tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I have been driving the 45 miles to the scout camp as often as I can. The weather was good so today I made the drive and spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 at one of the camp sites. There are over 35 camp sites and I am slowly working my way around camp, gridding the sites and cleaning up. The camp has only been open for 40 years so not a lot of old stuff except for the occasional find from the old farm that was there first. Camp hunts are for pegs to return to camp, cool scout stuff that has been lost, money for gas and the fun of detecting.
Most of the finds are close to the surface so I only need a small trowel and a pinpointer to recover the finds the detector leads me to. Sometimes you brush the leaves aside and the items are right on the surface making for real fast recoveries.
This 6 hour hunt about one sixth of this site and produced 237 coins with a face value of $16.01, 59 Camp tent pegs, an order of the arrow neckerchief slide, what looks like a semi wadcutter, a copper jacket slug, 2 replica cob coins, an arrow of light pin, a Boy Scout slide, a Webelos slide, and a variety of sinkers. I also found 50 or 60 pieces of melted aluminum from the campfires, 3 can tabs and a few nails from old tent floorboards.
The OA slide is unusual. I’ve found well over 100 neckerchief slides and never one like this. It is from Kiasutha lodge 57 from the Pittsburg council. The lodge has had a number of names since 1931 and Kiasutta was used from 1967-1992.
So the camp still has a lot left to find even though I have already found tons of coins and over 10,000 of the Camp pegs. A fun day with more fun to come. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
Most of the finds are close to the surface so I only need a small trowel and a pinpointer to recover the finds the detector leads me to. Sometimes you brush the leaves aside and the items are right on the surface making for real fast recoveries.
This 6 hour hunt about one sixth of this site and produced 237 coins with a face value of $16.01, 59 Camp tent pegs, an order of the arrow neckerchief slide, what looks like a semi wadcutter, a copper jacket slug, 2 replica cob coins, an arrow of light pin, a Boy Scout slide, a Webelos slide, and a variety of sinkers. I also found 50 or 60 pieces of melted aluminum from the campfires, 3 can tabs and a few nails from old tent floorboards.
The OA slide is unusual. I’ve found well over 100 neckerchief slides and never one like this. It is from Kiasutha lodge 57 from the Pittsburg council. The lodge has had a number of names since 1931 and Kiasutta was used from 1967-1992.
So the camp still has a lot left to find even though I have already found tons of coins and over 10,000 of the Camp pegs. A fun day with more fun to come. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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