shrra

Southern Historical Research and Recovery Association, Lacombe, LA

CLUB OFFICERS

President ~ Hy D'Antoniomailto: shrra2000@gmail.com

Vice President ~ Rick Taggart rtaggart@charter.net

Treasurer ~ Richard Angelico Shadowit@cox.net

Secretary ~ Vickie D'Antonio shrra2000@gmail.com
Newsletter Editor ~ Vickie D'Antonio

Web editor ~ Boyd Courville Lafrogger@cox.net or shrra@cox.net

Our Code of Conduct

Respect the rights and property of others

Observe all laws, whether national, state or local

Never destroy historical or archaeological treasures

Leave the land and vegetation as it was. Fill in the holes.

All treasure hunters may be judged by the example you set.

Always obtain permission before searching any site.

Be extremely careful with your probing, picking up and discarding of trash, and ALWAYS COVER YOUR HOLES!

DON'T TAKE THE HOBBY TOO SERIOUSLY...HAVE FUN AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL MAKE A FEW FRIENDS ON THE WAY!

MEETING: SHONEY'S 1677 Gause Blvd. Slidell, La. ~ (985) 641-8452 ~ 1st. Monday of the Month (EXCEPT HOLIDAYS) then it will be on the following Monday. Fellowship starts at 7: 00 P.M.

******** Club News *********

Click on this link for more hunt photos

***** Last Meeting Bulletin *****

Tim Pickles on the War of 1812

This link and will be on bottom of our website from now on.

Well we had a great turnout for the June Meeting and three new members to boot!!
Welcome to Thomas Brown, Russell Hano and Chris Fayard. Tom is from Walker and Chris and Russell are from Livingston. Glad to have you all as members. We have certain rules and regulations and that will be explained in a separate e-mail to you guys.
Well, the meeting may have been great but it was a trial to be sure! The A/C at Shoney's was on the Fritz and our little meeting room got a bit warm, so we tried to wrap up the meeting as soon as we could. Ken Guidry brought his new musket he just got from IMA to "show and tell". It is in nice shape, just needs a bit of cleaning and the ramrod shortened. Someone at IMA stuck a Martini Rifle ramrod on Ken's P-53 style Enfield and it is a tad too long. I brought some NAZI and American pistols with their proper period holsters from W.W.II for a show and tell and we passed those around. Reggie Simmons won the big raffle prize the W.W.II enlisted man's wool cap and emblem....and it almost fits!
Rick Rogers won the big W.W.II book of photos donated by Mario Messina and lots of folks won many other prizes.
We were all glad to see Walter Albarado and his family back in the fold at the meeting. Walter is a heck of a hunter and brought his latest finds to the meeting: a very nice Mexican 8 reale, a 1700's one reale and a nice Eagle I infantry coat button with loads of gilt and a perfect shank. Thanks to Walter also for donating the dollar coin mint set. Ed Leigh won the best find of the month with a pre-Civil War militia plate in great condition. Super find, Ed, congratulations on finding the plate and winning the monthly contest. Hy is in the process of solving some problems associated with the hunt in Port Sulphur and we hope to have an announcement later this week that a hunt will be on for Saturday, so stay tuned to your e-mails.
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Check out the video of club members shootin' em up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxvaFDQ_R-g

FUTURE SPEAKERS

If you have some neat relics, collections, knowledge of a specialized area, a hobby of interest or tips to make a relic hunter, coin hunter or water hunter more successful please consider giving a talk to the club. We have been very fortunate lately to have some excellent talks by members and we all appreciate their efforts and time.

***** Club Hunt*****

SHRRA'S Port Sulphur Club Hunt pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/hyvicdan/PortSulphurClubHunt

***Monthly Raffle for July****

Door prizes

****Treasure hunter of the year****

Our 2008 winner Reggie Simmons two years in a row!

Our 2006 winner is non other than back to back years Richard Angelico!!!

Our 2005 winner Richard Angelico!!!

Our 2004 winner Ron Perry

Treasure hunter point standings for 2009

2009 Finds of the month of March

S.H.R.R.A. Finds of the Month

MOST COINS

Rick Hervy - 498 coins - 4 points

Reggie Simmons - 83 coins - 3 points

MOST BULLETS

Rick Hervy - 5 Bullets - 4 points

NO 2ND

C.W. & Pre-C.W. RELICS

Richard Angelico - Rivet - 4 points

NO 2ND

ARTILLERY

NO ENTRY

C. W. BUTTONS

NO ENTRY

WAR of 1812 BUTTONS

NO ENTRY

BUTTONS

(all non CW & War of 1812 metallic buttons)

Reggie Simmons - Brass button - 4 points

NO 2ND

TOKENS

Reggie Simmons - 5 Mil Brasso Copper Luxury Tax - 4 points

NO 2ND

WILD CARD

Charlie McLeod - Toe gaurd - 4 points

Reggie Simmons - Cylindedr - 3 points

Richard Angelico - Silver thimble - 2 points

JEWELRY

Reggie Simmons - Sterling Silver Kennel Club award - 4 points

Rick Hervy - Man’s 10k, 21 diamond ring - 3 points

BOTTLES

NO ENTRY

COINS

Richard Angelico - 1828 Bust dime - 4 points

Reggie Simmons - 192? Dime - 3 points

NON-METALLIC

Richard Angelico - Indian pottery - 4 points

NO 2nd

POINTS STANDING

Richard Angelico - 27 points

Danny Brown -15 points

Reggie Simmons - 21 points

Wolf Simmons - 3 points

Charlie MrLeod - 4 points

Rick Hervy - 8 points

****Our member Of The Year****

This award is presented the the club member who does the most for the club during the course of the year and a big thank you goes out to Mr. Art Pourciau

****Huntnic 2009 Relic Hunt Prizes****

200 fired minie balls from the Battle of Antietam

****Huntnic 2009 Silver Hunt Prizes****

This is a genuine P-53 ( 1853) British Enfield Rifle from the giant trove of weapons found in the arsenal of the Royal Nepalese Gurkha Army. The cache was stored in an ancient palace called Lagan Silekhana since 1839 in Katmandu, Nepal.