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Here are a few I found by Hebgen Lake. We used to go there every spring and hunt the beaches where the water was low and we found dozens of artifacts.

The top casing was actually found not far from Reno-Benteen battle site, down on the Little Bighorn river. It is a 50-70 casing.

The other casing is a 45-70, found on the beach by Hebgen Lake. Notice how the case mouth is smashed, something that whites were told to do with fired casings so that Indians couldn't reuse the case.

The large implement is a knife found in the same area. The square implement is a flint from a flintlock rifle that an Indian had converted fro use as a scraper.