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My first civil war cannonball!!!

planerie

planerie

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I went hunting at the Plantation again this weekend and found lots of really cool finds but this one takes the prize. My first ever cannonball. I don't have a scale but looks to be a 10 or 12 pounder.


 
Grats on your awesome find----something that would never cross my mind of finding in Ohio
 
:p Can't find a second until you find the first.:yes::yes:That is really a great dig.

Acey
 
Nice find! I've been dreaming of finding one for the past 23 years and still none!
 
Wow! That's fantastic. I have always wondered though...and please don't destroy me for asking this dumb question:surrender:. When relic hunting of this kind, do you hunt with no iron discrimination? If you do disc iron, then how exactly does a cannon ball sound off? Overload? Congratulations and thanks ahead for tolerating my silly question.
 
Schweddy said:
Wow! That's fantastic. I have always wondered though...and please don't destroy me for asking this dumb question:surrender:. When relic hunting of this kind, do you hunt with no iron discrimination? If you do disc iron, then how exactly does a cannon ball sound off? Overload? Congratulations and thanks ahead for tolerating my silly question.
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Good question, I've always assumed they would read as a high coin on many detectors? Large rusted iron has fooled my detectors many times.
 
Schweddy said:
Wow! That's fantastic. I have always wondered though...and please don't destroy me for asking this dumb question:surrender:. When relic hunting of this kind, do you hunt with no iron discrimination? If you do disc iron, then how exactly does a cannon ball sound off? Overload? Congratulations and thanks ahead for tolerating my silly question.
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I always hunt in all metal mode. I use my ears and listen to what the detector is telling me before I even look at the screen. I've dug some of my best finds that I was 99% sure would be iron trash but still had an interesting tone to it. The cannon ball had part of it showing above the ground and was a large iron overload. On the X-Terra's larger iron rings up 46-48 which is max segments for the machine but has a scratchy sound. Hope that explanation helps.
 
planerie said:
I always hunt in all metal mode. I use my ears and listen to what the detector is telling me before I even look at the screen. I've dug some of my best finds that I was 99% sure would be iron trash but still had an interesting tone to it. The cannon ball had part of it showing above the ground and was a large iron overload. On the X-Terra's larger iron rings up 46-48 which is max segments for the machine but has a scratchy sound. Hope that explanation helps.
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That's one thing I liked about my CZ (well sometimes), 99% of iron sounded like it was a good target so I ended up digging everything, yeah it was annoying at some sites, but it did find me some good items I would not have found otherwise! :D
 
CoiltoSoil said:
That's one thing I liked about my CZ (well sometimes), 99% of iron sounded like it was a good target so I ended up digging everything, yeah it was annoying at some sites, but it did find me some good items I would not have found otherwise! :D
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I found the cannonball Saturday so the rest of the day and Sunday I dug every large iron signal lets just say I'm a sore mofo today. Lol
 
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