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Folks, It has been a while but I am back (please keep the boos and catcalls to a minimum). Health and family issues have kept me away for too long but things are headed back in the right direction and I am looking forward to chatting with some old friends and ruffling some feathers like the...

Folks, Yesterday I had the extreme pleasure of MD'ing the area (along with JimT and author/sometimes History Channel G'Burg afficionado Garry Adelman) where Hancock and Wright formed up for the assault on the Mule Shoe at Spottsylvania. My take for the day, several crushed soda and beer cans (I...

Folks, Anybody interested in getting together in the chatroom tonight at 8:00 Eastern? TomH

Folks, In the same vein as my other post, here is the perfect Thanksgiving table centerpiece. It is from a collection of carved bullets that I had the opportunity to photograph for a project I am working on. Later, TomH

Hey Folks, Just wanted to take a moment to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. Remember, whichever side of the Mason Dixon (or Mississippi if you prefer) that you hail from you are still Americans and have the patriotic responsibility to do your best to eat yourself into an l-trytophan...

Just a reminder that the Fall Gettysburg Relic show is next weekend. The organizers have really gone out of their way to get some bullet and cartridge dealers to attend the show, plus Thomas Publications will have the remaining part of the Wendel Lang collection (still a bunch of nice stuff...

Guys, I messed up and posted the wrong photo on an ebay listing and would appreciate it if you would not bid on item 6564054564 MM#182 - Sharps Rifle/Carbine Model 1861 Bullet. Doh! TomH (suddenly feeling like it may be time to change my glasses)

Folks, Since it has been slow I thought I would post some bullets that I just bought from an old collection. Some of this stuff is the first I have seen for sale in a long time. First, a .36cal Sharps MM#625 (thanks for the correction Roger) and a .577cal Sharps MM#42

Folks, I thought I would post a topic for a little light discussion, and maybe even a little humor. OK, we are all lead heads, that's why we are here. We spend our free time, and money, studying what a friend of mine aptly calls "Technologically Enhanced Rocks". We are sometimes treated like...

Folks, Here are a couple of items that I have picked up recently and thought they would be of interest. First, a nice Tom Greene Enfield that has a lighter "ring" showing where the lead was stressed during the cartridge forming process. I believe that this "ring" is formed when the bullet...

Folks, Since it has been a quiet day I thought I'd post some recently acquired cartridges for review and discussion. Later, TomH (looking forward to this weekend's Summer Relic Show in the Burg)

Folks, Here's one you don't see every day, a roundball and 3 groove bullet that collided in midair. They hit at almost a perfect 180 and remain stuck together. Later, TomH

Folks, Next week the History channel is running a series of new CW related programming including a Wild West Tech centered on the Western Theater Wild West Tech: Civil War Out West Tuesday, May 24 @ 8/7c The Civil War is thought of as a conflict between North and South. But the West figured...

Folks, I just wanted to share this one with you. It is a phony .54cal Gardiner explosive that I had a chance to look at last week. It appears to actually be the proper pewter/lead alloy but I think it may actually be a .58cal that was milled down to match a .54cal. When you place it next to the...

Folks, Tonight at 8:00 on the History Channel is the new episode of Battlefield Detectives about Antietam. That is the dig that JimT, Dean Thomas and I worked on. Dean is extensively interviewed and JimT was filmed pulling a Gardner out of the ground. Enjoy, TomH

Hey folks, I just picked up some unusual cartridges from Dean Thomas and wanted to share them with the group. First a .44cal Colt manufactured at Watervliet Arsenal...

Folks, I need some input on this 3 ringer that I picked up at the recent G'Burg Show. The closest match I could find was the MM#353 but the nose is not flat like the 353. From what I understand, the 352 and 353 are erroneously identified in MM as Pistol Carbine Bullets and are actually Williams...

Folks, I just posted a revision of the searchable database that I was working on to http://www.baymediapro.com/collection It now contains most of my collection and I am open to any suggestions about the identification of the various bullets and cartridges. If you see something that you don't...

Folks, Since it has been so slow I thought that I would post this unusual bullet. It is a Gardner that never went through the forming die used to make the cartridge. The bullet was cast with the exterior flange perpendicular to the body of the bullet. Dean and Jim Thomas have constructed a...

In continuation of the thread on the Bullets and Cartridges section about Enfields issued in the war. Just by coincidence the following two documents are currently being offered on EBay: An invoice from Isaac Campbell & Company, London for 700 Enfield Rifles and Bayonets including Bullet...