tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I have made a few more trips to the scout camp lately. With the camp being closed this summer I have taken the opportunity to work sites and try to clean house. I have managed to get a lot of the camp done. I am using my CZ21 and digging all mid and high tones. This results in finding a lot of melted aluminum and trash, but I don’t leave any goodies behind. Because 99% of the targets are close to the surface, once I get a good signal I just use my pinpointer and a trowel.
In the last trip I found 146 coins with a face value of $14.77, 67 camp tent pegs, fishing sinkers, part of a car valve, brass knife part, wheatie, silver dime, scout good turn coin, a neckerchief slide, NO CASH VALUE token, rope tensioners, and a dining hall table knife.
I find tons of coins here but not much silver comes out of the camp because it didn’t open until 1980 and by then silver was a rare thing in circulation so the scouts all had pockets full of clad to lose. The silver dime is a 1963 D Rosie and the wheatie is a 1956 D.
The FOR REPLAY ONLY NO CASH VALUE token is nickel size and badly eaten up by the acid soil so an interesting find, but not worth much. I also found a brass guard from a fixed blade knife. It looks like it went to a double edged knife.
The scout coin is a good turn daily coin. You put it in your left pocket in the morning and move it to your right pocket after you do your good turn for the day. (The scout slogan is “Do a good turn daily”.)
A surprise find was the top of a broken engine valve marked Ford F. No idea how old it is, but it looks like the ones I played with as a kid in the 50’s.
On another trip I found 117 coins with a face value of $11.10, 101 camp tent pegs, fishing sinkers, a hat pin, 2 halves of 2 different pennies, a modern copper clad bullet, a rope tensioner and a table spoon.
Not a lot of different items, but the hat pin is 24k gold fill. Gold fill is not much gold, but it is a lot better than plated. With some effort and the right set up you could actually get a tiny drop of gold from the pin.
This last trip finished up a camp site. It took 5 trips to get it all done (I didn’t post them all). A total of 27 hours with 455 camp tent pegs, 757 coins with a face value of $66.98, a pile of sinkers, 3 neckerchief slides, 2 silver dimes, and a pile of the melted aluminum, the usual assortment of junk and recyclables. (I don’t post everything that I find because there is just so much that isn’t that interesting like can tabs, a few nails, brass and aluminum grommets, brass bullet casings, parts of aluminum tent poles, foil wrappers, flashlight batteries, aluminum cans and aluminum can tops from older steel beverage cans to name some of the things I find at camp.)
Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead you to good things.
In the last trip I found 146 coins with a face value of $14.77, 67 camp tent pegs, fishing sinkers, part of a car valve, brass knife part, wheatie, silver dime, scout good turn coin, a neckerchief slide, NO CASH VALUE token, rope tensioners, and a dining hall table knife.
I find tons of coins here but not much silver comes out of the camp because it didn’t open until 1980 and by then silver was a rare thing in circulation so the scouts all had pockets full of clad to lose. The silver dime is a 1963 D Rosie and the wheatie is a 1956 D.
The FOR REPLAY ONLY NO CASH VALUE token is nickel size and badly eaten up by the acid soil so an interesting find, but not worth much. I also found a brass guard from a fixed blade knife. It looks like it went to a double edged knife.
The scout coin is a good turn daily coin. You put it in your left pocket in the morning and move it to your right pocket after you do your good turn for the day. (The scout slogan is “Do a good turn daily”.)
A surprise find was the top of a broken engine valve marked Ford F. No idea how old it is, but it looks like the ones I played with as a kid in the 50’s.
On another trip I found 117 coins with a face value of $11.10, 101 camp tent pegs, fishing sinkers, a hat pin, 2 halves of 2 different pennies, a modern copper clad bullet, a rope tensioner and a table spoon.
Not a lot of different items, but the hat pin is 24k gold fill. Gold fill is not much gold, but it is a lot better than plated. With some effort and the right set up you could actually get a tiny drop of gold from the pin.
This last trip finished up a camp site. It took 5 trips to get it all done (I didn’t post them all). A total of 27 hours with 455 camp tent pegs, 757 coins with a face value of $66.98, a pile of sinkers, 3 neckerchief slides, 2 silver dimes, and a pile of the melted aluminum, the usual assortment of junk and recyclables. (I don’t post everything that I find because there is just so much that isn’t that interesting like can tabs, a few nails, brass and aluminum grommets, brass bullet casings, parts of aluminum tent poles, foil wrappers, flashlight batteries, aluminum cans and aluminum can tops from older steel beverage cans to name some of the things I find at camp.)
Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead you to good things.
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