Rusted_Iron
Bronze Member
- May 25, 2006
- 1,682
- 87
- Detector(s) used
- Tesoro
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Rusted's On FIRE: can it really be a Seventh LARGE CENT?!!!
Something just keeps telling me to go back to that field. I did not have a lot of time before dark, so I moved fairly fast. I can't wait until the weekend when I can take a whole day to hit the spot. Or two days.
Maybe some are thinking, come on, already. But this is the real deal. I posts 'em as I finds 'em.
But then, if I had 12 hours solid to hunt, maybe I would have got them all in one swoop. I just don't have time to do that with a work schedule. Short hunts are what I have, so I'm fortunate to get there for an hour or two each time. I am really excited about this site and hope you can share in my excitement. I have never hunted a place that produced LC's like this!
This spot is kind of special. I am still hoping for silver, but I'll gladly (!!!) accept all the big coppers it has to offer. I hope there are more!
It was a quiet day on the field. Big Woofer gave up barking after like 2 minutes, and his little buddy said nothing. I think he knows he's been defeated. I heard a cackling sort of quack from a duck that hangs around nearby. He likes when I dig coppers.
I started moving out another 10 ft or so from the spot I hit in the past couple days. First I dug a nice flat button, then... that signal again. That really nice, loud one. Didn't disc out. You know what I mean. I started digging carefully. I mined under the roots and kept checking with a pinpointer. Finally, after much work, I mined underneath it, and it fell out. There was a disc-shaped plug of soil that fell away.
Yeah, buddy!!!!
By the way, I brought along another brand of detector that had been collecting dust. Fancy, this one was. To its credit, it was able to detect the large cent, but then again, I could have found this one with a Compadre.
That fancy 'tector led me on two wild goose chases that ate up the daylight. First signal it said "dig me! I'm a high fluty tone, very faint!" There was no "pink" sound you usually get with nails. Trust me, I put in a lot of hours on that machine, I know its language. So I said "Okay, yeah, let's dig that". Bad idea. Just to double check, I grabbed the Tesoro. It said "I wouldn't dig that, amigo". So what did I do? I dug... and dug... a deep, deep nail, in the side of the hole. Strike One.
Then the fancy detector found another signal. Like the devil, it whispered "Hear that, friend? That primitive beep-dig unit of yours couldn't touch this. I bet it wouldn't even get a signal."
"You know why that is, you techno-devil?" I said. "That's because my primitive beep-dig unit just disc'ed it out entirely." Which might just tell you something. Heh. Fluty, nothin'.
Well, I dug it anyway. It was another wild goose chase.
Deep nail #2, Strike Two for the fancy detector. Looks like it's back to the Tesoro.
On today's hunt, I dug another nice log wedge, and also a door pintle. I was pretty psyched about that. You don't find pintles on modern houses. They occurred on two kinds of buildings... barns, and log homesteads. And this wasn't a barn. There is no photo anywhere to tell me what stood here, but I can figure it out from the artifacts, hopefully.
The log wedge was at least a foot deep, the whole length of my pinpointer. I bet there are some super-deep coins to be had after I clean out all the shallow targets. Strip-mining time
It was a great day, and another spectacular sunset. I likes it.
Seven large cents from six consecutive hunts!! I can't promise that I'll be able to keep up this streak, but I can promise something else... I will never get sick of large cents!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys and gals, Thanks for reading. I am really thankful to be able to have detecting like this, and to share the joy with all of you.
Chris
P.S. Minelabs are great 'tectors too, I just like to beat on Iron Patch, and my pal Joe. Mainly because the latter had massive beginner's luck and found a Spanish silver with MY Minelab at a site I found, LOL.
Oh, and today's LC is an 1837, best as I can tell. The patina is kind of rough, I'm thinking H2O2.
Something just keeps telling me to go back to that field. I did not have a lot of time before dark, so I moved fairly fast. I can't wait until the weekend when I can take a whole day to hit the spot. Or two days.
Maybe some are thinking, come on, already. But this is the real deal. I posts 'em as I finds 'em.
But then, if I had 12 hours solid to hunt, maybe I would have got them all in one swoop. I just don't have time to do that with a work schedule. Short hunts are what I have, so I'm fortunate to get there for an hour or two each time. I am really excited about this site and hope you can share in my excitement. I have never hunted a place that produced LC's like this!
This spot is kind of special. I am still hoping for silver, but I'll gladly (!!!) accept all the big coppers it has to offer. I hope there are more!
It was a quiet day on the field. Big Woofer gave up barking after like 2 minutes, and his little buddy said nothing. I think he knows he's been defeated. I heard a cackling sort of quack from a duck that hangs around nearby. He likes when I dig coppers.
I started moving out another 10 ft or so from the spot I hit in the past couple days. First I dug a nice flat button, then... that signal again. That really nice, loud one. Didn't disc out. You know what I mean. I started digging carefully. I mined under the roots and kept checking with a pinpointer. Finally, after much work, I mined underneath it, and it fell out. There was a disc-shaped plug of soil that fell away.
Yeah, buddy!!!!
By the way, I brought along another brand of detector that had been collecting dust. Fancy, this one was. To its credit, it was able to detect the large cent, but then again, I could have found this one with a Compadre.
That fancy 'tector led me on two wild goose chases that ate up the daylight. First signal it said "dig me! I'm a high fluty tone, very faint!" There was no "pink" sound you usually get with nails. Trust me, I put in a lot of hours on that machine, I know its language. So I said "Okay, yeah, let's dig that". Bad idea. Just to double check, I grabbed the Tesoro. It said "I wouldn't dig that, amigo". So what did I do? I dug... and dug... a deep, deep nail, in the side of the hole. Strike One.
Then the fancy detector found another signal. Like the devil, it whispered "Hear that, friend? That primitive beep-dig unit of yours couldn't touch this. I bet it wouldn't even get a signal."
"You know why that is, you techno-devil?" I said. "That's because my primitive beep-dig unit just disc'ed it out entirely." Which might just tell you something. Heh. Fluty, nothin'.
Well, I dug it anyway. It was another wild goose chase.
Deep nail #2, Strike Two for the fancy detector. Looks like it's back to the Tesoro.
On today's hunt, I dug another nice log wedge, and also a door pintle. I was pretty psyched about that. You don't find pintles on modern houses. They occurred on two kinds of buildings... barns, and log homesteads. And this wasn't a barn. There is no photo anywhere to tell me what stood here, but I can figure it out from the artifacts, hopefully.
The log wedge was at least a foot deep, the whole length of my pinpointer. I bet there are some super-deep coins to be had after I clean out all the shallow targets. Strip-mining time
It was a great day, and another spectacular sunset. I likes it.
Seven large cents from six consecutive hunts!! I can't promise that I'll be able to keep up this streak, but I can promise something else... I will never get sick of large cents!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys and gals, Thanks for reading. I am really thankful to be able to have detecting like this, and to share the joy with all of you.
Chris
P.S. Minelabs are great 'tectors too, I just like to beat on Iron Patch, and my pal Joe. Mainly because the latter had massive beginner's luck and found a Spanish silver with MY Minelab at a site I found, LOL.
Oh, and today's LC is an 1837, best as I can tell. The patina is kind of rough, I'm thinking H2O2.
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