Got back out on the river yesterday with the CZ21 and the AT Pro. Scored a bunch of CW lead. 17 bullets in all, a percussion cap, and what I think is a piece of a period knife. Got a couple cavalry bullets; a Sharps and a Colt pistol. Also got a Washington Arsenal "star base", a few really pointy, and some smaller caliber minnie balls, a .69 musket ball, and a really strange round nose 3-ringer. It looks like #375 in my bullet book, which says it's a CS rifle or rifle musket bullet. Here's a pic of it next to a regular .58 Minnie. This is the first one I've ever seen and CS relics are few and far between around the area. No buttons or shiny brass this weekend, but I'll take the bullets any day! Also got a mashed up ration can and some horse tack still retaining the leather. Thanks for looking.
This weekend's river finds with one unusual bullet
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Digger70pa
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Nice hunt buddy. Those water bullets come out pretty. HH
John in NC
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Nice bullets. That one is unusual but they are all great finds.
John
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VaMark
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Nice Looking bullets dude!
Pacivilwarluke
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nice finds! i like the odd one..
61chip
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Great bullets!
olddude
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What caliber is it, how tall and what kind of base does it have?
.577 cal, same length as a regular Minnie with a conical base. But the rings are flat.
jebrooks76
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Wow. What a nice little pile you have there. Congrats.
olddude
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Oh, I have one I've been trying to figure out too. It appears to have had a round nose like yours but it has been dropped and it is flattened a little on the end and out of roundness a little. It measures from a little over .50 cal to a tad over .51 on the other side. It's short like a sharps about 3/4 of an inch tall with a solid base with no markings. These rings are flat also.
I don't have a bullet book anymore I loaned the one I had out to someone and never got it back.
VaMark
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Here is a decent bullet ID online version. Hope this helps!
http://www.baymediapro.com/collection/bullet_search.asp
olddude
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Is there a destruction page that tell you what all those different boxes mean.....thomas and thomas/mason and whatever
