Back to the woods.

[skierbob]

Hit one of my favorite patches of woods today, the one without deer ticks. It's hard to believe the things that keep coming out of those woods. I've been detecting in there for at least 20 years.

Here's a pile of stuff I dug up in about 3 hours this afternoon.



Here's everything cleaned up a little:



Close ups of the silver pieces and buffalo nickel:



Most of this stuff was 3 to 5 inches deep. It's amazing I and others missed them in years past. But it is a pretty big stretch of woods. I can't wait till I get my new SE Pro loop. Hopefully I'll get some deeper stuff in there.

 

[kdismuke1]

Great finds.

 

[topdog]

Looks like you found some really nice keepers. Continued Success.

 

[tymcmurray]

Those are some nice finds!
Nice to know that you always have a place to go.
Keep it up.

 

[allen]

way to go on those nice finds...

 

[cntrydncr1]

Bob, glad to see you are out hunting again! nice silver there

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Nice haul congrats on the silver and Buffalo I just got to hunt in the woods for the first time and I love it. Good luck to you.
Glenn

 

[halfdime]

Nothing like peaceful woods, unless it's peaceful woods with silver in them!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice. Whats the date on the buffalo?Looks like its in good shape

 

[fortbball9]

that is some very nice finds skierbob
congrats

fortbball9

 

[Mercury63]

I like the Buffalo. Incidentally, do you have any idea what was in those woods years ago ?

 

[skierbob]

Debbie, I've been hunting down the shore a few times and in some of the local parks. Not finding much. I've also been to a couple of the club's scheduled group hunts, and nobody showed up. What's with that?

Crazyjarhead, Sorry I can't quite make out the date on the nickel. I can only see the last digit, which looks like a 6 or an 8. But that's more than you get out of most Buffaloes that come out of the ground.

Somebody asked about the history of those woods. Well, in the real old days there was a little mill village back in there. There have been some seated liberty coins that came out of there. There's a a little creek that runs along the woods, with some old swimming and fishing holes along the creek. There's a really old trail that runs parallel to the creek, that is used for hiking, biking, horseback riding. etc. There's a high school adjacent to the woods that dates to 1948. I imagine that the kids did a lot of frollicking in there over the years. Somebody told me that there was a Police firing range somewhere in those woods. That was how I first discovered the place. These woods have produced 133 silver coins for me over the years and quite a few wheaties, Buffaloes, V-nickels and Indian Heads., as well as a couple gold rings and a few sterling jewelry pieces. In addition there have been quite a few tokens, medals, fobs and other exonumia that came out of there. All in all, it's been very good to me over the years.

Bob

 

[mpostma]

Nice assortment from the forest!

I love hunting woods. I think many guys leave them alone, and coins don't seem to get nearly as deep!

I'm waiting for a procoil myself for my Quattro! In the woods I use a 5" coil, it lets me get in all the tight spots!

Good Luck,
Mark

 

[kimsdad]

Yet another silver George climbs above the dirt! What a nice group of finds you've dug there!!!

I like the woods, too. Seems there's a lot less trash to deal with.

 

[camb1]

Very Nice Finds. You are going to love that pro coil.