Originally Posted by huntsman22
sal, we don't see much obsidian around here. Most of the stuff here is petrified wood. I found these points on a jobsite while framing a house. The owner didn't want them....

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This thumb scraper was found in a driveway at a ranch. People had to have walked over it a bazillion times in the last 150 years....
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I also found a slightly more modern artifact while remodeling the same ranchhouse. A Henry copper cartridge that had multiple firing pin hits, stuffed in a crack of the 1870's log house.....Maybe failed during an injun fight?.....

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That Henry cartridge could have been a reload.
I've heard of them being reloaded before, they scraped out the old primer residue and stuffed the rim with ground up match heads, then I found this reference to it again: http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,5282.0.html.
I also recently read a report by someone who has done it with .22 rimfires in the past.

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