*VIDEO* - LIVE HOTCHKISS SHELL RECOVERY FROM RIVER

[Valley Ranger]

Here's a short video with some still shots of recent Civil War river recoveries. Included is a live dig and recovery of an unexploded Hotchkiss shell. I've got 5 full day hunts scheduled for October and November so I should have some more video soon. Thanks for taking a look.

 

[coinman123]

Wow, nice piece of history!

 

[Nana40]

An amazing place to get out and dig. Just beautiful. Made me kind'a nervous for you when you dug up the shell tho. lol
Loved the video...great finds!
Nana

 

[Valley Ranger]

An amazing place to get out and dig. Just beautiful. Made me kind'a nervous for you when you dug up the shell tho. lol
Loved the video...great finds!
Nana

Thanks. 2nd one my partner found this year. He also dug part of a Confederate cannonball.

 

[Valley Ranger]

Wow, nice piece of history!

Thanks.

 

[Valley Ranger]

Darn, I missread the topic name and was hoping for videos of live hotchicks!

Get your mind back on relic hunting.

 

[Valley Ranger]

Thanks for the video OS! Love the live shell, and the river hunting looks to be tremendous fun!

It is indeed.

 

[Irregular]

Who says that big iron in creeks is not worth digging! Nice shell it will clean up nice.Did your buddy say how dry the powder was? Nice video.

I didn't want to discover its contents in any other form than saturated so the entire process involved a lot of water and soaking. There was hard encrustation in the fuze hole protecting the bursting powder cavity so I don't know the viability of what was removed; likely none, but all the same I didn't want to become the latest casualty of Yankee ordnance. It did have the physical and odiferous properties of black powder. Its previously sealed-off contents drying in the pan: