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ByroninTn

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Doesn't anyone on this Tesoro forum hunt Civil War relics? Everything I have seen is from coin hunters.

I have a Tejon and Cibola and they are both relic monsters.

The Tejon is used with a 10"x12"DD coil. The depth from this combo as as great or better than the F75LTD, which I also have. I have had this F75 for around a year and either it is not as good as it is advertised or I haven't learned to use it correctly yet. The learning curve on the Tesoro's isn't this bad.
 
I do. I have a Cibola with the ground balance mod and it has served me very well. I live in an area that had civil war activity and I have found all kinds of relics even though I was always told you will not find anything because it has all been hunted out. My next machine on my want list is a Tejon.

I hunt the woods and river shoreline. I do get out and wade, but I do that with an Excal.

I mainly use the 8" concentric coil, but I have recently started trying the 10" x 12"

So, I agree - They are relic monsters.
 
I would, but there's nothing local here. Corydon is clear at the southern part of the state. Camp Stillwell was close, but is now a Country Club/Golf Course. Someday I'd like to hunt a CW site or two.

Smitty
 
I look for relics from the war of 1812 in the Amherstburg Ontario area. That area is rich in history, but is also heavily hunted. I have some private land I will continue to pound in the spring.

I use the Tejon.

Dan
 
The only battle grounds I have near me are recent:surrender: Drive by shooting happen all the time:rant: So I am stuck with coin shooting and Nugget hunting:detecting:
 
I use a Tejon to relic hunt. Do you really get better depth with the 12X10 elliptical than the stock coil? There are places to the South of me in lower Alabama where the 12X10 would undoubtedly be better, but lately I've been checking out sites up across the line in TN and the ground is not as bad up there. My problem has been getting sites to hunt up n TN, I was getting a lot of yes answers until recently. I'm running into a lot of people that have had bad experiences with people not filling holes or closing gates. Oh, I also had the same experience with the F75 (tried 2 of them then gave up). The best relic hunter in our area has been using a Tejon since they came out and has quite an impressive collection. However, I think once we get another slightly productive area I'm probably going to hang it up as a relic hunter, its just getting too time intensive to find productive sites. If I was retired it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm not and I could probably find more just focusing on coinshooting (I have all of 6 small relics to show for hunting the last two years, but tons of recovered trash).
 
After throwing away possibly over 500+ shotgun headstamps, just this last weekend I had decided I was starting a collection. By doing so, I suppose (hope) that I wont find too many more. Seems whatever I do look for I never find. Seriously though, I am starting to take the shot shell bottoms seriously and will do my best to sort em out and do something with them. Seems I already have quite a few oldies dug in the last two outtings.

included is last Sundays finds again using the Pantera only with stock 8 inch coil
 
Tony, I wonder if you could bore holes in a piece of 3/4" wood for the stub (where the shell attaches) to press into, then polyurethane over it all and make a table or wall plaque out of it?

Smitty
 
Hi Smitty-

I was thinking of putting them in wood too and having em look like a coin collection. The table top sounds pretty cool. The reason I would consider keeping them loose is because there are a lot of collectors out there and well, it would be tough to mess up a cool table top just to pull a shell bottom out to either sell or trade.

Perhaps the common shell bottoms could be used for the table top or display.

You know, its reverse Psychology I am trying here.... by wanting more shell bottoms the result will probably be I wont get any at all !
 
I also have the Tejon, Cibola, F-75 and other Tesoro's, plus other detectors. I just haven't done well on Civil War relics here in California. :detecting:
 
At least your excuse is not much CW stuff to find in Calfornia. I'm in Alabama and sometimes I think if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Three years of relic hunting under my belt and I only have a couple of bullets, a candle holder, and an ammo pouch rivet to show for it (ton a trash though). And, most of that came from a short hunt in VA. I think once we bust past this dry spell and hopefully find just a few things we'll hang it up and just go coinshooting once in a while. Afterall, the first year was wasted on a conman relic hunter that had me convinced he had a good site on his father's property and while we were wasting our time there, he was cleaning out the only good site I had found, during the week while I was at work and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't finding anything.
 
Sometimes you have to just luck up on civil war sites. We are looking for two that are documented on a civil war map I got out of the Library of Congress. These two locations have the exact mileage between the two camps and a diary confirms the same data. It's just a matter of locating them because the roads have changed locations plus where we think they are is leased for deer hunting at this time.

It's just a matter of time till we locate them, but they are only one day camps with a lot of troops.

Alabama is loaded up old house sites. Talk to some of the oldest people or farmers that live in an area. They can put you on some old house sites. But you had better hurry. The older people are dying off and most younger folks do not have a clue where old houses once stood, with the exception of local deer hunters. They sometimes find old house sites in the woods.

You would be surprised at the number of civil war artifacts that you can locate around where old houses once stood. That is what we are currently hunting. We are finding flat buttons, a lot of blacksmith made tools and we found a carbine sling buckle the last time out.
 
I didn't see anything in that article about value or collectability, but someone told me that some of the older shot shells are worth money to some collectors. Is this true? I might have been throwing away treasure I thought was trash.
 
Canewrap,

you are correct, no value indicated on that site however the age information usually equates some to their relative value.

If you do a search on words like collecting and shotshells or head stamps etc etc you will hopefully see links to ways of collecting and selling them.

I dont know much at all other than I am now sorting them by mfgr and then by age. I have been tossing the ultra common ones at this point. I even saw mention of auctions moving collectable shot shells. Info is out there. I wouldnt be surprised if someone here on the Findmall forum is a collector and can share info with us.
 
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I did not even think about these could be valued by collector. I will certainly save them and do some research before tossing.
 
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