Awesome CW campsite hunt. 18 bullets in one hole.

[TNreb]

Four of us were going to hunt a new campsite today that has been producing some nice relics but two could not hunt today so we agreed we would hold off hunting that site until all four of us could hunt it. So Tnrelicman and I went back to our campsite that we have been hunting for quite some time. I must have dug 30 shotgun hulls before lunch. By early afternoon Guy had already found several bullets and a couple buttons. I was getting hot and tired and was about to call it quits when I got another good signal. Thinking it was another shotgun hull I was suprised to see a very nice Eagle cuff button. Then just a few feet away from there I got another good signal. I hollered over to Guy that I finally got my first bullet of the day. I swept the hole and got another signal. Another bullet. Then I saw three or four bullets laying in the dirt that I removed. I just kept getting signals in that little two foot square area. Some were very faint and deep. In all I pulled out 18 three ringers and one fired or carved or just a piece of camp lead. Need to clean to find out. It is late and I am tired so I will clean later. The button is in great shape and has a solid shank. My MXT PRO worked wonders there. I had it set to run pretty hot as I wanted as much depth as I could get. One of the bullets was nearly 12" deep.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Fantastic day of hunting.....

 

[david bull]

I've read somewhere that union soldiers were issued a set amount of bullets and the first time they stopped to rest they dumped a large portion of them.I had a friend find a similar cache several years ago.

 

[TomB]

Finding 18 bullets in one hole was rather common thirty years ago. Finding that many in one hole today is quite a feat. I can remember walking plowed fields in the Richmond Va. area 30 years ago and picking up fifty or sixty .69 cal bullets on top of the plowed soil with out a metal detector. Boy those were the days. Very nice indeed. By the way were you hunting in Va? TomB

 

[Digger70pa]

That's awesome. He must not have wanted to carry them. Over a pound of weight. HH

 

[TNreb]

Finding 18 bullets in one hole was rather common thirty years ago. Finding that many in one hole today is quite a feat. I can remember walking plowed fields in the Richmond Va. area 30 years ago and picking up fifty or sixty .69 cal bullets on top of the plowed soil with out a metal detector. Boy those were the days. Very nice indeed. By the way were you hunting in Va? TomB

Yes 30 years ago I could find a lot of stuff as well. Did not seem to be as much trash as there is now. I found these in a campsite in Tennessee that we have been hunting for quite some time now. It is deep in the woods and very large and we always find something when we hunt there. We have found several 2, 3 and 4 bullets in a hole before but never this many.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Great job. Nice post and finds. CCH

 

[7centsworth]

Nice finds .

 

[cornspike]

Great finds!!!

 

[woodwizard]

that was a great day-congrats and may your next hunt be as profitable.

 

[Digger70pa]

It must have been a rush to find all of those in one hole.

 

[TNreb]

We returned the next weekend and one of my buddies found 17 bullets in a small area not too far from where I found these. We just recently got permission to hunt property across the river from this site. We have done a couple short hunts to check out and found a few bullets and buttons so it looks very promising as well.

 

[TreasureHuntersSupply]

Wow very nice finds. I have the AT PRO as one of my personnal detectors WTG. What were your settings when you found those finds. Thanks for posting the pics, very fun to look at the history you dug out of the ground.
BTW my name is TOM, and keep the posts comming.