matt93
Junior Member
I live out in Eastern Oregon, and I recently scored a permission to hunt the site of a Fort Site that was active from 1865-1869, with known Army activity until late 1870s. I didn’t fill my board, but I did pretty well digging a few goodies.
Are these cleaner bullets? I haven’t put a caliper on them yet, so not sure of the calibre, and I know the two bullets stuck in the remnants of casings are probably 45-55 as the infantry was still around here fighting with the Natives a decade and a half after the end of the Civil War.
The soldiers that were here at the end of the war were “volunteers” and were replaced in ‘66/‘67 by the regular Army specifically lead by (at the time) Col George Crook. I figured I would recover some 3 ring mine balls, but was not expecting to recover cleaners.
Can someone here who digs hundreds of these things please line me out?
Matt
Are these cleaner bullets? I haven’t put a caliper on them yet, so not sure of the calibre, and I know the two bullets stuck in the remnants of casings are probably 45-55 as the infantry was still around here fighting with the Natives a decade and a half after the end of the Civil War.
The soldiers that were here at the end of the war were “volunteers” and were replaced in ‘66/‘67 by the regular Army specifically lead by (at the time) Col George Crook. I figured I would recover some 3 ring mine balls, but was not expecting to recover cleaners.
Can someone here who digs hundreds of these things please line me out?
Matt
