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BuckleBoy

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Hello All,


Well first I have to start out with the most important part of the day... I got up early since I knew it would be a long day of woods hunting today. Fixed a sensible breakfast of sausage gravy, cheese grits, and drop biscuits. ;D



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I hopped in the Treasuremobile, picked up Rodeo Recon, met up with Hill Billy, and we and set off to find the site of an old grist mill on a creek. We checked in with the property owner, and she was as sweet as always to us. :-* Then we headed off across the pastures through five gates and into the woods. The woods were a mess from the ice storms we had here, and they will Not be fun to hunt in until harvest. :-\ Deadfall everywhere.



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We found the site of our mill. :thumbsup: Hunted it a good while and wore ourselves out with the brush and ticks. We found some keepers, but Rodeo Recon stole the show with a great find... more on that later...

Anyhow, so we saw a cave in the side of a bluff, with water running out of it, so we had to climb up and take a look:



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We had water shoes and headgear packed since we'd heard about the cave the last trip to hunt the property. So we decided to take a tour of the inside of the cave. Turns out there were several branches of a fairly large system inside. :o The water was flowing out like a small creek, and we waded into the Cold water and back to where several forks in the water source were. Here are some photos.


In the first photo, you see either water droplets shimmering on the cave ceiling from the camera flash, or the aura of gold ionized by the continuous flow of water creating convection currents in the electron shells of the gold. (Whichever of those two you wish to believe.)



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In the second photo, you either see steam from perspiration and my breath condensing or the Ghost of Diggins' Past.



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And one of the cave-dwellers. He is not a TreasureNet member yet, but we did tell him he should join.



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Changing shoes again at the cave entrance, and wondering about the easiest way to get back to where we wanted to hunt.



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We also did a little diggin at an old site of ours on the way out. Lots of flowers in the field this time:



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Oh, and Rodeo Recon got the find of the hunt. BEAUTIFUL Seated Dime. :hello2: The rest were just the usual keepers. All of us were beat so we didn't even snag photos of the rest of the finds before we parted company. Freshly dug from the woods at the mill site:



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And after the dirt was removed:



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Best Wishes,



Buckles
 

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All that beauty, good friends, MDing, and grits to boot :headbang:you can't beat that :laughing7:

Gator........................
 
Enjoyed the story, pics Buckles. Even though the finds may have been a little short for you guys it looked like you really enjoyed yourselves. That would be some tough hunting this time of year. But it looks like you live for it :icon_sunny:
 
Great story well told and great pics. Dunno bout that breakfast though. :wink:
 
Great pics and coverage of hunt. Interesting site and finds :icon_sunny: More finds to come :hello2:
 
Bats, Ghosts, Ticks, Cholesterol Breakfast and Seated Lady...Nice, Very Nice...Can I go? Congrats and nice pics....jgas
 
Will, another great post and just getting to explore in the cave was a trip in itself! Wonderful place to get outdoors and enjoy your hobby and being with friends.

Don
 
My feet still hurt. What a day of hiking through tall grass and woods that looked like a bomb had gone off. The cave was extremely challenging to reach, but we made it. Congrats to RR on his Seated Dime. He deserved it after climbing that hillside.

HB
 
Awesome dime :thumbsup:

Some times I miss them old caves. My caving old days were fun , like to go to some caves again. :(
 
man that looks like that was a real fine day. great adventure. willy.
 
Looks like another fine adventure. Congrats on the dime.
 
Sound's like a killer day Buckle's.....Congrat's on the Seated.I'm Hungry :thumbsup:
 
civilman1 said:
Sound's like a killer day Buckle's.....Congrat's on the Seated.I'm Hungry :thumbsup:

Feed the Hunger, my friend. That's a killer grouping of buckles in your avatar photo. :headbang:
 
VOL1266-X said:
Another Iron Brigade adventure with positive relic and coin results BB. I bet it was nice and cool in the cave. Nice coin. Good hunting!!!

It was wonderful in the cave. A great break from the heat outside. It was nice to not have to always be stepping over tree limbs for a while, too. An 1880s Seated is a little on the new side for us--in fact, it is one of the newest silvers we've found in the past two years. But still a nice looking coin. :)
 
Hill Billy said:
My feet still hurt. What a day of hiking through tall grass and woods that looked like a bomb had gone off. The cave was extremely challenging to reach, but we made it. Congrats to RR on his Seated Dime. He deserved it after climbing that hillside.

HB

It's our turn next time. :icon_pirat:
 
Wonderful way to spend the day! Thanks for taking us with you Buckles!
 
Don in SJ said:
Will, another great post and just getting to explore in the cave was a trip in itself! Wonderful place to get outdoors and enjoy your hobby and being with friends.

Don

That's a large part of what the 4th of July weekend is about for me--being with friends. Thank you for the reply, Don. I always look forward to reading your posts.


Regards,



Buckles
 
Hi Buckles :hello:

love the pictures :headbang:

love the bat :thumbsup:

love the coin :laughing7:

love your posts :thumbsup:
 
You had a successful trip once again, Buckles
great pics,
good times,
wonderful storey line as well.. good job :thumbsup:

mlhudson
 
No one has asked, so I will; What the hell was that thing hanging on the ceiling of the cave??? A bat??
 

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