Dear White's, 

I would like to submit my find from last week. I was hunting deep in the woods at a location I have not hunted before. The targets were few and far between and most were Iron. I use an MXT and normally pass by the Iron readings but this one I decided to dig. After kicking about 5 inches of Pine needles out of the way I got a real good reading and started digging. Didn’t take me long until I saw a part of the target and my curiosity started spinning, could this be a piece of a Bayonet.  A little more digging reviled a curve in the Iron and my hopes of being a piece of a Bayonet were lost. I continued digging and finely was able to pull it out of the ground. Looked like a Pistol (I have found many toy Pistols hunting old home sites), but not like any one I had found before. It was heavy, and thick with rust.
 
After a little cleaning I knew this was a find of a lifetime. I called my hunting partner over to take a look and he too agreed I had found an extraordinary find. I told him it would be really neat if it were still loaded. With a little research it looked as is if I had found an 1858 Remington 44 caliber. I wanted to make sure so I started cleaning one of the chambers and to my disbelief there was a Round Ball in the chamber. A little more cleaning revealed yet another Round Ball, my wish had come true.
This has to be one of the neatest finds I have ever found. I will do Electrolysis on it and hopefully be able to get the numbers from it and research who it might have been issued to.
 
I have read that after the surrender Officers would saw the barrels off of their weapons. Ironic thing is I live in Appomattox VA. where the surrender took place and the pistol was found on private property near there.
 
Thanks Whites for making a great detector, it is a pleasure to swing.

Ed