Gt Pulls A Few Nice Civil War Bullets

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Took the GT out today with the Sunray 12.5. Only had a short while, like 45 minutes. Dug up a 5 .58 cal minnie balls in that time...1 looks to be chewed. Most were at about 8 inches and gave nice high tones and around 175 to 177 on the Digisearch meter, calibrated at 180 on a US quarter. Hopefull I can get out and get some more stuff tomorrow...had to work today for the first half of the day.

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[North Georgia Relics]

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[bottlebum]

Sweet finds! I'm going to give my 12.5 coil a test run today. Hopefully i'll have some gooduns to post.

 

[ejudasf]

Mike,

for us down in south texas, our reading on .58 minnies are 167 with ground mineralization being like hunting next to the surf.

Just a funny observation.

laterz

ed

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

That is interesting. On my CZ-70, 3-ringer minnieballs come up as "Zinc Penny". An actual zinc penny (1983 and later) will read 176 on a Sovereign with the meter when it's set to 180 on a US quarter. An actual 3-ringer minnie usually reads 173 to 175.

Your reading of 167 is much more likely on a Sovereign whose meter was calibrated at 170 on a quarter. Did you miss the part where I set mine at 180?

 

[Frank in NH]

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[Silverstar_Lawman]

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