Civil War camp in California?

[JV]

A friend and I stumbled upon a hill in Northern California with literally hundreds of the larger pictured bullets and some of the smaller ones.
Funny thing is there was NOTHING else besides these bullets. Probably another detectorist came through and cherry picked it already?
The next day three of us went back and hammered it and the neighboring fields HARD for 5 hours and all of us had nothing but bullets at the end???
Could it really have been that well cherry picked? Any idea of the age of these bullets?

Supposedly there was a civil war camp nearby? Anyway to tell if these are really from a civil war camp that was here in Northern California?

 

[chuck ky]

what little i know about civil war hunting i don't believe any one would pick out the brass, buttons, and coins and leave the bullets.

 

[huntcav65]

you are finding shot bullets, you are not on the right spot yet and it looks like Indian Wars bullets

Richard

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

The smaller bullet is modern.

 

[garys relics]

Diggers on TV dug some of these bullets out west and they were looking for Custers camps in Montana. They are post-CivilWar, and look like carbines which have been fired. Still I know you were very happy to add them to your collection, there are still treasure.

 

[mudpuppy]

Outside of almost every little town/camp is an embankment where guys have gone for eons to shoot/sight in their guns etc...the entire hillsides are one big lead mine, and if you sort of take a look and figure out where they were shooting FROM, thats where the brass is...looks like you found a very old shooting range type of site..
Mud..

 

[CSA GHOST]

mud puppy is on target. These are 20th century bullets, probably 1930s-50s. The cannelures between the grooves are a give away to them being well past the civil war. That said, there were numerous Union forts and camps prior to the war. I have a number of relics from CA.