vthepresident
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- Joined
- Dec 30, 2007
- Messages
- 213
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- 7
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- Location
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX, White's Prism II, Tesoro Sand Shark
Well, my recent discovery of my first three ringer (at a site with no civil war history) inspired me to find an actual CW site to detect. After consulting old Alabama CW maps, on Thursday I was led about an hour and a half out of town to where some throw downs late in the war occurred. I was merely doing recon for a weekend hunt, since it was late in the day. I was pleased to see that there were a few CW era homes in the area and that the land looked pretty much unchanged (rolling pastures and creeks). Long story short, the guy at the liquor store sent me to the lady on the hill who sent me to the guy down the street who sent me to the other guy down the street, and then it got dark before I ever got permission or an exact location for the action. Frustrated, I just hunted the same lame Birmingham parks I always hunt on saturday.
Today, however, the first lady was up for a roadtrip, so she agreed to go back to this place so I could try a little harder to get actual permission. It was a ridiculously beautiful day, and luckily, the second gentleman mentioned above gave us permission to search his 20 acres, with the caveat that it had been searched high and low for years and was probably dry. We were there about two hours, and I ended up with a fired three ringer (my second, but first that was probably fired at a person), and what I believe is a fragment of an artillery shell. Anybody agree with this ID?
Time to go came before any more finds, so I knocked on the owner's door to show him what we got. Apparently, his family had owned that property since before the war, so I gave him the bullet and fragment. He was very grateful, and said that he was a teacher at the local school, and they had a display there of CW relics for the kids to see, and that he would put them in there for all to enjoy. This seemed perfectly satisfactory to me, and he gave us an open invitation to return as well as the names of some locals who could point us in the direction of the heaviest action.
It was a great day spent with my wife, and I would take them all like this.
Thanks for reading!
V
Today, however, the first lady was up for a roadtrip, so she agreed to go back to this place so I could try a little harder to get actual permission. It was a ridiculously beautiful day, and luckily, the second gentleman mentioned above gave us permission to search his 20 acres, with the caveat that it had been searched high and low for years and was probably dry. We were there about two hours, and I ended up with a fired three ringer (my second, but first that was probably fired at a person), and what I believe is a fragment of an artillery shell. Anybody agree with this ID?
Time to go came before any more finds, so I knocked on the owner's door to show him what we got. Apparently, his family had owned that property since before the war, so I gave him the bullet and fragment. He was very grateful, and said that he was a teacher at the local school, and they had a display there of CW relics for the kids to see, and that he would put them in there for all to enjoy. This seemed perfectly satisfactory to me, and he gave us an open invitation to return as well as the names of some locals who could point us in the direction of the heaviest action.
It was a great day spent with my wife, and I would take them all like this.
Thanks for reading!
V
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