Some LA. finds

[Mr. Vision]

I guess people dont know the significance of a 69 cal. bullet. When an eagle button beats it in the finds of the month.

[Treasurehound]

Those .69's are monsters. I dig a bunch of them in VA and I can't imagine getting shot by one.

[Scruch]

Do you think!! But, if what I was told once is true, that the .69 was used by only a very few unit's...... remember Shiloh.... how did they get all the way to Va..... and who were they? That calibre ''certainly'' raked havock on the Confederacy!!!.

[Mr. Vision]

I was told they were used only by Grants men.So wherever He  fought you will find them.

[CoinHunter]

Unless you tell the non relic hunters of the rarity or importance of the find then they do not know or understand the value of the item.  That is a paraphrased comment I was told by a long time relic hunter Mr. V, and I have to agree with the man. I would be willing to bet that had you included a paper with it giving some details about it you would have won handily. In the few years I have been in the club folks have made such a big deal over buttons that they have forgotten that bullets and other items are just as important or more important than a button. To begin with I hardly ever saw a button come in but there were always bullets. Now there are buttons almost every meeting being entered. I voted for the bullet because I knew the rarity had I not known I would have voted for the button also.

Now with that said we need either a person or group of persons to volunteer and do a training/informational meeting on identifying Civil War finds. We also need to expand this idea into other areas of interest of club members. I am going to start a new topic in the club news section about this so folks please put on your thinking caps and help me brainstorm this idea.