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    Posted 5 years ago

    tintyper
    (98 items)

    This excavated Civil War .58 Minnie Ball I purchased many years ago, from a small
    rural shop off of Route 3 a few miles outside of the Chancellorsville battlefield
    site in Virginia. I was just starting to collect "Battlefield Found" relics at that
    point in my life. See how it appears to have struck something with the bullet's
    bottom rather than it's top? It does not appear to have been a carved bullet.
    What do you think of it? In my years of collecting I have never seen another just like it.

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 5 years ago
      Loading a minieball backwards was not uncommon in battle. I've fired backward .58's just out of curiosity & they were accurate that way too.
    2. tintyper, 5 years ago
      Thank you, blunderbuss2. I used to fire the repro muskets also, and I expect that you are right.
    3. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 5 years ago
      I've never fired a repro. Probably as much fun, and more accurate than the originals.
    4. tintyper, 5 years ago
      You fired originals? I did fire one original a few times, but after that only repros.
      I was afraid of damaging originals. Muskets were fun to fire, but the
      repro I had of a .44 Colt army revolver was even more fun for me.
    5. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 5 years ago
      I still fire originals. Even full and hot loads. Not often I had one with an excellent bore.
    6. yougottahavestuff yougottahavestuff, 5 years ago
      blunderbuss2 you brought back memories when we were kids working on Crawford's farm down the Cape in the early 60's. He took a shotgun out of his corner closet and told us it was an 8 Gauge double barreled Parker with a Damascus steel bore. We asked if we could shoot it??? He said the only way he would fire it was if he tied it to the side of a tree and tied a string to the trigger and pulled it while hiding behind another tree!!! He was a Gunners mate during WWII on a Battleship during the battle of Midway!!! The stories I could tell when spending summers working his farm back then!!!
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    7. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 5 years ago
      A wise man, that, havestuff. Especially with Damascus. Doubt you want to shoot an 8 ga. anyway.
    8. tintyper, 5 years ago
      I never fired a shot gun. Years ago when a relative died, I inherited the right
      to choose my choice of my father-in-law's shoulder weapons. They told me that the shot gun was a choice gun in fine condition, worth more than any of the others.
      But I chose a deer rifle, something that I had always wanted, and would love to
      fire at targets. I never did regret that!
      I wish that I had kept my nice CW Springfield musket! Wow it was nice!
    9. yougottahavestuff yougottahavestuff, 5 years ago
      Crawford had 50 acres and was a caretaker of a Girl Scout Camp next to him when it was closed in the winter so we had all that posted land to hunt!!! We setout ice fishing traps and go rabbit hunting along the shore. You can only use shotguns in Mass. Go Deer hunting in season. Crawford would call us THE MIGHTY NIMRODS!!! Great Memories!!!
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