LITTLE LEAD

got2dig · Feb 4, 2014

Got out for a short hunt, the rain was on the way. And boy did I get wet. But pulled some lead up. And one piece of brass I have no clue what it is, may be off a belt. It's got some weight to it.
Thanks for the look and hope you all are pulling it up. HH...

This one is cool. looks like it was cut

Msbeepbeep · Feb 4, 2014

Nice lead you got there!

I would love to go out and pull anything out of the ground, unfortunately the ground isn't cooperating and is frozen solid right now! So we waiting and watching the rest of you guys dig up goodies. I am sooo ready for winter to be OVER!!!

vpnavy · Feb 4, 2014

Peyton Manning · Feb 4, 2014

ground is frozen and so is the snow on top of it!

flatbutton · Feb 4, 2014

Nice assortment! The sliced 3 ringer is pretty cool! I feel your pain on the weather. right now in my area, It's a D*** mudhole! And the forecast is rain all the way through the weekend. :BangHead:

fish1on · Feb 4, 2014

Nice finds, I save up my lead and melt it down in my production pot to make fishing jigs out of.

tennessee · Feb 4, 2014

Nice SAVES. Congratulations.

master_cat · Feb 4, 2014

nice finds man we need to go diggin

Silversurfer79 · Feb 4, 2014

Msbeepbeep said:
Nice lead you got there!

I would love to go out and pull anything out of the ground, unfortunately the ground isn't cooperating and is frozen solid right now! So we waiting and watching the rest of you guys dig up goodies. I am sooo ready for winter to be OVER!!!

Longest winter ever!!!!!!!!!!

Pointman · Feb 5, 2014

Nice. Interesting, I wonder if the bullet was carved in half? The one musket, looks like it could have been chewed on.

Could the dark thing with two holes be a tent rope tightener?

Davers · Feb 5, 2014

fish1on said:
Nice finds, I save up my lead and melt it down in my production pot to make fishing jigs out of.

Hopefully NOT Civil War Period Lead. LOl

markp · Feb 5, 2014

that's some nice TN lead, good digs

got2dig · Feb 6, 2014

Pointman said:
Nice. Interesting, I wonder if the bullet was carved in half? The one musket, looks like it could have been chewed on.

Could the dark thing with two holes be a tent rope tightener?

Pointman, it looks to me to have been cut. It's to smooth to have been shot. The brass is to small for a tent rope, it's more like the size of a belt buckle loop or like a hanger.
Very heavy Brass and a nice green patina.
The round ball was shot. This spot had a lot of activity with small camps all over it.
I have got some nice relics from there. They just keep rolling up. But you have to work hard all of them. HH....

got2dig · Feb 6, 2014

markp said:
that's some nice TN lead, good digs

Thanks, Mark. We all know I love the lead. HH....

got2dig · Feb 6, 2014

Davers said:
Hopefully NOT Civil War Period Lead. LOl

That was my thought as well Davers.

got2dig · Feb 6, 2014

mr.b said:
Nice assortment! The sliced 3 ringer is pretty cool! I feel your pain on the weather. right now in my area, It's a D*** mudhole! And the forecast is rain all the way through the weekend.

Thanks mr.b, It looks like will have some time to go tell we dry out. My outer layer was sooo wet. It took all I had to get over the wood fence. I all ways take a fall on them things. HH...

got2dig · Feb 6, 2014

Msbeepbeep said:
Nice lead you got there!

I would love to go out and pull anything out of the ground, unfortunately the ground isn't cooperating and is frozen solid right now! So we waiting and watching the rest of you guys dig up goodies. I am sooo ready for winter to be OVER!!!

Yep, it's has been frozen here but not but the first 2 or 3 in. Hope you get a thaw soon. HH....

Old Dude · Feb 6, 2014

fish1on said:
Nice finds, I save up my lead and melt it down in my production pot to make fishing jigs out of.

Oh no! You melt your lead?!? I love the old bullets. Don't think I could ever destroy mine. I'd melt my oldest coin first, lol.
I really like that cut one too, got. The patina says it was cut long ago.

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MT_Joe · Feb 6, 2014

Yep, would love to know the story on the cut bullet.

Here's my theory. Someone many years ago was cutting firewood and it was lodged in a tree. He cut it in half and the man didn't notice or care and it fell out of the wood.

Here is an example

It also happened to me a few years back on my own property with a round ball. I cut it in half as smooth as could be, then lost it before I got back to the house. :tongue3:

got2dig · Feb 8, 2014

Old Dude said:
Oh no! You melt your lead?!? I love the old bullets. Don't think I could ever destroy mine. I'd melt my oldest coin first, lol.
I really like that cut one too, got. The patina says it was cut long ago.

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Yep, Old Dude just love the lead to mush to melt it. That to me would be a piece of history lost. So hope that it's modern lead.