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8" Cannonball Pictures Finally

Richard@BackwoodsDetectors

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Finally getting around to posting the pictures of the cannonball we dug a week or so back....8" weighing 50 pounds and fused.... Also a picture of Dave putting it back in the backpack (that's how he carrys it around now) Best to all and happy hunting...RichardnTn
 
That is one awesome find. The cannon ball and the buckle are two items that continue to elude me for some reason. I know mine is out there somewhere. This probably sounds like a stupid question, but do you suppose after that gets good and dried out, could it still detonate? I know it's been in the ground a really long time, but since it still has at least part of a fuse on it and all....just wondering. Another story...my grandmother had a WWII shape charge sitting next to her fireplace for about 50 years that an uncle brought back thinking it was a bullet to an anti-aircraft gun. After I joined the Army and realizing what it was, I called my parents and let them know. The Army Explosive Ordnance guys weren't a bit impressed with having to move it for some reason. I really just wanted them to render it safe so I could keep it, but they had other plans for it. Just a note of caution, if you decide to have it checked out, be careful who you call. I lost a nice family relic. I suppose that was better than blowing up the house, but with a little bit of searching, I could have probably found someone to deactivate the thing and still have it.
 
I'd still be carefull. I read something earlier this year about a long time relic hunter and restorer who died because a cannon ball or shell he was disarming detonated? Anyone else remember that article? Because of that, the goverment also confiscated all his other relics, including all the ones that the guy had sucessfully disarmed and restored which happened to be a very large amount of relics.

It was posted here.

HH

Mike
 
I can't make out the fuse...we have dug a number of cannonball and have yet to see a fuse like this one....all the info that I can find says that this is a wood fuse.....It appears to be different though.(fuses were replaced sometimes in the field).. Hopefully it is not a concussion fuse....someone who knows, post and let me know.... As far as I know, heat is about the only thing that will detonate these things...Mike, I talked to a good friend of the gentleman that had the accident while disarming a cannonball..."blew part of the side of his head off, will never be the same."
We use extreme caution with these babies....Best to all, Richard
 
WOW sweeeeeeeeeeeet..I know where a old church is that has a cannon ball stuck in the side..I hope to hunt there soon..
 
Yes I saw that story too Mike. Since this one is fused I would think it could also detonate. But be careful and that is a great find Richard.

John Tomlinson,CET:fisher:
 
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