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Union troops made captured Confederates throw their weapons in streams many times when they were captured. Confederates also disposed of their arms many times when they abandoned ranks, which was fairly common in the Civil War.
Oh yes definitely I too am very interested in the clean up that beautiful musket.. dude you are going sharing that fun with your biggest crew of fan and contributors..... please please sir chiggers digger.. love your videos Beau thank you very much for sharing with us.. be safe and keep on hunting baby
Loved your excitement when you realized the bayonet was still attached--we could hear it under water and were cheering right along. I'd be hanging those door knobs in my house as coat hooks! They are beautiful!
My great uncle had a skiff rigged with pullies like that. They were on a cable that stretched across the river. That was the only way to get to his house from the main road.
Looks like an earlier flintlock M1816 or M1840 that's been coverted to percussion. Depending on if it's been rifled, that would be the source of either buck, .69 round ball, or .69 Minie bullets. Very cool find.
I think the majority of earlier converted flintlocks were likely used by the Confederates. I'm not sure what the exact timelines would be, but I think the Union had plenty of more modern weapons in use by anytime after the very early stages of the war. Most, or all, of the accounts I've read of soldiers carrying old smoothbores, or .69 caliber muskets, are from Confederates.
What a beautiful, fearsome, and fearful weapon you found! With a fixed bayonet, the fighting must have been up close and personal. Salute to the brave soldier, from whichever side, who most likely lost his life clutching that weapon.
That’s a brilliant find! You deserve it too. Detecting in rivers isn’t easy. Great feeling you get when a good find comes up! Cheers from the Scottish Borders.
It’s nice how I searched for this not expecting to really find anything but there are a bunch of interesting videos about collecting Muskets just like this video
I love you!!!! You inspired me to purchase a commando detector from Walmart and I made my money back the second time I used it+!!! Thank you Tamsen Roberts in Riverside California
Damn ,our Walmarts in Maryland don't have metal detectors ,we was just looking like 2 weeks ago. Trying to get a second machine for others to go with me.
Chig - The three bander was truly an awesome find while contending with the weather and all of the other junk that you had to deal with. It has been a while since you have found a good find like that and I know how hard it is to find great finds every hunt but you just make it look easy. Thanks so much for the hunt, take care and H.H.!
Thank you for recovering and saving that piece of history! I know items can be tricky after being water logged for so long but Im sure it will clean up nice!
Very cool find! Watching your vid early in 2021. For Christmas 2020 I received my very first metal detector (with submersible head). Haven’t gone out detecting yet as I’m in Canada and everything is frozen, but excited for this summer. 53 yrs old and retired and always been interested in an excuse to go treasure hunting.
It looks like a 1797 Springfield which has been changed from the original flintlock design to a local blacksmith's conversion to percussion ignition system. Many arsenals converted them for the Civil War until more "modern" arms could be produced in the United States and England (1853 Enfield)
FInding that Musket, do you think about the last person who touched it and how it ended up in that spot? whenever i touch anything civil war related i can't help but to think about the history of each object..What a find.
Are you kidding?what a find.find of a lifetime for most people,but I have a feeling with you,it will be just 1of many finds of many lifetimes packed into 1.yours.you put in the time and effort,and its you who will and should get the rewards.......I still can't believe my eyes.I know you must have been riding high.if you could bottle that feeling of discovery and sell it,just so other people could sample it for a taste...great stuff
Not only is that a Springfield rifle, but that’s a flintlock conversion model. You can tell by the little half moon shaped brass nub below the percussion nipple. That’s where they chopped off the powder pan and welded on the percussion nipple. That means that rifle predates 1840!
awesome find man, love the videos keep up the great work anytime im not fishing or metal detecting or out in nature im watching videos of it lol i cant stay away
That musket looks to have actually been an old French Charleville from the Revolutionary War era. You can see where the flintlock pan was sawed off and a barrel nipple drilled & perc hammer added to convert it from flint to percussion. Quite a few of these used by the South during the Civil war so you have a much older treasure than you may have thought. Great find!!!
i love the little 'heheheheh's you can hear while the camera is underwater with the musket, you crack me up chiggy! awesome find! keep doin what you're doing, we'll be here even when you get skunked ;)
Chiggy. Years ago I bought a dropped bullet at a Gettysburg shop. I carried it in my barn coat pocket for years. I marvelled at the guy, the circumstance when it was dropped. So cool.
I just thought I would say, the lead boolit you found with the three rings, I know the metal hunters call them 3 ringers, or 2 ringers, ect. I am a boolit caster and hand loader. the grooves in the boolits are for grease. to lube and act as a seal when the gun is fired,,,,
Beau, you must be going to places others aren't allowed to go to. Highly unlikely that the musket and bayonet would have been passed over by others in the last 150 years, when it was just laying there. Thinking you might have a built in magnet implanted somewhere. What you find is amazing, but it's more amazing how easy you make it look.
Please give the video a like, comment, and share if you want to keep joining me in these adventures. Even if you are on the fence, a "like" only will be greatly appreciated and helpful.
We have trolls with hate-filled, black hearts stalking us now and we will be getting a lot of dislikes for a while no matter what our adventure might be.
Like! Like! Like! If you want --- MOAR! Thanks.... The Chigg
Congratulations. Sobering to think that the last person to touch that musket may have had it in his hands when he died 155+ years ago.
They still find human bones at Gettysburg
Sobering but unlikely. Weapons dumps in the rivers are fairly common. It was likely damaged and tossed aside.
Somebody carried it to that area .
Maybe found something better ?
What other reasons to leave what may be the most valuable thing you have ?
TheWesB Why would they toss a perfectly good bayonet along with it?
Union troops made captured Confederates throw their weapons in streams many times when they were captured. Confederates also disposed of their arms many times when they abandoned ranks, which was fairly common in the Civil War.
How awesome....thank goodness you found it....now it can be preserved rather than disappear forever.
Would love to see that rifle after you clean it up and have it ready for display!! Congrats Sir!! Thank you for taking us with you!!!!
I'm happy your amused! Always a great day when you can make someone happy!
@@chrisbarrett5416 Are you really though? Are you really happy? Or are you just lying?
@ I live to make people smile! Life is short! No time to get upset when folks throw smack talk at you.
Ha! You're lucky you liked your own assumption based comment, since no one else did LMFAO @ U!
@ Are you really so bored you gotta start shit with some random guy for no reason? Also, it appears I am bored enough to read these....
Major score Chig and a bayonet too! That is too kool!
Love to see a video of you cleaning the musket, and talking us through the details of it. btw...you can make it an hour video if you desire.
I would love every minute of that video😂
Same, I'm really interested in a cleanup vid. I think it washed down from the bank! Wasn't in the river that long.
Yes that would be awesome video to you clean op this musket, and what you do to restore it (I mean to make it ready for storage in your home)👍😊👍
Oh yes definitely I too am very interested in the clean up that beautiful musket.. dude you are going sharing that fun with your biggest crew of fan and contributors..... please please sir chiggers digger.. love your videos Beau thank you very much for sharing with us.. be safe and keep on hunting baby
Heck, I would restore it for you. Make for a very cool collaboration.
Ooh, the mojo is strong with this one Obi-wan. It waited 150 something years for the right person to find it.
After all these finds, I still manage to get as excited as you when stuff like this comes up. Good for you Chig!
Hey! I just saw a video about your strange neighbor. Hope things get cleared up there, love your videos.
I love it when the Chig finds a surprise item and gets so happy his whole face lights up.
Loved your excitement when you realized the bayonet was still attached--we could hear it under water and were cheering right along. I'd be hanging those door knobs in my house as coat hooks! They are beautiful!
My great uncle had a skiff rigged with pullies like that. They were on a cable that stretched across the river. That was the only way to get to his house from the main road.
Man with the fixed bayonet !!! WOW!!!! You are the Man !!
Musket with the bayonet....omg sweet chigg
Looks like an earlier flintlock M1816 or M1840 that's been coverted to percussion. Depending on if it's been rifled, that would be the source of either buck, .69 round ball, or .69 Minie bullets. Very cool find.
So we're talking Union possibly?
I think the majority of earlier converted flintlocks were likely used by the Confederates. I'm not sure what the exact timelines would be, but I think the Union had plenty of more modern weapons in use by anytime after the very early stages of the war. Most, or all, of the accounts I've read of soldiers carrying old smoothbores, or .69 caliber muskets, are from Confederates.
@@rfswitch4530 Thank you! So much detail in history! Unending.
Look again it's a precution cap lock it's not a font lock no flint it has the nipple to prove it
@@rfswitch4530 it's a cap lock no flint
What a beautiful, fearsome, and fearful weapon you found! With a fixed bayonet, the fighting must have been up close and personal. Salute to the brave soldier, from whichever side, who most likely lost his life clutching that weapon.
That’s a brilliant find! You deserve it too. Detecting in rivers isn’t easy. Great feeling you get when a good find comes up! Cheers from the Scottish Borders.
It’s nice how I searched for this not expecting to really find anything but there are a bunch of interesting videos about collecting Muskets just like this video
" That`s really awesome"
That`s really an understatement!
Keep diggin' Chigg!
Good or bad, it shows the reality of what you do!
Love the videos!
Thank you!
A musket! With a fixed bayonet! Wow, what an awesome find! And bullets! Amazing, Chigg!!!
I love you!!!! You inspired me to purchase a commando detector from Walmart and I made my money back the second time I used it+!!! Thank you Tamsen Roberts in Riverside California
Damn ,our Walmarts in Maryland don't have metal detectors ,we was just looking like 2 weeks ago.
Trying to get a second machine for others to go with me.
Congrats Chigg. I can only dream of finding something that amazing one day. Saving history, 1 piece at a time.
Awesome find! Would love to see how you clean and preserve something like a musket!
The thing at the beginning that you said you didn’t know what it was. It was a pandroll plate clip, it’s an item used in railroad tracks.
Congratulations ! You don't find one of those everyday......love it....such a cool adventure.. Thank you for the exciting time
Chig - The three bander was truly an awesome find while contending with the weather and all of the other junk that you had to deal with. It has been a while since you have found a good find like that and I know how hard it is to find great finds every hunt but you just make it look easy. Thanks so much for the hunt, take care and H.H.!
3:35 you know it's something good when Beau starts giggling
Hey Chigg when u get the musket cleaned up can u show us what it looks like
Would love to see his conservation efforts, techniques!
Got to luv the river janitor when he comes up with great items .
Great video as always :)
Thanks
Beautiful,just beautiful 😁 well done 👏love all your river finds but that musket with bayonet nice job 😀👍
Thank you for recovering and saving that piece of history! I know items can be tricky after being water logged for so long but Im sure it will clean up nice!
That musket was awesome ! What camera set up are you using out on these hunts ?
Ayye bxd my boy
You never cease to amaze me Beau, wonderful find... Thanks for sharing...
Wow what a find! Amazing piece of history. Would like to see how your going to preserve that. Great Job!
That musket was awesome. I really loved the door knobs and pulley. What a great day.
That Musket with Bayonet was the coolest no Doubt
Good Finds for sure hope you go back
Wowzers Beau! Congratulations!
Very cool find! Watching your vid early in 2021. For Christmas 2020 I received my very first metal detector (with submersible head). Haven’t gone out detecting yet as I’m in Canada and everything is frozen, but excited for this summer. 53 yrs old and retired and always been interested in an excuse to go treasure hunting.
It looks like a 1797 Springfield which has been changed from the original flintlock design to a local blacksmith's conversion to percussion ignition system. Many arsenals converted them for the Civil War until more "modern" arms could be produced in the United States and England (1853 Enfield)
That is a beauty
That big piece of iron in the beginning looks like a bracket off of a cannon. Great finds!
FInding that Musket, do you think about the last person who touched it and how it ended up in that spot? whenever i touch anything civil war related i can't help but to think about the history of each object..What a find.
man that bayonete still looks sharp! good find :)
Bloody amazing. Just. Wow!
Another great find !. Thanx for takin us
Please show us your cleaned up finds. I would love to see more of that musket.
That plate with the groove most likely is a cannon piece which holds it in its wooden frame , awesome finds
Great video Chigg. Be safe out there. I wish I was there to detecting. GOD BLESS.
Loved the door knobs.
Damn dude didn’t realize you on the cover of Garrett guide.. pretty cool just bought my first detector.
What great shape that thing is in.... the bayonet is pristine. Awesome day Chigg.
Awesome adventure Chigg and love that civil war musket rifle. I bet that will clean up real nice
ATB GL & HH
LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧
Are you kidding?what a find.find of a lifetime for most people,but I have a feeling with you,it will be just 1of many finds of many lifetimes packed into 1.yours.you put in the time and effort,and its you who will and should get the rewards.......I still can't believe my eyes.I know you must have been riding high.if you could bottle that feeling of discovery and sell it,just so other people could sample it for a taste...great stuff
Brilliant find! Glad you found it so it didn't rust way to nothing!
Not only is that a Springfield rifle, but that’s a flintlock conversion model. You can tell by the little half moon shaped brass nub below the percussion nipple. That’s where they chopped off the powder pan and welded on the percussion nipple. That means that rifle predates 1840!
Awesome musket 👍👍another great video 👍👍
LOVE those doorknobs!
You just found the end of the rainbow. That is so amazing, I have no words. Congratulations
awesome find man, love the videos keep up the great work anytime im not fishing or metal detecting or out in nature im watching videos of it lol i cant stay away
1:22 I think that's an axle clamp. Would clamp an axle to the suspension of a wagon.
I was just going to reply that 👍👍👍
Looking at parts for cannon of the time I was thinking it might be a trunnion.
@@matthewrinehart2367 would it not be too small for a cannon of the period? I know more wagons than I do cannons...
What an awesome find. That bayonet is in excellent condition
It does look almost pristine from the low oxygen in the mud, very nice.
I love that true happiness of finally finding something ,I start crying and laughing ,it's very rare.
Like love....
Holy COW****AWESOME
I don’t usually comment but OMG what a find !!
Congratulations!!
Chig trying to clean up the whole civil war single handed. 👍
So cool there’s a possibility that musket hasn’t been dry in over 150 years.
You're preserving history!
That musket looks to have actually been an old French Charleville from the Revolutionary War era. You can see where the flintlock pan was sawed off and a barrel nipple drilled & perc hammer added to convert it from flint to percussion. Quite a few of these used by the South during the Civil war so you have a much older treasure than you may have thought. Great find!!!
That's what I thought, from the front sight
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Congrats Beau!!!! awesome find.
Glad you found that trap. One down, half a million to go
That creek you frequent there has some serious history in it. Would love to do some metal detecting there with ya
i love the little 'heheheheh's you can hear while the camera is underwater with the musket, you crack me up chiggy! awesome find! keep doin what you're doing, we'll be here even when you get skunked ;)
love collecting guns glad you found one ,you really find some neat stuff be safe
Chiggy. Years ago I bought a dropped bullet at a Gettysburg shop. I carried it in my barn coat pocket for years. I marvelled at the guy, the circumstance when it was dropped. So cool.
You're one happy boy Great find wow wow wow thank you for the great video wow
@aquachigger Please post up videos of what happens after you get the relics home. I enjoy the cleaning process and preservation.
Awesome bangstick chiggs keep up the good work I live close to Shiloh battlefield and have found lots of treasures including csa buckle
Just been watching a documentary about Grant...and see this that is off the scale!
Super cool video and awesome finds. Thank you for sharing with us. Happy Hunting Everyone 👊🏻😊👍🏻
You have the luck of the Irish! Awesome find.
Hey Beau, how do you plan on restoring that musket for displaying? Just curious
Cool find. Looks almost like you could mount another stock and barrel on it and then load it up and fire. Awesome find Beau.
With Bayonet. Sweet
Great video as usual. I look forward to your postings, as they are always very entertaining, you really get the viewer involved.
That’s gotta be one of the COOLEST FINDS IVE EVER SEEN.. I LOVE Civil War era finds.. congrats on a great find! Wish I could do something like this..
I just thought I would say, the lead boolit you found with the three rings, I know the metal hunters call them 3 ringers, or 2 ringers, ect. I am a boolit caster and hand loader. the grooves in the boolits are for grease. to lube and act as a seal when the gun is fired,,,,
Another great piece to add to the collection, thanks for sharing
Sometimes I really wish there were battles in western New York. Great find chig
6:39 That looks like a Minié ball. Named after its inventor Claude-Étienne Minié.It was the ammunition used by the American Springfield Model 1861.
Good for you Chigg! What an amazing find! So happy for you! 😊
That is AWESOME! That's two this year! Congratulations, Chigg!
Congrats on the musket! Wow!
Dude, that is AWESOME! Such a Civil War History buff. I would LOVE to be able to do that and find cool stuff.
Wow, congratulations on the find!!
Beau, you must be going to places others aren't allowed to go to. Highly unlikely that the musket and bayonet would have been passed over by others in the last 150 years, when it was just laying there. Thinking you might have a built in magnet implanted somewhere. What you find is amazing, but it's more amazing how easy you make it look.
Chigg, great video. It would be nice to see the musket after you get it cleaned up.
OMG! Can you imagine the last person to hold it in their hands and what they experienced...freaking amazing!!