Lots Of Goodies & Nugget Noggin

[Carolina Tom]

Bolstered by my success yesterday, I set off into the 20 degree morning to treasure hunt at the Honey Hole.

Half way through my hunt, a truck rides by slowly, and the people are looking at me. They pull over about 100 meters away and get out. DANG! The dude has a detector, uh oh. I bee line to “greet” him, and see what’s up with this. The place is semi-public, and I have no authority there, but it doesn’t stop me from acting like I do. As I get close, I recognize Garrett hat model and poster boy, Nugget Noggin. He lives around here. I couldn’t help but take a Cheesey, fan boy selfie him. Mock away.



I have been trying to dig all targets, especially mid tones. I have dug a ton of trash, sacks full of foil, can slaw and pull tabs. It has also been yielding keepers.

I was able to locate a buffalo and an Indian today. Neither gave a good signal I would usually dig.



A couple of silver Rosies showed up. I like dirty coin pics.



This clump of dirt had a little silver chain hanging out of it. When I smashed it, this silver tag, with nothing on it, popped out.



This chunk had a darkly tarnished ring in it, too smooth not to be silver.



All three of these silver items came from this little patch of grass, 10’ x 10’. There were several holes present in this small area. The signals were NOT good, but the targets were.



Both piece are marked, I cleaned them a bit, but they have hard tarnish of them.



I got really excited when I flipped this plug. I found my first CW bullet at this site, two weeks ago, so I instantly knew what I had just uncovered. A Minie ball.



In 4 years I’ve found only 4 pieces of gold, including the one I found yesterday. The site is huge. I went right back to the place I found the gold ring, which I searched thoroughly yesterday. When I heard this repeatable, but below a nickel signal, I dug it. It appeared that a little gold ring was in the sidewall of the hole. Sure enough, two days, two gold rings. No Vino comments Brad.





Here is what came out of the pouch, and the 9 keepers. It was a very good day for me.



Thanks for looking and good luck on your hunts!

 

[VTColonialDigger]

That's awesome! nice finds!

 

[washingtonian]

You are crushing it my goodness. Keep this up and your mug will be on the front of W&E. Nicely done!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Outstanding hunt you had!
You’ve been on a roll, seems every post you find something cool, and today you found a Nugget!

 

[relic nut]

Dang Bud, you are on fire!
Now you've got the YouTubers following you around.
Congratulations on a nother great hunt. I hope your success continues.

 

[Scrappy]

I’m just glad you didn’t start the post with...”wasn’t going to go, boy I’m glad I did!”.

That’s neat you met the Garrett poster boy. You didn’t include the part where he said “this is my turf now”, and pushed you down. Then Smittyman jumped up, put him in a sleeper hold, and got him to give up all his spots. Then you went there and scored the ring and minie.

Sorry buddy, I’m struggling here without hunting so my imagination has gone wild. Nice finds and thanks for the post - excellent job!

 

[Calabash Digger]

You are killing it ! Btw I hope you cranked up the ole deus and showed him what it can do!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Dang Bud, you are on fire!
Now you've got the YouTubers following you around.
Congratulations on a nother great hunt. I hope your success continues.

Thanks RN. It’s really been a lot of fun. The site has been very good, make no mistake, it’s the site, not the hunter. Today makes 30 silver coins in the last theee weeks. That’s a spot!

 

[Carolina Tom]

You are killing it ! Btw I hope you cranked up the ole deus and showed him what it can do!

Thanks CD. I dug a silver coin not 30 feet from him, and yelled ‘bingo’. It was great. I’ve met him a couple of times before, of course he didn’t remember but he meets thousands of weird old MDing guys, so I’m not surprised. We talked for a few minutes, but it’s a big place, and I was hunting, you know. He asked about the Deus.

 

[Carolina Tom]

I’m just glad you didn’t start the post with...”wasn’t going to go, boy I’m glad I did!”.

That’s neat you met the Garrett poster boy. You didn’t include the part where he said “this is my turf now”, and pushed you down. Then Smittyman jumped up, put him in a sleeper hold, and got him to give up all his spots. Then you went there and scored the ring and minie.

Sorry buddy, I’m struggling here without hunting so my imagination has gone wild. Nice finds and thanks for the post - excellent job!

You make me laugh Scraps. Don’t be jealous of my relationship with NN. Smittyman said it was too cold, and stayed home. It has been cold, I just can’t help myself, I can’t stay home when there is treasure about. Spring will be here soon buddy, hang in there.

 

[treblehunter]

Sweet GOLD! That's funny about the vino comment Tom I think I'll drive down and clean up a bit with that nugget kid tomorrow while your in work. Lol

 

[Argentium]

Nice finds ! Cool you got to hang with Nugget , I've seen a lot of his vids - he seems like a great guy !

 

[Scrappy]

You make me laugh Scraps. Don’t be jealous of my relationship with NN. Smittyman said it was too cold, and stayed home. It has been cold, I just can’t help myself, I can’t stay home when there is treasure about. Spring will be here soon buddy, hang in there.

Tom, my wife would probably pay you to take me for a week. I’m driving her NUTS! You and I are (partially) friends because we’re not people who can sit still. I remember that hike out spot in PA - you were stoked and went all day without a snag. I ended up in a 40 degree creek in my boxers. Point is we can sit still when we’re dead. In the meantime we have treasure to dig. Hope to see you soon this spring at first thaw....I have an idea

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Nice going on the double Gold Tom And you killed it with all the other finds too.. You look pretty star struck in the pic hahaha

 

[Carolina Tom]

Tom, my wife would probably pay you to take me for a week. I’m driving her NUTS! You and I are (partially) friends because we’re not people who can sit still. I remember that hike out spot in PA - you were stoked and went all day without a snag. I ended up in a 40 degree creek in my boxers. Point is we can sit still when we’re dead. In the meantime we have treasure to dig. Hope to see you soon this spring at first thaw....I have an idea

You and your entourage would be more than welcome here. Open invite. It’ll be in the 60s in a few days. I can get NN to take a selfie with YOU. See you soon brother.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Sweet GOLD! That's funny about the vino comment Tom I think I'll drive down and clean up a bit with that nugget kid tomorrow while your in work. Lol

You come on down, you are more than welcome. But, yeah, I have to work next week. It hampers my treasure recovery endeavors something fierce. Better get here before NN cleans the place out!

 

[Triple555nickel]

I'm glad for you Tom, great finds. Seems like a killer spot and you have the dedication to be out in this weather, you deserve silver and gold!

 

[Carolina Tom]

I'm glad for you Tom, great finds. Seems like a killer spot and you have the dedication to be out in this weather, you deserve silver and gold!

Thanks Steve. The weather is not all that bad, hand warmer packets help a lot. As long as I finding good stuff, nothing will stop me!

 

[treblehunter]

Shoot me a pin (it better not be a mall) and your schedule, I can wait until your not working, besides I'm a fair weather hunter, supposed to warm up and I believe the ground will get a good soak. Those are all better things for a hunt with you and smittyman!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Shoot me a pin (it better not be a mall) and your schedule, I can wait until your not working, besides I'm a fair weather hunter, supposed to warm up and I believe the ground will get a good soak. Those are all better things for a hunt with you and smittyman!

PM sent with complete details, buddy.