Mirage
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Half of a Civil War Veteran Medal & Nice SLQ.
Veterans day Nate was off of school and I had off work. The weekend before Nate had the detecting itch but only a little time so he went to the closest old park. This park has been hunted so much by us as well as clubs in the past that when we hunt this park we consider it a success if we find even a wheat penny. Well Nate of coarse comes home with silver and some wheat pennies. He hunted an area that we hunted a lot in our “early” days of detecting. So, he perked my interest and coerced me into a quick veterans day hunt.
It was only around 36 but I brought my wool hat and other “winter” gear. As we started hunting Nate scolded me because I wasn't going according to plan. I was distracted from the “old” stuff and going for the Gold – sand volleyball courts.
After finding a couple quarters but no gold I started wandering around where he was. Dug some junk, a couple pennies and started thinking “why did I let him drag me out to this park on this cold day”..... A few minutes later I got a decent weird signal. It was surrounded by iron and deep (6-8”) and was surprised to see my first SLQ of the year! And it had a date! 
Run over and show Nate who just says “Told you so”.
A few more minutes to recheck the area and I was done.
My next hunt was this last Friday. The weather turned out much nicer than I expected. It got up to about 60. I had my gear packed in the car and was able to take off work a little early. Went to the nearby park where I found the Barber dime last week. 40 minutes and nothing but clad:
Drove over to the Hitchcock foundation site. The growth has died down and it has become a lot more huntable. Sorry for the crappy picture – cell phone.
Hunted for about 45 minutes and found mostly junk. The couple belt buckles were encouraging and I was getting ready to leave when I found the small little pistol. 8) That was cool in itself. Then I found the headless cow. Cool I thought. How could Nate and I missed these? The last target was the best. I knew it was going to be good but when I got home and washed it up I was surprised to see it was civil war related:
Part of a 20 year Veterans Medal. Very sweet.
Here is what the whole thing would have looked like:
The rest of the stuff from the site:
Glad I got my fix on Friday. Saturday rained all day and today it was snowing.
Bob
Veterans day Nate was off of school and I had off work. The weekend before Nate had the detecting itch but only a little time so he went to the closest old park. This park has been hunted so much by us as well as clubs in the past that when we hunt this park we consider it a success if we find even a wheat penny. Well Nate of coarse comes home with silver and some wheat pennies. He hunted an area that we hunted a lot in our “early” days of detecting. So, he perked my interest and coerced me into a quick veterans day hunt.
It was only around 36 but I brought my wool hat and other “winter” gear. As we started hunting Nate scolded me because I wasn't going according to plan. I was distracted from the “old” stuff and going for the Gold – sand volleyball courts.
After finding a couple quarters but no gold I started wandering around where he was. Dug some junk, a couple pennies and started thinking “why did I let him drag me out to this park on this cold day”..... A few minutes later I got a decent weird signal. It was surrounded by iron and deep (6-8”) and was surprised to see my first SLQ of the year! And it had a date!
Run over and show Nate who just says “Told you so”.
A few more minutes to recheck the area and I was done.
My next hunt was this last Friday. The weather turned out much nicer than I expected. It got up to about 60. I had my gear packed in the car and was able to take off work a little early. Went to the nearby park where I found the Barber dime last week. 40 minutes and nothing but clad:
Drove over to the Hitchcock foundation site. The growth has died down and it has become a lot more huntable. Sorry for the crappy picture – cell phone.
Hunted for about 45 minutes and found mostly junk. The couple belt buckles were encouraging and I was getting ready to leave when I found the small little pistol. 8) That was cool in itself. Then I found the headless cow. Cool I thought. How could Nate and I missed these? The last target was the best. I knew it was going to be good but when I got home and washed it up I was surprised to see it was civil war related:
Part of a 20 year Veterans Medal. Very sweet.
Here is what the whole thing would have looked like:
The rest of the stuff from the site:
Glad I got my fix on Friday. Saturday rained all day and today it was snowing.
Bob
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