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Well, since my work has furloughed me like most others, I have spent most of my time hunting some areas new to me. My areas saw mostly picket fighting during the Civil War and have produced a ton of lead, but this time I managed to find some firsts for me. I managed a few musket primer caps, a Colonial button with thread still in the loop, a mouth harp which I tried to put through electrolysis but it was toasted, and my first bullet in wood (not civ though). I also think someone here had some holes in their pockets, because like never before I found some groups of dropped .69 cal minie balls, .58 cal minie balls, and .69 cal round balls. Then I scaled a steep hillside by cutting foot holds and it produced a lot of .52 cal sharps rounds and even a 1953 Alan Ladd Cap Gun produced for the movie "Shane". Sorry my image host kills my quality. Thanks for looking, I will definitely be getting back out once the rain lets up!
All the lead together:
My giving tree, in that it gave me 7 dropped .58 cal minie balls
Flat buttons, knives, mouth harp, primer caps, bullet in wood.
1953 Alan Ladd Cap Gun
Close up of he dropped lead
.52 cal Sharps rounds
Here's all of it
For anyone looking for display ideas, I recently purchased one of these acrylic tubes from Amazon since my mason jars were overflowing. I separate my minie balls between dropped, fired, mangled, etc. The tube has over 130 rounds in it in this photo.
All the lead together:
My giving tree, in that it gave me 7 dropped .58 cal minie balls
Flat buttons, knives, mouth harp, primer caps, bullet in wood.
1953 Alan Ladd Cap Gun
Close up of he dropped lead
.52 cal Sharps rounds
Here's all of it
For anyone looking for display ideas, I recently purchased one of these acrylic tubes from Amazon since my mason jars were overflowing. I separate my minie balls between dropped, fired, mangled, etc. The tube has over 130 rounds in it in this photo.
