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Here's my latest mystery....
Our house is a 275 year old Colonial on 50 acres of land, we grow Timothy and alfalfa hay that our neighbor cuts and bales, it's a working farm...
I've gotten into metal detecting, and have been finding a lot of cool stuff unde the lawn, copper flashing, old parts from horse drawn equipment, wheat pennies and modern clad coins (no silver or gold yet...) and cartridge casings...
Most of them are .22 Rimfire, as I have a backyard range, but I've also found a few rifle cartridges buried as well, so far, I've found;
1 30-30
3 7mm
1 .270
First interesting fact, neither Dad or I have had any of these calibers, and I know Dad never shot any of these calibers
Second interesting fact, these casings were found in the FRONT lawn, facing the road, and there are no safe shooting lines here
Third interesting fact, our land is posted no trespassing and no hunting, so they can't be from anyone but us (or the original property owners)
So, if dad never shot these calibers, and nobody else shot them on our property, how'd they end up in our lawn?
Maybe this is the Flying Spaghetti Monster's way of telling me I need one of the above found calibers? (Dad loved leverguns, so I'm thinking a .30-30 levergun here....
Our house is a 275 year old Colonial on 50 acres of land, we grow Timothy and alfalfa hay that our neighbor cuts and bales, it's a working farm...
I've gotten into metal detecting, and have been finding a lot of cool stuff unde the lawn, copper flashing, old parts from horse drawn equipment, wheat pennies and modern clad coins (no silver or gold yet...) and cartridge casings...
Most of them are .22 Rimfire, as I have a backyard range, but I've also found a few rifle cartridges buried as well, so far, I've found;
1 30-30
3 7mm
1 .270
First interesting fact, neither Dad or I have had any of these calibers, and I know Dad never shot any of these calibers
Second interesting fact, these casings were found in the FRONT lawn, facing the road, and there are no safe shooting lines here
Third interesting fact, our land is posted no trespassing and no hunting, so they can't be from anyone but us (or the original property owners)
So, if dad never shot these calibers, and nobody else shot them on our property, how'd they end up in our lawn?
Maybe this is the Flying Spaghetti Monster's way of telling me I need one of the above found calibers? (Dad loved leverguns, so I'm thinking a .30-30 levergun here....