tnt-hunter
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
Not a lot of luck at the civil war bullet school. I am finishing up some grids and working in the less promising areas hoping to get lucky. I didn’t get skunked, but not lucky either. In 5 hours I found 53 coins with a face value of $2.71, a pair of glasses (I’ll donate them to the lion club), 3 game tabs, a ID pendant, 2 lighters, an old knife, a pile of tabs, a little can slaw and some aluminum fence wire.
I don’t find lighters very often. The Parliament one I believe is from the 60s. The flag lighter is a Zippo and was on top of the ground. It was not there 2 weeks ago so it is a recent loss and still works.
I like the game tabs. I remember trying to get the winning tabs years ago. No luck there either. There were 5 different games over the years if memory serves. Here are examples of 3 of the game tabs (I save them). 2 pull off tab monopoly games and a stay on tab letter game. All 3 styles are from Pepsi products and have the number 904 on them. I’m not sure of the significance of the number, just an interesting fact.
DAY 2
I went back to the oldest park in the area where I have found civil war relics and old coins. It is a pretty large park so I picked a spot and off I went. The weather was cloudy and after a couple of hours the rain started. I was only able to get 4 hours in before the rain became too much. I did manage to find 54 coins with a face value of $3.40, a game tab, an aluminum decoration from a craft lace bracelet, a lock cylinder, some tabs, aluminum bottle caps and can slaw.
This game tab is from a coke game. Not a Pepsi game like the rest.
DAY 3
Got back to the scout camp. I have covered almost all of the best spots and I am doing some cleanup of areas not finished and expanding my search further out into the woods. These areas are less promising than the campsites themselves, but I have been amazed at how much stuff is out there near the sites.
This trip the CZ21 and I searched for 6.5 hours and found 117 coins with a face value of $9.41, 58 camp tent pegs, with a long circus tent type not in the count and a railroad spike, a .22 slug, a foreign coin, a shot quarter, a dead pocket knife, a small key, a cool whistle, a spoon, 3 knife belt clips, sinkers, a rope tensioner, 3 military blanks from the reinactors, part of a fishing lure, a Coleman lantern screw knob, melted aluminum from the fire, a few tabs and some grommets.
The foreign coin is a 1994 Colombian 100 peso (worth a whopping 2 cents LOL). The spoon was a thrill and a disappointment. When it came out it looked so good. The right color for silver, no bad spots like you get in plated flatware so I’m thinking sterling. I cleaned a little and saw INTERNATIONAL DEEP SILVER INLAID. I wasn’t sure what that meant so I looked it up and it is a better grade of heavy platting to prevent the under metal from showing. So more silver than normal, but not really silver. Therefore almost silver LOL.
DAY 4
I went back to the set of ball fields to do a little more clean up. Nothing great, but I did get 5 hours of swingin for good exercise and a few coins for gas money. All together 49 coins with a face value of $2.99, an athletic spike, a cheapie chain link (looks like silver, but isn’t), another game tab, an AVANTAGE clothing button, some tabs and a batch of can slaw.
I also found a quarter and 2 pennies on the street, 2 pennies and a dime from a coinstar, a penny in the coin return, 5 dimes in another coin return, a cheapie ring on a walk in the park. The ring looked good o the ground, but as soon as I picked it up I could tell it not real gold.
So the old man is still out there swingin, getting his exercise and cleaning up the ground (to paraphrase someone else) one piece of junk at a time (
). Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
Not a lot of luck at the civil war bullet school. I am finishing up some grids and working in the less promising areas hoping to get lucky. I didn’t get skunked, but not lucky either. In 5 hours I found 53 coins with a face value of $2.71, a pair of glasses (I’ll donate them to the lion club), 3 game tabs, a ID pendant, 2 lighters, an old knife, a pile of tabs, a little can slaw and some aluminum fence wire.
I don’t find lighters very often. The Parliament one I believe is from the 60s. The flag lighter is a Zippo and was on top of the ground. It was not there 2 weeks ago so it is a recent loss and still works.
I like the game tabs. I remember trying to get the winning tabs years ago. No luck there either. There were 5 different games over the years if memory serves. Here are examples of 3 of the game tabs (I save them). 2 pull off tab monopoly games and a stay on tab letter game. All 3 styles are from Pepsi products and have the number 904 on them. I’m not sure of the significance of the number, just an interesting fact.
DAY 2
I went back to the oldest park in the area where I have found civil war relics and old coins. It is a pretty large park so I picked a spot and off I went. The weather was cloudy and after a couple of hours the rain started. I was only able to get 4 hours in before the rain became too much. I did manage to find 54 coins with a face value of $3.40, a game tab, an aluminum decoration from a craft lace bracelet, a lock cylinder, some tabs, aluminum bottle caps and can slaw.
This game tab is from a coke game. Not a Pepsi game like the rest.
DAY 3
Got back to the scout camp. I have covered almost all of the best spots and I am doing some cleanup of areas not finished and expanding my search further out into the woods. These areas are less promising than the campsites themselves, but I have been amazed at how much stuff is out there near the sites.
This trip the CZ21 and I searched for 6.5 hours and found 117 coins with a face value of $9.41, 58 camp tent pegs, with a long circus tent type not in the count and a railroad spike, a .22 slug, a foreign coin, a shot quarter, a dead pocket knife, a small key, a cool whistle, a spoon, 3 knife belt clips, sinkers, a rope tensioner, 3 military blanks from the reinactors, part of a fishing lure, a Coleman lantern screw knob, melted aluminum from the fire, a few tabs and some grommets.
The foreign coin is a 1994 Colombian 100 peso (worth a whopping 2 cents LOL). The spoon was a thrill and a disappointment. When it came out it looked so good. The right color for silver, no bad spots like you get in plated flatware so I’m thinking sterling. I cleaned a little and saw INTERNATIONAL DEEP SILVER INLAID. I wasn’t sure what that meant so I looked it up and it is a better grade of heavy platting to prevent the under metal from showing. So more silver than normal, but not really silver. Therefore almost silver LOL.
DAY 4
I went back to the set of ball fields to do a little more clean up. Nothing great, but I did get 5 hours of swingin for good exercise and a few coins for gas money. All together 49 coins with a face value of $2.99, an athletic spike, a cheapie chain link (looks like silver, but isn’t), another game tab, an AVANTAGE clothing button, some tabs and a batch of can slaw.
I also found a quarter and 2 pennies on the street, 2 pennies and a dime from a coinstar, a penny in the coin return, 5 dimes in another coin return, a cheapie ring on a walk in the park. The ring looked good o the ground, but as soon as I picked it up I could tell it not real gold.
So the old man is still out there swingin, getting his exercise and cleaning up the ground (to paraphrase someone else) one piece of junk at a time (
). Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.Attachments
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