CW EAGLE SHOULDER BELT PLATE

[KRAZYHORSES]

hello t-net got back from a new site my friend and i started hunting this late afternoon the ground is littered with targets don't think it was ever hunted have hunted across the street at the big colonial barn foundation but never found the house foundation until i looked way out in the woods across the street yesterday i hunted it for less than 1/2 hr yesterday found out it was never done by the amount of stuff in the ground an told my friend so this early eve we went there i found some neat stuff but the take of the night is this awesome eagle my friend found it's about time he found a real keeper it's been 3-4 weeks since he struck pay dirt thanks for looking have fun and keep digging krazyhorses

 

[umrgolf]

Re: COLONIAL EAGLE

nice find Civil War shoulder plate

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: COLONIAL EAGLE

nice find Civil War shoulder plate

is that what it is? thanks scott

 

[umrgolf]

Re: COLONIAL EAGLE

nice find Civil War shoulder plate

is that what it is? thanks scott

yes sir, its a great find I hunt CW sites all the time, yet to find one

in about as good a condition as you can hope for btw

http://relicman.com/plates/P1732sell.htm

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: COLONIAL EAGLE

nice find Civil War shoulder plate

is that what it is? thanks scott

yes sir, its a great find I hunt CW sites all the time, yet to find one

in about as good a condition as you can hope for btw

http://relicman.com/plates/P1732sell.htm

AWESOME!!!! thanks for link

 

[soupie]

Re: CW EAGLE

Nice CW relic KrazyHorses,Congrats to your hunting bud on his find,Good luck on the return trip...Soup

 

[mirage83]

Re: CW EAGLE

Incredible condition for a dug piece.

 

[billydabeeg]

Re: CW EAGLE

Awesome find. wtg

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: CW EAGLE

here's my finds he didn't want to trade

 

[{Sentinel}]

Re: CW EAGLE

U.S. Eagle Breast Plate. Nice find

 

[Dman]

Re: CW EAGLE

Great breast plate
Congrats

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: CW EAGLE

thanks everyone put the gun under the faucet looks better still no eagle on it

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

found another site http://www.proxibid.com/asp/CatalogPrint.asp?aid=17747

 

[cntrydncr1]

congrats to your friend. I like the heel plate you got!

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Nice find!! You never get tired of digging those! It's in nice shape too..

MB

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice, nice find

 

[colorado14ers]

that is in amazing condition!!!!!! some of the zinc pennies in find are in worse shape!!! epic find! wtg

 

[VOL1266-X]

Great Find Scott!! I've found 2 of them and you never tire of finding those plates. Many Union Soldiers did not like to wear them as the gold gilted breastplate made a real nice target for the Rebels to shoot at. We find them in CSA camps too where the rebels stripped the breastplate and U.S. Box plates from captured leather cartridge boxes and used the leather. WTG, Quindy

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

thanks everybody vol i have heard that before about wearing those because of targets i have to stand corrected on my post the more i thought about the things that we dug it is my friend that found the nice butter fly a week or so ago didn't get out hunting today but i hope to find more to post it's all fun besides the eagle the best pay dirt of the week was his butterfly thanks again everyone scott

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Great Find Scott!! I've found 2 of them and you never tire of finding those plates. Many Union Soldiers did not like to wear them as the gold gilted breastplate made a real nice target for the Rebels to shoot at. We find them in CSA camps too where the rebels stripped the breastplate and U.S. Box plates from captured leather cartridge boxes and used the leather. WTG, Quindy

I think that is very true after the reality of war set in.. my theory is once they marched and marched... and marched.. they started tossing extra weight! So the breast plate was really the first frisbee! I can picture some private on picket duty.. feet killing him.. dumping 20 - 40 three ringers and tossing that breast plate as far as he could throw it! I've dug "pockets" of three ringers 20+ in a hole a few too many times over the years I just think they were not all spills.. I dug one that was 18 or so, all nose down and in a circle.. really leads me to believe that they were discarded on purpose.

NOT that I ever dumped weight form an ALICE pack out in the field

MB