VOL1266-X
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- Northern Middle Tennessee
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- Fisher 1266-X, F75 X 2
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- Relic Hunting
Tennessee CW Artillery Relics-3 in. Hotchkiss Base, Lead Sabot Pieces, & HEAT!!!
We (Tenn. Trio) haven't hunted much lately. I've been trying to catch up on my farm work so it won't interfere with Fall relic season-LOL and writing a few new relic/treasure magazine articles. Dman has been working in his store and winning his golf club championship. Josh has a new supervisor job which Dman and I predict he will resign from just after the first Fall frost so he won't miss relic hunts with us-LOL. He already has 4 businesses to run anyway.
Monday afternoon, I had a message on my machine from a friend giving us a tip on where we may dig a few CW relics. Even though it was a scorcher, Dman and I went to the site on Wednesday a little after daylight. We lasted only about an hour and half. The ground was hard and dry. Dman claims he had an encounter with a scorpion and a rattlesnake but he can tell about that. Our finds were mostly agricultural as shown in the first pic. We gave the landowners most of those finds. Note the round object on the right side. I tried to trick Dman by holding it in my hand where it looked like a cannonball but he knew we weren't that lucky.
I thought a lot about the round object as I initially dismissed it as being a hub from an old wagon axle. The more I thought about it yesterday, the more convinced I was that it may be a frag from a Hotchkiss shell. I refreshed my memory by looking at the CW Artillery Book last night.
Today, Dman wanted to work in his store so I returned solo to the same site just after daylight. I dug 3 pieces of lead sabots from the shells, a dropped buck'n ball, and more iron ag. parts in 4 muggy, hot hours until my 2 bottles of water and Diet Mt. Dew gave out. When I gave those parts to our landowner friends, They gave me the round object back to research in the hope it was a shell frag for my collection and were happy to get more ag. parts from where their father had farmed the land.
Lo and behold, the round iron object had 3 flame grooves and was an exploded 3 inch U.S. Hotchkiss base as shown in the last two pics. If the landowners had not requested that we save the ag. parts for them, I may have chucked it. Check your finds carefully because you just never know!!!
Thanks for looking and stay cool, Quindy.
We (Tenn. Trio) haven't hunted much lately. I've been trying to catch up on my farm work so it won't interfere with Fall relic season-LOL and writing a few new relic/treasure magazine articles. Dman has been working in his store and winning his golf club championship. Josh has a new supervisor job which Dman and I predict he will resign from just after the first Fall frost so he won't miss relic hunts with us-LOL. He already has 4 businesses to run anyway.
Monday afternoon, I had a message on my machine from a friend giving us a tip on where we may dig a few CW relics. Even though it was a scorcher, Dman and I went to the site on Wednesday a little after daylight. We lasted only about an hour and half. The ground was hard and dry. Dman claims he had an encounter with a scorpion and a rattlesnake but he can tell about that. Our finds were mostly agricultural as shown in the first pic. We gave the landowners most of those finds. Note the round object on the right side. I tried to trick Dman by holding it in my hand where it looked like a cannonball but he knew we weren't that lucky.
I thought a lot about the round object as I initially dismissed it as being a hub from an old wagon axle. The more I thought about it yesterday, the more convinced I was that it may be a frag from a Hotchkiss shell. I refreshed my memory by looking at the CW Artillery Book last night.
Today, Dman wanted to work in his store so I returned solo to the same site just after daylight. I dug 3 pieces of lead sabots from the shells, a dropped buck'n ball, and more iron ag. parts in 4 muggy, hot hours until my 2 bottles of water and Diet Mt. Dew gave out. When I gave those parts to our landowner friends, They gave me the round object back to research in the hope it was a shell frag for my collection and were happy to get more ag. parts from where their father had farmed the land.
Lo and behold, the round iron object had 3 flame grooves and was an exploded 3 inch U.S. Hotchkiss base as shown in the last two pics. If the landowners had not requested that we save the ag. parts for them, I may have chucked it. Check your finds carefully because you just never know!!!
Thanks for looking and stay cool, Quindy.
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We qualify for both, lol. May have to invite these guys to that Confederate site I got permission to hunt where the landowner found the CS spur and bullets. I haven't hunted it yet Quindy and the landowner is not allowing any hunting on it but told me I could hunt any time. He said several people have knocked on his door to hunt but he told them he doesn't allow any hunting. Sounds like a great site for us.
The first two years I hunted, I saved EVERYTHING. Charlie soon tired of having to step over the boxes of horseshoes and farming implements in the basement and I ultimately had to part with the majority of them. 
Seriously, I need to start re-checking the bucket of non-keeper finds before they get tossed. You did good to go back and retrieve yer keeper, Q! 
