treasurehound
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- Jan 23, 2008
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Minelab GPX 4500,
Minelab Equinox 800,
Garrett AT GOLD with NEL coil,
Garrett Sea Hunter
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Today's Tennessee Relic Hunt
Started the day hunting a park while waiting for my friends to show up. I just found a wheat penny when they showed up and we left for our relic hunt. The site is on private property with an old 1800's house that has not been lived in since the 1920's. The owner met with us and showed us where she has been finding some of her relics. We have hunted here several times and have done very good. Today started out kind of slow. Hunting with us today was Larry, Guy and myself. Also hunting with us for the first time was Mark. After a while I called Guy and he said he was at the site in the woods where we found bullets on the last hunt. So I met up with him and just as I show up he finds another 3 ringer. Then he shows me a beautiful spur he found. I kept hearing his MXT going off and him saying "bullet". I think my machine was in the horseshoe mode as I was finding them and the nails that went with them. Finally I find a good brass target. I believe it is a burnside cartridge. A man and his son showed up as they were looking for turkey feathers. The young man was very interested in what we were doing. Guy showed his some of his finds that he had laid out on a log and gives him one of the bullets he found. Later we found out the boy took a couple more of the bullets that Guy had laid out. No problem. He will probably take to school for show and tell and talk about the two men he saw using metal detectors. We then decided to work our way back down the hill and hunt around the old house again. That was when I found what I first thought was a set of suspenders but now I think it is just a part of some horse tack. The land owner was there and she just found a ring with a twisted piece on it. She gave it to me as she did not want it. I think it was part of a horse bit. Mark and Guy had to leave so Larry and I hunted a little longer. I was concentrating around the old house as I found some flat buttons there last time. I got a good signal and it was a gear to a watch I think. I rechecked the hole and got another high tone. Boy I was hoping it was the gold covers. But it turned out to be a very nice flat button with a solid shank. Then I found a fired 3 ringer and another flat button. After finding a few more odds and ends we decided to call it a day. So it may have started out slow but ended good after finding the buttons and lead.
Started the day hunting a park while waiting for my friends to show up. I just found a wheat penny when they showed up and we left for our relic hunt. The site is on private property with an old 1800's house that has not been lived in since the 1920's. The owner met with us and showed us where she has been finding some of her relics. We have hunted here several times and have done very good. Today started out kind of slow. Hunting with us today was Larry, Guy and myself. Also hunting with us for the first time was Mark. After a while I called Guy and he said he was at the site in the woods where we found bullets on the last hunt. So I met up with him and just as I show up he finds another 3 ringer. Then he shows me a beautiful spur he found. I kept hearing his MXT going off and him saying "bullet". I think my machine was in the horseshoe mode as I was finding them and the nails that went with them. Finally I find a good brass target. I believe it is a burnside cartridge. A man and his son showed up as they were looking for turkey feathers. The young man was very interested in what we were doing. Guy showed his some of his finds that he had laid out on a log and gives him one of the bullets he found. Later we found out the boy took a couple more of the bullets that Guy had laid out. No problem. He will probably take to school for show and tell and talk about the two men he saw using metal detectors. We then decided to work our way back down the hill and hunt around the old house again. That was when I found what I first thought was a set of suspenders but now I think it is just a part of some horse tack. The land owner was there and she just found a ring with a twisted piece on it. She gave it to me as she did not want it. I think it was part of a horse bit. Mark and Guy had to leave so Larry and I hunted a little longer. I was concentrating around the old house as I found some flat buttons there last time. I got a good signal and it was a gear to a watch I think. I rechecked the hole and got another high tone. Boy I was hoping it was the gold covers. But it turned out to be a very nice flat button with a solid shank. Then I found a fired 3 ringer and another flat button. After finding a few more odds and ends we decided to call it a day. So it may have started out slow but ended good after finding the buttons and lead.
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