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[Gussy]

Winter let up a little and I went to an old homestead, around 1900, to metal detect. I find empties all the time. Today was another first, a 40-60. I haven't cleaned it up yet to see the full head stamp.

[Don McDowell]

When you get it cleaned up, show us a picture of it.

[Gussy]

Cleaned it up. Case mouth is pretty shot but the head stamp is very good. Buddy found a 25-35 last year but not much left of it.

[Don McDowell]

Sweet.

[Gussy]

My mistake, a 25-36. I thought it was an odd duck!!

[Don McDowell]

So there was a Marlin shooter in them that hills..

[Rowdy Rick]

Cool find Gussy!

Rick

[Semtav]

I got a detector last spring. Mostly looking for old coins, but so far I found a loaded 25-20, and a 25-35, 30-30, 32 special and 38-56 case. Plus a couple old shotgun headstamps and a partial bar of lead in the gun department.

[Gussy]

This most of what I found last year. Didn't keep a lot of 22 or pistol cases, just dropped them in the brass bucket for recycle. Had at least a couple buckets of pull tabs and cans, 2-3 buckets of scrap iron. No old coins just newer clad stuff. The one shotgun head I did keep, upper right, is a 10 ga.