Rifle Range @ camp sites ...:pulltab:

[Dirtyray]

Has anyone ever found a Rifle Range at a long term camp site ? I have found alot of relics "AND MANY MORE OUT THERE " But no rifle range maybe they didn't use no ammo up because of the lack of ....Whats your thoughts ? HH

 

[jimmyk]

I have found two at camps where troops were staged for deployment. Both were near where the railroads ended here in Missouri.

jimmyk.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

I know of 3.... all were used by US Troops There were all by hills / embankments that still exist today. Lots and lots and lots of fired minnies. CCH

 

[Larry (IL)]

Not a long term camp, but I have hunted a hillside that was a backstop in a training camp here in Illinois. It was used in the early months of the CW.

 

[Dirtyray]

Ok Thanks alot i have found a few bullets but now you just helped me alot thanks theres a hill near by ill go check that out at a later time

 

[huntcav65]

there were at least 2 at DIV hunts in Culpeper at the winter camps. I only hunted in 1 of them and it was steady digging, walked away after a hour or so with 50 - 60 bullets and there were probably that many digging in the place at the same time with people steady coming and going. this was the side of a hill and the firing line was a ridge line across from it. I think the other one I know of there was a ton of bullets dug there. hill side along side on a farm road. I believe a corps badge was also dug in with the fired bullets or maybe from the firing line,don't know much about that one.

Richard

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Richard,

I think I hunted that same hill at DIV near a river at Brandy Rock (a small one) ? The firing line was across the river. I got tired of digging fired minnies (after 30 or so) that were among the tree roots and then I suprisingly dug a lesche digger someone had lost a few years back in the same area. Ha. Lead is my favorite color.

CCH

 

[Dirtyray]

theses bullets i am finding most of them are almost in dropped shape ...Found a little glass bottle that says "Three in one "and on the other edge it says c.f.cole ? i think is what the letters are before cole looks to be older not sure ?

 

[LaRelic]

Never found a rifle range myself but have heard of one in my area. Maybe if your finding a lot of drops they were shooting away from that point? I believe the bottle you have found is G.W. Cole 3 in 1 oil? Invented in the 1890's and still produced today by the WD 40 company. I've actually been using it for years around the house. If it's a cork top it is the earlier variety. Nice find!!....HH

 

[brianc577]

In Bermuda Hundrend, in a large camp, on flat land, I got into several holes, in a straight line, that had many many shot bullets in them going to about three feet deep. I found several groups of impacted bullets (bullets that struck each other). There where not firepits, the bullets where shot and not melted. The best I could figure at the time was they set up barrel ls to shoot at. Or maybe a specified area for pickets to discharge their weapons when they returned to camp.

Any ideas from the gallery on that?

Also, I ran across a hill side with multiple shot pistol bullets in Hopewell Virginia.

Finally, in my youth, I got into an area of lots of fired three ringers in a non battle area. After filling my pockets (literally) I took them to a local relic shop and was told they where all modern, I wondered into a more recent black powder range. (I have always wondered about that though, it was many many years ago)