The last thing I expected to find on a supermoon beach hunt

Mountain Mike · Dec 8, 2017

I decided to take a week off and head to the beach of South Carolina. Might as well go during the supermoon and see if any sand gets moved around. So I spent a couple days detecting with the etrac and attack coil in Pawleys Island. The 15" coil goes deep and of course I was looking for rings and coins. I hit an area and started digging a lot of fishing sinkers. In the middle of all these large sinkers I found this bullet. A nice 3 ringer. Come to find out the island had a lot of civil war history.

diggerdan · Dec 8, 2017

Three finger?

Looks too fresh

GroundSweeper · Dec 8, 2017

3 ringer and some nice shells too! Congrats!

pan4au · Dec 8, 2017

Nice finding the 3 ringer

Skippy SH13 · Dec 8, 2017

diggerdan said:
Looks too fresh

Nah, looks like it was rolled in the surf, taking off the patina. Ocean lead doesn't get the same white color as dirt lead.

Skippy

Mud-puppy · Dec 9, 2017

Is that a Silver Spoon? Great hunt and pic there Mike!

Waveoff · Dec 9, 2017

That's a nice little surprise! Congrats on the 3 ringer!

Mountain Mike · Dec 9, 2017

Mud-puppy said:
Is that a Silver Spoon? Great hunt and pic there Mike!

Yep the old Johnson silver spoon. To bad the hook was missing.

Mountain Mike · Dec 9, 2017

This guy found a bullet the same day I did. They gave him a long interview on the 11:00 WPDE news. Maybe I should have told someone about it and got my 15 minutes. He was about 10 miles away.

cellrdwellr · Dec 9, 2017

Nice find!

pan4au · Dec 9, 2017

Mountain Mike said:
This guy found a bullet the same day I did. They gave him a long interview on the 11:00 WPDE news. Maybe I should have told someone about it and got my 15 minutes. He was about 10 miles away.

I hope that some bureaucrat doesn't try to restrict metal detecting since someone found a CW relic there

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fasteddy · Dec 9, 2017

I took 15 minutes to read your story,,, That should make you feel better :laughing:

,,,, Congrats on the three ringer,,,, They are hard to find up here in Gettysburg Pa

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