diamondjim
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- Mar 10, 2006
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An impossible site that didn't suck
I spend many, many days chasing down impossible sites with nothing to show for my efforts 'cept for thorn holes all over...
Today's site wasn't just impossible, it doesn't even exist anymore...just condos now. But carefull overlays of old maps on new ones turned up a tiny lost tract of a historic Columbus site and hard hike to get there. Wasn't long before my early prediction of "land fill" started proving true (lost tracts of land are usually lost for a reason)...but this one hill side started showing cool crap instead of 40's. Old hair clip, old buckle then a crusty 1885 injun. COOL.
Much work left to do there...excited to have a new old site to work, but had more sites on the list for the day.
Site 2 was a hidden but once popular park for silver hunters in the '80's. One wheat and a sweet fatty .925 ring :-)
Site 3: another lost tract of woods...this time lost 'cause it turned out to be a swamp. Worked the dry part on the edge and got a nice tootsietoy truck.
Site 4: 5 wheaties at a construction site. I've worked it before, but they keep moving the dirt around, never hurts to check again.
I'm whipped. Long day huntin...but worth it...the injun ain't much to look at, it's what it means...a new 19th century site in a very worked over area where most places to hunt have been beat to death by 30 years of diggers before you.
I spend many, many days chasing down impossible sites with nothing to show for my efforts 'cept for thorn holes all over...
Today's site wasn't just impossible, it doesn't even exist anymore...just condos now. But carefull overlays of old maps on new ones turned up a tiny lost tract of a historic Columbus site and hard hike to get there. Wasn't long before my early prediction of "land fill" started proving true (lost tracts of land are usually lost for a reason)...but this one hill side started showing cool crap instead of 40's. Old hair clip, old buckle then a crusty 1885 injun. COOL.
Much work left to do there...excited to have a new old site to work, but had more sites on the list for the day.
Site 2 was a hidden but once popular park for silver hunters in the '80's. One wheat and a sweet fatty .925 ring :-)
Site 3: another lost tract of woods...this time lost 'cause it turned out to be a swamp. Worked the dry part on the edge and got a nice tootsietoy truck.
Site 4: 5 wheaties at a construction site. I've worked it before, but they keep moving the dirt around, never hurts to check again.
I'm whipped. Long day huntin...but worth it...the injun ain't much to look at, it's what it means...a new 19th century site in a very worked over area where most places to hunt have been beat to death by 30 years of diggers before you.
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