After finally deciding to send the old Nautilus DMC2 back for a tune up I got the old heavy azz minelab Musketeer out of the closet, dusted her off and took her out for a spin. My place is pretty close to Frasier's Farm and within walking distance to some of the hottest fighting of the battle. I have found lots of stuff right in my yard as both the South and the yanks were in the area for most of the war. Anyway There is this place next to me that I have always wanted to go into but it's hard to hunt cause in the fall and winter the hunters own the woods and once it warms up the ticks are so bad you get eaten alive if you wonder off the beaten path. Yesterday I had planned to go out with my oldest son and a friend of his but things got screwed up as usual so after I had cleaned up the machine, replaced the stripped out plastic bolt that keeps the head from flapping up and down, re tapped the wires and put in new batteries I decided to go out for a little stroll around my place to see how it worked. Long story short, before I knew it I had ventured out in to the woods and before I knew it I was hunting in really thick underbrush and by that time I knew I was already on the menu and ready to be served up so I figured while I had some juice left I would head off into the deep woods to where the trees were bigger and had smothered out a lot of the brushy stuff that covers the forest floor in places where the trees are not as old.
I worked my way over to a spot that I had been wanting to hunt and along the way I picked up a bullet or two, an old muskrat trap and some sort of a round cup like item that looks like it was the top cover for some type of container, It's not magnetic but I don't think it is brass either. I finally came up on a spot that looked like someone long ago had took a spot about 40' square and dug a ditch around it and threw the dirt into the center to where you have a spot that is 2 or 3 feet higher than the surrounding area with a moot around it. There also looked to be some rifle pits scattered around the area and I hunted this area but didn't find anything. After I had hunted this area about 30 minutes I moved on further into the woods and the lay of the land was on a downward grade then as the trees were getting bigger and the woody underbrush was thinning out I could see up ahead what looked like a sharp rise or ridge and as I headed in that direction I crossed what looked like an old road bed that was headed in that general area so I followed it and I could see it was going to pass just to the right of this higher ground and then on deeper into the woods. I hunted my way up to this hill side and as I got close it looked like it was maybe a gun emplacement for 3 or 4 cannons and also some rifle pits and a shallow trench about 100' long along this natural ridge. Not a huge earthwork but I'm thinking this was put there by the yanks to keep the rebels from advancing on their retreating buddies that were headed for the James river and safer ground than what they had seen over the past few days.
As luck would have it this was the site of an old home site and the whole place was littered with trash. I hunted for awhile and dug several pieces of junk so I decided to get out of the all medal mode and turned just about all the junk signals out and I then started picking up one bullet after another and at times I found several within just a couple feet from one another. Most were shot from the hillside about 30 yards away but this area is now covered with underbrush so thick there is no way to get in there and to see what may be lurking underneath. I dug bullets and at one point it got like it was almost a pain because as soon as I would dig one up and put it in my bag then put my head phones back on and place the head to the ground there was another target and I had to jam my poor almost healed, broken knee back down into the sticky holly leaves that covered the ground in that area. I guess it was a bitter sweet kind of a situation so I hung in there until it was almost too dark to see and I headed to the ranch.
Anyway I found a couple bullets I have never seen before and was wondering if someone here might have a clue as to what they are. That is if I can figure out how to post up some pics. Whoops!! looks like I'll have to resize my pictures before it will take them so I'll have to post them later when I get back.
I worked my way over to a spot that I had been wanting to hunt and along the way I picked up a bullet or two, an old muskrat trap and some sort of a round cup like item that looks like it was the top cover for some type of container, It's not magnetic but I don't think it is brass either. I finally came up on a spot that looked like someone long ago had took a spot about 40' square and dug a ditch around it and threw the dirt into the center to where you have a spot that is 2 or 3 feet higher than the surrounding area with a moot around it. There also looked to be some rifle pits scattered around the area and I hunted this area but didn't find anything. After I had hunted this area about 30 minutes I moved on further into the woods and the lay of the land was on a downward grade then as the trees were getting bigger and the woody underbrush was thinning out I could see up ahead what looked like a sharp rise or ridge and as I headed in that direction I crossed what looked like an old road bed that was headed in that general area so I followed it and I could see it was going to pass just to the right of this higher ground and then on deeper into the woods. I hunted my way up to this hill side and as I got close it looked like it was maybe a gun emplacement for 3 or 4 cannons and also some rifle pits and a shallow trench about 100' long along this natural ridge. Not a huge earthwork but I'm thinking this was put there by the yanks to keep the rebels from advancing on their retreating buddies that were headed for the James river and safer ground than what they had seen over the past few days.
As luck would have it this was the site of an old home site and the whole place was littered with trash. I hunted for awhile and dug several pieces of junk so I decided to get out of the all medal mode and turned just about all the junk signals out and I then started picking up one bullet after another and at times I found several within just a couple feet from one another. Most were shot from the hillside about 30 yards away but this area is now covered with underbrush so thick there is no way to get in there and to see what may be lurking underneath. I dug bullets and at one point it got like it was almost a pain because as soon as I would dig one up and put it in my bag then put my head phones back on and place the head to the ground there was another target and I had to jam my poor almost healed, broken knee back down into the sticky holly leaves that covered the ground in that area. I guess it was a bitter sweet kind of a situation so I hung in there until it was almost too dark to see and I headed to the ranch.
Anyway I found a couple bullets I have never seen before and was wondering if someone here might have a clue as to what they are. That is if I can figure out how to post up some pics. Whoops!! looks like I'll have to resize my pictures before it will take them so I'll have to post them later when I get back.
