First outing in 10 years

[Hoss54]

After finding this site and reading all the wonderful stories I just had to go dig out my old detector and see if it still worked. It does and it did.
I noticed that a logging company had cleared an old house place just up the road so away I went.
Now understand this in an old machine and it gives a signal ever time it hits metal so I was busy from the get go.
Mostly lead jar lids, metal auto and tractor parts, a few metal trinkets and this one silver what ever it is, that looks like it has gone through a fire and reshaped itself. Any ideas as to what it might have been.
Just as I was digging this thing out someone from the logging co. came along and started to split some fire wood so I politely left to return another day.
Thanks for spikeing my interest again in this hobby and I'll be back.
Hoss

 

[packerbacker]

Hey, many people here say "Dig it all" so no problem keeping busy with all the signals. If you ignore iron you could miss a great artifact. Have fun

 

[DugHoles]

That's a neat find there. It looks like a center piece to a old cap and ball pistol.....but I'm not sure.

GL & HH,

DugHoles

 

[Postalrevnant]

I don't know if its just the picture or sun shining, but I certainly love the color tone of that find.

Thats really cool.

Postalrevnant

 

[Hoss54]

Thats the way it looks after an acid bath and some good old brillo scrubing.
It appears to be 8 oz. of pure silver. At the very least it is nickle.
Hoss
I went back this afternoon but had no luck. Hunting in the country is not like hunting populated areas.