Metal Illness
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- Jul 1, 2011
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Hello fellow dirt fishers. After 3-4 futile efforts trying to locate a Mill site, and finding a few nails, shotgun shell heads and a couple memorials, I followed up on another field site yesterday, and I was denied permission, and could not locate the land owner for another site. So today's score was a HUGE Success for me. I stopped and talked to the farmer (land owner) and he said sure go ahead. He told me he had no clue there was ever an old homestead on his property and had never seen any signs of one in the field.
So I followed the garmin to the exact coordinates and started hunting. I continued to make 15-20 foot perimeter loops with no luck (signals or signs ie: broken bricks, crockery or glass) after about an hour I was pretty discouraged. Finally I worked my way into a grassy area (wash out) between ridges in the field and found the pocket knife, their always cool to find, but not indicative of the time period I was hoping to find. I was contemplating leaving when I crossed from the wash out area into the bean stubble probably 100 feet from my original starting point and immediately I started seeing broken pieces of bricks, this peaked my interest! Very quickly i found the first of 10 buttons and I was stoked! In the second hole I dug, I found the piece of 8, now I'm in the stratosphere! This little piece of Silver was hard to locate it came out of the hole in my clumps of dirt and took 3-4 minutes pin-pointing it, as you can see it is not shiny Silver like I'm used to seeing. When I did find it and wipe it off the H I S was staring back at me, I knew immediately what I had just found, and that's because about 3 weeks ago I found my first ever 1/2 Reale, so when the H I S was staring back at me I about fell over. I also scored an LC, and while trying to take a picture, I figured out my camera memory was full up and I couldn't get a picture of it in the hole, I love photoing before removing my finds. So I'm setting there trying to go to settings and free up memory (with no luck) and finally decided you're running out of daylight and if you're not swinging your coil you won't find anything! I grabbed the LC, filled the hole took 4-5 steps and snagged my second LC for the day!! The green LC I'm having trouble getting the date, the other one is an 1820. And finally I scored my first ever mini ball.
Sorry so long and windy, but I had a Great, First ever Field Hunt Success, I can't wait to get back out there! thanks for looking, Bill
So I followed the garmin to the exact coordinates and started hunting. I continued to make 15-20 foot perimeter loops with no luck (signals or signs ie: broken bricks, crockery or glass) after about an hour I was pretty discouraged. Finally I worked my way into a grassy area (wash out) between ridges in the field and found the pocket knife, their always cool to find, but not indicative of the time period I was hoping to find. I was contemplating leaving when I crossed from the wash out area into the bean stubble probably 100 feet from my original starting point and immediately I started seeing broken pieces of bricks, this peaked my interest! Very quickly i found the first of 10 buttons and I was stoked! In the second hole I dug, I found the piece of 8, now I'm in the stratosphere! This little piece of Silver was hard to locate it came out of the hole in my clumps of dirt and took 3-4 minutes pin-pointing it, as you can see it is not shiny Silver like I'm used to seeing. When I did find it and wipe it off the H I S was staring back at me, I knew immediately what I had just found, and that's because about 3 weeks ago I found my first ever 1/2 Reale, so when the H I S was staring back at me I about fell over. I also scored an LC, and while trying to take a picture, I figured out my camera memory was full up and I couldn't get a picture of it in the hole, I love photoing before removing my finds. So I'm setting there trying to go to settings and free up memory (with no luck) and finally decided you're running out of daylight and if you're not swinging your coil you won't find anything! I grabbed the LC, filled the hole took 4-5 steps and snagged my second LC for the day!! The green LC I'm having trouble getting the date, the other one is an 1820. And finally I scored my first ever mini ball.
Sorry so long and windy, but I had a Great, First ever Field Hunt Success, I can't wait to get back out there! thanks for looking, Bill
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