Ifoundit69
Saving the past one find at a time !
- Dec 5, 2007
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Out detecting and found a parrot ....Updated pics
Hey fellow tnetter's , thought id post this real quick ... I honestly have to say this has been a awesome year for the finds ! Although its been alot of research alot of door knocking and alot of swinging it has truely paid off with some awesome finds ..
I got off work early yesterday and had a few hours to kill before heading home , so I thought id stop by the place i found the mullane shell two weeks back . I actually took DHD with me last weekend and we both scored some artillery frags . I had been there about 2 hours with nothing more than a few frags so I thought id move out towards the road to a different field and while swinging along I heard that familiar sound, ring through my head phones that deep kind of iffy sound bouncing around from plus to minus . So I dug down about 10 inches and put my pinpointer in the hole as it sounded off loudly I crossed my fingers and dug down a few more inches to reveal a rounded shape peice of metal as I dug down further with high hopes sure enough I just scored my second artillery shell I beleive this one to be a parrot shell I still need to clean it off and check with my buddy cannonballguy to verify, he has been a big help with my new finds ! I also scored a nice dropped .69 cal and what looks to be pieces to a colonial style buckle and also a lead plug looking thing not sure what it is so any thoughts are welcome .. thanks for looking
Got some updated pics of before and after and a picture with all the artillery stuff ive found in the last month . And I have to say ive done alot of digging this month ,all metal mode digging every single signal and I really put my XLT to work screaming at 12 on the gain ,but it did pay off even with the 9.5 coil I still have the 15 inch bluemax . The two shells I let them cook for 30 hours . Cannonballguy gave me a link to a very helpful site for artillery ,cleaning and preserving . I changed my set up on the electrolysis and it works alot better , I switch to a computer power supply as it has a 5 volt wire running at 3 amps which is perfect and I used to boil the baking soda down to powder for pure sodium carbinate but after reading about it some more I just put two cups straight from the box in about 3 gallons of water and I used 1/4 copper coil inside my bucket and man what a difference ... So thanks for looking and hopefully ill have some more to show everybody soon ....
Hey fellow tnetter's , thought id post this real quick ... I honestly have to say this has been a awesome year for the finds ! Although its been alot of research alot of door knocking and alot of swinging it has truely paid off with some awesome finds ..
I got off work early yesterday and had a few hours to kill before heading home , so I thought id stop by the place i found the mullane shell two weeks back . I actually took DHD with me last weekend and we both scored some artillery frags . I had been there about 2 hours with nothing more than a few frags so I thought id move out towards the road to a different field and while swinging along I heard that familiar sound, ring through my head phones that deep kind of iffy sound bouncing around from plus to minus . So I dug down about 10 inches and put my pinpointer in the hole as it sounded off loudly I crossed my fingers and dug down a few more inches to reveal a rounded shape peice of metal as I dug down further with high hopes sure enough I just scored my second artillery shell I beleive this one to be a parrot shell I still need to clean it off and check with my buddy cannonballguy to verify, he has been a big help with my new finds ! I also scored a nice dropped .69 cal and what looks to be pieces to a colonial style buckle and also a lead plug looking thing not sure what it is so any thoughts are welcome .. thanks for looking
Got some updated pics of before and after and a picture with all the artillery stuff ive found in the last month . And I have to say ive done alot of digging this month ,all metal mode digging every single signal and I really put my XLT to work screaming at 12 on the gain ,but it did pay off even with the 9.5 coil I still have the 15 inch bluemax . The two shells I let them cook for 30 hours . Cannonballguy gave me a link to a very helpful site for artillery ,cleaning and preserving . I changed my set up on the electrolysis and it works alot better , I switch to a computer power supply as it has a 5 volt wire running at 3 amps which is perfect and I used to boil the baking soda down to powder for pure sodium carbinate but after reading about it some more I just put two cups straight from the box in about 3 gallons of water and I used 1/4 copper coil inside my bucket and man what a difference ... So thanks for looking and hopefully ill have some more to show everybody soon ....
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