up?

Here's a rusty iron relic that was dug up:

http://www.treasurenet.com/cgi-bin/treasure/westeast/feature.pl/Show?_id=200805

trikikiwi · Aug 3, 2009

Well done Garabaldi :icon_thumleft:

I know what you mean about making your day finding the bullet. You know they can't talk but they can still tell a story. :icon_pirat:

And that's an excellent example - thanks Someguy - for the argument of 'do or don't find out, what it is you have found, when it looks like iron'.

Mike