Just found my first bullet, a three ringer Confederate fired Minie ball a few days ago. I am in Minnesota in the Minneapolis area and never even considered finding one in my area. So it was an amazing find for me. Can't wait to get to some areas where they are more prevalent. Thanks for your great video!
Very informative. Our Galaghers appear to be made if good lead and they are virtually intact as when dropped, but our Burnsides are terrible for the most part; the base and cavity literally rot away. I've always thought it was due to inferior lead. Good job buddy. Love the series.
Thanks Seven, yeah all the burnsides around here are toast, and some of the gallaghers are good, but most are toast here. Likely a combination of inferior lead, and the soil conditions.
Thanks Dieter. It is really impressive to think of all of the innovations that were occurring during this time in firearms. There were hundreds of types of rifles and pistols being used and many of them required special ammo. Unfortunately, war is the greatest purveyor of invention.
BirdDogg Sadly, most of our medical knowledge came from the battlefields as well, From Florence Nightingale and nursing theory, to the sick and inhuman experiments performed by the nazis of WW2. Our knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and micro- biology would not have progressed as rapidly.
That is awesome, i would say without a doubt those two bullets hit, it happened a lot throughout the war, it was so common at Gettysburg that after the battle was over they found maybe bullets that had hit another bullet mid air
Great lesson on the bullets. I learned something for sure. I have what I think is a bullet that was made into a fishing weight but I'm not 100% sure. Solid base, 3 ringer but it looks like someone put it into a vice and cut a slit in it. I can shoot you a pic if you want. The red back drop and shades works well for you. :-)
Those two bullets look like they hit each other but, I wouldn't think they would land that close to each other and would fly in opposite directions after they hit. Thanks for showing your bullets and the tip on the book.
It's possible they did. I've seen it before. It could happen at target practice. Perhaps a couple of guys were shooting at a tree stump. (or one guy) Now the stump has totally rotted away leaving the bullets.
There were actually some bullets that hit mid air and fused together. I am leaning heavily towards these two having hit in mid air. It appears to me that they collided nose to nose. Hard to say though without a forensics guy though.
@@j3ffdwns0uthesttn38 if you are in Bulls Gap, start in your own backyard! Farmers are about the best folks to ask for permission, but yeah, anywhere in or around Bulls Gap is a good starting point
Very interesting thing to contemplate, whether those two bullets hit each other. I'm going to say YES. Thanks, +BirdDogg - I've been very much enjoying your Daily Dig Logs. Love it that you found that bullet from the rifles used by your great great great grandfather's unit. d8^)
Thanks again for the history lesson. I'm learning so much from you and I'm really enjoying this series. I do think that those two bullets hit each other.
I use the MM book myself, have a few others as well but it is the first one I usually pick up for quick reference! Great bullet collection and some rare and hard to finds in the pile! Thanks for sharing and HH
Very cool and informative "Dogg Log". It sure looks like those 2 bullets mate up; whether it was in mid-air or in the same target is the big question. Is one definitively a Yankee bullet and the other a Confederate? Are they facing each other or is one stacking on top of the other? If it was in a target the target doesn't appear to be very hard or I would think they would have deformed more like the high impact one you showed. I'm not a forensic expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express before. ; )
Ahhh the holiday inn express, lol... TO me it appears the bullets met nose to nose in mid air. One appears to be a standard 3 ring, the other is either a tower or an enfield bullet.
Well then, since the CSI, NCIS, NYPD Blue Hollywood crime lab is backed up until next season's finale; we'll just have to conclude those bullets met in mid air after being fired from opposite sides. hehe.....stay tuned for the next episode of Deputy Dogg when he takes on "Big Iron in the River" (really looking forward to that one, got the VCR all set) lol...; )
I'll try and do something live in a video soon, but most all of the bluegrass you here in my videos is me performing with my band, The Sons of Bluegrass.
Excellent! thank you for going through all those different types. Very cool to learn about these sweet bullets. I hunt in WA state so I don't find much civil war stuff, but I have found one .58 3 ringer. Just curious, are you on Facebook?
Thanks Jerry! I guess my biggest relic hunting sin is not cleaning my relics more. There are a couple of reasons I reckon. First off, I hunt a lot and finds pile up very fast, as a result, the time it would require to properly clean them all would be prohibitive to me being out hunting for more. Secondly, the value of all of my finds is that initial moment of discovery, and the memories associated with finding it. The piece itself holds little value to me after the discovery, it just sits on a shelf, and finally, I figure I will clean them all when I am too old to hunt everyday, it will be like a whole new relic hunt!!
My favorite is the Gardner here in West Virginia they come in .58 cal but aren't as tall as the ones you find in Virginia I call them baby Gardners haha
I’m little confused on how to properly measure and identify my bullets . I understand they weight them in grains . I have both digital caliper and scale. I also purchased this same book. What unit of measurement is used to identify caliber ?
@@BirdDogg Got it thank you for your help! Majority of my bullets have been shot giving me bit of hard time getting an accurate measurement . Thanks again !
I do give away some things from time to time(usually to friends, or people who come hunt with me, or invite me out to hunt places. I don't sell any of my relics because, they are not mine to sell, I just found them. Besides, the only value of them to me is the story they tell, and the stories they will tell in the future.
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Amen to that!!! Loved, Loved, LOVED digging bullet varieties!!!! Now that always made my day!!!
very informative as always can't wait till tomorrow thanks chris
Thanks Philip!
Great finds and I love the history behind ea bullet. Thanks for your daily video.
Thanks SC!
Great video I don't have many CW bullets but I like them they are very interesting. Thank Your for posting this one.
Thanks Tommy!
Your welcome
Yep looks those two bullets hit to me! I'm learning a great deal and enjoying Your videos, thanks for posting them
Thanks Ford!! I think they hit mid air too!
Just found my first bullet, a three ringer Confederate fired Minie ball a few days ago. I am in Minnesota in the Minneapolis area and never even considered finding one in my area. So it was an amazing find for me. Can't wait to get to some areas where they are more prevalent. Thanks for your great video!
Now that is a rare one, a Minnesota 3 ringer, you may be one of two folks to be able to say you found one out there, lol. Congrats, and thanks!
Great info BirdDog ! I never realized so many different bullets were used during the Civil War ! Thanks for sharing ! Dirt Hawk !
Thanks Hawk!
Very informative. Our Galaghers appear to be made if good lead and they are virtually intact as when dropped, but our Burnsides are terrible for the most part; the base and cavity literally rot away. I've always thought it was due to inferior lead. Good job buddy. Love the series.
Thanks Seven, yeah all the burnsides around here are toast, and some of the gallaghers are good, but most are toast here. Likely a combination of inferior lead, and the soil conditions.
Amazing how many different types of bullets used during the civil war. No wonder there was a lot amputees.
Great job with video
Thanks Dieter. It is really impressive to think of all of the innovations that were occurring during this time in firearms. There were hundreds of types of rifles and pistols being used and many of them required special ammo. Unfortunately, war is the greatest purveyor of invention.
But don't overlook that there were great strides forward in medicine at the same time.
BirdDogg Sadly, most of our medical knowledge came from the battlefields as well, From Florence Nightingale and nursing theory, to the sick and inhuman experiments performed by the nazis of WW2. Our knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and micro- biology would not have progressed as rapidly.
That is awesome, i would say without a doubt those two bullets hit, it happened a lot throughout the war, it was so common at Gettysburg that after the battle was over they found maybe bullets that had hit another bullet mid air
Thanks Arizona, I agree, I think they hit mid air!
Great lesson on the bullets. I learned something for sure. I have what I think is a bullet that was made into a fishing weight but I'm not 100% sure. Solid base, 3 ringer but it looks like someone put it into a vice and cut a slit in it. I can shoot you a pic if you want. The red back drop and shades works well for you. :-)
Thanks Mental! Congrats, you have indeed found a sinker bullet! I love em, much better use for a bullet than shooting it at someone, lol.
Those two bullets look like they hit each other but, I wouldn't think they would land that close to each other and would fly in opposite directions after they hit. Thanks for showing your bullets and the tip on the book.
It's possible they did. I've seen it before. It could happen at target practice. Perhaps a couple of guys were shooting at a tree stump. (or one guy) Now the stump has totally rotted away leaving the bullets.
There were actually some bullets that hit mid air and fused together. I am leaning heavily towards these two having hit in mid air. It appears to me that they collided nose to nose. Hard to say though without a forensics guy though.
To me these look like they met nose to nose, but I could be wrong.
Yeah, lead is soft, they wouldn't have bounced off of one another the way two pieces of steel would.
Hey buddy. Very nice collection and assortment of bullets. KRH
Thanks Dad, We need to get out and hunt, I am going completely crazy!!! Hopefully my machine will be fixed this week!
. I live in bulls gap and there is civil war relics everywhere so I've been told. Great video!
I’m just down the road, hunted the gap many times with varying results, but always fun trying to put all the pieces together by what they left behind.
@@BirdDogg I'm new to metal detecting but have been collecting civil war relics for a little while now. Any suggestions on where to start looking ?
@@j3ffdwns0uthesttn38 if you are in Bulls Gap, start in your own backyard! Farmers are about the best folks to ask for permission, but yeah, anywhere in or around Bulls Gap is a good starting point
Very interesting thing to contemplate, whether those two bullets hit each other. I'm going to say YES. Thanks, +BirdDogg - I've been very much enjoying your Daily Dig Logs. Love it that you found that bullet from the rifles used by your great great great grandfather's unit. d8^)
Thanks Catalina, I agree, I think they hit mid air! I am having a lot of fun pushing myself with the dig logs, we will see where it all ends up!
It sure looks to me like the 2 bullets hit each other. Beautiful colleciton.
Thanks Al, I think they hit mid air too!
great collection of bullets.
they look like they may have
had hit in mid-air
Thanks Michael, that is my thought as well.
Could you do a dig log of your favorite belt buckle.
Just for you, Done....
+BirdDogg Thank you!
You are very welcome, thank you!
Thanks again for the history lesson. I'm learning so much from you and I'm really enjoying this series. I do think that those two bullets hit each other.
Thanks Gem, I agree, I think they hit mid air.
Chris, my two favorites are M&M plain and M&M peanut.
I like the fancy pretzel ones.
Nice bullets I've only found one
Thanks Jake, keep at it, they are still out there!
I use the MM book myself, have a few others as well but it is the first one I usually pick up for quick reference! Great bullet collection and some rare and hard to finds in the pile! Thanks for sharing and HH
Thanks Erle, was neat to dig a few out I had not seen in years and look at em again.. I really think bullets are the unsung beauties in relic hunting.
Very cool and informative "Dogg Log". It sure looks like those 2 bullets mate up; whether it was in mid-air or in the same target is the big question. Is one definitively a Yankee bullet and the other a Confederate? Are they facing each other or is one stacking on top of the other? If it was in a target the target doesn't appear to be very hard or I would think they would have deformed more like the high impact one you showed. I'm not a forensic expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express before. ; )
Ahhh the holiday inn express, lol... TO me it appears the bullets met nose to nose in mid air. One appears to be a standard 3 ring, the other is either a tower or an enfield bullet.
Well then, since the CSI, NCIS, NYPD Blue Hollywood crime lab is backed up until next season's finale; we'll just have to conclude those bullets met in mid air after being fired from opposite sides. hehe.....stay tuned for the next episode of Deputy Dogg when he takes on "Big Iron in the River" (really looking forward to that one, got the VCR all set) lol...; )
Tyler Buchholz
I'm looking forward to that one too, lol
I would like to hear you play some Bluegrass.....?
I'll try and do something live in a video soon, but most all of the bluegrass you here in my videos is me performing with my band, The Sons of Bluegrass.
Excellent! thank you for going through all those different types. Very cool to learn about these sweet bullets. I hunt in WA state so I don't find much civil war stuff, but I have found one .58 3 ringer. Just curious, are you on Facebook?
Sure am, I go by Alfred Jackson on there.
Another interesting video, thanks. I notice you don't do much cleaning on the bullets, is there a reason behind it?
Thanks Jerry! I guess my biggest relic hunting sin is not cleaning my relics more. There are a couple of reasons I reckon. First off, I hunt a lot and finds pile up very fast, as a result, the time it would require to properly clean them all would be prohibitive to me being out hunting for more. Secondly, the value of all of my finds is that initial moment of discovery, and the memories associated with finding it. The piece itself holds little value to me after the discovery, it just sits on a shelf, and finally, I figure I will clean them all when I am too old to hunt everyday, it will be like a whole new relic hunt!!
My favorite is the Gardner here in West Virginia they come in .58 cal but aren't as tall as the ones you find in Virginia I call them baby Gardners haha
I’m little confused on how to properly measure and identify my bullets . I understand they weight them in grains . I have both digital caliper and scale. I also purchased this same book. What unit of measurement is used to identify caliber ?
Hundredths of an inch in the US.
@@BirdDogg Thank you ! After that’s measured I’m guessing I just round that to nearest caliber ?
@@kennyregiecyadingus no rounding, it’s very specific For instance a .50 cal .52 cal or .54 cal.
@@BirdDogg Got it thank you for your help! Majority of my bullets have been shot giving me bit of hard time getting an accurate measurement . Thanks again !
I would start dectecting if I had 500 dollars for a detector
Me too.... Mine waterproof machine is broken and I am having to save all my pennies for a new one....
Why do u not give away anything or sell it?
I do give away some things from time to time(usually to friends, or people who come hunt with me, or invite me out to hunt places. I don't sell any of my relics because, they are not mine to sell, I just found them. Besides, the only value of them to me is the story they tell, and the stories they will tell in the future.