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Had the pleasure of hunting again yesterday with a new digging pardner near Oxford, MS. This was the first time I'd been back to this site in 10 years. Aside from about 4 pounds of junk iron and melted lead, the photo shows the results of a 3 hour hunt. I really like the Starr carbine bullets...

Hello All, Finally got out for a relic hunt about a month ago. A buddy and I went back to one of my old CS camps near Oxford, MS. We dug 11 bullets and a brass suspender piece. Found my first Volcanic pistol bullet (fired but in great condition). There were 8 different bullet types in what...

Found this odd Richmond Sharps while going through one of my bags of stuff. Note the top groove. Specimen was dug at Burmuda Hundred, VA. Any of y'all seen others like it? Best regards, Gary

Hello All, About 10 years ago it was my good fortune to purchase a couple hundred dropped Enfields from the Trans-MS area. Among these are an assortment which have what I will call 'grooves' around their sides. These grooves run most of the LENGTH of the specimens, NOT around them. The...

Hello All, Hope you will not be offended with this post. I am looking to 'fluff out' my selection of .69 Gardner bullet types. I am looking to purchase maybe 6 dropped shallow base and 2 deep base specimens of these bullet types. They need to be in upwards of excellent condition. Please...

Hello All, This post may well not be worth your time reading, but here it is anyway. One of the many things I enjoy about the comments made by the Forum's members is knowing something of the background for their knowledge/questions. To illustrate this point: A collector in the Trans-MS area...

Hello All, If you are like me then we all have been waiting since the final second of the Super Bowl for the first second of pre-season games to begin! The 2004 season is finally upon us. We should ponder who the top teams will be. Who will win the AFC, NFC and the Super Bowl? Personally, I...

Hello All, Ain't nobody posting much of anything, so I recon you'll have to put up with my tripe. (Your fault, not mine...I'm full of it). On May 6, 1991, I dug this ground-burst 20# Parrott and shrapnel along with three 3" Hotchkiss bases out of the same hole at Port Gibson, MS. Heck of a...

Hello All, A year or two or three ago I posted an inquiery about these bullet types. Since then our Forum has been graced with many new members, so I'm doing the same thing'one more time again.' Hope this does not bore anyone. On November 25, 1971, I dug seven '.69 Tower Enfields' in one...

Sure is a lot of silence on the site. Kinda eerie. Seems like bad Karma... Hey Chuck, the guy (Ron) who sent to me the request for a bullet ID wants to know what happened to it. :-) Told him that you are a MOST important and busy feller who would put it on the Forum as time allowed, which...

Kinda slow these days. Recently I acquired the specimen shown below in a batch of bullets which are said to have come from the Mobile, AL, area. Appears to have been fired from a .44 weapon. Flat base. Hope y'all like the pattern of the paper towel used as background! :-) Any idea as to...

Hello All, Probably very few of us purchase reproduction items, but I believe that you would enjoy checking out this website: http://www.cwreplicas.com/catalog.html The first time I saw Lonnie's products I KNEW they were the REAL excavated stuff...untill I picked one up! They are beautiful...

This topic deals with a bullet type which I believe was one, of several, which was a replacement for the .577 Gardner. As to what was to replace the .54 Gardner is not known to me or included in this discussion. To the best of my knowledge of recovered specimens of this bullet type, it is a...

Hello All, Any of you going to the Memphis relic show this weekend? I'll be there to look around. Just curious, Gary

Ohboyohboyohboy, Carroll County, MS, (where I reside) is under a WINTER STORM WATCH tonight! We might get one or even TWO inches of snow! If we are lucky, maybe even THREE!! If that occurs, can life get any better? Heck, RAWWAR up in TN could get even more. There was a chance of some light...