Civil War Spur and M1849

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

Had a killer hunt and wanted to share this video. One of the relics dug I was able to reunite with its other half which I dug six months ago in the same field! Please enjoy!

Cheers,

Buck

 

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great video and great finds - finding the 2 half's is very cool !

 

[fishstick]

Awesome as always BB!!! Finding the other half of the bullet mold was KILLER!!! I found half of the same type here in Indiana and have looked for the other side HARD but no luck so far. Yours keeps the fire going for it lol. HH bud

 

[scruggs]

Nice that you found the better half, congratulations!

 

[Digger RJ]

Hello All,

Had a killer hunt and wanted to share this video. One of the relics dug I was able to reunite with its other half which I dug six months ago in the same field! Please enjoy!



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Cheers,

Buck

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great video and great finds - finding the 2 half is very cool !

Yeah really good fortune to get both halves!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Awesome as always BB!!! Finding the other half of the bullet mold was KILLER!!! I found half of the same type here in Indiana and have looked for the other side HARD but no luck so far. Yours keeps the fire going for it lol. HH bud

If you’re the only one to hit the site then it IS there but it may take a deep plow to bring it up

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice that you found the better half, congratulations!

Ty so much!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

Thanks my friend!

 

[fishstick]

It"s like they sold all the deep plows around here lol.

 

[BuckleBoy]

It"s like they sold all the deep plows around here lol.

Yeah it’s a real problem for us hobbyists. I took careful records of a super good site, where I had lots of data points—not just one silver or button here or there but 300 flat buttons and 180 musketballs the first year. Then I recorded after each plowing how much came up. Consistently is was 66% each time after, compared to the first number. That tells me that we are getting FAR less than a third of what’s there if it’s not being plowed. Maybe only 10-15%. If you want the other 80-90% then you have to dig down to plow bottom depth across the entire site.

 

[oldmxrat]

Great hunt for sure, congrats!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great hunt for sure, congrats!

Thank ya buddy!

 

[Hill Billy]

Gaw Gag!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Gaw Gag!

Well ill be darned, long time no see buddy! Hahaha

 

[pepperj]

Yeah it’s a real problem for us hobbyists. I took careful records of a super good site, where I had lots of data points—not just one silver or button here or there but 300 flat buttons and 180 musketballs the first year. Then I recorded after each plowing how much came up. Consistently is was 66% each time after, compared to the first number. That tells me that we are getting FAR less than a third of what’s there if it’s not being plowed. Maybe only 10-15%. If you want the other 80-90% then you have to dig down to plow bottom depth across the entire site.

Done well once again with the hunting.
Enjoy the videos

Plowed fields are a hit/miss I have experienced over the years. (Even if they do it at all)
Seems that a 5" discing is all most will do, and hardly a deep plowing around my parts.
I do have a few that turn it, go sometimes the following season and there's little in the form of recoveries.
The next big turn it livened up the site like one had never been there.
So a turn could bury the finds with 6-10" of clean soils, or vice versa.

Example: I have one no till permission that produces beautiful coinage/relics in pristine condition.
I was for years trying for a plow, finally they tried potatoes, and I was over the moon at the possibilities of deep finds coming to the detectable level.
It killed the site, hardly a non-ferrous target to be found now.
From digging a few keepers every hunt, to a 1-2 signals type of thing.

I will go back in relic mode to see if I can get a few good ones after the harvest.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Done well once again with the hunting.
Enjoy the videos

Plowed fields are a hit/miss I have experienced over the years. (Even if they do it at all)
Seems that a 5" discing is all most will do, and hardly a deep plowing around my parts.
I do have a few that turn it, go sometimes the following season and there's little in the form of recoveries.
The next big turn it livened up the site like one had never been there.
So a turn could bury the finds with 6-10" of clean soils, or vice versa.

Example: I have one no till permission that produces beautiful coinage/relics in pristine condition.
I was for years trying for a plow, finally they tried potatoes, and I was over the moon at the possibilities of deep finds coming to the detectable level.
It killed the site, hardly a non-ferrous target to be found now.
From digging a few keepers every hunt, to a 1-2 signals type of thing.

I will go back in relic mode to see if I can get a few good ones after the harvest.

The type of plowing they do here makes sites give 2/3 as much as they did the first time. That’s from careful record keeping with types of items where the data points are in the hundreds of examples. Until a site is plowed everything is at reasonable depth or masked by iron. After it’s plowed the first time, there’s no turning back. It’s hunt the plowed field for decades or dig down to undisturbed soil and detect it all. I bet your site hadn’t been plowed before, then got plowed first time (or deeper than it was before).