8 wheaties and a Bobcat badge

[Juanmoretime]

Well,yesterday I went to an old abandoned school from the early 20th century that I have been to twice now. The first time we hit it, it gave up 5 buffalo's and 2 wheaties. No silver whatsoever.....this place has been hit hard and cherry picked for awhile. There is only stuff 6 inches and deeper left and the front half of the property has a zillion tons of chopped up aluminum cans, beavertails, nails, junk, wire, asphalt rock, anything you can think of. I think you all know what I mean. It would take a sadist to start detecting in this junk. I figured it was my day to abuse myself so I got started. I found 3 wheats and then the Exp II got a signal that looked like another penny but real deep. I started digging and probing with my Uniprobe ( GOD , I love that thing! ) , anyway still going at 8 inches, at 10 measured inches found the first of 5 coins which went down to 12 inches. My Leshe digger was below ground level at the last one. It blew me away on the depth......anyway they ranged from 1911, 1917,20's , 30's and 40's. I have a picture below that show 5 of the pennies and the Bobcat badge. The Bobcat badge according to a web site said it was made in the early 50's thru early 60's. There were two earlier models made in the 40's and 2 more models that continued after mine was made and discontinued in 1972.

Murphys law was alive and well when I was unloading my truck. The coins slipped off my seat console and disappeared down between the seats. I could reach these five and I can see 3 more somehow down in a plastic seat belt cover bolted down to the floor. I'll have to get some forceps to retrieve the other 3.

Anyway, it was fun and really good practice to do the really tough searching. It just makes you learn more and dig harder. The stuff is there for the not faint of heart. Good luck digging,

Steve

 

[lockman209]

nice finds

 

[RickyP]

Man, thats a fine looking badge. Definitely a good day in Shreveport, except for the other three pennies. If your like me, I'll do about $500 in damage just to get three pennies. LOL

 

[wyattrr]

I like the badge...Nice score on the wheaties...Congrats

 

[KirkTN]

Congrats on the wheats. They are always fun. I like the time between knowing it's a wheat and reading the date.

 

[ModernDayWarrior]

Nice Bobcat badge, It's in better shape than the one I found a couple years ago.

 

[allen]

way to go on those finds...

 

[john37115]

I know what kinda site your talking about there. BUT if theres that much trash in the ground that just means theres plenty of coins not cherry picked. Get a small coil and weave your way thru and pick out those coins with your name on them. Congrats on the wheats

 

[Juanmoretime]

Thanks for the comments! Wheaties aren't gold, thats for sure interest wise but this site makes you step up to the plate and grit your teeth. Its really good for me right now as I have just started using a different detector and it makes for a real good learning site. The gold I get in experience from here will serve me well everywhere else.

I'm trying to raise my level of expertise so RickyP and I can work several hundred acres down in the southern part of the state with lots of civil war stuff still in the ground. Its something I've been working on for a couple of years getting permission and if it works out, he and I may have some cool things to share here.

John3115: RickyP and I will be at the Louisiana Bayou Hunt....see ya there!
KirkTN: Why let work get in the way of fun

 

[briankb70]

I also found a bobcat pin like yours .i was thinking it was 1960's . I never found a site for them when researching. thank you

 

[Juanmoretime]

Here's a link to a site with pictures of the bobcat badges that were produced for the cub scouts!

http://www.sageventure.com/history/cub/begin.html

Steve

 

[JARMAN]

Nice set of finds, I'll throw throw my Bob Cat in to. Found it two or three years ago..