Sniffed out a few bullets after work!

VaMark

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• Aug 15, 2013

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Today was such a pleasant change from last weeks Hot weather I just had to get out and do some diggin.I went back over an area that I had hunted with my VLF detector before , this time I used the GPX, the ground is full of minerals. That is The Wolf's favorite type of ground....
I found a bunch of fired bullets of various sorts, 1 was a Star base, a small iron buckle and an artillery frag a couple scraps of camp lead.

HH

 

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Donneybrook

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• Aug 15, 2013

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Nice bullets, love the artillary frag. Will you be cleaning the buckle so it can move again with electrolysis?

 

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Donneybrook said:

Nice bullets, love the artillary frag. Will you be cleaning the buckle so it can move again with electrolysis?

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I might clean it but not sure it will move again, it's got some pretty heavy rust.

 

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• Aug 15, 2013

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Nice haul, congrats!!

 

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VaMark said:

I might clean it but not sure it will move again, it's got some pretty heavy rust.

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I was able to make three of four buckles move again. The 4th, which was smaller, broke into several pieces.

 

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• Aug 16, 2013

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Nice buddy! You right, I love that ground you got up there....

 

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• Aug 16, 2013

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Nice relics. I'm glad someone is pulling them .HH

 

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• Aug 16, 2013

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We just came back from vacation from your neck of the woods. I had no idea of the magnitude the war had on that area. Loaded with history is all I can say.

 

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• Aug 16, 2013

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Great finds

 

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• Aug 16, 2013

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Is that buckle CW era?? I hunted a place a few weeks ago found one just like it. I put it in my junk bucket. Maybe I should pull it out. Thanks Mike

 

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MikeE said:

Is that buckle CW era?? I hunted a place a few weeks ago found one just like it. I put it in my junk bucket. Maybe I should pull it out. Thanks Mike

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I find them all the time in CW areas, I think they are horse tack buckles or something similar, I can't say for sure they are CW but based on how often they show up in CW areas and have the same basic design and size I consider them to be period items. I have seen examples in some of my relic id books to.

 

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VaMark said:

I find them all the time in CW areas, I think they are horse tack buckles or something similar, I can't say for sure they are CW but based on how often they show up in CW areas and have the same basic design and size I consider them to be period items. I have seen examples in some of my relic id books to.

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The one I found was a CW field. At least I keep finding 3 ringers and shot there.