My day 5 finds from cavalry camp

[dcooper1]

This completes my 5th hunt at cavalry camp. Things are starting to slow down quite a bit, not as many targets as we start to clean up the area. We are still hitting an occasional pocket where you can dig several bullets within a few foot circle. My brother went back to the mud pit yesterday and dug a few more bullets, later I passed over it and dug 2 more. I did manage to find 2 decent eagle buttons within a foot of each other. I really like the LARGE brass buckle that I found.

Enjoy the pictures, I don't know when we will get back to the area, the next time we hunt we may start on another part of the farm where we think there may have also been a camp. We came across that area on a previous hunt and dug quite a few bullets and one cuff button right as it was getting dark. We will have to return to see what else is there.


Good luck to everyone and if we don't make it back before X-MAS ....may it be merry for everyone.

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Day 5 Finds for me.​

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Eagle Button, Large Brass Buckle and Shoe Buckle​

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2 Eagle Buttons with Large Brass Buckle​

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Predominately Confederate Gardner​

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5 Days Worth of Relics​

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5 Days Worth of Bullets​

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3 Gardners​

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Coins & Buttons​

 

[brnn53]

You've done very well there! Thats the kind of site we all dream about! Congrats!
Mike

 

[tomted62]

Holy cow!!! What a great bunch of finds...wish we had areas like this where I live.

 

[johnreb1980]

That spot was very good to you guys. Great job.

 

[seger98]

Wow, how much of an area do you have left to go over? You're diggin some nice stuff there!

 

[Hill Billy]

Nice group of finds Cooper,congrats.

 

[lovedigging]

Way to go brother Can't wait to see what else we find there but I'm hoping your next big find is a CS-Buckle...

 

[dcooper1]

Wow, how much of an area do you have left to go over? You're diggin some nice stuff there!

Seger,
I feel pretty confident that we have hit the majority of the camp. It's a fairly large area, we keep trying to cover it over and over. Like I posted earlier, we are still finding "hot spots", small areas that we may have missed previously where we can dig a few bullets. The past two hunts we have greatly expanded our search area to include other parts of the farm. 2 trips ago we came across another area that I think will produce fairly well, we were digging consistently but it got dark on us. Yesterday we branched out and located a few scattered items but nothing like we were hitting when we first got on the camp.
I'm sure we will continue to check the original area each time we return. Maybe one day we will take the time to actually grid it out. If we did that, it could take DAYS worth of hunting to cover it all the first time, then we would regrid the other direction and cover it again.

 

[dcooper1]

Way to go brother Can't wait to see what else we find there but I'm hoping your next big find is a CS-Buckle...

ME TOO!!!!!

At this point I would be extremely happy with ANY buckle from there. I know there are more, I just haven't stumbled over them.......yet.

 

[Dman]

WOW! You are really racking up the finds at that camp. Looking forward to seeing more finds. I really like the knives and buttons.
Dman

 

[Brian in MA]

That is a boat load of awesome finds...

Congrats on finding that great site.

I bet spring can't get here fast enough for you !!!!

Merry x-mas to you too !!!!

Brian in MA

 

[tymcmurray]

I, personally , am SERIOUSLY impressed with your abillity
to find a great site and Great relics!!!!!
Angain, Congratulations!!!

 

[camb1]

WOW you did great. That is a lot of lead. Nice collection.

 

[bigtim1973]

Man that is awesome.I wish I could find a place like that!!! Way to go!!

 

[time4me]

Wow - I'd be at that site every free minute. Looks like you've found a real glory hole there!!!!!!!!!!

Those pocket knives are really cool - I can't believe you've found so many of them.

Jim

 

[VOL1266-X]

Outstanding finds and it looks like you can make many more trips there and find quality relics. I like it ALL!!! WTG!!!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Very nice 5 day collection of CW items

 

[Monty]

Holy Cow! That's a lot of drops. Must have been some really nervous dudes there. Great site, keep it up. Monty

 

[Lowbatts]

Keeping me jealous man!
Nice digs!

 

[crashbro17x]

Man that it looks like you have a good spot. Nice finds!