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Saturdays Diggins

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Thanks for looking and Good Luck in your Digs,
Dave
 
Great looking plate and relics. Were you hunting plowed fields, or woods? Thats about all we can hunt here since the grass is up so high. Tsgman
 
Thanks Tsgman,
Don't hunt much woods this time a year, pretty much hit construction and fields. These relics were recovered from a pasture, that once was a major encampment, and appears to be once plowed also. Hope you do as well on your next outing.

Dave
 
Hey John how ya been, and Thanks....look at em still grinning from the C.S. Tongue.....don't blame ya. Yeah, its my 3rd U.S. Plate this year, the last one I posted here was only a month ago April 5th. Been helping out some newbies and I think I'm being rewarded by the Relic Gods or something, cause 2 plates in a month is rare in our parts nowadays. Hope to see ya at the next event and remember if your coming through the area, look me up.

Dave
 
Thanks Ron,
This piece was attached at the end of the muzzle of a Confederate Richmond Rifle, the groove on the underside was where the ramrod slid through.

Dave
 
Hello Dave, nice finds. How deep did you detect those relics? I find the relics from your part of the world fascinating. Keep the pics coming!
HH Angela:)
 
Va Dave wrote:
>This piece was attached at the end of the muzzle of a Confederate Richmond Rifle, the groove on the underside was where the ramrod slid through.

Dave, my intention is only to be helpful here, because Angela (of Australia) asked "What's a nose-cap?"

For Angela: Here is the correct answer to her question ...and
For Dave: specific identification of the model of cap Dave found.

The proper name for the item is a forestock-cap. It's located at the front-end tip of the gun's wooden stock, not "at the end of the muzzle." (Note that there's still some of the stock's wood preserved inside the cap.) The rounded notch held the ramrod's end "centered" under the gun's muzzle.

Dave's brass forestock-cap is from a British-made Enfiled rifle. You can know this by the two brass attachment-studs inside it. The similar-looking brass CS-made Richmond Rifle's forestock-cap had a single iron attachment stud.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy
 
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