tnt-hunter
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I had a chance to go back to the old high school and do some more detecting I gridded a section and found an old bullet, post Civil War era. The ribbed groove says it was made sometime after 1880. It looks like it is really old, probably 1880-1910. If anyone can identify it that would be great. I also found a small chunk a lead that actually looks like a piece of a carved bullet from the Civil War. During the Civil War they sometimes would carve bullets as game pieces and just to pass the time. I have found some at a civil war camp and this was an encampment so it is possible that this is a carved bullet, but then again It could just may be an odd chunk of lead.
On the next hunt at the school I found the usual assortment of stuff including some cheapy jewelry and another tab from the cash game. I also managed to find a 1947 Roosevelt dime so that made the day.
Next I went to a park near home spent about 4 1/2 hours doing some detecting. There was a lot of dead space not a whole lot of finds for the day not even a lot of trash it was really fairly clean. The best finds for the day actually occurred within six minutes of my starting to detect. I was walking along swinging my detector usually I look down but I looked up because I heard a noise and was wondering if somebody was coming. A lot of people walk in the park and do other things and I like to be aware of my surroundings. I got a nice strong high tone on the CZ21 and I looked down and there is a small silver ring sitting out in the grass very easy to see. I bent down and picked it up looked at it and could see it was silver with little tiny stones in it. I put it in my finds box, got back up and swung the detector over the spot and got another high tone. I couldn’t see anything so I pulled out the Pinpointer and right where I found the other ring there was another even bigger silver ring underneath the grass right where the other ring was. They are both the same size and it turns out they were a pair. The ring with the stones is rather crudely made. The stones are set very poorly. It could be a poor man’s wedding set. No way to identify the owner.
I also found a cheapy pendant, an assortment of stuff and a rather odd 30-06 cartridge. Someone has cut a very neat groove that goes all the way through so it looks a lot like a clothes pin. No idea what it was used for. A rather unusual find.
Then yesterday I went back to the school and did a little more swingin. A fair coin count, more screw in spikes (they are everywhere on this field), more starter pistol blanks, a copper rivet, more cash game pull tabs, some junky jewelry, a civil war bullet and half of a snap like the ones used on WW2 bags.
The CW bullet is a .52 cal. Sharps. The oxidation (white coat) is really odd. It has some thick lumps and a lot of spaces without any. It looks to me like at one time it had a nice white layer all over. When they did work on the field the bullet may have gotten mixed in with soil that ate the oxidation off most of the bullet and left some behind. That’s just my best guess as to how it got that way.
So all in all a good week of hunting with more gas money, a few oldies, and a couple more silver’s to add to my silver count for the year. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
On the next hunt at the school I found the usual assortment of stuff including some cheapy jewelry and another tab from the cash game. I also managed to find a 1947 Roosevelt dime so that made the day.
Next I went to a park near home spent about 4 1/2 hours doing some detecting. There was a lot of dead space not a whole lot of finds for the day not even a lot of trash it was really fairly clean. The best finds for the day actually occurred within six minutes of my starting to detect. I was walking along swinging my detector usually I look down but I looked up because I heard a noise and was wondering if somebody was coming. A lot of people walk in the park and do other things and I like to be aware of my surroundings. I got a nice strong high tone on the CZ21 and I looked down and there is a small silver ring sitting out in the grass very easy to see. I bent down and picked it up looked at it and could see it was silver with little tiny stones in it. I put it in my finds box, got back up and swung the detector over the spot and got another high tone. I couldn’t see anything so I pulled out the Pinpointer and right where I found the other ring there was another even bigger silver ring underneath the grass right where the other ring was. They are both the same size and it turns out they were a pair. The ring with the stones is rather crudely made. The stones are set very poorly. It could be a poor man’s wedding set. No way to identify the owner.
I also found a cheapy pendant, an assortment of stuff and a rather odd 30-06 cartridge. Someone has cut a very neat groove that goes all the way through so it looks a lot like a clothes pin. No idea what it was used for. A rather unusual find.
Then yesterday I went back to the school and did a little more swingin. A fair coin count, more screw in spikes (they are everywhere on this field), more starter pistol blanks, a copper rivet, more cash game pull tabs, some junky jewelry, a civil war bullet and half of a snap like the ones used on WW2 bags.
The CW bullet is a .52 cal. Sharps. The oxidation (white coat) is really odd. It has some thick lumps and a lot of spaces without any. It looks to me like at one time it had a nice white layer all over. When they did work on the field the bullet may have gotten mixed in with soil that ate the oxidation off most of the bullet and left some behind. That’s just my best guess as to how it got that way.
So all in all a good week of hunting with more gas money, a few oldies, and a couple more silver’s to add to my silver count for the year. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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