mastereagle22
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- Southeast Missouri
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- E-trac, Explorer II, Xterra30, Whites Prizm IV
Well I tried to get Baldingboy to go on a hunt with me but he has gotten very lazy in his old age, I mean today was his birthday and he had to spend the evening with his wife and kids. Yeah, yeah that is what I meant...... 
It is supposed to rain here the next few days and since I have started getting the detecting bug back I decided I would go solo tonight and hunt without my faithful hunting companion. I headed to a place I had secured permission to hunt last fall but just as I pulled up several umm "gentleman" decided to bring a fight from inside the house to the outside and into the street. Within 5 mins there were close to 40 people all yelling and shouting and I decided that I might be better off moving somewhere else. Especially since in this general area last week the city police from Cape and two local cities as well as the Highway patrol had to respond to a similar situation.
So I drove over to a spot that has been hit hard by every serious detectorist in town and even those of us that pretend to be serious. It was the site of a Civil war skirmish and a lot of relics have come from this location. Not that I have ever found any there.... that is until tonight.
Started off the hunt on the slow side digging lots of can slaw and going really really slow. The first picture will tell you how slow and careful I was trying to go. Yes that is a piece of can slaw, the penny is for size comparasion.
A few minutes later I got into the iron and dug iron for the next 20-30 mins. I didn't put all the iron I dug in the pictures because Iron can be boring to look at. Got a strange signal that bounced around the copper penny area on the grid of the Explorer and dug the first item. I have NO clue what this is. The holes do NOT go all the way through and the back is tear shaped. It appears to be made from copper.
The next signal I got was the small lead ball. Perfectly round on one side with groves on the other.
Just before I was about to give up the next singal popped up. My FIRST 3-ringer!!! I was so excited, but no one was around to share my excitement with. I started doing a happy dance but I think I was scaring the homeowner that lives there, so I stopped. I decided to call it a night. Not a bad hunt for an hour and a half and my first 3-ring bullet to boot.
Sorry for the long post.
It is supposed to rain here the next few days and since I have started getting the detecting bug back I decided I would go solo tonight and hunt without my faithful hunting companion. I headed to a place I had secured permission to hunt last fall but just as I pulled up several umm "gentleman" decided to bring a fight from inside the house to the outside and into the street. Within 5 mins there were close to 40 people all yelling and shouting and I decided that I might be better off moving somewhere else. Especially since in this general area last week the city police from Cape and two local cities as well as the Highway patrol had to respond to a similar situation.
So I drove over to a spot that has been hit hard by every serious detectorist in town and even those of us that pretend to be serious. It was the site of a Civil war skirmish and a lot of relics have come from this location. Not that I have ever found any there.... that is until tonight.
Started off the hunt on the slow side digging lots of can slaw and going really really slow. The first picture will tell you how slow and careful I was trying to go. Yes that is a piece of can slaw, the penny is for size comparasion.
A few minutes later I got into the iron and dug iron for the next 20-30 mins. I didn't put all the iron I dug in the pictures because Iron can be boring to look at. Got a strange signal that bounced around the copper penny area on the grid of the Explorer and dug the first item. I have NO clue what this is. The holes do NOT go all the way through and the back is tear shaped. It appears to be made from copper.
The next signal I got was the small lead ball. Perfectly round on one side with groves on the other.
Just before I was about to give up the next singal popped up. My FIRST 3-ringer!!! I was so excited, but no one was around to share my excitement with. I started doing a happy dance but I think I was scaring the homeowner that lives there, so I stopped. I decided to call it a night. Not a bad hunt for an hour and a half and my first 3-ring bullet to boot.
Sorry for the long post.
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