BuckleBoy
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Hello All!
So the day after "Kentucky Diggers, Volume I," we got up early (like, 5 a.m.) to beat the heat, and went coin huntin at the same site. We hit a hotspot and I got my chance to skunk Rodeo Recon a little in return for the previous hunt at the same site. I got in a little hotspot and dug three silver dimes out of the ground in about 15 minutes. I had my good friend Steve with me too, and I put my back-up detector in his hands and he dug his first silver as well!! The amazing thing about this site is that the overall number of wheats from both short hunts was LESS than the number of silver dimes--all Mercuries.
So then it got warm outside and we hopped in the car and went to another Civil War spot around there. (Different spot from "Volume I.") We got under the shade of a HUGE oak tree for a while. Can you see the ACE 250 in this photo?? It has a camo modification tailored specially by Rodeo (to hide that repugnantly LOUD yellow color).
We started out in the field--and I'm glad we did!!! We found an area where troops must have fired off hundreds of rounds into a little hill. (Target practice, I assume
) We dug almost thirty minieballs and cleaner bullets (all fired) in that first hour!!! That works out to a bullet every FOUR MINUTES!!! They were so close that we'd just have to widen a hole each time to recover them! In some cases, there were three or four in a dig-hole!!
We then retreated into the woods, and I believe we actually walked OUT of the camp. Finds started to thin out dramatically. Then all of a sudden we started digging up old flat buttons! Rodeo found a great buckle in the same site (small buckle in the photo below). So I thought that perhaps such old finds were a sign that we had walked into a COLONIAL site! The finds petered out, and we continued to pound the area in search of old coppers and silver. We didn't hit coppers like we'd hoped, but we did find a few more flat buttons and some round lead.
My dad was in town so he came out with us to hunt that day:
And here's a photo of Rodeo Recon and Buckleboy--Die Hards--underneath a beautiful old oak tree:
Here are the relic finds between the two of us for that day:
And the grand total of the finds for both days' hunts:
Regards,
-Buckleboy
So the day after "Kentucky Diggers, Volume I," we got up early (like, 5 a.m.) to beat the heat, and went coin huntin at the same site. We hit a hotspot and I got my chance to skunk Rodeo Recon a little in return for the previous hunt at the same site. I got in a little hotspot and dug three silver dimes out of the ground in about 15 minutes. I had my good friend Steve with me too, and I put my back-up detector in his hands and he dug his first silver as well!! The amazing thing about this site is that the overall number of wheats from both short hunts was LESS than the number of silver dimes--all Mercuries.
So then it got warm outside and we hopped in the car and went to another Civil War spot around there. (Different spot from "Volume I.") We got under the shade of a HUGE oak tree for a while. Can you see the ACE 250 in this photo?? It has a camo modification tailored specially by Rodeo (to hide that repugnantly LOUD yellow color).
We started out in the field--and I'm glad we did!!! We found an area where troops must have fired off hundreds of rounds into a little hill. (Target practice, I assume
) We dug almost thirty minieballs and cleaner bullets (all fired) in that first hour!!! That works out to a bullet every FOUR MINUTES!!! They were so close that we'd just have to widen a hole each time to recover them! In some cases, there were three or four in a dig-hole!!We then retreated into the woods, and I believe we actually walked OUT of the camp. Finds started to thin out dramatically. Then all of a sudden we started digging up old flat buttons! Rodeo found a great buckle in the same site (small buckle in the photo below). So I thought that perhaps such old finds were a sign that we had walked into a COLONIAL site! The finds petered out, and we continued to pound the area in search of old coppers and silver. We didn't hit coppers like we'd hoped, but we did find a few more flat buttons and some round lead.
My dad was in town so he came out with us to hunt that day:
And here's a photo of Rodeo Recon and Buckleboy--Die Hards--underneath a beautiful old oak tree:
Here are the relic finds between the two of us for that day:
And the grand total of the finds for both days' hunts:
Regards,
-Buckleboy
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I sure love when I have days like this. Kentucky is still giving up some nice ground I definitely see!! Good research good finds.
