Best Spencer Yet plus Large Cent and Shield Nickle

[burlington]

We have tagged a ridge at this hunting spot as "Spencer Hill". Over the past two months it has granted us more than a dozen dropped spencers, a couple with partial casings. Sunday I was hunting with the usual suspects and we were discussing how we set up our White's machines, the signals we recieve and when a signal is a good target. In an area we have scoured, I get a -12 to -20 VDI reading. However the music in the headphones was sweet. My hunting partners eached scanned the target with the consensus that we would dig a signal like this, but have expectations of Iron.

I turned the clod over and out rolls this Spencer, fully jacketed. I was dancing and singing the happy dance. It is by far the best Spencer we have found. As I stated earlier, this site has given up several Spencers, but no buttons! We do recover a few buttons a couple hundred yards away including an Eagle I button with full gilt and thread on the post (posted in an earlier thread).

The same ridge gave me my first Large Cent. So far I can only make out 185? on the date. The Sheild Nickle must be an 1874 as the 4 is the only digit that can be recognized. One of the first hunts on this ridge produced an 1857 Flying Eagle. Targets are getting harder to come by, but there is still a lot to be found.

 

[umrgolf]

Very nice find burlington I was stationed in SC from apr 07-may 08.. I detected from feb 08- may 08 and did really well down there. I found a bunch of eagle buttons and 3 ringers during my stay.. Congrats again

 

[crashbro17x]

Congrats on the Spencer. Those dudes are hard to get out of the ground in one piece. I've probably dug 20 of them and all but two have crumbled.

 

[jgas]

Congrats on the finds. jgas

 

[vayank54]

cool stuff. Years ago we dug quite a few whole Spencers but they are getting harder and harder to find. The ones I dug that were cracked like yours, I filled with Elmers glue to keep them together.

 

[tymcmurray]

Very nice recoveries!
I see that you use an XLT. How long have you used it.
I have figured out a few tricks with mine and was wondering if you may
have found some of you own.

 

[umrgolf]

Did I mention congrats on the LC and shield 5c?

 

[hikermike]

Killer digs man!! I being one of those ususal suspects probably would have left it! I had bad numbers and no sweet sound.
Glad you got her. That is the best so far....steves was nice but yours is tops. Think Im going to dump the dfx and go back to the xlt. Thanks for the invite!!
hh

 

[allen]

good going on those cool finds !!!
im still looking for my first LC !

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Nice , I like em

 

[carpetbagger]

Thanks for having us Trace I had a really good time. Now having said that, you step in my line and dig MY Spencer bullet one more time this is gonna happen (Kidding)(kinda) But seriously, I have dug over 40 musket balls but just cant seem to find that 3 ringer under my coil O well. thanks to you I have found several firsts, I'll post pics later on. C-ya soon.
Merry Christmas.
Jeff K

 

[Tnmountains]

Nice revoverys. The next generation will only dream of finding a spencer round like that. They will all have rotted away by then. Nice finds looks like you guys had fun
HH
TnMountains

 

[{Sentinel}]

Gotta love those WHOLE SPENCERS Congrats bud, those bullets are nice and played a huge role in ending the war.

 

[garthbfan169]

Nice hunt burl. Nice L.C. WTG