Found a little green gun and some clad.

[Msbeepbeep]

I went to a school I don't hunt often, and now I remember why!
Tons of trash, and not the good kind! Nothing but Lincoln's, 6 of them, a little green gun made in Hong Kong, a fuse made in Mexico, and trash, even the zincs were reading as trash!

I guess some kid buried his toy gun on the way to school and forgot where on the way home. this was a Jr high in a bad area.

The quarters, dimes and 6 cents on the right were from the sports field that keeps giving up quarters. I hunted an hour in each spot.

I do have two metal lumps I am going to clean up and see what they maybe.

Hope all you MD'ers are having good fortune!

 

[dirtlooter]

at least you are able to get out and detect, even if it is the less desirable stuff but the gun is still cool

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Thanks dirtlooter. I've gotten a little spoiled this summer with all the quarters! Lol!
Back to the zinc mines!

 

[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Guns and cash, it doesn't get much better then that on a hunt!
Nice finds BB ... you never when a silvers going to show up!

Dave

 

[rodarian]

Hmm, some kid packin' heat? Thank god you took that away from him/her...heh.

 

[RJ55]

Nothing wrong with a 45

 

[bootybandit]

All that clad adds up, over time! Taking all that trash out of the ground is a good thing to!

 

[TNGUNS]

Yep, at least the kid had good taste in toy guns. Good ole 1911 ha ha. Good hunt.

 

[WHADIFIND]

I went to a school I don't hunt often, and now I remember why!
Tons of trash, and not the good kind!

Been there, done that, saw the movie. What's worse, I went back for more.

At least you were out and enjoying. I'm having a little gumption starvation.
I'll eventually be going out again but not until I feel like I WANT to go.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Thanks everyone!
AT lest I wasn't dodging bullets and running! Lol!
I probably saved the kid from being expelled and arrested, of course I could probably have been arrested myself, life is crazy nowadays, kids can't even play it may "offend" someone!

Yep, any day detecting is enjoyable! No inter net is hard! Lol!

I have been doing a lot of coin cleaning in my down time, I have decided to make my corroded zinc pay for a new coin book. If there's any copper on them it shines, if not the zinc core just turns black. I soak them in lemon juice until I can see copper, rinse drain then soak then in CLR. They come out shinny....what's left of them. I only use on zinc that is totally corroded. Never use this on any coin that maybe valuable. This I the before pic.

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Thanks everyone!

I have been doing a lot of coin cleaning in my down time, I have decided to make my corroded zinc pay for a new coin book. If there's any copper on them it shines, if not the zinc core just turns black. I soak them in lemon juice until I can see copper, rinse drain then soak then in CLR. They come out shinny....what's left of them. I only use on zinc that is totally corroded. Never use this on any coin that maybe valuable. This I the before pic.
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I do use the CLR on the concreted wheats at times, otherwise I would be using some form of grinder!

Hmm that sounds interesting on the zinc cents. I have been throwing them away mostly.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I just CLR'd. This bunch, here's the after pic. On the right, I left a few encrusted ones as is, and the row of black under it is the zinc core with n copper left.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Ms. Beep..cool finds! and yes..the zincolns can be a nuisance, as most of the time I dig them only to eliminate the signal in case there's something better deeper, and toss the crusty ones when I clean my pouch out. I just yesterday..at an 1850's house that I have been hunting on and off (keep getting rained out), and got a HUGE surprise !! At these older home sites I dig about every repeatable signal as even a non-coin find is usually a toy or a trinket of some sort. Buuuuttt...yesterday..almost done, had been hunting about 90 minutes and about 25 feet from the car, get a scratchy, bouncy signal..indicating a zincoln or a memorial., and too bouncy for a wheatie. But..at over 6 inches down..hmm..so I cut a plug, and at 6-7 inches down..my FIRST SILVER QUARTER!!!..1943 Washington in excellent condition..but still wondering why it rang up so iffy..and very soon found out why..BECAUSE THERE WAS A 1898 BARBER QUARTER BESIDE IT!! WOOHOO!! Yes I did TWO happy dfances, and was glad I was in the rurals because I screamed like a little girl caught in a spider web..There is more to the story, but I am going to try to post the pics, as I have not done yet. But Beeps..thanks for sharing, great stuff! hopefully soon you will get to see my finds on here!...ddf

 

[WHADIFIND]

I just CLR'd. This bunch, here's the after pic. On the right, I left a few encrusted ones as is, and the row of black under it is the zinc core with n copper left.

Interesting technique. Still, I'm a bit ashamed of the coinage that we call American nowadays. Looking rotten to the core.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

That it does WHADIFIND. That's why I'm trying hard to get what I can of it back in circulation of some sort. It may not be as "coins" but I'll find a way!

Hopefully I catch your post ddf . I still am internet less.