relichound
Corporal
- Joined
- May 17, 2007
I was young, and had my new metal detector, at the Battlefield of the Wilderness back in 1971.
Relics come to me!
I looked that day for a couple hours and found zilch. I tried another area of the field and again not
anything. I had read an article on ESP once, and it told how some people could find lost objects by just thinking about it.
I was so desperate that I tried that, and I walked around until I found a place near a large tree(there were few large trees in the Wilderness!)
and I had a feeling about it. I turned on my detector, and moved it over the ground and at once got a signal, and then another.
I am a genius. (I thought!) This is easy. Then I dug it up, and then dug up several more signals. See the photo of an iron bullet tin?
These were little pieces of the iron boxes. Slowly disintegrating. It must have been a place for the Union soldiers to come
to get more ammo during the battle. I gave up, and went home. It was not a good day for relic hunting, but I would come back,
and find hundreds of bullets, and even a plate or two. When you relic hunt, and find 0, you have to come back and try another day!
Relics come to me!
I looked that day for a couple hours and found zilch. I tried another area of the field and again not
anything. I had read an article on ESP once, and it told how some people could find lost objects by just thinking about it.
I was so desperate that I tried that, and I walked around until I found a place near a large tree(there were few large trees in the Wilderness!)
and I had a feeling about it. I turned on my detector, and moved it over the ground and at once got a signal, and then another.
I am a genius. (I thought!) This is easy. Then I dug it up, and then dug up several more signals. See the photo of an iron bullet tin?
These were little pieces of the iron boxes. Slowly disintegrating. It must have been a place for the Union soldiers to come
to get more ammo during the battle. I gave up, and went home. It was not a good day for relic hunting, but I would come back,
and find hundreds of bullets, and even a plate or two. When you relic hunt, and find 0, you have to come back and try another day!