Driveway find, NOT what you might think.

[wettpaint]

Just to let you know that you don't have to go very far to find the good stuff, at least that is what my wife is saying now.

My son, who will be 3 in July, wanted to go tecting this Sunday, so I thought that we would mess around in the yard for a little while.

There used to be a home place between my house and the road. I say "used to be" because when we built our place we cut the hill down around 5' and scattered the dirt over 3 acres.

Like I said my 2 yr old and I were working our way across the yard, a place we have hunted many times. Nothing notable mostly nails and other odd iron signals. I dig a plug and let him pick through it until he pulls out the find. Boy does he get excited for whatever he comes up with. Well this time we were crossing our gravel drive way and I get a 74 VDI on the MXT. Here I go hacking through the gravel. My drive is what we call “reclaimed concrete” it is mixture of what is dropped or leftover at the concrete plant from a concrete batch before the water is added. It has a lot of gravel, sand and cement. Needless to say it is quite hard. So here I go still hacking with my Fiskar garden knife trying to loosen it up enough for little man to come and dig up some “monies”. I cannot pinpoint it well, but the MXT keeps showing as a penny. Now time for the big guns, I go after the spade or “sharp shooter” whatever you want to call it. I start to ream out a pretty good hole, gravel is flying everywhere. I am going to find that penny before it is over with, there might not be anything left but little man is getting that penny. I get the hole pretty good size now, hit is again with the MXT and get an overload, What the heck An over for a penny, maybe a piece of copper pipe from the house during construction.

Getting discourage from the hacking and not finding that stinking penny or piece of pipe I stick the Fiskar in one more time and hit something metallic. I kind of poke it a time or two trying to find the edge so I can pry it out. And up pops this beauty. Boy was I surprised.
I put a small scratch on the back and nicked the edge when I pried it out of the drive but other than that it is in good condition.

It is amazing that I did not destroy in after moving all the dirt with a tractor and box blade and an old Cat D6 dozer, shaping my driveway twice adding gravel and other material both times. I have lived in this house for 5 years and never thought that my CS buckle was literally under my feet each time I walked to the mail box or drove to work.

Happy Hunting
Wettpaint

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[creeper71]

oh sh$t! your right not what I was expecting.. thought for sure you found old large cent!!!

[Old Dog]

Beautiful, Congrats.

[savant365]

Never know what you're gonna find or where you're gonna find it. Great find, congrats

HH Charlie

[River Rat]

W W!! Betca still doing the happy dance CONGRATS!

RR

[ivan salis]

surprize

[vayank54]

that just goes to show you never know what going to pop out of the ground. congrats. You did give it to your son, right??

[Mach 1 Pilot]

Whoa! What a find and a great story to go with it!!!!

Congrats!

[lennon631]

Chances of one of those in my driveway are slim and none, and slim left town! Lol, NY! Great find.....Wooo Hoooo!

[texjim]

So who was more excited you or the kid?LOL Awesome job... Tex

[Tank69]

wow if thats what you get for a penny out there what do you get for a dollar lol ......awsome find congrats that thing is in beautiful shape .



HH Tank

[olekyground]

That is unbelievable! Nice story to share!

[cntrydncr1]

wow, congrats!

[GopherDaGold]

Daaaaaaaang!!!

[Pull_tab_mike]

U lucky dog........wow i was thinking soemthing else.... cool find

someday ill get one of those. im getting close my avatar was my first civil war relic find, almost craped my pants one i found that

always

HH

PTM

[terpfan]

Great story, well told. Thanks for taking the time to write and congrats on a find that very few ever have the honor of recovering.

[mainer]

Never would have expected that! Great find!

[wettpaint]

that just goes to show you never know what going to pop out of the ground. congrats. You did give it to your son, right??

He can have it when I am done with it.

[armchairQB30]

The real question is WHY did you find it there? What town in MS do you live in? I would like to post some research for you.

[gmanlight]