The old heart skipped a beat........

[JB(MS)]

Saturday a friend and I were hunting an area that has produced a lot of Civil War bullets. He got two bullets, an Enfield and a .50 roundball, but I dug a beltplate. It was 5 to 6 inches deep and had been rolled up. I thought for sure it was Civil War, but while it's old and the right size it's not Civil War. I had to heat it to get it unrolled, should have taken a photo before I unrolled it but didn't think about it until I had it done. Was using the Golden

 

[mdowling]

Makes you think,nice find.

 

[Hombre]

You need to carry a bottle of nitro glycerin pills for moments like that JB, I would have just about crapped my pants over that one too......nice find

If it was cast brass and said CSA........you would need a whole bottle.

 

[JB(MS)]

You're right Randy. When relic hunting we never know when nitro glycerin pills will be needed. Back in the late 1990's I took a newbie on his first relic hunt. He had just bought his first detector, a CZ5, a couple of weeks earlier and was sure he was going to find some kickbutt relics. I took him to a place we had been hunting and his first signal was a MS state seal beltplate, in the photo, near a stump. He didn't have a clue what he had found, but if I'd had some nitro glycerein pills with me I would have definitely took a few of them. At that time those plates were in the $3,000 to $6,000 range, depending on condition, and a lot more now.. Bob, one of my hunting buddies who also used a CZ, had hunted right over it the week before and he still hasn't got over missing it.

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