Archeological find of burried Confederate arms in Atlanta...back in the 1950s.

[Maillemaker]

So I was doing some Googling on Macon Conversion smoothbores and ran across this posting by Southron, who also frequents here!

http://blackpowdertimes.com/index.php?topic=757.0

Basically he had an uncle who was on a work crew in the 1950s working on the original I-285 around Atlanta when a bulldozer crashed through the roof of a Confederate arms bunker left over from the war. It's how he acquired a Macon Conversion smoothbore. :)

Pretty amazing story!

Steve

[gemmer]

Not exactly on topic, but, several months ago my wife and I were in Vietnam. For me it was 44 years since I was last there. One day while out near the Laotian border west of Khe Sanh, we stopped at a town that didn't exist when I was last there along a new road built on what was once the Ho Chi Minh trail. New construction was going on. Our driver noticed a lot of commotion by an excavation site and he and our guide walked over to check it out. Turned out that workers had unearthed a bunker with a crate with 15 AK-47s in it the day before and were still looking for more weapons and ordinance.

Duane