time4me
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- Aug 30, 2005
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... but just barely.
I've been researching a new location and recieved permission to hunt it last week. It was a ranch starting in 1875 with orchards and vineyards, and the property owners ran a summer resort for 15 years between 1875 and 1925, when the property changed ownership. It has been used as a campground ever since.
The bad news I got from the property owner was that several people have detected it over the past five to ten years that he knows of. But I figured given the size of the property, there is absolutely no way it is hunted out - in fact, it is so large a piece of land, with fields and wooded areas, that only a tiny fraction of the property could have been hunted.
So I made the 90 minute drive yesterday and spent 5 hours hunting around an area that had several ancient looking apple trees, and some nearby fields that are near to where a barn had once stood according to the property owner.
About half way into the hunt I finally saw what I knew had to be there somewhere - SILVER...
Unfortunately it was only a 1953 Washington Quarter, but it held a little extra special meaning as I had listened to Obama's inauguration the entire drive out to my destination. I thought it fitting that I find a silver Washington!!!!!
However, my happiness was short-lived as my mind went back to thinking about kuger's post from Monday where he and his buddy found the three seated liberty half dollars and the $10 gold piece, and I went back to work trying to find my own seated coin.
Well, it was not meant to be this day. The silver washington is the only silver I found. At least it has kept my silver streak going - silver on each of my first four hunts of the new year.
I did find 5 wheat cents from the 40's. One of them is too corroded to read the date. I found a ton of junk at this site, but here is the more interesting stuff...
10 clad quarters, 4 dimes, and a handful of memorial cents. Man I hate those memorial pennies. I'd rather dig an interesting piece of trash than another memorial cent.
Here is the quarter cleaned off...
I need to do some more research on this property before I head back there again. I think a creek runs through a section of the property and I bet when the original owners ran it as a summer resort for 15 years, the vacationers would have spent a bunch of time at the edge of the creek (and probably in the creek as well).
Happy Hunting,
Jim
I've been researching a new location and recieved permission to hunt it last week. It was a ranch starting in 1875 with orchards and vineyards, and the property owners ran a summer resort for 15 years between 1875 and 1925, when the property changed ownership. It has been used as a campground ever since.
The bad news I got from the property owner was that several people have detected it over the past five to ten years that he knows of. But I figured given the size of the property, there is absolutely no way it is hunted out - in fact, it is so large a piece of land, with fields and wooded areas, that only a tiny fraction of the property could have been hunted.
So I made the 90 minute drive yesterday and spent 5 hours hunting around an area that had several ancient looking apple trees, and some nearby fields that are near to where a barn had once stood according to the property owner.
About half way into the hunt I finally saw what I knew had to be there somewhere - SILVER...
Unfortunately it was only a 1953 Washington Quarter, but it held a little extra special meaning as I had listened to Obama's inauguration the entire drive out to my destination. I thought it fitting that I find a silver Washington!!!!!
However, my happiness was short-lived as my mind went back to thinking about kuger's post from Monday where he and his buddy found the three seated liberty half dollars and the $10 gold piece, and I went back to work trying to find my own seated coin.
Well, it was not meant to be this day. The silver washington is the only silver I found. At least it has kept my silver streak going - silver on each of my first four hunts of the new year.
I did find 5 wheat cents from the 40's. One of them is too corroded to read the date. I found a ton of junk at this site, but here is the more interesting stuff...
10 clad quarters, 4 dimes, and a handful of memorial cents. Man I hate those memorial pennies. I'd rather dig an interesting piece of trash than another memorial cent.
Here is the quarter cleaned off...
I need to do some more research on this property before I head back there again. I think a creek runs through a section of the property and I bet when the original owners ran it as a summer resort for 15 years, the vacationers would have spent a bunch of time at the edge of the creek (and probably in the creek as well).
Happy Hunting,
Jim
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