Rare Gardiner explosive bullet

[Digger70pa]

The snow melted & ground thawed out enough to get out to do some relic hunting finally. I went after work also. Ive been working 7 days a week & have cabin fever lol. So I went somewhere close to home. Glad I did because I recovered a pretty rare bullet. These Gardiner explosive bullets were only used in two major battles. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg after that they were deemed too barbaric to use. These were dumped by the 2nd New Hampshire regiment of the 3rd corps Army of the Potomac a day before the battle began.

 

[bigchuckinva]

I Have dug 3 Gardiner Bullets Out of 1862-1863 Winter Camps in Stafford Co . The First issue Few Units in March1863 Before Broke Winter Camp { Mostly 3Rd/ 5th Corp.} There Rare Bullets and If dig one with Nice Bottom portion bullet Rim you Read Pat Date

 

[laplander]

Works seams to always get in the way, Glad you got out Tim and congrats on a rare find!

 

[Digger70pa]

Works seams to always get in the way, Glad you got out Tim and congrats on a rare find!

Thanks buddy.

 

[Digger70pa]

I Have dug 3 Gardiner Bullets Out of 1862-1863 Winter Camps in Stafford Co . The First issue Few Units in March1863 Before Broke Winter Camp { Mostly 3Rd/ 5th Corp.} There Rare Bullets and If dig one with Nice Bottom portion bullet Rim you Read Pat Date

Thats cool. Ive dug a few. Most of them still have some letters on them. These all came from Gettysburg campaign camps mostly before the battle. I found one in an post battle position on the retreat route.

 

[Odanscoils]

Man that's a cool find.
Congratulations

 

[Digger70pa]

Man that's a cool find.
Congratulations

Thanks buddy.

 

[Long gun]

The snow melted & ground thawed out enough to get out to do some relic hunting finally. I went after work also. Ive been working 7 days a week & have cabin fever lol. So I went somewhere close to home. Glad I did because I recovered a pretty rare bullet. These Gardiner explosive bullets were only used in two major battles. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg after that they were deemed too barbaric to use. These were dumped by the 2nd New Hampshire regiment of the 3rd corps Army of the Potomac a day before the battle began.

I thought those were cleaners were a small copper ring was on the end of projectile. I have found 10 or so

 

[Confetrit]

Thats cool. Ive dug a few. Most of them still have some letters on them. These all came from Gettysburg campaign camps mostly before the battle. I found one in an post battle position on the retreat route.

A few my foot. Lol

 

[Odanscoils]

A few my foot. Lol

Hey Comfretrit
You ever do Chickamauga park ?

 

[Confetrit]

Hey Comfretrit
You ever do Chickamauga park ?

No Sir. It is a Federal Park, as far as hunting. They would put me under the prison. Lol

 

[Odanscoils]

No Sir. It is a Federal Park, as far as hunting. They would put me under the prison. Lol

Just curious,
And sadly you can't say even if you were fortunate to have had such of an awesome adventure.

When I lived across the border in Lafayette.
I dreamed of it.

Though I did hear stories of people going in from the back and sides.
Some on legal property where the battle extended onto Private property.
Though you had to be a Good Oll Boy to do that.
I was still considered a yank from OH even though I had extensive family and lifetime friends there


Some found incredible finds
Even buckle's still attached to soldiers.
I could Never take such a find.
I'd anonymously leave a tip for historians.
Bad juju as far as in concerned.

Also heard of tourist getting Everything confiscated.
Even their vehicles going in through the front.

I'd Love to get in one of the geological digs just to see what I could find.
As long as I could carefully dig it.

Like up here in Mentor OH.
On Garfield's Mansion.
I had to work missed out on it.

Though not sure how fun it was.
Kind of a BS hunt.

You could only flag target's which were dug up after everyone was removed from the site.

I did get to privately detect the old pond on a few Rare occasions.
Only found coins and trash from 1940's and forward.
Look it up on a map.

Never got a chance to get in the pond.

Garfield and Many friends either took a buggy or walked from the mansion to the pond.

I do know numerous gold pocket watches and coins have been found.

I think Every historical site should have special detector digs for those of us who truly love digging history.
Us Old farts who actually care about the History.

Especially with the New technology available today.

 

[Long gun]

South stafford county must be a drop thing my original name was autopilot42 but they won't reset my password .. I will go to the guy on 218 he is our local expert with a small museum. They didn't fight in stafford county. They held up .good for them .now our brothers and sisters fight . Pray for them this will get bad. God bless.. I have pictures of the turrets at mine run they didn't fight either trenches dug very well.. the guy I shoot squirrels and dear is almost like an historian. O wheel life goes on.

 

[Confetrit]

Just curious,
And sadly you can't say even if you were fortunate to have had such of an awesome adventure.

When I lived across the border in Lafayette.
I dreamed of it.

Though I did hear stories of people going in from the back and sides.
Some on legal property where the battle extended onto Private property.
Though you had to be a Good Oll Boy to do that.
I was still considered a yank from OH even though I had extensive family and lifetime friends there


Some found incredible finds
Even buckle's still attached to soldiers.
I could Never take such a find.
I'd anonymously leave a tip for historians.
Bad juju as far as in concerned.

Also heard of tourist getting Everything confiscated.
Even their vehicles going in through the front.

I'd Love to get in one of the geological digs just to see what I could find.
As long as I could carefully dig it.

Like up here in Mentor OH.
On Garfield's Mansion.
I had to work missed out on it.

Though not sure how fun it was.
Kind of a BS hunt.

You could only flag target's which were dug up after everyone was removed from the site.

I did get to privately detect the old pond on a few Rare occasions.
Only found coins and trash from 1940's and forward.
Look it up on a map.

Never got a chance to get in the pond.

Garfield and Many friends either took a buggy or walked from the mansion to the pond.

I do know numerous gold pocket watches and coins have been found.

I think Every historical site should have special detector digs for those of us who truly love digging history.
Us Old farts who actually care about the History.

Especially with the New technology available today.

A gentleman I used to hunt with years ago, had been hunting a while longer than I had. He was a little older and was fortunate enough to hunt with a few of the "Old Guard" of relic hunters here in Georgia. He would slip in a hunt Chicamauga years ago. He was hunting a piece of old trench line when he got a really good signal. He dug the signal and out popped a breast plate. He said he excitedly began to clean the dirt away thinking it was going to be an eagle breast plate. As he began to clean the front he could tell it wasn't an eagle plate. He cleaned on it some more and he couldn't believe what he was looking at. It was a pornagraphic plate. The details on the front, you could make out that it was a soldier facing a lady. Gary could tell that the way this was made front and back that it looked to be authentic. He said he began thinking, no way a soldier would have worn this. It was certainly not issued. He said he almost tossed it to the side, but something told him to keep it. He was so glad he did. This was found about a foot down in the bottom of a piece of Confetrit' trench line. Troops also trained here for awhile during the 1st world War. Gary took this to a well known relic dealer and showed him the breast plate. After eyeing the piece for a moment he offered Gary $ 5,000.00 for the plate. My buddy declined the offer. Gary had this piece in one of his smaller display cases and I was fortunate to be able to see this in person. He figured some soldier came into a few extra dollars and had this cast. The dealer said there had to be very few of these made. This plate was featured some years ago in Relic Hunter magazine and had a nice write up on Gary and the plate. Unfortunately he lost this plate years ago after having a restraining order against him and he had to leave the house. While gone, his wife supposedly gave away his relic collection, which was huge, including around 50 CW artillery shells. So much History lost to who knows where.

 

[Odanscoils]

A gentleman I used to hunt with years ago, had been hunting a while longer than I had. He was a little older and was fortunate enough to hunt with a few of the "Old Guard" of relic hunters here in Georgia. He would slip in a hunt Chicamauga years ago. He was hunting a piece of old trench line when he got a really good signal. He dug the signal and out popped a breast plate. He said he excitedly began to clean the dirt away thinking it was going to be an eagle breast plate. As he began to clean the front he could tell it wasn't an eagle plate. He cleaned on it some more and he couldn't believe what he was looking at. It was a pornagraphic plate. The details on the front, you could make out that it was a soldier facing a lady. Gary could tell that the way this was made front and back that it looked to be authentic. He said he began thinking, no way a soldier would have worn this. It was certainly not issued. He said he almost tossed it to the side, but something told him to keep it. He was so glad he did. This was found about a foot down in the bottom of a piece of Confetrit' trench line. Troops also trained here for awhile during the 1st world War. Gary took this to a well known relic dealer and showed him the breast plate. After eyeing the piece for a moment he offered Gary $ 5,000.00 for the plate. My buddy declined the offer. Gary had this piece in one of his smaller display cases and I was fortunate to be able to see this in person. He figured some soldier came into a few extra dollars and had this cast. The dealer said there had to be very few of these made. This plate was featured some years ago in Relic Hunter magazine and had a nice write up on Gary and the plate. Unfortunately he lost this plate years ago after having a restraining order against him and he had to leave the house. While gone, his wife supposedly gave away his relic collection, which was huge, including around 50 CW artillery shells. So much History lost to who knows where.

WoW great story.
Sad what happened.
If you can find that article I'd love to see it.