Civil War bullets, some sinkers, coins and odds and ends...

[aquachigger]

I had a fun hunt yesterday, the water was cool and clear and the finds plentiful. One area I was in is a wading area that is almost paved with modern coins. I dug some, but it was toward the end of the hunt and I tired of it perhaps a little too quickly. I did manage one beat up ring there, so maybe I should go back.

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Here is an interesting sinker that was made by pouring lead into a bottle cap and adding a hook fastener. It's a first for me!

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Next up is somewhat of a mystery to me. I have found many of these over the years, but can't figure out why. It is a mold sinker that has had the eye chopped off. There is no way to attach a line, so what were they used for? Any ideas?

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Next is a Civil War minie ball that was pounded into a box like thingy. Just thought it was interesting.

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And finally is a Civil War canteen pewter spout that some soldier has carved a spider web like design into it. His artistic abilities pretty much match mine :P

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Thanks for looking!

 

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[steelheadwill]

Nice Stuff! love the bottlecap sinker and Etched canteen spout
That ring looks like an oldie.
Looks like it has a stone??
Water hunts are great

 

[ModernMiner]

Congrats on the CW relics. Well done.
-MM-

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Pulling CW relics and battery money at the same time = awesome hunt! HH, Mike

 

[Silver Searcher]

Good set of finds, that kept you busy I used to make my own fishing weights

SS

 

[docf225]

Great finds. The bottle cap sinker is a trick taught to me by an old time Duck Hunter who used them to balance and weight his carved decoys. He'd put the decoy in a stock tank and see how it floated. He'd tie the anchor line then he'd attach the bottle cap weights with small brass screw eyes to get the deke to sit right in the water.. Today's injection or blow molded decoys make those type of tweaks obsolete.

Happy hunting.

Doc

 

[Lee43]

Really like the canteen spout...................Lee

 

[aquachigger]

Great finds. The bottle cap sinker is a trick taught to me by an old time Duck Hunter who used them to balance and weight his carved decoys. He'd put the decoy in a stock tank and see how it floated. He'd tie the anchor line then he'd attach the bottle cap weights with small brass screw eyes to get the deke to sit right in the water.. Today's injection or blow molded decoys make those type of tweaks obsolete.

Happy hunting.

Doc

Thanks for the info Doc. Seems like I learn something new every day. Thanks too for the comments everyone!

 

[Old River]

Nice finds. Like that art work. Congradulations....

 

[allen]

looks like you had a great day of detecting !!!

 

[SC Keith]

Love to see the soldier art---nice finds!

 

[Getty]

cool finds! Just a guess but cound cut off weight have been tied in the corners of a cast net?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Wow aquachigger! You did well at the wading area yesterday!

If that was me . . . I would've never gotten tired finding all those treasures!

I'd get back there fast if I were you!

Dave

 

[worldtalker]

Listen hear Aquachigger,I'll make a deal with ya,Tell me where it is and I'LL GO BACK FOR YA!

 

[wwwtimmcp]

eye probably broke off, if you get a bubble in the mould it weakens the sinker. I have a couple of bottle cap sinkers too,I like the thumbprints. stick thumb in soft dirt pour sinker and drill or pound nail through for an eye. nice finds.

 

[aquachigger]

eye probably broke off, if you get a bubble in the mould it weakens the sinker. I have a couple of bottle cap sinkers too,I like the thumbprints. stick thumb in soft dirt pour sinker and drill or pound nail through for an eye. nice finds.

Thanks for chiming in. I've never heard of a "thumbprint" sinker, but is sounds very feasible. I will definitely go through my collection to see if I have anything like that. As far as a weak pour, that makes perfect sense too. And the wading pool treasures... dude, pretty much all I found there was modern change. But I do want to go back, but there are other places I need to check out that may be L.O.A.D.E.D.... (always dreaming, that I am ) Thanks for the comments everyone!