No Civil War Sites In My Neck Of The Woods So I Take What I Can Get :cam: :bouncy:

[John-Edmonton]

Hit a new spot by the woods that I have known about for several years. First question.....'WHICH COIL TO USE?" on my GTI 2500.

The sniper has been pulling out some nice deep targets lately, however, this area wasn't quite as dense as some of my previously hunted sites. I compromised and took the medium 9 1/2" coil.

Here' what I dug up in about three hours worth of searching. A little loot, some coins dating to the middle 40's, an older car-door handle and some spent ammunition shells.

Here are the shells after a hour tumble in my rock tumbler to get the dirt out. I did a little research and got some information from the head stamps.

Here is a great link for searching information and dating head stamps from ammunition cartridges of all sorts.

http://members.shaw.ca/cartridge-corner/shotgun.htm

And if you have the time and patience, you can create some nice small brass rings out of them 12 gauge shotgun shells.

 

[dahut]

...same question I always ask - what led you to the spot? WHat did you learn that made you want to detect THERE?

I used to fashion shotshell bases into large buttons, by cutting off all but the bottom and drilling a hole through the primer pocket. No real reason to do so, but I just wondered one day, "What can you DO with these things?"

 

[Beale]

Very nice hunt! You find some real nice items in the woods, Beale.

 

[John-Edmonton]

That's a great idea Dave I just might make a bunch of those with my real old shells, as they are just too brittle to form rings out of.

 

[echostar61]

Great Hunt John, The rings are Super Cool , never saw any made from
shotgun brass , Very Nice

Terri