h20hawgs
Elite Member
This is a good story maybe I should have posted under Stories and Pictures but it was pretty eye popping and mind blowing, especially the way I found this back in 2008. I was relic hunting a property for the first time with a friend of mine. We searched the woods for hours until we started finding bullets and a few buttons. It was pretty hot that day so we stayed out of a small field that was hot in the blazing sun. My buddy had to be home early and we decided to come back the next morning and hunt this spot all day. I was working my way back to the truck where I could see him and hear him honking the horn at me to come on... I crossed a small cut in the field where water ran when it rained. The cut was about 4' wide and 2-3' deep. I stepped down in the cut and walked up it and my detector blanked out from iron. I swung it on the creek bed and it kept blanking. I looked ans sticking out the side of the creek wall I saw what looked like a modern metal chain link fence post sticking out about 3 inches. There is alot of trash at this creek bed. I took my lesche shovel off my sholder and smacked the object more in curiosity and frustration then anything... A big chunk of rust fell off the end, and I knew exactly what I had just done... I had just hit a 3" Read Shell right on the fuse end.... My heart dropped to my feet and I physically dropped to my knees-over the creek bank and rolld about 5' and held my head in my hands with my eyes shut... It felt like every second was an hour! I waited... laying in the field with my head in my hands for about 2 minutes while my buddy was blowing the horn about 100 yards away. I yelled for him to stop and not move...Like it would have mattered! It's amazing what a person will do when they feel they are getting ready to get blown to pieces in a split second. He looked at me laying on the ground and yelled at me asking if I was ok??? I told him I found a whole shell of some kind and accidently hit it with my shovel...I rose to my knees with my eyes still squinted in the direction of the shell and pointed it out to him. He told me to bring it up...ha, ha. I cautiously crept over to the shell and proceeded to unearth the rest of it... He kept his distance! Once I had the clay removed with just a couple easy light shovels of clay dirt I picked it up and walked slowely to the truck holding my life in my hands literally. Once I got to the truck I sat the shell on the tailgate of his truck. I was lost for any words and all I said was "Do you think it will blow"? Well to shorten the rest up I wrapped it up in my sock and put it in my boot in the back of his truck. I left it with my buddy to send away and get defused since I had a plane to catch back to Georgia. I was only there for the week visiting my family. It was probably my best memory of relic hunting so far... Good thing I am still here to tell this story. I have made some really good finds in Va. Here in Georgia I am just now finding places to hunt. I usually post under relics and coins section but felt this was the appropriate spot to post this one. I hope you enjoyed my long winded version of that find... I will post more finds in the relics section I found this weekend. I will never hit another object in the civil war woods...ha