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I've been wanting to get in this particular river since I first started metal detecting but the drive is rather long. I was finally able to find the time and we ended up having a great day on the water. I was proud of my little 4hp motor too. It got us back up river (2 miles) to the boat ramp without issue. Hope you enjoy the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gwCEz8SeN4&t=1s

Here a few images for those that can't watch the video.

FIFY

don't believe (to me) it is worth catching cholera or dysentery or a brain eating amoeba...all for rusty ass 1974 mazda rotary engine flywheel

just sayin


but if that sort of thing cranks your tractor...party on-

I've been in creeks and rivers since I was a squirt and rarely get sick. But thanks for letting me know what the rusty mystery item is

lol


I can't say much, I'll wander a plowed field for 4 hours for one arrowhead

A neat endeavor with a high degree of unknown. One never knows what he will find. Saw some videos on magnet fishing a while back (mostly European) and that too looked like a great way to spend some idle time.

Not much of a germaphobe, so I'd be willing to wade in with you.

Do keep us up on you findings and good luck,

Yeah. It's very underrated. Gives me something to do no matter the time of year.

Neat, but I’m not gettin in that water.

What river?

You may know of this story already.

I used to live in Milledgeville Georgia. This town was the capitol of Georgia during the War. Sherman came through the town and stayed two night, for some reason, he did not burn the town.

So, they had, of course, in November 1864, the :State Armory there in Milledgeville. Hood having left Sherman, to head up towards Nashville, there was no army to oppose Sherman as he neared the capitol.
So they decided to dump all the munitions in the State Armory into the Oconee River.

So, one day, might have been 1990, I was crossing the river bridge, there was some kind of scuba diving operation down there in the river. There was an RV parked there and a few cars, I could see guys diving in the river. Which was weird because the river was 10 feet deep and visibility about 8 inches.

So I went down and talked to the guys, they had read the reports from the war and they realized that there were about 400 cannon balls there in the river, dumped there the day before Sherman arrived. And these were worth $400 each and they were going to try to get them all.
The guy showed me one of the cannon balls, it was not round it was a pointed projectile maybe 3 inch diameter and 5 inches long. They had dozens of them already and were still diving.

That was a pretty interesting history lesson, they had also found some nice flint arrowheads.

I've never heard that story but it is very interesting indeed.
Sounds like they were finding parrot shells but it's hard to say. We found one last winter on land completely intact. It was a major rush. We have a video of that day too.