Civil War Bullets?

Next time you go to a civil war battlefield, take along a few mini-balls and lay them along the beaten path...I can hear almost tourist saying now...
"Wow, a real civil war musket ball."In a since, they're right... It's the same design, just 14+ decades late... Just joking, do NOT do this....
But, if you do...
Post it...

Your post reminds me of an incident at our club Rendezvous a few years ago. One of our members wanted to give the younger 'skinners a thrill. He bought a bunch of new-made arrowheads from one of the traders and left them in the path by the clubhouse. He wanted the kids to think they were finding arrowheads from "when the Indians were here".
Well, the kids got thrilled all right. They brought all the arrowheads to the registration desk and turned them in at the "lost and found".

Heck, you can drop some REAL bullets or TC maxi balls around a ML range and most shooters think they are something of the same style from the early 1800's......

quote:Originally posted by tg:
Heck, you can drop some REAL bullets or TC maxi balls around a ML rangeI think we would rather drop the REAL bullets or TC maxi balls into a lead melting pot and make round balls out of them.

What would they think if you dropped some real bullets like a 300g SST in a black sabot?

quote: He bought a bunch of new-made arrowheads from one of the traders and left them in the path by the clubhouse. Depending on where you live, that might not be necessary. In the '80s, I was a grad student at the University of Toledo and had a part-time job as a scientific illustrator with the archaeology program. Whenever we took new strudents down to a dig along the Maumee River, we would send them ahead and then follow them down the path to the site -- where we usually had two or three points (arrowheads) that we'd picked up along the way. It taught the new people to look at the ground when they were walking around a site.

One summer on that job, while doing a dig at Fort Meigs (War of 1812 fort reconstruction), I was watching where I was walking while crossing the fort grounds and noticed a bit of metal sticking out of the footpath. A little trowel work uncovered a musket action -- heavily corroded and pitted, but still recognizable. And this was at a tourist site visited by thousands of people every summer.

Make sure the bullet you leave behind is not a lead one. That would violate state and federal environmental regulations.