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-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David
Legare
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:53 AM
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Subject: cartridges


I have a large number of cartridges at a historic mine site in southern New Mexico.  The primary occupation of the site is from around 1903 to 1911.  These cartridges are of a very wide variety of calibers.  they were all identifiable  30-30, 30-06, 44-70, 45, etc.  The question concerns their treatment.  Virtually every one of them was found crimped in almost exactly the same place on the cartidge.  Anyone have any idea what this behavior is?