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Friday's change of pace hunt with Mirage, Nate and Don Holden
We decided to join in with one of Mirage's hunting buddies, Don Holden (frequents DFX forums) and hunt an old abandoned campground I had found in July, but was unable to hunt really due to BAD mosquitos.We met up at 8am (well, a little AFTER 8...wrong exit Mirage
) and all piled into my Element and drove off to the Ohio/PA line.
It was an easy hike back in in heavy fog and we quickly found the latrines, lodge foundation and entrance road. Don and I started out hunting the edges of the lodge's foundation and were rewarded with plenty of old square nails
Nate and Bob wandered about the woods and Don and I eventually found ourselves wandering around too...looking for that holy grail.
Long story short, I ended up with a 1938 Jefferson Nickle and a wheatie, and I'll let the others say what they found, but a total of 4 silver coins were dug, along with more wheats.
I DID have an exciting moment when at 9-10" I dug what I thought was a carbide can buried (visions of caches danced in my head)...it ended up being a VERY old glass-lined thermos, which contained only dirt and crumbled when I brought it out (see pic for what it looked like in the hole). I also dug a COOL old glass (intact) that must have been a souvenir from a trip to Paris as it depicts the Eifel Tower and the Arch De Triumph. The cool thing about it is that if the outer glass is wet, the etched image dissapears entirely, returning when dry. I tried to get a pic that shows the etching.
We switched gears and drove into PA and hunted a fairground. I hit a 44 Merc and more wheaties. Near the old cattle barn I also dug two old buckles...one looks like a horse harness buckle (marked ENGLAND) and is quite heavy. The other has a heart shape stamped into it (I think I've seen one on TN before..and help IDing it would be appreciated)..
It's possible a trip to the Iceberg is in the works for tomorrow....stay tuned.
HH all!!
We decided to join in with one of Mirage's hunting buddies, Don Holden (frequents DFX forums) and hunt an old abandoned campground I had found in July, but was unable to hunt really due to BAD mosquitos.We met up at 8am (well, a little AFTER 8...wrong exit Mirage
) and all piled into my Element and drove off to the Ohio/PA line.It was an easy hike back in in heavy fog and we quickly found the latrines, lodge foundation and entrance road. Don and I started out hunting the edges of the lodge's foundation and were rewarded with plenty of old square nails
Nate and Bob wandered about the woods and Don and I eventually found ourselves wandering around too...looking for that holy grail.
Long story short, I ended up with a 1938 Jefferson Nickle and a wheatie, and I'll let the others say what they found, but a total of 4 silver coins were dug, along with more wheats.
I DID have an exciting moment when at 9-10" I dug what I thought was a carbide can buried (visions of caches danced in my head)...it ended up being a VERY old glass-lined thermos, which contained only dirt and crumbled when I brought it out (see pic for what it looked like in the hole). I also dug a COOL old glass (intact) that must have been a souvenir from a trip to Paris as it depicts the Eifel Tower and the Arch De Triumph. The cool thing about it is that if the outer glass is wet, the etched image dissapears entirely, returning when dry. I tried to get a pic that shows the etching.
We switched gears and drove into PA and hunted a fairground. I hit a 44 Merc and more wheaties. Near the old cattle barn I also dug two old buckles...one looks like a horse harness buckle (marked ENGLAND) and is quite heavy. The other has a heart shape stamped into it (I think I've seen one on TN before..and help IDing it would be appreciated)..
It's possible a trip to the Iceberg is in the works for tomorrow....stay tuned.
HH all!!
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