Weekend digging before the snow...

[Antietamdigger]

Got out for a few hours in one of my permissions, checked out a new area and saved some lead .

 

[zazuk0]

Got out for a few hours in one of my permissions, checked out a new area and saved some lead .

Nice !

 

[IowaRelic]

Nice little batch harvested. I think I know where I’ll be heading for my next hunt.... to scratch the itch for lead. Been a couple weeks, I’ve been hung up on this real early site peeking up through in a park. Just enough real old stuff to keep me stoked for it you know?

You tore it up on the round balls btw.

 

[zazuk0]

I hear ya I’ve been hammering an old spot in the park but the weather hasn’t been cooperating

 

[Antietamdigger]

Nice little batch harvested. I think I know where I’ll be heading for my next hunt.... to scratch the itch for lead. Been a couple weeks, I’ve been hung up on this real early site peeking up through in a park. Just enough real old stuff to keep me stoked for it you know?

You tore it up on the round balls btw.

Thank you Iowa, definitely know what you mean. A lot of my sites I dig a lot of round balls, early war sites, 1861,1862 yanks were still using smoothbores.

 

[IowaRelic]

Thank you Iowa, definitely know what you mean. A lot of my sites I dig a lot of round balls, early war sites, 1861,1862 yanks were still using smoothbores.

I get into a lot of .69 round balls. Maybe 1 for every 3 or 4 other bullets in a couple spots. The battle here was 1865. Given the way the operations went, a lot of spots were first CSA occupied and shortly thereafter were Union due to siege operation. So I never know which side was using them. I just guessed both?? What’s strange at my sites is the total lack of brass. Very lucky to find anything other than lead or fragments.

 

[TerryEastTexas]

Man, that's some nice lead you got there. Congrats!

 

[Antietamdigger]

I get into a lot of .69 round balls. Maybe 1 for every 3 or 4 other bullets in a couple spots. The battle here was 1865. Given the way the operations went, a lot of spots were first CSA occupied and shortly thereafter were Union due to siege operation. So I never know which side was using them. I just guessed both?? What’s strange at my sites is the total lack of brass. Very lucky to find anything other than lead or fragments.

I get into a lot of .69 round balls. Maybe 1 for every 3 or 4 other bullets in a couple spots. The battle here was 1865. Given the way the operations went, a lot of spots were first CSA occupied and shortly thereafter were Union due to siege operation. So I never know which side was using them. I just guessed both?? What’s strange at my sites is the total lack of brass. Very lucky to find anything other than lead or fragments.

Every area , state campaign is different for sure. A lot of sites thru research and such I’ve been fortunate to figure out exact regiments who were at a given site by what bullets have been recovered. A lot of people for years seemed to have assumptions that the .69 caliber buck ‘n ball round was just cs , but early war , especially diary accounts the confederates where equipped with the enfields. I go through a lot of union regimental histories , so you get to read about the change in arms. My area saw action and operations from 61-65, so we find a lot of projectile types. I feel like brass is hard to find at any site , fertilizer in the fields eating everything up, late war sites a lot of stuff and accoutrements already discarded by that point or secured so dang tight nothing falls of a uniform, or the army’s weren’t there long enough to lose it , especially in a quick skirmish or battle site. Keep on digging and researching and you’ll find it. HH

 

[7centsworth]

Congratulations on the pile of lead.

 

[Antietamdigger]

Congratulations on the pile of lead.

Thank you

 

[laplander]

Nice haul Antiem, that's some serious lead!
HH Jeff

 

[Antietamdigger]

Nice haul Antiem, that's some serious lead!
HH Jeff

Thank you Jeff

 

[2 Much Trash]

I’m like Dig2deep. I’m sittin’ here eating a peanut butter and jealous sandwich with no glass of milk to wash it down. Ain’t been relic hunting for 2 weeks. Way to go man!