Brave on the lookout

jgas · May 14, 2009

Had a chance to hunt a nice old homestead that dates back to the 1800's. Do you ever get the feeling that a place should really have some nice finds to dig up? Well this place looks like it was made for us metal detectorists. Don and I started right in the front yard and started to scan the area. I walked about 30 feet with not more that a scratchy beep to be had. Then I got a good 70 VDI on the ole analog Pro6000XL. Thought to myself cool this should be a wheatie as it registered around 4 inches. Popped out the plug and scanned it to find the VDI dropped off to 50. Now my heart was racing as this is usually an Injun. Sure enough out pops a nice green Injun. After a cleanup later on it turned out to be a pristine 1902 with full Liberty, even the feathers are crisp. This was the nicest Injun I have found I think. The picture does not do it justice.

I thought Wow, first dig and one Injun in the bag. This place should be great. Went on to find a few wheats, 2 of which were 1919's in decent shape. Then the clad coins starting coming. Then nothing......All of sudden we were in a trashy area and found nothing but older aluminum and cans, mason jar lids and bottle caps. It was all down hill from there but we kept trying with not much to show. A couple of belt buckles with no markings and more trash. Oh well at least we grabbed up an injun and some wheats. We will go back and search somemore in hopes of finding another Injun lookout! HH and be safe out there jgas