you ever hear the saying, "you can't swing a dead cat without hitting xxxx [ fill in the item] " ??
A fella calls me a little while back, says his wife's old cat died, he was digging a hole in the back yard to bury it, and hit a 30 lb Parrott shell !! Wanted to know if I could disarm it and clean it up for him......
Well of course, the relic hunter in me asked him if he put the cat in the hole yet. "Yes, he did". Why ?? he asked.
"Because sometimes you can find multiple shells in the same hole if it was an area 'cleaned up' by a farmer or whomever". I mentioned about running my detector over the area....
Then I asked if the cat had a metal collar on it. He said something about his wife not appreciating any of this, and we didn't get any further along than that.
He said he would bring me the shell, but never heard back from him....... oh well