mastereagle22
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- E-trac, Explorer II, Xterra30, Whites Prizm IV
Well it was time once again for my weekly hunt with Baldingboy and it was looking really nice. Temperature 64 degrees, no wind , sunny weather, PERFECT for detecting.
BB and I were supposed to meet up at 4:30 and head out to a couple of places but once again I found myself waiting for him for almost an hour while he was "working". When he arrived I noticed the little plastic shoes they have given my wife at the pedicure place in the past in the floor board of his truck...
Working, yeah right.
Anyway, after another ten minutes of waiting for him to change into his hunting clothes we were on the way to hunting. We have run out of new places to hunt and all of our really "good" places have been hunted pretty hard so we just tried a new yard with a newer home on it for an hour and then finished up in a field where we have found a few wheats and some questionable relics that may be civil war related.
I was getting really discouraged because I kept digging copper pennies but NO wheats! I found 2 1959 and 1 1960 copper pennies but that was as close as I got tonight. I was about to give up when I got a good hard signal at 4 inches. I started to dig and then quickly realized why the signal had not been dug in the past. A HUGE tree root was right where the signal was along with a bunch of smaller ones. After 15 minutes of fighting with the roots, BB wandered over to see what I was doing and I had him check the target with his XLT. He got a good signal so I kept at it and I am glad I did. After a couple more minutes out popped this really NICE little pistol. It is in AWESOME shape. There is even a little red paint left on the side of the gun inside the circle of one of the stars!
Well that got my second wind going and I proceeded to dig everything that beeped that wasn't iron. Ended up with a Boss Hog Ertyl car and a Garfield token from 8 inches deep. Pretty cool token.
I did find one strange thing at the first place we had been. I found two keys that had been made out of zinc. I didn't know they made keys out of zinc but based on the way these are worn away like Z-Lincolns that;s all I can figure.
Thanks for looking.
BB and I were supposed to meet up at 4:30 and head out to a couple of places but once again I found myself waiting for him for almost an hour while he was "working". When he arrived I noticed the little plastic shoes they have given my wife at the pedicure place in the past in the floor board of his truck...
Working, yeah right.Anyway, after another ten minutes of waiting for him to change into his hunting clothes we were on the way to hunting. We have run out of new places to hunt and all of our really "good" places have been hunted pretty hard so we just tried a new yard with a newer home on it for an hour and then finished up in a field where we have found a few wheats and some questionable relics that may be civil war related.
I was getting really discouraged because I kept digging copper pennies but NO wheats! I found 2 1959 and 1 1960 copper pennies but that was as close as I got tonight. I was about to give up when I got a good hard signal at 4 inches. I started to dig and then quickly realized why the signal had not been dug in the past. A HUGE tree root was right where the signal was along with a bunch of smaller ones. After 15 minutes of fighting with the roots, BB wandered over to see what I was doing and I had him check the target with his XLT. He got a good signal so I kept at it and I am glad I did. After a couple more minutes out popped this really NICE little pistol. It is in AWESOME shape. There is even a little red paint left on the side of the gun inside the circle of one of the stars!
Well that got my second wind going and I proceeded to dig everything that beeped that wasn't iron. Ended up with a Boss Hog Ertyl car and a Garfield token from 8 inches deep. Pretty cool token.
I did find one strange thing at the first place we had been. I found two keys that had been made out of zinc. I didn't know they made keys out of zinc but based on the way these are worn away like Z-Lincolns that;s all I can figure.
Thanks for looking.
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coll find, best one I have seen that came ou of the ground. HH JYD
, 2 keys, and something I thought was pretty cool. It was a 1946 nickel that was in a pendant specially made to hold coins. I also found the chain with it. It had broken in one place. We both had a decent night.
