mastereagle22
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- Southeast Missouri
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- E-trac, Explorer II, Xterra30, Whites Prizm IV
I haven't been able to get out and hunt much lately and last night I was feeling the itch bad!!! So I was about to call Baldingboy when my phone rings and guess who it was? Yep, BB!
Seems he had the itch too and wanted to tell me he was going. I told him I would meet him at site where they have graded down a big hill to see if we could find anything. Then I remembered to inform the Warden and of course, as usual, a work release was denied, a furlough was denied and an all out pardon was out of the question. So I did what any self-respecting detectorist would do, I dug the last two foot of my new escape tunnel and it was over the wall for this inmate!!! Don't know if I am adding time onto my sentence or qualifying for early release but either way I was going hunting!
Met up with BB who was late as usual, darn that pink TuTu!!! You should have seen the little pink and green bows he had put in his hair on this trip! Gave me a good laugh. I was thinking about wearing the camo TuTu that Roswellborn had made for me for the LBH for good luck but forgot about it when I saw BB hop out of his truck.
Well 45 wasted minutes later we both agreed that we were not at a sight we wanted to keep hunting. I mean two signals in 45 minutes and both were trash.
So I suggested an old home site that was now just an empty field and BB agreed. We jumped into the car and drove off just as the Space Aliens landed in the middle of the field we had just left. I called BB on the phone and told him to keep up with me. And we got out of there fast!
Once at the old home site things weren't really popping but at least we were getting lots of signals. Beer cans, can slaw, pull tabs, etc do count as signals. I found a 1941 wheat penny and it was almost 11 PM and I was about to quit when I got an iffy signal. Dug down about 5-6 inches and out pops this key and its little holder. I just looked at it and a little bell went off inside my head. When I woke up I was laying on my side with a huge knot on the back of my head where BB had clocked me with his Ground Shark after I dug up the key. I was having trouble thinking but I knew I had seen a key like this one on the forum somewhere.
I got home and started cleaning up the key a little and then snapped some pics and posted in the what is it area of the forum, and someone confirmed what BB said and what I had hoped to be the truth. Turns out it's a Model T/A key!!!!!!
Now I know that this isn't all that great a find for some of you but it is one of the coolest relics I have found in a long time and it has brought me back to my happy place with detecting again. So thanks for looking and if you ever go hunting with Baldingboy, NEVER let him get behind you with that darn Ground Shark.......
Seems he had the itch too and wanted to tell me he was going. I told him I would meet him at site where they have graded down a big hill to see if we could find anything. Then I remembered to inform the Warden and of course, as usual, a work release was denied, a furlough was denied and an all out pardon was out of the question. So I did what any self-respecting detectorist would do, I dug the last two foot of my new escape tunnel and it was over the wall for this inmate!!! Don't know if I am adding time onto my sentence or qualifying for early release but either way I was going hunting!
Met up with BB who was late as usual, darn that pink TuTu!!! You should have seen the little pink and green bows he had put in his hair on this trip! Gave me a good laugh. I was thinking about wearing the camo TuTu that Roswellborn had made for me for the LBH for good luck but forgot about it when I saw BB hop out of his truck.
Well 45 wasted minutes later we both agreed that we were not at a sight we wanted to keep hunting. I mean two signals in 45 minutes and both were trash.
So I suggested an old home site that was now just an empty field and BB agreed. We jumped into the car and drove off just as the Space Aliens landed in the middle of the field we had just left. I called BB on the phone and told him to keep up with me. And we got out of there fast!
Once at the old home site things weren't really popping but at least we were getting lots of signals. Beer cans, can slaw, pull tabs, etc do count as signals. I found a 1941 wheat penny and it was almost 11 PM and I was about to quit when I got an iffy signal. Dug down about 5-6 inches and out pops this key and its little holder. I just looked at it and a little bell went off inside my head. When I woke up I was laying on my side with a huge knot on the back of my head where BB had clocked me with his Ground Shark after I dug up the key. I was having trouble thinking but I knew I had seen a key like this one on the forum somewhere.
I got home and started cleaning up the key a little and then snapped some pics and posted in the what is it area of the forum, and someone confirmed what BB said and what I had hoped to be the truth. Turns out it's a Model T/A key!!!!!!
Now I know that this isn't all that great a find for some of you but it is one of the coolest relics I have found in a long time and it has brought me back to my happy place with detecting again. So thanks for looking and if you ever go hunting with Baldingboy, NEVER let him get behind you with that darn Ground Shark.......
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....check out the one interesting thing I found at this site aside from the 1910 and 1940 Wheat....oh, and 1 cent MO Tax Token. I think this was possibly off an old pocket watch or something.
I wish you only happiness in your new journey with your wife. She likes to detect as I recall so you have that going for you already. Congrats on the Merc. I think I have found around 15-20 of them and they are always nice! Never found a Barber and probably never will, neither will Baldinboy though cause he doesn't have any hair! 
