You found some double and triple shotted musket rifle loads. Sometimes orders were given on the battlefield for the first loads to be double or triple shot loaded where you load your rifle as normal but drop one or two more mini balls on top of your load with the idea of it becoming a force multiplier like a shot gun effect. The mini balls when fired would squish into the base cavity of the miniball loaded on top of it. When the bullets hit the ground the bullets would squish harder and create that mushrooming. Very cool finds, there was definitely battles at those locations. People were desperate to stay alive.
@@k.w.churchill4397 You should look up double loaded minni. It was a common occurence, especially in the heat of battle. Now that doesn't mean it fired properly, or that it was even done on purpose, but there was definitively ignition. Archeologists found hem often, when excavating heavy battle sites such as Gettysburg, where a few rifles were found double, and even triple loaded. They are found in the Petersburg area, so much so that local relic shops refer to them as "doubles"
Dogmo Satchmo Chigg found a musket barrel with more than 6 mini balls jammed inside. 6 of them were near the front of the barrel and he couldn’t tell how many were near the trigger because the metal was too thick to xray. Definitely more than 6 though. I’ve done some reading and I tend to think this wasn’t done for the shotgun effect but was because the powder would dirty the barrel so much that bullets would be very hard to load. And if it’s hard to load the rounds may not exit either. There are many firsthand accounts of soldiers having to bang their ram rod on a fence or tree just to load it. This was caused by a combination of inaccurate(too large) bullet sizes and dirty weapons. Soldiers were issued 40 rounds at a time. From what I’ve read, the rifle manufacturer suggested the rifle be cleaned twice while shooting that many rounds which is of course ridiculous on the battlefield.
One thing to remember that many of these bullets took the life of another American. It was a very difficult time in American history. Love your videos. Thanks
Thank you Chig, you have made my Monday morning much more enjoyable. I've missed your videos (relic hunting videos) I should say. Glad you're feeling better, happy hunting sir!!
Osage orange is another name for the hedge apple. The wood is supposed to be the world's best for archery bows. It was once thought that the apples around buildings would discourage insects.
Awesome video as always Beau!..Very strange with that many bullets all difformed about the same way..I first wondered if maybe those bullets got jammed & instead of worming them out,they drove them out..But I can't understand why so many & even the same way 8 miles away at the other location..I can't speak for everyone, but I could watch hours of nothing but Civil War bullet finding myself!..Its Civil War history that is being exposed for the first time since the war..The last person to touch them was a soldier 152-156 years ago!..Amazing!..Your videos are priceless Beau!..Thank you for all that you do!
Haha that horse apple in the thumb nail we would use them to see who could roll them furthest down the road usually an old lady would yell at us for all the horse apples in the street lol
Glad you're feeling better. I've had pneumonia many times before finding out it was being caused by a tumor in my lung and had to have half my lung removed. Pneumonia is exhausting though so take it easy.
Hey! Loved seeing the hedge apples. Brought back old memories of when we were kids, we’d wedge them under the tires of the car and watch Daddy try to spin out .
All right, Chigg Heads, time for some learnin'! OK, we all know that plants and animals develop mutually beneficial relationships, right? Mulberry Tree's have a special relationship with birds, who will eat their berries, flying far and wide, pooping out seeds for future trees. An Apple Tree might rely on Deer and Raccoons to disperse it's seed's after eating them. This is called a Symbiotic Relationship. So today, unless they have been intentionally planted by a Landowner or Farmer as a Hedgerow (which is why the Osage Orange Tree, is also called HEDGE Apple, and Bois de Arc or Bodark, for it's bowmaking uses), they are most often found growing along waterways where the currents have distributed the fruits. So why aren't they growing everywhere, and what Animal did the Osage Orange tree develop a Symbiotic Relationship with? The WOOLY MAMMOTH!!! The tree developed fruits with coarse, masty fibers, just the sort of roughage the Mammoth preferred, like Elephants do today. So, in return, the Mammoths would "plant" the seeds in huge piles of dung as they walked, making baby trees all over the land. When the Mammoth's died out, so did the range of the Osage Orange! Mind Blown? Knowledge is Power!!!
While hunting as a lad in southern Kansas, We would see where squirrels had been eating on the hedge apples. My father cut up the fruit and placed the pieces in our basement as it was supposed to keep spiders away. Not sure if it worked or not, but I never saw a spider living on one. Could be a good deterrent for polar bears because I never saw one of those either, lol.
I haven't heard "Hedge Apple" in a long time either. Man, I miss Tennessee, except for the Dogman creature in Eastern Tennessee. Damned scariest thing you never want to see. Scars the mind/memories there after.
Spider balls (AKA hedge apples) are pretty common in some areas. I have a large male hedge apple hanging partially over my driveway. There are a couple of female hedges within about a 5-minute walk and there are apples everywhere. It's that time of year.
Brother, you have solved a mystery find that I keep pulling out of the river! The folded-up metal bands used for fishing sinkers. I have found about 20 this summer and had no idea they were fashioned-up sinkers. Thank you for the education! Keep hunting!
You know what it appears to me about those weird bullets? It feels like they fires into another bullet. Like a line of them shoves onto another or something like that.
In the midwest, we called them Osage oranges. They are great for keeping spiders away. Put them on small plates in the corners = no spiders in the house.
Mr. Beau, I've had pneumonia three times. Haven't had even a cold in 17yrs since taking "Host Defence" by My Community. 100% natural and organic. Over 1000 year old Oriental remedy. Only at natural food stores, not pharmacy or gnc. Love your videos. Disabled vet. Can't do a lot. Great way to spend my time & learn history too. Best to you and yours.
The hedge apple is actually fruit from a tree/shrub in the mulberry family. It goes be the names osage orange or Bois ‘d Arc (bo dok) tree and the botanical name is maclura pomifera.
Fun adventure Beau! That was funny when I saw the thumbnail. I just make a joke last week in a video, that if one of those landed on my head, you'd know cause I'd never post another video. Haha.
I don't mind watchin you dig CW bullets all day - yeah its great when you get a mixed assortment of relic but only thing better than watchin you dig bullets would be me digging them - keep it up!
Yup, my dad made a bow from the osage orange wood years ago when I was a kid. It was about 40 years ago he made it. I was about 10. He gave it to my husband and he has it displayed in his man cave lol. :-)
Hedge Apple! I remember when I was little (probably about 20 years ago) my sister and I collected a bunch of those in a little wagon, and I never saw them again until your video! :)
19:26 Back in 1998, I had been in the same spot, found two minie balls, and a few bottles. Me luvs bottulz. I had to portage the kayak under the log; a Perception Sierra gets heavy after 10 minutes.
watching from Scotland , when I'm out metal detecting I find alot of musket balls I've found that many I play a game with the kids with them " who can guess how many musket balls are in the box " lol I have 177 of them so far haha
That's cool as heck, its on my list to visit the isles and hunt for anything that's super ancient. Swords armor, Viking hordes, anything thats 1000 years old would be exciting
Great video. As someone else pointed out the hedge tree with what we call horse apples is an Osage Orange. Some of the finest bow making wood there is. As pointed out Native Americans made their bows from this wood. Thanks for sharing.
Hedge Apples come from the Osage Orange Tree. Handmade archery bows come from Osage Orange. It's an old art of bow making because as you said, they are very strong limbs.
I'm so glad you commented with this hypothesis. It must have been one heck of a battle, for a Soldier to forget how many rounds he had rammed! Imagine the "kick", when he fired!
Thank you for the lesson on the big green things (hedge apples). My son and I were out exploring along the river in Jefferson Co, WV and we found a bunch. Your lesson saved me a long trip on the internet to figure the name of the hedge apples. Thanks for the videos.
Just a theory about those bullets... its well known that on rare occasions in the heat of battle inexperienced soldiers sometimes loaded and re-loaded without knowing that their guns hadn't gone off when they had fired, on occasion they finally remembered to add a firing cap etc and the gun actually exploded... could that be what has happened to these minie-balls / bullets? the shape at the top of the bullet made by the base of a bullet on top???
Aquachigger, After watching you for some time I decided to get a Garrett, Now there is a bit of a story to this so I wont bore with details, so had some workman in the back yard and they dug a big trench, so on, so on, after they left,...I decided some 3 months later to get the Garrett had a play in the back yard AND found a Leatherman super tool, worth about $100.00 bucks, was ssoooooo excited, cleaned it up AANNDD it had the guys name on it, after a phone call to the company he worked for I left my name and number and now I'm waiting for him to call me back, But if I had not got the Garrett I would never had found it, so now because of your influence there is a hard working guy in Townsville here that is going to get his Leatherman back that he most likely thought he would never see again, ( plus I'm now out of pocket a 100 dollars so you can just put the cheque in the mail, LOL ) joking, but its thanks to you I found it, SO you have helped a person in Australia find his lost item, pretty cool don't yu think. So my friend don't ever think what your doing is not inspiring people to go tressure hunting, I think its great watching you get stuff, so my next stop is the beach.
That's really cool, but if I were you id be looking for gold. Maybe that's not your part of Australia, but I've seen the pictures of huge gold nuggets, some of the biggest in the world if im not mistaken.
Hi Chigg I suggest that the deformation of the bullets is caused by them being fired and striking flesh and bone, giving them that “ concertinad” appearance. I say this from my years in the Rhodesian bush war and hunting with soft lead tipped bullets which had a very similar distortion. Anyway that’s my thoughts Cheers
My two cents on the bullet is that it hits something with medium slash soft density and as it pushed its way through it was deformed and rolled back at the top, maybe you found bullets are actually went through someone or a softwood
I was thinking something ironclad...but with sheets of tin or the like. 'Cause the outside mushroomed, wile the centre mass of the bullet went on to deform/ penetrate the metal. If you look close to where the ' point ' starts, it has a bit of a line.
Civil war soldiers did wear iron breastplates. So maybe those are bullets that hit a breastplate. americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/04/failed-objects-bullet-proof-vests-and-design-in-the-american-civil-war.html
I think the funny shaped rounds were from a defective cast which caused a ring indentation on the un fired bullet. Once fired and after striking its target the defect caused the round to mushroom into the strange shape
I thought cannelures were to crimp the copper jacket to the lead. The bullet you found looked just like a lead bullet with no copper jacket. Please advise Beau.
Thanks for sharing. Watching several tonite. Tongue in cheek, I think you could take a rorschach test and see civil war stuff in every picture. Seriously you appear very knowledgeable.
Hey Beau, I think James Wollgast is right in that those odd shaped bullets was the result of loading and firing multiple rounds at the same time. The thing that doesn't exactly jive with this theory is that the "mushroomed" part of some of those bullets is a greater diameter than the bullet itself. Perhaps if the muzzle of the rifle was relatively close to the water and/or mud, the bullets wouldn't have had a chance to separate in flight, causing one to rear-end the other? Still, it's very strange that you found so many!
Watching these videos...part of my childhood is ruined. Growing up...there was a little country store near my grandma's house. The owner would trade you a bag of candy and a Nehi soda for those bullets and any Indian head nickels we found. We thought the bullets were broken chess pieces. Young and naive. XD
Chig, Those bullets are have impacted a hard wood, like Oak. I have fired a few Black Powder rifles into Oak and had the same type of impact damage....Might be something to to look into, may have been a type of boat getting fired on up that river.
Great adventure!!! Thanks for sharing! Please don't over do it you sound a bit congested still. Puemonia is a tricky thing even for an active person such as yourself.
The seeds are edible by people, but you must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.if you see opened ones thats sure sign lots of squirrels around
You found some double and triple shotted musket rifle loads. Sometimes orders were given on the battlefield for the first loads to be double or triple shot loaded where you load your rifle as normal but drop one or two more mini balls on top of your load with the idea of it becoming a force multiplier like a shot gun effect. The mini balls when fired would squish into the base cavity of the miniball loaded on top of it. When the bullets hit the ground the bullets would squish harder and create that mushrooming. Very cool finds, there was definitely battles at those locations. People were desperate to stay alive.
Not so sure thats accurate...Major pressure spike, not built to launch multiple full size balls.
@@k.w.churchill4397 You should look up double loaded minni. It was a common occurence, especially in the heat of battle. Now that doesn't mean it fired properly, or that it was even done on purpose, but there was definitively ignition. Archeologists found hem often, when excavating heavy battle sites such as Gettysburg, where a few rifles were found double, and even triple loaded. They are found in the Petersburg area, so much so that local relic shops refer to them as "doubles"
Dogmo Satchmo Chigg found a musket barrel with more than 6 mini balls jammed inside. 6 of them were near the front of the barrel and he couldn’t tell how many were near the trigger because the metal was too thick to xray. Definitely more than 6 though. I’ve done some reading and I tend to think this wasn’t done for the shotgun effect but was because the powder would dirty the barrel so much that bullets would be very hard to load. And if it’s hard to load the rounds may not exit either. There are many firsthand accounts of soldiers having to bang their ram rod on a fence or tree just to load it. This was caused by a combination of inaccurate(too large) bullet sizes and dirty weapons. Soldiers were issued 40 rounds at a time. From what I’ve read, the rifle manufacturer suggested the rifle be cleaned twice while shooting that many rounds which is of course ridiculous on the battlefield.
YES A 41 MINUTE VIDEO I COULD WATCH HIM ALL DAY AND NOT GET BORED :)
One thing to remember that many of these bullets took the life of another American. It was a very difficult time in American history. Love your videos. Thanks
Thank you Chig, you have made my Monday morning much more enjoyable. I've missed your videos (relic hunting videos) I should say. Glad you're feeling better, happy hunting sir!!
This video the last 15 min., of the video was almost mesmerizing , with all that late day sunlight, playing on the water beautiful ! Jack
I think your adventures would be great for children's books because you also point out nature and of course the turtles.
Osage orange is another name for the hedge apple. The wood is supposed to be the world's best for archery bows. It was once thought that the apples around buildings would discourage insects.
I’ll never get bored with you sharing your hunts, even if they’re all bullets. Thanks again for sharing.
Glad you’re over pneumonia. ✌🏻
Was listening with headphones, found myself actually holding my breath, think I might need help ! Thanks for your time and effort 🐢🐢🐢
Not even pneumonia can’t slow you down. 🛶🐢
When I grow up I want to b the Chigg Master. 🤴
GLAD YOUR FEELING BETTER, I WAS MISSING YOUR DAILY VIDEOS. STAY WELL AND AS ALWAYS GOOD VIDEO.
Awesome video as always Beau!..Very strange with that many bullets all difformed about the same way..I first wondered if maybe those bullets got jammed & instead of worming them out,they drove them out..But I can't understand why so many & even the same way 8 miles away at the other location..I can't speak for everyone, but I could watch hours of nothing but Civil War bullet finding myself!..Its Civil War history that is being exposed for the first time since the war..The last person to touch them was a soldier 152-156 years ago!..Amazing!..Your videos are priceless Beau!..Thank you for all that you do!
Beau, I'm glad to see you are feeling better.
I'm glad your feeling better chigg. I'm glad your back now, I have missed your videos.
Haha that horse apple in the thumb nail we would use them to see who could roll them furthest down the road usually an old lady would yell at us for all the horse apples in the street lol
Glad you're feeling better. I've had pneumonia many times before finding out it was being caused by a tumor in my lung and had to have half my lung removed. Pneumonia is exhausting though so take it easy.
Hey! Loved seeing the hedge apples. Brought back old memories of when we were kids, we’d wedge them under the tires of the car and watch Daddy try to spin out .
All right, Chigg Heads, time for some learnin'! OK, we all know that plants and animals develop mutually beneficial relationships, right? Mulberry Tree's have a special relationship with birds, who will eat their berries, flying far and wide, pooping out seeds for future trees. An Apple Tree might rely on Deer and Raccoons to disperse it's seed's after eating them. This is called a Symbiotic Relationship. So today, unless they have been intentionally planted by a Landowner or Farmer as a Hedgerow (which is why the Osage Orange Tree, is also called HEDGE Apple, and Bois de Arc or Bodark, for it's bowmaking uses), they are most often found growing along waterways where the currents have distributed the fruits. So why aren't they growing everywhere, and what Animal did the Osage Orange tree develop a Symbiotic Relationship with? The WOOLY MAMMOTH!!! The tree developed fruits with coarse, masty fibers, just the sort of roughage the Mammoth preferred, like Elephants do today. So, in return, the Mammoths would "plant" the seeds in huge piles of dung as they walked, making baby trees all over the land. When the Mammoth's died out, so did the range of the Osage Orange! Mind Blown? Knowledge is Power!!!
GreyWolf Creations wow that was great.
GreyWolf Creations Thank you for that fascinating information I always wondered what would eat that lousy fruit.
While hunting as a lad in southern Kansas, We would see where squirrels had been eating on the hedge apples. My father cut up the fruit and placed the pieces in our basement as it was supposed to keep spiders away. Not sure if it worked or not, but I never saw a spider living on one. Could be a good deterrent for polar bears because I never saw one of those either, lol.
I used to find the Osage Orange fruit along fence rows in middle Tennessee. I haven't seen one, since moving north. Man, do I miss Tennessee.
I haven't heard "Hedge Apple" in a long time either. Man, I miss Tennessee, except for the Dogman creature in Eastern Tennessee. Damned scariest thing you never want to see. Scars the mind/memories there after.
So many bullets this time 👍
Love the long videos!!! We'll short ones also..so keep them all coming
Spider balls (AKA hedge apples) are pretty common in some areas. I have a large male hedge apple hanging partially over my driveway. There are a couple of female hedges within about a 5-minute walk and there are apples everywhere. It's that time of year.
We have the Osage Orange trees all over Kentucky. The oranges are good to put in your basement or around your foundations to deter spiders.
I'm so happy you're feeling better! Pneumonia is serious! Awesome video! Missed you! All the very best to you!
Hey Aqua, greetings from Australia. I hope you recovering well from pneumonia.
Thanks Aquachigger what an awesome relic hunt 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Brother, you have solved a mystery find that I keep pulling out of the river! The folded-up metal bands used for fishing sinkers. I have found about 20 this summer and had no idea they were fashioned-up sinkers. Thank you for the education! Keep hunting!
Glad your better. I'm still getting over the same sickness. Can't wait to get out and hunt. Nice bullets beau.
Great video as usual! Nice relics & cute turtles 🐢! HH! ~ Gypsy
take care of yourself ,glad you kicked it, just be careful we need the chigg out there hunting treasure and teaching us all how for a long time.
Love the videos have a great adventure 😀😀😀👍
Great vid, Beau. Hope you remembered your pick and glad you are feeling better. Take care:)
You know what it appears to me about those weird bullets? It feels like they fires into another bullet. Like a line of them shoves onto another or something like that.
In the midwest, we called them Osage oranges. They are great for keeping spiders away. Put them on small plates in the corners = no spiders in the house.
Mr. Beau,
I've had pneumonia three times. Haven't had even a cold in 17yrs since taking "Host Defence" by My Community. 100% natural and organic.
Over 1000 year old Oriental remedy. Only at natural food stores, not pharmacy or gnc. Love your videos. Disabled vet. Can't do a lot. Great way to spend my time & learn history too. Best to you and yours.
Fun video! Mr Chig you need to take care of yourself! Get healthier - thanks for braving the fall water.
The hedge apple is actually fruit from a tree/shrub in the mulberry family. It goes be the names osage orange or Bois ‘d Arc (bo dok) tree and the botanical name is maclura pomifera.
Wood is so dense that farmer use branches for fence posts. They will last in the ground as long or longer than treated posts.
Fun adventure Beau! That was funny when I saw the thumbnail. I just make a joke last week in a video, that if one of those landed on my head, you'd know cause I'd never post another video. Haha.
Just watched your new video right before this one.
Beau. Do not stop U Tube. I am 81 years old and love your videos. Been detecting for years and always learn from your videos.
Beau no way stop you tube.
Take care of yourself Chigg!!!
I don't mind watchin you dig CW bullets all day - yeah its great when you get a mixed assortment of relic but only thing better than watchin you dig bullets would be me digging them - keep it up!
I’ve never fired a minie ball into mud but I’d bet that’d cause deformation like those odd bullets
Osage Orange wood (hedge apple) is the best wood for making a archery
Bow.
sciwolf359 yes they are
It's also really hard on chainsaw chains. I cut some every year for the fireplace and it burns hot, but quick.
Snarkapotamus it sure is! I always try to have some in winter to burn. Warms the cabin up quickly.
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange, is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8 to 15 metres (30-50 ft) tall.
Yup, my dad made a bow from the osage orange wood years ago when I was a kid. It was about 40 years ago he made it. I was about 10. He gave it to my husband and he has it displayed in his man cave lol. :-)
Hedge apples are the type of wood they make bows out of.
And bulets are kool great video.
Hedge Apple! I remember when I was little (probably about 20 years ago) my sister and I collected a bunch of those in a little wagon, and I never saw them again until your video! :)
19:26 Back in 1998, I had been in the same spot, found two minie balls, and a few bottles. Me luvs bottulz. I had to portage the kayak under the log; a Perception Sierra gets heavy after 10 minutes.
watching from Scotland , when I'm out metal detecting I find alot of musket balls I've found that many I play a game with the kids with them " who can guess how many musket balls are in the box " lol I have 177 of them so far haha
That's cool as heck, its on my list to visit the isles and hunt for anything that's super ancient. Swords armor, Viking hordes, anything thats 1000 years old would be exciting
Why don't you spray paint you pick handle a neon color easier to find
Long day but always good to see a video by chiggs
Take care don't want you to get sick again! Thanks for sharing!
People die from not taking pneumonia seriously Chigg, I've known one or two, be careful and visit your doctor early and often!
Could the deformed bullet have hit another bullet in the barrel?
Wish we had turtles in our rivers in the UK, super cool
Moar Bullets...
Then even Moar !! lol
great to see you running the camera while searching and passing over signals that an amateur like me would get hung up on.
Looks like that mini ball may have perfectly struck a pistol muzzle! Amazing shot couldn't have planned it any better, wow!
dear Aquachigger what is that green thing that you was holding out of the water reminds me of broccoli in the creek !!!!!!
You're the one that got me started detecting. Wached a few of you and then nugget and had to get me a detector
It's turtles all the way down Mr. Aqauchigger.
Great video. As someone else pointed out the hedge tree with what we call horse apples is an Osage Orange. Some of the finest bow making wood there is. As pointed out Native Americans made their bows from this wood. Thanks for sharing.
Hedge Apples come from the Osage Orange Tree. Handmade archery bows come from Osage Orange. It's an old art of bow making because as you said, they are very strong limbs.
I have had similar result from a 12 ga. slug going into a moist, dense clay bank. Cheers, Billy in Canada
I did enjoy thank u for everything u do
Proper name is Osage Orange. The wood was a favorite of wood workers. The odd shaped bullets look like they hit an animal or human.
the funny tip bulets might be a triple load that got fired
James Wollgast I agree I think in the heat of battle they packed barrel with more than one!!
Or it just hit a log and the wood rotted away leaving the bullet.
I'm so glad you commented with this hypothesis. It must have been one heck of a battle, for a Soldier to forget how many rounds he had rammed! Imagine the "kick", when he fired!
Be my guess too, or might be a gun there somewhere too if barrel exploded. I'd keep an eye out for a large iron target.
yeh, the "cut" one he found was probably from when the barrel exploded :)
Ahh, good old Hedge-Apples! We call the wood "Osage Orange", here in Missouri. :)
glad youre feeling better chig!!
you should do a civil war balistics comparison video of your fire bullets.
Very good
Thank you for the lesson on the big green things (hedge apples). My son and I were out exploring along the river in Jefferson Co, WV and we found a bunch. Your lesson saved me a long trip on the internet to figure the name of the hedge apples.
Thanks for the videos.
Carl Drumgoole Osage orange it's the proper name
CHAMBEREDin308 thank you for the proper name.
Collecting With Carl no problem the Indians used to travel miles to harvest the wood to make bows it is the cream of the crop for bows
Collecting With Carl as for hedges the saying used to be, horse high and hog thick its was natures fence lol
Thank you so much. I was ready reading about using them as fences. Those things do grow pretty thick.
Just a theory about those bullets... its well known that on rare occasions in the heat of battle inexperienced soldiers sometimes loaded and re-loaded without knowing that their guns hadn't gone off when they had fired, on occasion they finally remembered to add a firing cap etc and the gun actually exploded... could that be what has happened to these minie-balls / bullets? the shape at the top of the bullet made by the base of a bullet on top???
Always look forward to new post from you
That cartridge case is 7.62x52R. They're fired in the Mosin Nagant and the color suggest it's a surplus round which is commonly available.
Aquachigger,
After watching you for some time I decided to get a Garrett, Now there is a bit of a story to this so I wont bore with details, so had some workman in the back yard and they dug a big trench, so on, so on, after they left,...I decided some 3 months later to get the Garrett had a play in the back yard AND found a Leatherman super tool, worth about $100.00 bucks, was ssoooooo excited, cleaned it up AANNDD it had the guys name on it, after a phone call to the company he worked for I left my name and number and now I'm waiting for him to call me back, But if I had not got the Garrett I would never had found it, so now because of your influence there is a hard working guy in Townsville here that is going to get his Leatherman back that he most likely thought he would never see again, ( plus I'm now out of pocket a 100 dollars so you can just put the cheque in the mail, LOL ) joking, but its thanks to you I found it, SO you have helped a person in Australia find his lost item, pretty cool don't yu think.
So my friend don't ever think what your doing is not inspiring people to go tressure hunting, I think its great watching you get stuff, so my next stop is the beach.
That's really cool, but if I were you id be looking for gold. Maybe that's not your part of Australia, but I've seen the pictures of huge gold nuggets, some of the biggest in the world if im not mistaken.
Hello The Chig' ! I'm a French fan ! And in my opinion, your stranges bullets was shoot in direction of water. Big Hello from France!
The hedge Apple is from the bois de arc tree - the dye for khaki is from it - it is the 3rd hardest wood.
Hi Chigg I suggest that the deformation of the bullets is caused by them being fired and striking flesh and bone, giving them that “ concertinad” appearance. I say this from my years in the Rhodesian bush war
and hunting with soft lead tipped bullets which had a very similar distortion. Anyway that’s my thoughts
Cheers
You have some great videos, thanks for sharing with us!!!
23:22 Amphibian Egg! Awesome
My two cents on the bullet is that it hits something with medium slash soft density and as it pushed its way through it was deformed and rolled back at the top, maybe you found bullets are actually went through someone or a softwood
I was thinking something ironclad...but with sheets of tin or the like. 'Cause the outside mushroomed, wile the centre mass of the bullet went on to deform/ penetrate the metal. If you look close to where the ' point ' starts, it has a bit of a line.
Civil war soldiers did wear iron breastplates. So maybe those are bullets that hit a breastplate. americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/04/failed-objects-bullet-proof-vests-and-design-in-the-american-civil-war.html
Love the videos man I learned so much from you thanks keep up the greatness.
Really enjoyed several of your videos. Great personality
I think the funny shaped rounds were from a defective cast which caused a ring indentation on the un fired bullet. Once fired and after striking its target the defect caused the round to mushroom into the strange shape
Bring me! Bring me! : ) Not many Civil war bullets dug here in Oregon.
I thought cannelures were to crimp the copper jacket to the lead. The bullet you found looked just like a lead bullet with no copper jacket. Please advise Beau.
Thanks for sharing. Watching several tonite. Tongue in cheek, I think you could take a rorschach test and see civil war stuff in every picture. Seriously you appear very knowledgeable.
You found a hedge apple! Osage Orange! We had them everywhere in Kansas.
Love the vid Chigg =) Joined Chigg's Army too! Hoooold ur Breeeeath! =D
Hey Beau, I think James Wollgast is right in that those odd shaped bullets was the result of loading and firing multiple rounds at the same time. The thing that doesn't exactly jive with this theory is that the "mushroomed" part of some of those bullets is a greater diameter than the bullet itself. Perhaps if the muzzle of the rifle was relatively close to the water and/or mud, the bullets wouldn't have had a chance to separate in flight, causing one to rear-end the other? Still, it's very strange that you found so many!
Watching these videos...part of my childhood is ruined. Growing up...there was a little country store near my grandma's house. The owner would trade you a bag of candy and a Nehi soda for those bullets and any Indian head nickels we found. We thought the bullets were broken chess pieces. Young and naive. XD
Its good to watch these while I'm stuck inside with a torn Achilles.
Osage orange trees produce those fruits. The branches were used for bows by the Natives! Or at least here in East Tennessee by the Cherokee.
Chig, Those bullets are have impacted a hard wood, like Oak. I have fired a few Black Powder rifles into Oak and had the same type of impact damage....Might be something to to look into, may have been a type of boat getting fired on up that river.
Feel better soon.
Great adventure!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Please don't over do it you sound a bit congested still. Puemonia is a tricky thing even for an active person such as yourself.
That green, gnarled ball is called and Osage Orange. We lived near a road that was lined with those trees.
The seeds are edible by people, but you must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.if you see opened ones thats sure sign lots of squirrels around
Don't forget you pick!!!
Very cool finds!
The old timers used to keep a few Hedge Apples or Osage Orange in the house for insect repellant.
Watched so many Chigg vids the other night, I dreamt I was metal detecting. :-0
Good to see up again.bbg.
Love your video's buddy keep them coming! Maybe I will be lucky and run into you sometime as I live in Sharpsburg as well!