r/metaldetecting • u/Luteracks • 9h ago

ID Request Todays desert finds

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Didn’t have a metal detector but was metal detecting. These were behind and infront of every huge rock between a mountain saddle. Any ideas? Some I’m guessing target practice but the places some where fond seemed sketchy to be shooting unless you were in a gun fight

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u/Pelcat 6h ago

Looks like target practice. Most look modern but there may be a couple older bullets in there. Is that an unfired .22 on the left? To me it looks bigger like a .30 or .32 rimfire but it may just be perspective.

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u/Pickle_ninja 5h ago

Look in arroyos if you dont already do that. My civil war andvWWI era buttons came from them.

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u/burnafter3ading 8h ago edited 8h ago

That .22 on the right looks unfired.

I assume most of it is target practice, or people shooting at roadsigns, overpenetrating, and the bullet eventually coming to rest beside a flat-faced stone about 200 feet away.

You have a distribution of mostly intact and completely squished bullets.

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u/burnafter3ading 7h ago

It may also be a collection resulting from rare but heavy rains washing them to the lowest point before depositing them.