Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 &3 Updates

MonkeyBoy · Jan 2, 2009

Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 &3 Updates

Went out this evening for about an hour or so... hunting the edge of a local small battle I have hunted before, same place that produced the Virginia Button... well just as I was heading back. with one .41 cal and a small.. maybe .32 bullet still in the wood I hit a small area and started popping Burnsides out.. dug these but there are still more.. it got too dark to dig.. I'll be back tomorrow!!

Ok.. so went back again.. 4 or 5 more Burnsides, 3 fired .36 pistol rounds.. a dropped .41 and a dropped carved .41!!! ;-) Plus two small iron buckles right in the same area as the burnsides.. not sure if they are related?? This is one tough spot to hunt the stickers bushes are well.. as high as an elephant's eye... the little round brass thing is some sort of locket I think?? Almost looks like it had a tiny key to it and there is some writing on it I have not been able to make out... I'll keep cleaning it and see of I can make out what it says.

I dropped my pinpointer up there some place... so I am going to sharpen the machete.. grab my big pruners and pound the spot with the 12" coil ASAP.. I dug all of this with the 4 x 12 coil... since my whole purpose of going up there was scouting for an old building...

more to come...

MB

MonkeyBoy · Jan 3, 2009

Re: Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!!

Ok.. went back out for a bit... dug 4 more Burnsides.. 3 .41 pistol bullets.. one carved.. and a couple of smallish iron buckles.. so.. not too bad for diging in the dark last night.. only missed 4 in the hole!! bad thing is... I decided to use my old pinpointer and it is now lying in the woods someplace!!1 Guess I'll have to go again!!! Oh, also found some sort of locket looking thing.. it is soaking.. not sure what it is

Pic update coming after they are cleaned...

MB

MonkeyBoy · Jan 4, 2009

Re: Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 Update

Ok... taking MonkeyBoy Jr out to the same spot today... two objectives.. dug more burnsides and find my lost pinpointer!!!!

MB

fortbball9 · Jan 4, 2009

Re: Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 Update

Nice pile of CW lead,Congrats that must be a pretty good place to MD.
Very nice

fortbball9

MonkeyBoy · Jan 4, 2009

Re: Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 Update

OK... well... back up the mountain I went... took the 12" coil this time and freshly repaired head phones after ripping them apart the other day... added some strain relief this time!!!

So.. the 12" hitting the small area where all the burnsides were produced...... nothing!! Oh well... I looked of 1/2 hour or so and found my pinpointer... at which point it still worked fine.. and proceeded to head up the mountain.. hoping for either a foundation or a picket post.. found neither.. head back down the mountain and with my incredible sense of timing.. walked the last 1/2 hour in the dark!!! Ironically... I dug three bullets!!! During the 2nd one deepunder some stickers is when the pinpointer decided to die!!!

Dug one reg 3 ringer... a swag base and another .41 pistol bullet...

MB

MonkeyBoy · Jan 5, 2009

Re: Short Hunts produces more Burnsides then I have ever dug!!! Day 2 Update

Ok.. day 3, I guess, up on the mountain spot where I dug the Burnsides... the point of this trip was to find my pinpointer!!! I dug the .41 just scouting around... found the pinpointer and humped on up the mountain.. lost track of time.. and was walking out in the dark.. I managed to dig two 3 ringers on the way out lower then where I dug the Burnsides... guess I went the wrong way!!

Oneof the 3 ringers has a swag, or "rimless wheel" base.. I think that is the other name for them... Guess it is time to hit lower then where I was.

MB