nova treasure
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Hey,I am glad i am figuring out this posting pics,kinda enjoy sharing my hunts with alot of Great hunters.
I done some research on an area that i was hoping would bring Civil War relics like a buckle or something really good.I searched for quite sometime and dug a few drop bullets,a couple coin buttons and some other items that may have been in the right time era for the 1860's.I was told there had been quite abit of detecting done at this place and it would be hard to find anything.Well that may scare some people but to me that just makes the hunt that more interesting,because i don't give up easy.So I kinda changed my strategy and decided to hunt an old wagon road that has been cluttered with old fallen trees,large limbs and several ruts made by the creek that runs beside it.I looked darn near to dark and found alot of iron from years gone by and just about given up for the day,when i got a signal just like all the rest of the iron but with crossing my swing pattern i could tell this piece was just alittle longer than the rest. So i took some stones and marked the size of my target and started digging and at about 9 inches or so, i see a hard straight piece that kinda look like a rod .So i dug on the other end carefully and found the other end had a big ball of something on the end and than it dawned on me that this could be possibly a bayonet.So than i got real careful on retrieving the target by digging all around it to keep any pressure off of it,so i could just lift it out of the ground.Once i had it in my hands i got chills all over and was thinking of this long lost weapon that was once used for eye to eye combat and how this one certain piece is about the only thing you have to defend yourself when the drum roll order comes out for you to charge in such very deadly time of a soldiers life.
This is definetly one of my greatest finds and doubt i will ever find another but i am so glad that i took the old wagon road home.
Nova Treasure
I done some research on an area that i was hoping would bring Civil War relics like a buckle or something really good.I searched for quite sometime and dug a few drop bullets,a couple coin buttons and some other items that may have been in the right time era for the 1860's.I was told there had been quite abit of detecting done at this place and it would be hard to find anything.Well that may scare some people but to me that just makes the hunt that more interesting,because i don't give up easy.So I kinda changed my strategy and decided to hunt an old wagon road that has been cluttered with old fallen trees,large limbs and several ruts made by the creek that runs beside it.I looked darn near to dark and found alot of iron from years gone by and just about given up for the day,when i got a signal just like all the rest of the iron but with crossing my swing pattern i could tell this piece was just alittle longer than the rest. So i took some stones and marked the size of my target and started digging and at about 9 inches or so, i see a hard straight piece that kinda look like a rod .So i dug on the other end carefully and found the other end had a big ball of something on the end and than it dawned on me that this could be possibly a bayonet.So than i got real careful on retrieving the target by digging all around it to keep any pressure off of it,so i could just lift it out of the ground.Once i had it in my hands i got chills all over and was thinking of this long lost weapon that was once used for eye to eye combat and how this one certain piece is about the only thing you have to defend yourself when the drum roll order comes out for you to charge in such very deadly time of a soldiers life.
This is definetly one of my greatest finds and doubt i will ever find another but i am so glad that i took the old wagon road home.
Nova Treasure
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