Icewing
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- Jan 5, 2016
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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
A couple of weeks ago I started a thread about possibly taking a detecting road trip and tried to get other TNET members involved. Unfortunately, though not unexpectedly, treasure hunters being treasure hunters, not many ideas or invites were offered. That's ok though because it turned out to be the hottest week of the year, thus making it not worth an all day drive to have a heat stroke in the first two hours of hunting. I can do that locally.
If you've ever been in Arkansas in mid summer you know about the dessert heat mixed with jungle humidity. With the heat index well over 100°F in the afternoons, I had to limit my exposure to only a couple of hours in the morning and maybe another hour just before the sun went down, so as to find shaded spots to hunt.
The first couple of days only yielded a few minor things like a couple wheat pennies and a little round ball. Then I decided to go back to a house I'd hunted with my F2 when I first started in the fall of 2015. It's next to a little flower shop that recently closed. When I pulled up to the house luckily I caught the owner outside and asked if I could hunt. Much to my surprise she not only said yes but said I could now hunt the flower shop next door.
Really? I asked, since I was told no when it was in business.
She said, "Yep, I'm the one taking care of their landscaping and mowing now. Just don't mess with the building and have fun." That night I took home two mercury dimes and a wheat penny. Around here anything better than a wheat penny means it is a good day.
The next day I was hunting a valley bottom behind a local business for the first time and found a fired three ringer and much later sliding type US military belt buckle and a couple more wheaties. Then later that day I found my first sword belt clip (I think) out in a corn field.
Fast forward to after my wife and I going camping and canoeing. Saturday one of my buddies and I went out without a plan (my favorite plan) and hit a few lots and such. Toward the end of the day he pulls a really beat to hell and slightly bent barber dime but at least you could tell what it was the reverse side.
A little bit later while out of site of each other on opposite sides of the building I found a barber dime (my second ever), and a domed US collar insignia (post WW2). As you could imagine I was stoked. That's about when my buddy comes to find me.
While comparing finds, in the distance at a beautiful old house where 15 years ago I used to work for a guy who since died of cancer, I spotted his widow mowing the lawn. So I left my buddy there talking to himself and ran over to say hello, and ask if we could hunt.
Without hesitations she said yes. So I told my friend what parts I'd hunted and where I found my dime and went to her yard. It was getting late so my hunt was brief but I found a sterling chain and a little peacock pin, my friend picher up a Standing Liberty Quarter at the place where I left him before coming over to call it a day. And a great one it was.
Sunday, my last day to hunt before the kids get back from their grandparents, and my buddy had to go to work. I went back and picked up where I left off. It was a slow start but by the end of the day I had found the biggest variety of old coins I'd ever found in a single day, and shockingly almost no clad, other than a few surface pennies she tossed out for slug control or so she said. I found two wheat pennies, two indian head pennies, a V nickle, a mercury dime, and another barber dime. That was my best coin shoot to date, and I still have a lot of yard to cover. Fingers crossed for some gold.
I just wanted to share. Thanks for reading.
Icewing
The thing dated 1780 in the middle, I believe is just a button cover. It's not a coin.
If you've ever been in Arkansas in mid summer you know about the dessert heat mixed with jungle humidity. With the heat index well over 100°F in the afternoons, I had to limit my exposure to only a couple of hours in the morning and maybe another hour just before the sun went down, so as to find shaded spots to hunt.
The first couple of days only yielded a few minor things like a couple wheat pennies and a little round ball. Then I decided to go back to a house I'd hunted with my F2 when I first started in the fall of 2015. It's next to a little flower shop that recently closed. When I pulled up to the house luckily I caught the owner outside and asked if I could hunt. Much to my surprise she not only said yes but said I could now hunt the flower shop next door.
Really? I asked, since I was told no when it was in business.
She said, "Yep, I'm the one taking care of their landscaping and mowing now. Just don't mess with the building and have fun." That night I took home two mercury dimes and a wheat penny. Around here anything better than a wheat penny means it is a good day.
The next day I was hunting a valley bottom behind a local business for the first time and found a fired three ringer and much later sliding type US military belt buckle and a couple more wheaties. Then later that day I found my first sword belt clip (I think) out in a corn field.
Fast forward to after my wife and I going camping and canoeing. Saturday one of my buddies and I went out without a plan (my favorite plan) and hit a few lots and such. Toward the end of the day he pulls a really beat to hell and slightly bent barber dime but at least you could tell what it was the reverse side.
A little bit later while out of site of each other on opposite sides of the building I found a barber dime (my second ever), and a domed US collar insignia (post WW2). As you could imagine I was stoked. That's about when my buddy comes to find me.
While comparing finds, in the distance at a beautiful old house where 15 years ago I used to work for a guy who since died of cancer, I spotted his widow mowing the lawn. So I left my buddy there talking to himself and ran over to say hello, and ask if we could hunt.
Without hesitations she said yes. So I told my friend what parts I'd hunted and where I found my dime and went to her yard. It was getting late so my hunt was brief but I found a sterling chain and a little peacock pin, my friend picher up a Standing Liberty Quarter at the place where I left him before coming over to call it a day. And a great one it was.
Sunday, my last day to hunt before the kids get back from their grandparents, and my buddy had to go to work. I went back and picked up where I left off. It was a slow start but by the end of the day I had found the biggest variety of old coins I'd ever found in a single day, and shockingly almost no clad, other than a few surface pennies she tossed out for slug control or so she said. I found two wheat pennies, two indian head pennies, a V nickle, a mercury dime, and another barber dime. That was my best coin shoot to date, and I still have a lot of yard to cover. Fingers crossed for some gold.
I just wanted to share. Thanks for reading.
Icewing
The thing dated 1780 in the middle, I believe is just a button cover. It's not a coin.
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