Found over the weekend at the old home place...

[bravowhiskey]

Sure as heck wasn't much to get excited about. But did find a ring. It sounded off like silver, but doesn't look it.

Then there was the one coin, but this seemed misplaced. Most all found was much older than the 1980 quarter. Man, was this coin abused. How do you suppose it got to looking this way?

Always find more rifle and pistol cartridges than most anything else. Here are a few.

On left is a .44 cal. short case rimfire. By the double firing pin strike, it was fired in either a "Henry" or a model 1866 Winchester. Both had dbl strike firing pin. Next to it is a .32 cal. rim fire. And on right is a newer, but still old .44 WCF. Now, I do know, those old rimfires didn't always go off and were often rotated and fired again, but if you look closely this was not the case. (no pun intended)

Here is a pic of the rest of the junk...hey, but it's my junk

Oh, and the heron/crane thing, I have posted over on the "what the heck is that?" side.

Pretty pitiful for 8 hours of hunting, but like the man said, "If you ain't lookin'.........

Happy hunting,
BW

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice digs Buddy!

 

[jdsarasin8194]

Looks like someone use the bullets you found and the quarter to total = TARGET PRACTICE!!!
Nice Finds

 

[arnoldziffel]

my guess is a lawn mower got to the quarter. i once ran over my keys with the lawn mower. it bent all the keys up like that.

 

[rjw4law]

Some neat finds

 

[BerntOut]

Target practice indeed...Skeet Shooting...shot with SHOT GUN!

 

[jdsarasin8194]

Target practice indeed...Skeet Shooting...shot with SHOT GUN!

YAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[ecnal]

That quarter was the victim of a pretty high-powered BB gun. I'd say in excess of 500 FPS.

 

[favored papa]

no, shotgun

 

[Slabman]

Yep, shotgun. Appears to be 2 or 3 shot.

Slab

 

[Deepdiger60]

Who ever hit that quarter with a shot gun can go duck hunting with me anytime that herring thing looks like a old door knocker part ? Good Hunting Jim

 

[ModernMiner]

Any stampings on the ring? Some of the old ones were gold plated, but stamped as "14k", "18k", etc.
Congrats,
MM

 

[jdsarasin8194]

Shotty up the butthole for that coin

 

[fishkiller41]

Yessiree, looks like someone shtogunned that quarter to me too! Not a bad days haul BW, looks like enough to keep a guy interested, at least!!
Thanks for telling me about this cool sight.
Keep your eyes peeled for a descent used MD for me. I'm looking hard on my end, no luck here yet..

Jeff

 

[Ray in CA]

If that ring sounded off as silver, it just may be heavily tarnished. Does it have a mark on the inside? Below are pics of a large silver ring with a 14k gold bezel that I found over a year ago at a park in Riverside, Ca. The silver is so heavily tarnished that it doesn't even look like silver anymore but instead looks like a junk ring, even though there is a .925 mark on the inside (circled in red but hard to see). Obviously I have yet to clean this ring.

I have found mercury dimes at the beaches of Malibu looking almost as ugly because of the high mineral content in the sand. Would be neat if your ring was just tarnished silver.

Ray

 

[bravowhiskey]

Hey Ray,

It would be fantastic. I have looked very hard for any markings and have failed to see any. Would you recommend any particular method of cleaning, or would a guy just use any silver cleaner?

Thanks,
BW

 

[Ray in CA]

You could try taking it to a jeweler, or try the electrolysis method. Or, you could just go out and buy some Tarn-X, although some believe this actually takes some of the silver away. Don't know if that's true or not, but on that ring I don't think it could hurt to try it.

Ray

 

[TreasureGuy25]

Those are some neat finds!

 

[mxtman2]

That ring is a lot nicer than the one I found over the weekend. This is how my silver?? ring looks