VOL1266-X
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- Location
- Northern Middle Tennessee
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher 1266-X, F75 X 2
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Dman and I went back to the field where the TENN PIN came from with the expressed purpose of digging US Artillery Relics the last two trips. He was playing with the settings on his SE last week and found a canister ball. I lowered the discrimination on the 1266-X and started finding the canister also. Unfortunately, he discovered the new setting at the end of last weeks trip. With readjusted detectors and rain forecast to move in about noon yesterday, we went to digging.
The first pic shows my finds for the last two trips. I dug one of the square and rectangular iron pieces and showed it to Dman. We had not seen one of these before and thought it might just be from farm equipment. After he dug one and I found two more, we knew that these pieces were associated with the artillery shells. When the rain started and we left, we called a local relic dealer on the way home. He told us that the pieces were used as "filler" in case shot shells. We dug a lot of iron signals and the bottom row are some of those items. We dug a sack full of square nails.
The second pic is all the case shot slugs that I dug in that general site area in the last 12-13 months. Notice the Hodgkiss sabot on the bottom. Dman found a sabot also that is pictured in one of his posts from last year.
Dman had the find of the day with the little boot pistol. Thanks for reading and happy hunting from rainy Tennessee!!!
The author of a popular CW Artillery book says the iron chunks are machine shop scrap used as case shot. HH.
The first pic shows my finds for the last two trips. I dug one of the square and rectangular iron pieces and showed it to Dman. We had not seen one of these before and thought it might just be from farm equipment. After he dug one and I found two more, we knew that these pieces were associated with the artillery shells. When the rain started and we left, we called a local relic dealer on the way home. He told us that the pieces were used as "filler" in case shot shells. We dug a lot of iron signals and the bottom row are some of those items. We dug a sack full of square nails.
The second pic is all the case shot slugs that I dug in that general site area in the last 12-13 months. Notice the Hodgkiss sabot on the bottom. Dman found a sabot also that is pictured in one of his posts from last year.
Dman had the find of the day with the little boot pistol. Thanks for reading and happy hunting from rainy Tennessee!!!
The author of a popular CW Artillery book says the iron chunks are machine shop scrap used as case shot. HH.
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We shouldn't have a dry pond in the state after all this rain. 
