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Hi, all you relic diggers and collectors. Don't buy from this guy. I purchased a used Nautilus detector from him on e-bay. Took nineteen days to recieve item. The picture on the ebay ad was for a "S" handle configuration, but in reality it was a "U" handle configuration. He lifted his pics from...

Hi All: Spent about a day and a half at Camp Teardrop. Hunting is getting tough. Found a total of 21 bullets. The grass is starting to grow, due to the recent rains, combined with the fact I'm rehunting an area I hunted earlier this year. Now hunting at a 90 degree angle to the direction...

I started metal detecting in 1979. One of the things I was told early on was how much better a signal you got when the ground had moisture in it. It enhanced the "halo effect" and made it easier to hear targets. Conversely, bone dry ground made it hard to hear the deeper signals because you...

Hi All: Yesterday I spent the day finishing the last area of Camp Teardrop I hadn't hunted this year. The camp is about 400 yards long and 75 yards wide on a gently sloping hillside, sloping to the West. I found 17 bullets in the last remaining area. Today I started hunting where I had hunted...

Hi All: Dug this thin brass unmarked brass four hole button today. This is the first of its kind I've dug. Is this an underwear button or suspender button? The area of the four holes is recessed. Hard to see that with the scan. Thanks for your help. keep on diggin' jimmyk in Missouri

Hi all: Dug this carved on .44 cal. Colt pistol bullet. Just a little knife action on the base. Always fun to dig one a bored soldier was playing with. keep on diggin' jimmyk in Missouri

Hi All: Got to go back to Camp Teardrop for the day. It's the only day this week I'll be ale to go. I have to work the next six days straight, so I'm out of the loop until next Monday. Found 28 bullets, 15 of which were teardrops. Found one nice.58 cal. bulb nose minie at ten inches deep. Was...

Hi all: Spent the last three days hunting my favorite "worked out" camp I fondly call Camp Teardrop. Cold front came through and temps were on the pleasant side (below 90 degrees). We are parched here in West Central Missouri. The ground is void of any moisture. You can dig, but the ground...

How come the Ranks page in the forum control panel isn't working? Just curious. jimmyk in Missouri

After a month of no relic hunting, I finally got to go to one of my favorite spots. Went last week but my detector fried after 3 minutes, so that doesn't count. Got a new MXT. Came in yesterday's mail, so I went out today, even though the forecast was for 101 degrees. I left home at 5:45 AM to...

There's no category to post this, so I picked this one to share a special moment for me today. I had the opportunity to track down The grave site of General Joseph O. Shelby, one of the greatest cavalry commanders of the Civil War. He got minimal recognition since he was in the Trans-Mississippi...

A Winter camp I had really good results in (even though "hunted out") this past Spring has been waist deep in grass. Last week I contacted the land owner to check on the condition and he said it had been mowed and cattle had been in it and the grass was as short as my living room carpet. :grin...

I was looking through some of the shot bullets I found during the past few months of field hunting and noticed one that looked out of place. Don't know how I missed it. I attribute it to a long, hot day of hunting, leaving the house at 5:00 AM so I can start hunting by 6:30 to beat rhe heat...

I know this is a Civil War forum, but it's very hot, extremely dry and deep in waist high grass on my sites, so I've been doing some coin shooting at a old huge school ground a block from my house. It's been hunted to death, so I've generally been finding only new coins, with the following...

Hi all: Several months ago I posted a picture and scan of a flat base .50 cal. shop bullet with no grooves. I wasn't able to confirm identification of that bullet. Since then, I've dug a total of eight more of these bullets. I just received a digital micrometer and believe these nine bullets...

Hi all: Was in Barnes and Nobel today and found a great book called the "Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Illustrated History". It listed for $40.00, but was being closed out for $15.00 (less the 10% discount for being a member). It takes all the pictures from the period and matches up...

Got out for two short days in the fields I've been hunting for several months. The two days were short for two reasons. Monday, I got rained out about noon. Today it got so hot and humid I quit around noon. The field is growing too tall with beans to hunt effectively. I was still able to pull...

Hi all: Got to spend two more days in the fields I've been working. Time is about up for this area. The beans were planted late and are starting to come on. Maybe one more outing and then that will be it until late Fall after the crops are out and hunting season is over. Had a couple of good...

Hi all: Dug this railroad spike at a spot where the railroad tracks crossed a creek/river during the civil war. There's a modern railroad crossing there today.So the question is whether this is a modern or civil war era spike. The raised letters "W", "H" and "C" are on the head of the spike...

Found another scraper today hunting for civil war bullets along a river in a plowed field. Nice "bonus". keep on diggin' jimmyk in Missouri