2 Hunts What a difference

[Pinball]

Yesterday I spent 5 hours hunting an old farm that I got permission for while doing some cold knocking. I found a WalMart bag full of trash plus what is in the one picture. A Buckle, harmonica reed, and a huge shell. The shell is 4 inches long and has a dia. of 13/16, it also doesn't look like it necks down. On the end it has an A R 42...any ideas? I did find three pennies...one being a Wheat cent. Today I went to a small park in a little town about thirty minutes from home and found 80 coins in 2 1/2 hours. I was digging all of the time and found very little trash. At one point I thought I had hit the mother load with a reading on my AT Pro of 99. Digging down about 9 inches I found the broken top of a mason jar but nothing under it The top is kind of neat. Funny how two hunts can be so different. I had a great time on both. Thanks for looking

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on getting that cold knock permission. When I hunt farms, I always find more relics than coins. I dug a lid like yours, mine has a clear glass lid insert instead of the usual opaque white.. Which direction out of Ashland did you go and dig the park? I enjoy a good cladfest once in awhile. I have dug about $100 less than last season YTD, but boy did I dig better quality this season.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Very nice finds, looks like a target rich environment.

 

[Pinball]

I headed North. The lid had the clear insert as you mentioned as well as half of the jar still attached. I was sure there would have been something else in that hole. Who buries a jar without silver coins in it !!

 

[Loco-Digger]

I headed North. The lid had the clear insert as you mentioned as well as half of the jar still attached. I was sure there would have been something else in that hole. Who buries a jar without silver coins in it !!

Where did you go? New London, Rochester, or Fitchville?

 

[Pinball]

The small town of Nankin right at ST RT 58 and ST RT 302.

 

[Loco-Digger]

The small town of Nankin right at ST RT 58 and ST RT 302.

I've hunted a little around the ball field (pulled a few bucks) there and in both parks across from each other on rt 302 in 2014. I was hoping to pull some deep oldies from the parks in town, but did not pull more than a couple bucks in clad. I was talking to a gentleman who lives in the area, he told me that there are supposed to be plenty of time capsules that were buried around the old school that were never dug up. The school was torn down a couple years ago. Maybe I'll have to hunt that area in cache mode sometime.

 

[mlayers]

I am going to take a shot at your bullet shell. I am guessing it is from a a tanker machine gun. My buddy found one like yours but his has Neon stamped on it also and that shell would be a tracer so they could see at night where the bullets has hitting at. Hope this helps.....Matt

 

[Pinball]

Well I now know what that shell is. It would have helped if I had not searched AR 42 and Searched RA 42 instead Must be my Dyslexia kicking in. It is a 50 caliber round made by Remington Arms in 1942 for the BROWNING M2 MACHINE GUN. "The Browning M2 machine gun was the most widely used weapon on the American bomber and fighter planes of WWII. Due to the high demand of ammunition for this gun, many companies began producing the .50 caliber round to keep the supply available." (From the web site....50 CALIBER HEADSTAMPS
Manufacturing Marks of WWII) WWII 50 Caliber Headstamps Looks like I was also wrong about it necking down. Hard to tell as the end is smashed and somewhat missing. It is always nice to know just what the items are that you dig up...adds to the fun