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Bullets and Musket Balls
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:04 pm
by PhilD
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:36 pm
by Groggy
Phil
Some very good links on your post, it'll certainly help a lot of people especially the newbies. I'm sure the pic of the belted musket ball was one I posted somewhere back last year.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:41 pm
by marcsdigs
Excellent links and not just for beginners
Talking of ammo, I found my 146th lead ball the other day....
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:12 pm
by PhilD
Thanks lads, thats probably where I got the link from Groggy ta
Marc, you've found about 140 more than I have! you've got to be the UKDN Musket ball King
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:16 pm
by marcsdigs
you've got to be the UKDN Musket ball King
Me!.. :oops: .....nah, many people have found more than that.......but I still get a buzz when I find another.......I have a new field that has more to come I'm sure....
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:41 pm
by PhilD
Got any chewed looking ones like this? :lol:
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:50 pm
by marcsdigs
Not as bad, but I havent really been that hungry mate
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:57 pm
by PhilD
:lol:
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:14 pm
by Dean (Whitby)
I dug over 250 fired Enfield bullets in one afternoon..1853 type.
Dean
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:23 pm
by PhilD
Ever find out what had taken place there Dean?
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:41 pm
by marcsdigs
Ever find out what had taken place there Dean?
Yeh, the bloke had a swollen trigger finger!
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:04 pm
by PhilD
Marc, hunting for wabbit in 1853 was no laughing matter, especially with an Enfield rifle
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:33 pm
by Dean (Whitby)
It was the back stop for an 1850s rifle range..going to go back and dig up some more..Hope to get over a 1000 next time I go out.
They all came out of an area 7 feet by 7 feet...too many targets for the machine..so I would dig a bit...then run handfulls of dirt infront of the coil...sometimes I would pull 5 bullets out of a single handful of mud.
Dean
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:03 pm
by PhilD
Were they the smooth bore or the new rifled ones Dean and what do you do with them all?
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:03 pm
by marcsdigs
If all were within a 7x7 foot area, they were pretty good at shooting.......the only thing is, how many were firing there and at what distance?......