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Metal detecting and Magnet fishing.

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Belt Fed

Ronin
Any of you do these?

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Never knew magnet fishing was a thing until recently. I thought about getting a metal detector and scouring the many beaches around here. This was back when Whites was around, couldn't decide if I wanted Whites or a Garrett. Never made a move on either.
 
About anywhere old money may be, probably old home sites and churches are my favs. Look up fishing magnets on amazon, they come in all strengths and sizes. there are chinese ones and American ones. just depends on how much you want to spend. I wouldn't go below an 500 pound one and wouldn't go with a really strong one. those are a bugger to get off a chunk of metal. If you get one, make sure you put loc tite on the bolt that goes through it. it will come loose if you don't. here's a link below.

 
Recusant said:
You guys have found some really neat items. I'd love to find coins and guns. I have only found stuff that's made of iron that's really rusty:

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I'm sure you know those look exactly like old mortar shells right? A excavator operator on one of our construction sites dug one up and bomb squad came and disposed of it a few years back. This dingbat didn't tell anyone about what he found and threw it in the back of his site truck on a pile of chain. When he started posting pictures on social media someone informed him that he had a possible live explosive in his possession. And yes it was live when the bomb squad blew it up.
 
10mmLife said:
I'm sure you know those look exactly like old mortar shells right? A excavator operator on one of our construction sites dug one up and bomb squad came and disposed of it a few years back. This dingbat didn't tell anyone about what he found and threw it in the back of his site truck on a pile of chain. When he started posting pictures on social media someone informed him that he had a possible live explosive in his possession. And yes it was live when the bomb squad blew it up.
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Living in Richmond, Va, as a young man I spent many Saturdays and Sundays out the woods and fields in areas that saw action during the Civil War. These 160 year old relics are from that time. The 12 pound cannon ball the 10 pound Parrott shell were ground bursts. The Parrott shell came out of the ground in 2 pieces, and the cannon ball was in 3 pieces which I epoxied together so that it looks whole. The larger 80 pound Parrott shell was fired by a Union gunboat from the James River to probably cover the Union retreat after the battle of Malvern Hill. It has been deactivated and is safe. It's great to find one, but digging it out of the ground and then lugging it a mile out the woods to the truck is an activity suited to a much younger man than I am today.
 
Recusant said:
Living in Richmond, Va, as a young man I spent many Saturdays and Sundays out the woods and fields in areas that saw action during the Civil War. These 160 year old relics are from that time. The 12 pound cannon ball the 10 pound Parrott shell were ground bursts. The Parrott shell came out of the ground in 2 pieces, and the cannon ball was in 3 pieces which I epoxied together so that it looks whole. The larger 80 pound Parrott shell was fired by a Union gunboat from the James River to probably cover the Union retreat after the battle of Malvern Hill. It has been deactivated and is safe. It's great to find one, but digging it out of the ground and then lugging it a mile out the woods to the truck is an activity suited to a much younger man than I am today.
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That's awesome to be able to have a part of that history and also not to get blown apart by that history. 😜👍
 
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