BuckleBoy
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Mr. Rodeo Recon and I got together for our weekly Tuesday Hunt today.
Since the weather was in the 70's for the high (unlike last week when we were out on 90 degree days :P), we hit two spots. The second spot was a small house site that yielded only a flat button, a harmonica reed, and two toe taps (would've been a housesite trifecta with a suspender clip in the mix 8) ). Since the finds there weren't incredibly exciting, all I'll say is that it was a fun woods hunt during which I saw a cool moth.
Even though the finds there were meager, we'd had a great day already by 2pm when we got on the second site. So let me tell you now about the first part of our day...
We'd had the uncommon experience of hunting a pasture earlier today. We pulled up to a great old farmhouse (the yard of which will be a back-up spot for us in the future, I'm sure). The kind old lady inside told us to hunt in the pasture all we wanted.
As we were walking down there without all the heavy gear, I kept thinking this would be Sweet in comparison to the hunts we've been doing. When we got on the site, we quickly found the iron patch--and I couldn't believe that I could actually hunt without the searchcoil hitting something every sweep. :P It felt....EASY!
We were enjoying ourselves in the sunny, non-sweaty, non-tick-infested, non-poison ivy-covered pasture.
Needless to say, the finds started to slowly make their way into our pouches. A suspender clip for Rodeo and a toe tap for me...and then Rodeo dug something and waved me over. When I got there, my gut instinct screamed "SCABBARD TIP!" (The relic hunter in me is never far beneath the surface.) I'm pretty darn sure that's what this is--perhaps someone can give me a positive ID of the item. (The case for this being military was further strengthened later in the hunt...
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My next target I thought I'd gotten--of all things--not a LC, or a 2 Cent Piece...but an IH. :P I took a photo or two and called Rodeo over, carefully picked it up...and then realized it was a Flat Button False Alarm.
We kept coaxing the sparse good targets from the non-ticky pasture. I then dug something that I believe is my favorite house site item so far. When I saw it in the hole, I just had to smile. I call this photo "Metal Detecting is True Love."
A Beautiful little stamped brass heart.
Meanwhile Rodeo was in top form, working the site with his passion HIGH:
After a little while without any good signal besides Big Iron, I got a decent brass signal on the Mighty Tesoro. It turned out to be a two-piece button. I was hoping this one would turn out to be an Eagle Button...and indeed, it was.
Rodeo was meanwhile filling his pouch with goodies, including this interesting piece of decorated brass that I believe might be a portion of a ram rod channel. Perhaps someone can help with the ID...
My last target of the day was this cool piece of stamped, silvered brass with a female figure on it. Any ideas on this one is much appreciated as well. When I found it, it was bent...but I always carefully straighten items like these--as well as the toe taps and suspender clips...
It had gotten into the afternoon by that time, and the good targets had waned considerably...plus we'd gotten a little nervous about the momma cows, their babies, and the Big BULL encroaching gradually on our spot. Hint: The BULL is in the middle of this photo. He is the one with the horns. He also has other things that make him anatomically different from the female cows...but we can't mention exactly what those are on Treasurenet. 
It's a "family forum." 
Mr. Rodeo Recon and I got together for our weekly Tuesday Hunt today.
Since the weather was in the 70's for the high (unlike last week when we were out on 90 degree days :P), we hit two spots. The second spot was a small house site that yielded only a flat button, a harmonica reed, and two toe taps (would've been a housesite trifecta with a suspender clip in the mix 8) ). Since the finds there weren't incredibly exciting, all I'll say is that it was a fun woods hunt during which I saw a cool moth.Even though the finds there were meager, we'd had a great day already by 2pm when we got on the second site. So let me tell you now about the first part of our day...
We'd had the uncommon experience of hunting a pasture earlier today. We pulled up to a great old farmhouse (the yard of which will be a back-up spot for us in the future, I'm sure). The kind old lady inside told us to hunt in the pasture all we wanted.
As we were walking down there without all the heavy gear, I kept thinking this would be Sweet in comparison to the hunts we've been doing. When we got on the site, we quickly found the iron patch--and I couldn't believe that I could actually hunt without the searchcoil hitting something every sweep. :P It felt....EASY! We were enjoying ourselves in the sunny, non-sweaty, non-tick-infested, non-poison ivy-covered pasture.
Needless to say, the finds started to slowly make their way into our pouches. A suspender clip for Rodeo and a toe tap for me...and then Rodeo dug something and waved me over. When I got there, my gut instinct screamed "SCABBARD TIP!" (The relic hunter in me is never far beneath the surface.) I'm pretty darn sure that's what this is--perhaps someone can give me a positive ID of the item. (The case for this being military was further strengthened later in the hunt...
)My next target I thought I'd gotten--of all things--not a LC, or a 2 Cent Piece...but an IH. :P I took a photo or two and called Rodeo over, carefully picked it up...and then realized it was a Flat Button False Alarm.
We kept coaxing the sparse good targets from the non-ticky pasture. I then dug something that I believe is my favorite house site item so far. When I saw it in the hole, I just had to smile. I call this photo "Metal Detecting is True Love."
A Beautiful little stamped brass heart.
Meanwhile Rodeo was in top form, working the site with his passion HIGH:
After a little while without any good signal besides Big Iron, I got a decent brass signal on the Mighty Tesoro. It turned out to be a two-piece button.
I was hoping this one would turn out to be an Eagle Button...and indeed, it was. Rodeo was meanwhile filling his pouch with goodies, including this interesting piece of decorated brass that I believe might be a portion of a ram rod channel. Perhaps someone can help with the ID...
My last target of the day was this cool piece of stamped, silvered brass with a female figure on it. Any ideas on this one is much appreciated as well. When I found it, it was bent...but I always carefully straighten items like these--as well as the toe taps and suspender clips...
It had gotten into the afternoon by that time, and the good targets had waned considerably...plus we'd gotten a little nervous about the momma cows, their babies, and the Big BULL encroaching gradually on our spot. Hint: The BULL is in the middle of this photo. He is the one with the horns.
He also has other things that make him anatomically different from the female cows...but we can't mention exactly what those are on Treasurenet. It's a "family forum." 
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