Went bullet digging for a few hours on Monday....

[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

I'd already hit this spot several times but hadn't for about a year and a half. Someone with an 1859 .58 caliber Enfield had been target shooting here many years ago. This rifle saw heavy use during the US Civil War. The bullets used at this spot are unusual in that they are numbered inside and have "broad arrow" stamps on the base skirt. They also have plugs made of boxwood, iron or clay. The plugs made the bullet tighter as it traveled through the barrel providing better accuracy.

The target hill.
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There's one in there somewhere!
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Enfield and a musket ball in this hole. One hole had 3 bullets.
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Ended up digging 24 Enfields, four musket balls, and a small assortment of other bullets. Only 14 decent ones though. Sorry about this pic. Got one of those scanner printer combos. Great for scanning paper but lousy for anything else. Have to dig out the old scanner for anything 3D.
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Thanks for looking & GH, Chris

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[Butch in Colorado]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Butch in Colorado]

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[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

there was a small military post very close to this spot, it was their practice range. Unfortunately the place they were shooting from is under a house now.

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[General Ray]

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[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

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[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Ed SW Fla]

Don't know about Canadian soil conditions, but in good soil, down about 6 to 8" they generally read from low 70's to high 80's. Deeper, the VDI's can be lower.

In Culpeper, Va. using the MXT, in that "powdered iron" soil, if they were shallow (1 to 4"), you'd get a ear banging tone and 70's 80's VDI. If they were deeper ... up to 8 to 10", sometimes you got just a broken threshold tone and negative VDI. In that same soil, a nail might give you a + VDI from the teens to the 80's.

 

[Dean (Whitby Canada)]

I know that spot..I thought we had cleaned it out!!

Dean

 

[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

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[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

and this could be soil differences. This area has about 6" of forest loam over red clay. In the hand I get around 65. 4-6" down about 85-90. At 8-10" 90-95. Those deep ones are sometimes just a squeak though and you really have to play with the signal to be sure its not a bit of old fencing or visa versa.

 

[Matt (Maine)]

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