tnt-hunter
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
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- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
This week has been an unusual one. My schedule worked so I was able to do some things around the house in the morning and detect in the afternoon some days so I actually got out and swung the CZ21 five days out of seven. 2 of those were actually full days at the scout camp.
Tuesday I spent 6 hours at camp. I finished the big popular site and started a new, smaller site. All together I found 191 coins with a face value of $16.23, 57 camp pegs, an aluminum mess kit plate, mess kit silverware, a dead pocket knife, fishing sinkers, a part of a pistol charm, a first class pin, a camp hat pin from 2000, a fired blank pistol cartridge (LC 82 headstamp, Lake City Arsenal 1982), a stainless knife blade, a spoon handle and a Rockforge hatchet.
Wednesday I went back to camp and worked on the new site again. In 6 hours I found 169 coins with a face $12.27, 86 camp pegs, 3 blank rifle cartridges (one is still live), fishing sinkers, a Webelos Outdoorsman pin, a fishing spinner, a rope tensioner, a pin army ranger pin, a troop annniversay pin and a Lincoln Penney that has been cut up to make a weird shape.
The blanks have a headstamp FN and a star that I believe is Belgian. The one on the left is unfired and the primer is still intact.
I went to an old softball field Friday for 2.5 hours and found 55 coins with a face value of $3.05, a hex bit, a 2003 Chuckie Cheese token and a squashed quarter (you can see the ribbed edge).
Yesterday I went to a different park and spent 3 hours and found 48 coins with a face value of $2.40, a copper rivet with an 8 ray marking, a mercury dime, a crusty wheatie and 2 NO CASH VALUE tokens.
The merc is a 1920 D and the wheatie is a 1914.
Today I went back to the softball park for 2 hours and found 56 coins with a face value of $2.92, a key and a marble.
Then I went back to the park I found the merc dime in yesterday and found 29 coins with a face value of $2.30, another mercury dime and part of an old kerosene lamp.
The merc in dated 1945 D.
So it has been a busy month with record results. This has been my best month for clad. May was the first month of my 19th year of detecting and I found a total of 2,594 coins with a face value of $164.07. I usually only find about $800 to $900 a year so this is a wonderful start. The finds included 3 foreign coins, 2 mercs, one Barber quarter, a silver ring and a silver earring. Usually by now I would be doing some water detecting and finding more silver and a little gold. With the pandemic the swimming areas have been closed and the weather has been too cold to swim anyway. I cleaned the areas up pretty well in the fall before it got cold so there is not much point in water detecting until the contributors have had a chance to make their deposits.
So a great start to my year and 2 more silvers. Thanks for looking, stay safe and keep swingin.
Tuesday I spent 6 hours at camp. I finished the big popular site and started a new, smaller site. All together I found 191 coins with a face value of $16.23, 57 camp pegs, an aluminum mess kit plate, mess kit silverware, a dead pocket knife, fishing sinkers, a part of a pistol charm, a first class pin, a camp hat pin from 2000, a fired blank pistol cartridge (LC 82 headstamp, Lake City Arsenal 1982), a stainless knife blade, a spoon handle and a Rockforge hatchet.
Wednesday I went back to camp and worked on the new site again. In 6 hours I found 169 coins with a face $12.27, 86 camp pegs, 3 blank rifle cartridges (one is still live), fishing sinkers, a Webelos Outdoorsman pin, a fishing spinner, a rope tensioner, a pin army ranger pin, a troop annniversay pin and a Lincoln Penney that has been cut up to make a weird shape.
The blanks have a headstamp FN and a star that I believe is Belgian. The one on the left is unfired and the primer is still intact.
I went to an old softball field Friday for 2.5 hours and found 55 coins with a face value of $3.05, a hex bit, a 2003 Chuckie Cheese token and a squashed quarter (you can see the ribbed edge).
Yesterday I went to a different park and spent 3 hours and found 48 coins with a face value of $2.40, a copper rivet with an 8 ray marking, a mercury dime, a crusty wheatie and 2 NO CASH VALUE tokens.
The merc is a 1920 D and the wheatie is a 1914.
Today I went back to the softball park for 2 hours and found 56 coins with a face value of $2.92, a key and a marble.
Then I went back to the park I found the merc dime in yesterday and found 29 coins with a face value of $2.30, another mercury dime and part of an old kerosene lamp.
The merc in dated 1945 D.
So it has been a busy month with record results. This has been my best month for clad. May was the first month of my 19th year of detecting and I found a total of 2,594 coins with a face value of $164.07. I usually only find about $800 to $900 a year so this is a wonderful start. The finds included 3 foreign coins, 2 mercs, one Barber quarter, a silver ring and a silver earring. Usually by now I would be doing some water detecting and finding more silver and a little gold. With the pandemic the swimming areas have been closed and the weather has been too cold to swim anyway. I cleaned the areas up pretty well in the fall before it got cold so there is not much point in water detecting until the contributors have had a chance to make their deposits.
So a great start to my year and 2 more silvers. Thanks for looking, stay safe and keep swingin.
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