Centsless Detecting
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- Aug 13, 2017
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- -Minelab Equinox 800 with 11" and 6" coils - Garett ACE 250 - Garett AT Pinpointer-
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello agian TNet family.
With the weather getting cooler and days getting shorter, I like to get back into the woods of my favorite park. 130 acres of woods with trails, baseball diamonds, soccer fields and river frontage. Always something to be found from fur trade hatchets to pull tabs..
Since my last post of my third hatchet head, Ive been gridding that area pretty hard. Specifically working a hill slope that seems to go on forever. I managed to get 8 hours of detecting in last Saturday and Sunday. Temps starting out in the lower 30s slowly getting into the lower 40s. Im not complaing, I can keep warm and stay bug bite free..finally.
Ill get to it. Here are some random finds including my first signal Saturday, a pocket knife. Mangled fancy iron spoon. Garden implement. Iron tow hook. Old blown glass bottle top with metal wire. (only reason I found it) 2 surface find bottles that are not old but complete. (Ill be filling one of the bottles with bullets) Finally an old lead cork topper.
Now that the iron is out of the way, let's get to the brass. I would love to find a large copper coin again, so naturally I dig every shotgun shell I come across. Ive grown to appreciate them and love finding them. This weekend I dug quite a few... 17 to be exact and one .38 casing. Some I've never dug, others I have. Lots of UMC&CO and I think my first 20 guage one as well. They popped out really nice or really trashed.
Ok next up is the lead... Lots and LOTS of lead. The most I've ever dug in this time period... For a grand total of 53 fired rounds! Yeah its definitely over a pound in weight. Of course they usually rang up in the dime range, so it had to be dug! 38 special wad cutters, deer slugs and copper jackets mostly. Others I'm not so sure. In my head I wanted it to be 50 rounds, glad I went over that.
Okay now for what everyone came here for.. The SILVER! Working my grid of the hill, I get close to a hiking path. Maybe a foot away. Not expecting much from a dime signal, you know, because of all those bullets I was finding, up pops somthing different. I see a little bit of shiny but mostly dirt. I was also talking to my detecting friend who was walking over with part of a camp stove he just dug.. "Wait, I think I have something here..." Then all eyes were on this piece as I was carefully brushing it off...
Get ready... Picture Overload..
This is one of my favorite pieces of jewlery.. The only mark on the back is the letter "O" at the top. If anyone is familar with the mark please let me know. There are NO .925 stamps or anything, but it rang up solid dime and came out of the ground clean like silver.
Im no jewel expert. I THINK its a red garnet stone? There are 10 little marcasite stone inlays as well.. Please if anyone knows more feel free to chime in. I would greatly appreciate it.
Ok to top off the weekend, my friend was walking up to me a bit later asking for my tooth brush. "You are not going to believe this..." he said. " I think whoever lost that pendant lost this too..."
A silver broach with red stones...What are the odds? Two similar pieces not 100 feet from each other... His, however, as I brushed it off was flaking and I could see copper or brass shining through. BUT his is stamped stearling on the backside
I hope you all enjoyed this post. Good luck to everyone and as always happy hunting... Until next time...
-TheMilDetector-
With the weather getting cooler and days getting shorter, I like to get back into the woods of my favorite park. 130 acres of woods with trails, baseball diamonds, soccer fields and river frontage. Always something to be found from fur trade hatchets to pull tabs..
Since my last post of my third hatchet head, Ive been gridding that area pretty hard. Specifically working a hill slope that seems to go on forever. I managed to get 8 hours of detecting in last Saturday and Sunday. Temps starting out in the lower 30s slowly getting into the lower 40s. Im not complaing, I can keep warm and stay bug bite free..finally.
Ill get to it. Here are some random finds including my first signal Saturday, a pocket knife. Mangled fancy iron spoon. Garden implement. Iron tow hook. Old blown glass bottle top with metal wire. (only reason I found it) 2 surface find bottles that are not old but complete. (Ill be filling one of the bottles with bullets) Finally an old lead cork topper.
Now that the iron is out of the way, let's get to the brass. I would love to find a large copper coin again, so naturally I dig every shotgun shell I come across. Ive grown to appreciate them and love finding them. This weekend I dug quite a few... 17 to be exact and one .38 casing. Some I've never dug, others I have. Lots of UMC&CO and I think my first 20 guage one as well. They popped out really nice or really trashed.
Ok next up is the lead... Lots and LOTS of lead. The most I've ever dug in this time period... For a grand total of 53 fired rounds! Yeah its definitely over a pound in weight. Of course they usually rang up in the dime range, so it had to be dug! 38 special wad cutters, deer slugs and copper jackets mostly. Others I'm not so sure. In my head I wanted it to be 50 rounds, glad I went over that.
Okay now for what everyone came here for.. The SILVER! Working my grid of the hill, I get close to a hiking path. Maybe a foot away. Not expecting much from a dime signal, you know, because of all those bullets I was finding, up pops somthing different. I see a little bit of shiny but mostly dirt. I was also talking to my detecting friend who was walking over with part of a camp stove he just dug.. "Wait, I think I have something here..." Then all eyes were on this piece as I was carefully brushing it off...
Get ready... Picture Overload..
This is one of my favorite pieces of jewlery.. The only mark on the back is the letter "O" at the top. If anyone is familar with the mark please let me know. There are NO .925 stamps or anything, but it rang up solid dime and came out of the ground clean like silver.
Im no jewel expert. I THINK its a red garnet stone? There are 10 little marcasite stone inlays as well.. Please if anyone knows more feel free to chime in. I would greatly appreciate it.
Ok to top off the weekend, my friend was walking up to me a bit later asking for my tooth brush. "You are not going to believe this..." he said. " I think whoever lost that pendant lost this too..."
A silver broach with red stones...What are the odds? Two similar pieces not 100 feet from each other... His, however, as I brushed it off was flaking and I could see copper or brass shining through. BUT his is stamped stearling on the backside
I hope you all enjoyed this post. Good luck to everyone and as always happy hunting... Until next time...
-TheMilDetector-
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