When you scrounge for dropped ammo in the desert,...

[Suck My Glock]

Came across this on my Facebook feed. We've all found dropped ammo in the desert before. But have you ever found this?

 

[AZ_Five56]

Okay, that's pretty dang cool. I wonder what those rounds would have cost in today's dollars adjusting for inflation. I would guess that the price per round would be pretty high on these early cartridges.

 

[Old Jeff H]

Awesome. I've never found anything that old.

 

[smithers599]

Let me get my .56-60 Spencer out of the safe, and let's see if that ammo still shoots.

 

[delta6]

Wow.. I have found some old stuff (buried Model T) and some cool stuff (Indian pot), but this is the coolest. Great find :clap: :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[iammaxwell]

Very cool. I need to get my metal detector out more often...

 

[xerts1911]

Man oh Man!

 

[Bullzaye]

That is very cool.

When I was working in a LGS in Scottsdale back in 1995-96, a father & son came in one day with something wrapped in a small cloth. The father said they found it in an old dry riverbed while out hiking, it was mostly buried in the dirt, just a small bit sticking up, which the son noticed, and they dug it up. He unwrapped the cloth, and it was an old percussion revolver. It was pretty rough, but it just seemed so cool to have found it laying there, after who knows how many decades.

I think the biggest think I've ever found was a $10 bill blowing around on the ground one day. Hell, I still get a little jazzed if I find a quarter laying on the ground.

 

[hairygreek]

Neat. I once found a Native pot shard on the ground like that, at least a couple hundred years old sitting there. Also its amazing how many dropped old/ancient coins people find.

 

[knockonit]

hehe, have found plenty of native pottery, just need to know where to look.

and yeah a few dead bodies, some ugly shiat, one up off bloody basin road east side freeway, whilst bow hunting, and a few down off ranch in the day, then a few bleached bones up way east of dugas , az.

did have a guy in a cabt shop, when my office was on 7th st and bethany area, andy was 75 at the time and an arizona boy this is in the late 70s, he had mapped every campsite the calvary and cooks camps, and done extensive searches, found stakes, emblems off head covers, bullets, a few pistolas, and stuff, he amazed me he decipered the old maps to locate them, he was the the true Desert rat, amazing stuff, i always wondered what happened to all of his displays in his shop, when he retired and sold the joint
Rj

 

[Godly70]

Wow, great find, can it still shoot ?

 

[That Guy]

That ain’t nuthin’. I was hiking in the Superstitions and discovered a lost mine people had been trying to find forever.

 

[hairygreek]

That ain’t nuthin’. I was hiking in the Superstitions and discovered a lost mine people had been trying to find forever.

Did it have an iron door on it? Lol

 

[Pro2a]

That ain’t nuthin’. I was hiking in the Superstitions and discovered a lost mine people had been trying to find forever.

The one where they hid all the gold?