Mirage
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Dan, Spencer and I headed out on Saturday morning to a promising new spot that Dan got permission to hunt.
Dan wasn’t too impressed with the looks of the first home site we located so he went to look for site #2. Spencer and I started and one of the first few signals I got turned out to be this buckle:
We didn’t find much else and then Dan came walking back to inform us site #2 was better. Most of the site was overgrown:
However, there were some spots out front that were workable. The first signal I dug turned out to be an IH. Got some wheats a merc and a cool Lincoln Mercury car key. 50’s or early 60’s?
Spencer found the bottle dump for this home and Dan found these two old cars:
The trek for the next group of 4 potential sites turned out to be a bust. We used up a lot of time trying to find the old road that was obvious from the satellite photos. Got a little lost in the woods but made it back without too much extra effort.
So back to site #1. We could only cough up a single wheat penny from it. On to site #3. Again promising but with all the prickers we were somewhat limited in our hunting areas. We could only find two wheat pennies and a broken pocketwatch at this site. Since we were running out of daylight we headed to site #4. This proved to be a good site. The big excitement of the day was hearing Dan exclaim “It’s a silver Quarter!” Then shortly after a thunderous “Wooohoooo!! It’s a Barber!!”. I ran over and there was still a lot of dirt on it but I knew right away it was not a Barber but one of those funny quarters I had found a couple months ago – a Vicky. Still a great find and harder to find than a Barber.
Most of my stuff for the day:
HH all and Good luck,
Bob
Dan wasn’t too impressed with the looks of the first home site we located so he went to look for site #2. Spencer and I started and one of the first few signals I got turned out to be this buckle:
We didn’t find much else and then Dan came walking back to inform us site #2 was better. Most of the site was overgrown:
However, there were some spots out front that were workable. The first signal I dug turned out to be an IH. Got some wheats a merc and a cool Lincoln Mercury car key. 50’s or early 60’s?
Spencer found the bottle dump for this home and Dan found these two old cars:
The trek for the next group of 4 potential sites turned out to be a bust. We used up a lot of time trying to find the old road that was obvious from the satellite photos. Got a little lost in the woods but made it back without too much extra effort.
So back to site #1. We could only cough up a single wheat penny from it. On to site #3. Again promising but with all the prickers we were somewhat limited in our hunting areas. We could only find two wheat pennies and a broken pocketwatch at this site. Since we were running out of daylight we headed to site #4. This proved to be a good site. The big excitement of the day was hearing Dan exclaim “It’s a silver Quarter!” Then shortly after a thunderous “Wooohoooo!! It’s a Barber!!”. I ran over and there was still a lot of dirt on it but I knew right away it was not a Barber but one of those funny quarters I had found a couple months ago – a Vicky. Still a great find and harder to find than a Barber.
Most of my stuff for the day:
HH all and Good luck,
Bob
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