Ahab8
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- Oct 15, 2013
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Finally took a few days off and had a 3 day marathon hunt with Brad and Steve. We stated on Thursday afternoon at my War of 1812 site. Happy to say that we all had some luck there and dug a nice handful of pewters between the 3 of us. I dug 3 US general service buttons as well as a couple of script Infantry buttons. I also dug a thimble and out of a trash pit came a killer little key as well as a nice little pipe stem that Brad gave me from the pit. We cooked some steak and potatoes right at the site and spent the night there. It was a great time that continued the next morning with more hunting. I'll let them share their finds but quite a few came out of this site. Friday night ended with a much needed shower then about 40 lbs of sushi and a couple of beers. Here are my finds from the War of 1812 site.
The Dirty Pile-
The Cleaned Pile
Marked Pewters
The Pit Key and Pipe Stem
Friday night I screen mirrored a couple of my 1776 maps onto my tv so we could all look at them and make a plan for Saturday. I decided that we should take a risk and try to find a small dot on the map. This involved loading a canoe and a kayak and driving to a public boat launch. We got there nice and early only to find that the boat ramp was under construction and there was no place to park. So we unloaded the boats and I parked my truck halfway down a slippery embankment....I'll get back to that later lol. We took a short paddle on a really nice stretch of water. It was beautiful and peaceful even though the weather wasn't great. After failing to find the first site due to time constraints with the tide we headed to the second site that we had our eyes on. Luckily it was a cabin site which meant there was no cellar hole and therefore it was virgin. Luckily Steve got over a couple of non ferrous targets which helped us to zone in on the homestead. I'm going to let Brad give the specifics of the next 8 seconds or so because they are very funny! I happened to walk into a small hot spot and dug a few rat tail spoons, a pile of buttons, a possible lead seal and after moving a tree and telling the boys there was going to be a great signal under there I dug a beautiful complete shoe buckle. My 8th complete and probably 21st or so overall. I also dug a couple of coppers....one being a 1773 kg i believe. We had a great time there and dug over 40 buttons between us. It was a lot of fun to show these guys what the cabin sites are all about and how hard they are to find.
The Pile-
Complete Shoe Buckle-
Complete Shoe Buckle Family
The Lead "Thing"-
1773 King George-
This was an incredibly fun few days with two great guys and Tnet members. It was great hunting and great food that ended with some massive lobster rolls. I know that I had a great time and hope they both had as much fun as I did. This post isn't nearly long enough but I am getting old and I'm exhausted from the paddling, hiking, digging and being in the rain for a few days. Hoping to hunt a lot more this fall and I have some very exciting sites that I'm hoping to get to. I'm going to be trying out some incredibly early sites and hope to add to my 1600s collection
The Dirty Pile-
The Cleaned Pile
Marked Pewters
The Pit Key and Pipe Stem
Friday night I screen mirrored a couple of my 1776 maps onto my tv so we could all look at them and make a plan for Saturday. I decided that we should take a risk and try to find a small dot on the map. This involved loading a canoe and a kayak and driving to a public boat launch. We got there nice and early only to find that the boat ramp was under construction and there was no place to park. So we unloaded the boats and I parked my truck halfway down a slippery embankment....I'll get back to that later lol. We took a short paddle on a really nice stretch of water. It was beautiful and peaceful even though the weather wasn't great. After failing to find the first site due to time constraints with the tide we headed to the second site that we had our eyes on. Luckily it was a cabin site which meant there was no cellar hole and therefore it was virgin. Luckily Steve got over a couple of non ferrous targets which helped us to zone in on the homestead. I'm going to let Brad give the specifics of the next 8 seconds or so because they are very funny! I happened to walk into a small hot spot and dug a few rat tail spoons, a pile of buttons, a possible lead seal and after moving a tree and telling the boys there was going to be a great signal under there I dug a beautiful complete shoe buckle. My 8th complete and probably 21st or so overall. I also dug a couple of coppers....one being a 1773 kg i believe. We had a great time there and dug over 40 buttons between us. It was a lot of fun to show these guys what the cabin sites are all about and how hard they are to find.
The Pile-
Complete Shoe Buckle-
Complete Shoe Buckle Family
The Lead "Thing"-
1773 King George-
This was an incredibly fun few days with two great guys and Tnet members. It was great hunting and great food that ended with some massive lobster rolls. I know that I had a great time and hope they both had as much fun as I did. This post isn't nearly long enough but I am getting old and I'm exhausted from the paddling, hiking, digging and being in the rain for a few days. Hoping to hunt a lot more this fall and I have some very exciting sites that I'm hoping to get to. I'm going to be trying out some incredibly early sites and hope to add to my 1600s collection
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. Some people just have their niche, and those are definitely 2 of yours. BTW - does that key have a triangular or square hole in the end? It might be a key for a barrel spigot, or maybe a clock key. Nice assortment of pewter buttons too. Hope to see you back at that site (or another) again soon as I could use a little motivation right now. Great post man!
bah.
