My Wensday hunt / I salute another hunter !

MaineRelic · Aug 10, 2011

Had big plans for my wensday afterwork hunt . I had been given a tip to what turned out to be a beautiful old camping / partying area on a good sized wooded penninsulla on a local tidal stream . I was expecting a lot of junk and trash and was prepared for some difficult picking because of all the partying pull tabs . :P I found the site and my mouth started to water. There was an old picnic table on a nice flat sparsely wooded bench overlooking a sea of marsh grass following the stream toward the bay ! Then I spotted an old horseshoe stake and sure enough there was the second pin :hello2:

. Hast to be some coins there I thought to myself . Where to start and how best to approach it ?? I started looking around a little more

Something looked out of place. Then it hit me

There is no trash here ! No cans ! No Bottles ! No nothing ? No dig holes to be seen anywhere ! A really nice clean pretty spot ! I decided to see how trashy it was going to be near the picnic table . Nothing ! Dead silence in my headphones ? No pulltabs ? No screwtops ?? How can this be ?? :icon_scratch:

Grid off the horseshoe pit next. Nothing ! A little Iron chatter here and there but that was it ! This place has been cleaned up in the ground too :dontknow:

. In three and a half hours I dug only 7 pulltabs , only two screw caps and only 1 beer can top ! :hello2:

The person and or persons who metaldetected this site did a fabulous Job . I found no junk finds discarded back on to the site , :hello2:

I take my hat off and salute :notworthy:

whoever you are that cleaned up this site. I was able to run the tejon in all metal mode with hardly any junk to slow me down. They didn't leave much but I made a few deep findsThis way . Four early wheaties , 1916, 1923, 1928, and a no date, A no date buffalo as well . The junk ring . The nice skeleton key and a few other do dads ! Thanks for looking ! MaineRelic

Woodland Detectors · Aug 10, 2011

Yes salute to the guy who picked up the trash. Good to see you got out Dave.

jewelerguy · Aug 10, 2011

great finds :thumbsup:

steelheadwill · Aug 10, 2011

Got some nice old stuff! Great Key

VOL1266-X · Aug 10, 2011

I'm sure most of Tnet would have been surprised how clean it was too MR. I like that big old key. HH, Quindy.

testing123 · Aug 10, 2011

That's a refreshing post where someone actually did good!

I was at a beach in NJ in May where a lot of sand was taken away. Some of the other detectorists made it look like a minefield out there. I guess it was only until high tide, but it was still pretty unsightly.

Rick (Nova Scotia) · Aug 10, 2011

A public place without pull tabs, now that is rare.

at least you did get a few things. I like finding live rounds (it is one ?) for me they are as rare as gold rings, and I have yet to find a skeleton key, making them even more rare than a gold ring, at least for me.