APs Awesome Day!!!

Mighty AP

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AP's Awesome Day!!!

Went on a lil roadtrip today with Kent, the gentleman who lives next to the soccer field Ive been detecting fer a month or so. He took me to a small town called Blackfoot, hit a couple parks & we had a great day! I doubt many people have been hunting these parks cause we cleaned up on the clad! Kent is an older gent, railroad retiree, and he is one hell of a good detectorist, he got as much or more clad as I did & he just kept chuggin along long after I was wore down & ready to give up! I got 16 quarters, 22 dimes, 2 nickels (??) 47 pennies, 1 Shakies Pizza token, a pewter chess pawn, a dime flattened into a token & 2 rings (the gold ring & the sterling CTR ring). The other two cheapy rings I found last night with LQ & thought Id toss em in the pic. I found the Bully Dog plate in the grass, its a metal decal. The sterling ring is a Mormon CTR ring, Kent has found 28 of them over the years! The gold one appears to be stamped & plated but is sweet lookin.............LQ has laid claim to it. :( My new machine is smokin' hot & is a quarter/dime slayer and now Ive found 4 rings in two trips with it, realy am quite happy with it. Kent.........if you read this I want to thank you for a great trip & I know we will do it again before we're buried in snow! ;D

CTR rings as I understand, are given to or purchased by teenagers when they go on their 2 year missions. I have a Mormon friend who recently told me what CTR stands for but I cant remember, if anybody knows please post. :)
 

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DigDugNY

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

Seems like an awesome day to me....Good job :)
 

The Seeker

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

Sounds like the detector is serving the purpose!! Congrats on the nice rings and great haul of Coins!!! Impressive!
 

pennyfarmer

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

The CTR is something the kids get when they turn about 8 and are baptized. Most of them that I find here in Utah are for very small hands. If you get to hunt a playground attached to a church you can find gobs of the aluminum adjustible rings.

AP are you talking Blackfoot, ID? Just wondering, that is where my family is from. Blackfoot used to be a very large railroad town way way back in the day. I believe that it used to be possibly the busiest town in the west shipping cattle and agricultural goods back east.

Happy hunting
 

River Rat

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

AP,

What can I say?

You had a hellofaday.

WTG ;D

;) RR
 

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Mighty AP

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

Yes, Blackfoot Idaho! Im 30 miles south in Pokey, we hunted Jensons Grove & Riverside Park today, the gentleman I hunted with is a railroad retiree & he just told me Blackfoot was a huge railway hub back in the day. Nice place, quaint lil town.............it was very good to me today! If you ever get up to Blackfoot let me know & we'll go huntin', eh? :)
 

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ZumbroKid

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

Could not pass up posting to say hello to the Mighty AP. Yes those western towns seem to have very few detectorists to hunt them. Later Guy.
 

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mchamby

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wow, nice ring, loads of clad and a new hunting pard, what can be better,
HH
Mchamby
 

tinpan

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

Hi A.p. congrats on your finds and mormon relics thats different. ;D ;D ;D


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hollowpointred

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

great stuff ap! its nice to see you getting out and making nice finds. as for me , i`ll have to wait until im done with the flu :'(. anyway. nice stuff!
 

Green1

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Re: AP's Awesome Day!!!

great digs,,,, lot of rings.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
nothing like digging a ring to keep ya going... :o :o :o
 

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