Div 9 finds {DIGGIN IN VIRGINIA} Tsgman

tsgman · Apr 10, 2008

Message: What a awesome event, I saw some amazing relic's come out of the ground in those 3 days. A friend was digging a test hole a few feet behind me and found a US plate in it! He had actually hit it with his shovel. The most outstanding find was a soldiers silver corps badge showing the Regiment he was in and the three battles he had faught in. His name was on the back side. I had a tough time on day one because of the highly mineralized red dirt. I finally got it figured out and did ok. On the last day I dug the top part of a three piece Schaler bullet. I enjoyed seeing some old friends and meeting some new ones as well. Enjoy the pic's. Tim

lonewolfe · Apr 10, 2008

Excellent

HH

Baggins · Apr 10, 2008

Man that looks like a blast!!
Baggins

MonkeyBoy · Apr 10, 2008

Where was the event held?? I never heard about it.. was it a Northern Virginia Relic Hunters sponsored event??

MonkeyBoy

desertfox · Apr 10, 2008

Great hunt with good friends and lot's of relics, can't beat that! Was this a planted hunt site or just good ground?
HH

Desertfox

Gypsy Heart · Apr 10, 2008

Looks like a great time! You said you got it figured out on what to do for the mineralization....what did you do?

dennisdunigan · Apr 10, 2008

Looks like you had a great time!
And I too would like to hear how you handled the minerals. I can use all the help I can get

What did you do?

RUDY2003 · Apr 10, 2008

Congrats on the neat relics.
Man, that hill must be steep.....

Detectingfreak · Apr 10, 2008

Those relics are awesome! Sounds like you guys had an awesome time recovering some of our history!

tsgman · Apr 10, 2008

MonkeyBoy said:
Where was the event held?? I never heard about it.. was it a Northern Virginia Relic Hunters sponsored event??

MonkeyBoy

www.treasurespot.com check the diggin forum or click on the faq link for info on the hunt.

tsgman · Apr 10, 2008

Gypsy Heart said:
Looks like a great time! You said you got it figured out on what to do for the mineralization....what did you do?

Hey Gypsy, hunting in that red stuff is tough, it's like red powdered iron! My MXT was the right machine for that type of soil. The problem for me was I had never hunted in that type of soil before. The first day I had around 4 bullets and one button to show for myself by 5pm. I ran into my hunting buddy Sgt. Lowe who has hunted this stuff several times.
He showed me by example, motioning me over to a spot he had a target. He said if you can get a signal that is repeatable, but has no VDI at all but you can pinpoint than dig it. The only thing you hear is a very faint wa wa tone. I watched him dig that signal and it was a round ball. I went a few minutes and got a faint wa wa tone that had no VDI and was repeatable and I could pinpoint. I dug it and it was a 3 ringer!
The next morning we got started at 6:30am and my first 4 targets I picked out were signals just like that. I dug 3 bullets and a Eagle button. Some of the bullets were maybe 2 or 3 inche's deep but with this high mineralization the tones were weak. The next time I hunt in that stuff I will have a gameplan for sure.
I passed on that info to several other hunters who had struggled as well. They all approached me later in the hunt and thanked me for the info because they were finding stuff after that. I really think that if I had that knowledge on the opening day I would have found twice as many relics as what I ended up with. There were around 350 relic hunters at that DIV. Look at the print of the battle and you can see the Farley house in the top right. I took a picture of the Farley house as it is today.

civilman1 · Apr 10, 2008

Good hearing from you Tim....That must've been an awesome event.Awesome find's you were able to recover,especially the Schaler piece.I'm putting my name on the list hopefully for the next hunt,but one of these day's I'll be down there digging with the rest of the guy's and gal's....Glad you got out and thank's for sharing the hunt. :thumbsup:

troyx5 · Apr 10, 2008

I was there too

That soil was HOT HOT HOT! I'm on the list for DIV X so maybe I'll see ya there! manganos

{Sentinel} · Apr 10, 2008

Nice Finds!!!! You aren't lying about the soil it was HOT to death! Rose and John put on one heck of a hunt and the DIV Mini hunt this past weekend was awesome. There were quite a few plates pulled out! :wink: