gtoast99
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Hey y'all. I got out for a little bit the other day, trying to open up a new area to hunt. Sadly i got a no from my best target property. I did quite a bit of exploring around it, but I only came up with some modern trash and this one weird little bullet. When I found it, I thought it was probably an older but still modern rifle bullet. I was happy when I showed it at the nvrha relic club and learned that it was from a savage pistol. I'll have to spend some more time there to see if there's some more I missed in my survey. I've included a picture from the LOC showing an unknown soldier with a savage pistol.
I went back to the cow field after that, hoping I wouldn't get skunked (and not knowing I already had one good bullet). It took a while, but I did find a nice patch of cleaners and three ringers we hadn't gone over yet. That's where I found the best one for the day, this great late 1700's paste stone and silver cufflink. Well, half of it anyways. I'll have to see if the other half is out there sometime. Here's a link to a very similar complete cufflink.
How did it end up there? Who knows. There were bullets all around it in a tight circle. Besides modern aluminum and farm iron, I haven't found anything from that period in the field. No flat buttons, buckle pieces, house site trash anything. Just a couple CW buttons and a ton of bullets. So my theory right now is that these cufflinks, by this time an already an antique at 60+ years old, were being taken home by some Union soldier as a souvenir, before one of them was accidentally lost in camp. Of course I can never prove that, but it's a good story ha-ha.
I've got some more info and pictures at the blog if you're interested. I split it up into two posts, one for the savage and the other for the cufflink. Detecting Saxapahaw
Thanks for reading
I went back to the cow field after that, hoping I wouldn't get skunked (and not knowing I already had one good bullet). It took a while, but I did find a nice patch of cleaners and three ringers we hadn't gone over yet. That's where I found the best one for the day, this great late 1700's paste stone and silver cufflink. Well, half of it anyways. I'll have to see if the other half is out there sometime. Here's a link to a very similar complete cufflink.
How did it end up there? Who knows. There were bullets all around it in a tight circle. Besides modern aluminum and farm iron, I haven't found anything from that period in the field. No flat buttons, buckle pieces, house site trash anything. Just a couple CW buttons and a ton of bullets. So my theory right now is that these cufflinks, by this time an already an antique at 60+ years old, were being taken home by some Union soldier as a souvenir, before one of them was accidentally lost in camp. Of course I can never prove that, but it's a good story ha-ha.
I've got some more info and pictures at the blog if you're interested. I split it up into two posts, one for the savage and the other for the cufflink. Detecting Saxapahaw
Thanks for reading
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