New Civil War Camp Site Produces

Valley Ranger · Oct 18, 2015

Though still grown over with a lot of vegetation, my son and I spent some time scouting a new site last week. This is a winter camp that has supposedly been hunted heavily. Very rocky, tough digging, but on our first trip and being able to only hunt about 1/3 of the potential good area due to the vegetation, we managed to pull out a few meager relics. There are numerous dug in hut sites on the place, but all were grown over. We'll check those out next time to see what everyone else left behind. So far we have a period cuff button back, eagle button, camp lead and tent grommet. Lots of iron signals and square nails too.

Old Dude · Oct 18, 2015

Congrats on getting what you could. Hope you can show us more once the vegetation dies down.

parsonwalker · Oct 18, 2015

Good luck man. Low and s-l-o-w is the name of the game in those heavy hunted places. I have only found three buckles in my life, and all came from POUNDED places. two were deep, one was masked by a lot of barbed wire.

Valley Ranger · Oct 19, 2015

Old Dude said:
Congrats on getting what you could. Hope you can show us more once the vegetation dies down.

Thanks, me too.

Valley Ranger · Oct 19, 2015

parsonwalker said:
Good luck man. Low and s-l-o-w is the name of the game in those heavy hunted places. I have only found three buckles in my life, and all came from POUNDED places. two were deep, one was masked by a lot of barbed wire.

Thanks PW. That's the kind of encouragement I need. All things considered, I was pleased with the first results. This was primarily a Confederate camp, but used by Union soldiers as well. Can't wait to get back in there. We have frost this morning so hopefully most of the vegetation will be gone in a few weeks.

against the wind · Oct 19, 2015

Nice finds,
It always feel invigorating when I find a new sight. Especially after the first targets are dug. Good luck buddy.

VOL1266-X · Oct 19, 2015

Looks promising Richard. Good luck there this fall & winter. HH, Q.

Valley Ranger · Oct 19, 2015

against the wind said:
Nice finds,
It always feel invigorating when I find a new sight. Especially after the first targets are dug. Good luck buddy.

Thanks ATW!

Valley Ranger · Oct 19, 2015

VOL1266-X said:
Looks promising Richard. Good luck there this fall & winter. HH, Q.

I think so Quindy. My son dug the tent grommet and some square nails right off the bat - then an hour or two go by and NOTHING. Then I dug the other items right before I left. But man is it rocky.

Davers · Oct 19, 2015

Valley Ranger said:
Though still grown over with a lot of vegetation, my son and I spent some time scouting a new site last week. This is a winter camp that has supposedly been hunted heavily. Very rocky, tough digging, but on our first trip and being able to only hunt about 1/3 of the potential good area due to the vegetation, we managed to pull out a few meager relics. There are numerous dug in hut sites on the place, but all were grown over. We'll check those out next time to see what everyone else left behind. So far we have a period cuff button back, eagle button, camp lead and tent grommet. Lots of iron signals and square nails too.

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Sound like a Fun & Maybe tuff site that will keep y'all busy for awhile, + leftovers are fine with me.