Live 30-30 round in sports park

[rmptr]

Weather is getting warmer and the parks beginning to pick up with many more users.

I'm trying to switch to a morning schedule, but the SS uMax falses a lot on the wet grass and is masking a lot of targets.
Things get back to normal as the dampness goes away.

30-30 is a new caliber for me to find in a park... 9mm and .22 crop up from time to time.

Trying to get the winter's junk cleared out so I can run quick surface hunts with the CS coil when the parks are in full swing.

HH
rmptr

 

[tab-nabit]

WTG! on the finds and getting that 30-30 (thudy-thudy) out of there.
A week or so ago I found (visually) a handful of 22 LR laying on the ground that were clean like a fresh drop. Must have been maybe 40 - 50 or so all in one spot like someone did a dump and run. I was just glad to clean them up before some kids got a hold of them. I looked around for more but didn't find any. I was just out taking the little dog for a trot and didn't swing a detector then.

 

[rmptr]

Good score on the .22's Tab-nabit!

I'd use 'em, myself... NOT other bigger caliber stuff... more pressure going on, with them!
We've got an old Remington Scoremaster that's been bangin' around for years that we still target practice with.
It's still better than I am. Well, I think it's getting better. (I couldn't be getting worse!)

Thuddy-thuddy was fun to target practice with, too.. People like the lever action cowboy stuff...
I used to load mine with 13gr of Unique and stuff in those little 110gr M-1 carbine bullets for target use.
They just went POP with almost no recoil. The girls liked those. Amazing how well women can shoot!
Guys always wanted to shoot the .460 Winchester Mag, but it was brutal on your shoulder and expensive to shoot.
All gone now except for a couple little popguns.

HH
rmptr

 

[dahut]

I found a live .50 BMG round once. Now THAT was interesting.
.308, .30-06, .223. 45, .38/.357, .22LR, .32RF, 7.62 TOK, .380, 9MM, .25ACP....
Ive found 'em all. Im still hoping to find a gun, one of these days.

Part of the hobby and part of the fun.

 

[rmptr]

Wow! Dahut,

.50 BMG... That's a big 'un!

That's an interesting spread of cartridges you've found.

Yep... I guess it's kind of a guy thing with all the different shapes, and configuration of the digs, in addition to the valuables.

I just dug a small piece of some kind of toy, the other day that seems to be made of very hard metal, is very well made, and I can't figure out what it's from! Entertaining... even though I'm sure it has no value.

HH
rmptr

 

[dahut]

Interestingly, I've shot nearly all of those I named somewhere along the line, plus more than a few others.

Cartridges I've shot AND found

.308
30-06
.223.
.45
.38/.357
.22LR
.380
9MM
.25ACP
12ga
.410 guage

Cartridges I've shot and haven't found yet

.30WCF (.30-30)
7MM Mauser
6.5x55mm Swedish
.32 H&R Mag
.... There is always hope for finding these, someday.

I once found an entire box of .22lr's in the grass and a pocket full of 9MM rounds. I shot both of them.

I currently own rifles in:
.308 Win
.30WCF
.35Rem
6.5x55mm Swede
.22LR

 

[rmptr]

6.5 x 55mm sounds interesting, Dahut.

Probably a bit better than the .243 I had years ago. It was just a bit light, but was nice to shoot.
A bit heavier bullet would have been better.

I like the .308, but my favorite do-all is the 30.06.

I once loaded for 9 different calibers, but all gone now. Oh well.

Used to have interesting shells from a cement plant friends worked at... they used 3 1/2" 10 guage magnum slugs to break up the clinkers in a giant rotary kiln... could you imagine that? BIG chunk of lead! LoL

Most painful I ever shot was a .375 Nitro Express in a British double gun that we sold for an old fella who had hunted in Africa at one time. He had some pretty good stories to tell. It was 3 bucks a boom, even way back then..

Always wanted to try a Barrett.

HH
rmptr

 

[dahut]

6.5x55mm is all of that. If it wasnt for the long case, I'd call it a near perfect whitetail cartridge.
I dont load like I used to either. Just for the few I mentioned and then just enough to shoot now and then.

 

[rmptr]

LoL, Dahut,

I know what you mean!

A couple shots, the day before, to see that the sights are on, maybe a few more, if they're not...

One shot, and deer season was over, for me!

I never was a precision shooter, like some friends, but I always picked my shot, and California is pretty open country, around these parts.
Never went the blackpowder or bow hunting route.

I DO have a pretty good island pig hunting story, though... but it's a long one...
One of these days I'll type it in.

HH
rmptr

 

[dahut]

Ditto on the deer season. Im not a big hunter, I just like to have some venison in the freezer. I hunt a friends private land and it really amounts to sitting where he tells me. Wait a little while - bang - and Im done. I get it done with a .30-30 or the .308. I call him and just ask what I 'll need then bring it.

As for detecting and bullets. Guns have been a part of American life since our nation began and contrary to popluar belief, guns do nothing by themselves. Ditto the ammo. Inert metal for the most part.
Thus, people carry them both around more than you may think and of course, the ammo is lost. Most of the time it's by kids, I think. Nowadays there is the gang element that contributes some, too. Alas, the culture of violence is all too pervasive.

But it isnt intact cartridges, but fired bullets that always get me. Loaded cartridges are pretty much dead weight, but the bullet had to be fired from a gun to get where you find it. I've found obviously old, fired bullets in the least likliest of places - and ones that were just as obviously fired only yesterday. Makes you wonder...