Old Dude
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- Feb 20, 2013
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- Fisher F75, Garrett ATPro, Garrett GTAx 500
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hi all. Yesterday I met a friend from here for the first time after we discovered that we hunt the same sites. He is Wyoming Valley Relics. We really hit it off and talked like 2 old women for hours, lol. We decided to do a hunt today and met up at a cornfield that gave me my very first musket ball. WVR ( he is a Dave also ) got there before me after looking the site over last night on some old maps. He met me with his first discovery - a nice Merc. We hunted around where an old school once stood and dug some iron targets, then decided to move out into the field where the silver had been. We both dug fairly modern buckles and I got a nice green wheat. On my next good target I dug a large crotal. I was pretty happy with it even though it had a chunk missing from probably a plow. I discovered later after cleaning it still had the clinker ( or whatever it is called ) packed inside with the mud. I dug a couple more wheats, the little gilded metal box and found the pretty pink glass bottleneck on top of the ground. Dave was VERY excited to dig his very first crotal, a small little one with patent date on it and once he cleaned it, he discovered a fragment of cloth or thread on it. We aren't sure how it was attached. Looking for help from you experts please! Dave dug an old ball that he thought was a buck and ball but I think is a pistol ball. He doesn't have scale or calipers yet so I will weigh and measure it for him soon and update this thread. After cleaning his bell, he discovered it still rings and sounds like Christmas!
Thanks for looking. We enjoyed our first hunt together!
Thanks for looking. We enjoyed our first hunt together!
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