CW relic hunting...small CS picket post found

sekypaleo · Oct 4, 2011

I am back from my first of 3 relic hunting vacations down in east Tenn. I have been saving vacation days to make long weekends for CW relic hunting in Oct and Nov. I was pretty fired up as I had done alot of research and my dad had then obtained permision on these new sites:
Day 1: hit a hard hunted battle site, but the grass in the pasture was pretty high and I only managed one mangled fired carbine bullet and 5 pieces of canister slugs.
Day 2: Hunted 2 picture perfect spots that my research showed alot of CW activity around but neither produced anything. Then went back to try and squeeze a few more relics out of the Union/colonial site that I have hunted hard for the last year. Managed to find some minies, a pack stud and a silver plated ?. With still a few hours of daylight left we talked with a property owner nearby who gave us permission to hunt the most god-awful, poison ivy infested pine thicket you have ever seen....and that also hid a CS picket post. Tons of melted lead and a handful of Confederate bullets.
Day 3: Hit the CS picket post/pine thicket from Hades again...and again, more melted lead and some M&M379 bullets. Not much brass this time...but now I have a CS camp to find! I'll end this post now and go back to scratching. Thanks for looking and HH'ing!

VOL1266-X · Oct 4, 2011

You had a good hunt anyway Bill. Good looking lead. Keep on looking, that virgin site is there. By the way, poison ivy doesn't bother me. I used to build deer stands in the stuff to keep others from using them-LOL. HH, Quindy.

Getty · Oct 4, 2011

Great digs there ! Perhaps you sould try this for the ivy. WTG on the recoveries.

Lakemonster · Oct 5, 2011

Nice!

I dug the same type buckle as yours at the beginning of the year! Still dont know what it is for....is that off some sort of horse tack?

Oilfield Diver · Oct 5, 2011

I have dug one or two of those buckles also. Thinking horse tack as well.

MKnTenn · Oct 5, 2011

Nice pile of bullets! Hope you find the main camp next time. HH

sekypaleo · Oct 6, 2011

VOL1266-X said:
You had a good hunt anyway Bill. Good looking lead. Keep on looking, that virgin site is there. By the way, poison ivy doesn't bother me. I used to build deer stands in the stuff to keep others from using them-LOL. HH, Quindy.

Poison ivy gets me pretty good, even if i use Tecnu right afterwards....but it is a major problem for my dad...therefore I dug many of his signals in that mess for him.
It's funny 3 months ago I pointed the site out to my dad and said we should check it out....he responded "Lord, that looks rough in there"....now he's taking credit for finding it! There should be a camp nearby...and I have a good idea where....next week I should know. Wish me luck.