Another Day In The Sierras

[klunker]

  I was out detecting yesterday with the 7000 and found a 69 caliber musket ball. By using the carbon dating app. on my smirk phone and measuring the depth of my dig hole and evaluating the oxidation on the musket ball I was able to determine that it was fired in the Spring of 1857, probably on a Tuesday. I then did science to it by using negative integers of Avogadro's number, exponents of pi and ice cream, calculating sine, cosine, deer sign, tangent and mandarin and entering the data into the 7000s GPS I was able to determine the precise location from which the ball was fired. I entered a track to that location and sure enough I came to an ancient, hollow cedar tree with a limb at the perfect height to rest a musket on for better aim.  I then perchance stuck the GPZ into the tree hollow and, not surprisingly, found an 1851 69 caliber Harper's Ferry U.S. issued musket. 

  There may be one or two of you that have doubts about the whole truth of my story but let me assure you that my arithmetic is rarely wrong and the GPZ 7000 is a very capable detector AND Sourdough Scott took photos which I have provided here.

  I have put a hefty charge of powder in the old thing and hammered the ball down the barrel and I'm waiting for Sourdough Scott to show up so he can have the honor of being the first to fire this piece of history in over 160 years. 

[WesD]

Good stuff!!

Man Klunker, You are a lucky son of a gun!  Not even a hint of surface rust either. Good thing we have that dry air in the Sierras that preserved it so well!   Now I just wish I had paid more attention to my arithmetic teacher!

 

[vanursepaul]

Well, well...... I really appreciate this post more than you can imagine Klunker...

As most of you know I am a mental health nurse, but some of you probably didnt know i was going for my PhD,

I have been struggling to find a topic for my thesis on Psychonomics, and here you have kindly dumped the topic right in my lap.

I would request a few sessions with you in order to understand better the  functionalism.. as we put the thesis together in as orderly fashion as we can.... assuming Torpedo would be involved.

I would like to thank you for giving me this perfect thesis topic to research further. a true topic of social psychology.

Paul Kirkeminde, RN,

And soon PhD.-----(Dr. of Detecctorists)

[klunker]

Mr. V.A.N.P. Sir;

 We must keep this within the realm of detecting/prospecting. All sessions must be held while nugget hunting.

[vanursepaul]

Agreed!

No other way would be congruent for data points.

 

[Jim McCulloch]

What a cool find, Klunker. Mitchel N. and I were out in the high desert a while back, seeking yet more of the Most Happy Yellow Metal, and he found an old Holland & Holland 300 Mag belted cartridge case. These were often used to hunt elephants. The rule of thumb is you had to be within 80 yards of the elephant able to drop it cleanly, so using his rangefinder, we ranged around until we found a quantity of very old petrified elephant dung and a fossilized pool of elephant blood. We used the carbon dating app on his phone, and found that it dated to 1883. This corresponded to about the time when elephants were last seen in the California high desert. So I can appreciate the high tech science involved in your find. 

[klunker]

43 minutes ago, Jim McCulloch said:

the time when elephants were last seen in the California high desert

 I still frequently "see the elephant" up here in the Northern Sierras.

[Jim McCulloch]

A gold star for deducing my "see the elephant" pun. But I gotta 'fess up, although Mitchell found the cartridge, we really didn't find any elephant remains. 

[2Valen]

I know it is Friday and a few people have already started drinking, but even this is making me want a couple pints of moonshine. Problem is all I have is a full gallon so that will have to do, never been that good at math while drinking so that will have to do.

[Sourdough Scott]

There are no elephants where Klunker and went detecting today. But I would have felt better having the 69 Cal. A big kitty is roaming the area we detected.