tnt-hunter
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My detecting year ends April 30th and starts May 1st. I have just finished my 23rd year of detecting and this week’s hunt is the beginning of my 24th year.
DAY 1
I got back to the K to 12 school for a little more cleaning up. I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and the finds were pretty thin. I did manage to find 27 coins with a face value of $1.41, a couple pieces of cheapie jewelry, an old pen top, a wheatie, a modern bullet, bottle caps, copper wire, window latches, whole aluminum cans and slaw, 24 tabs and 2 pencil ends.
The wheatie is a 1941. The pen cap is an E FABER USA made in the late 40s or early 50s. The pair of window latches are a nice green brass. The windows are now an aluminum frame type that replaced the older ones with the brass latches.
DAY 2
I got back to the private school. I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 looking for promising spots of new losses and trying to see if I could expand some areas I had detected in the past. I found 63 coins with a face value of $4.40, a token, a silver ball, a minie ball, a brass tag, a wheatie, part of a toy car, a brass reduction elbow, aluminum bottle caps, can slaw, 14 tabs and 6 pencil ends.
I went back by the baseball field and went off the edge of the property into the edge of the woods. I have found roundballs and a British copper on that field so I was not greatly surprised when the .58 caliber minie ball showed up beside a tree. It looks like a drop that was scraped up a little as it was moved around in the dirt over the years. It definitely was not fired.
I thought the decorative silver ball was a bead at first. When I got it cleaned up I noticed only one hole and it is threaded so it is probably the end of a belly button ring or some other form of jewelry.
The brass tag is obviously a label of some kind. ATT 10.1 however is a mystery, not sure what it was labeling. Probably not A T & T telephone. If it was theirs it would have the & on the label.
DAY 3
I got back to the scout camp and cleaned up a campsite and worked around the boat dock and swimming area of one of the 3 area the camp is divided into. In 6.5 hours of swingin the CZ21 I found 125 coins with a face value of $9.76, 63 camp tent pegs, a dead pocket knife, an unusual vaping device, a small brass turtle, a brass hat adjustment, a hat pin back, a corner from a chest or foot locker, a rope tensioner, sinkers, a mess kit wing nut, melted aluminum from the campfires, some personal tent pegs, 2 aluminum cans, 13 tabs and 1 pencil end.
This was a decent day for the camp these days. When I first started there 13 years ago it had never been detected and a 6.5 hour hunt would produce 200 to 300 coins.
DAY 4
I went to a set of 2 ballfields in a small town 25 miles to the east I visited for the first time a few weeks ago. My last visit I found lots of clad, but not much else. The fields are fairly wet, the ground was muddy and the targets were widely spread with almost no iron signals. That is both good and bad, good because I didn’t have to do a lot of extra digging, bad because my arm gets tired from swinging constantly and digging gives my arm a break from swingin LOL.
I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 84 coins with a face value of $5.33, 3 silvers, 2 pendants, part of a zipper, a Canadian penny, 5 aluminum bottle caps, 15 tabs, 1 pencil end and a small hand full of can slaw. Total targets for the time was way down from my usual spots and the Canadian penny is badly eaten because of the damp condition of the field.
The first silver was the Barber dime. I had been swingin less than 10 minutes and had found a bottle cap and a tab when this turned up. My first coin of the day. I could tell it was close to the surface so I used the Garrett carrot and took a small scoop of dirt with my trowel. I broke the plug with my hands and there it was sitting on top. A 1914 Barber dime. It has been a long time since I found a Barber.
I dug a couple of dollars in change and ran into a dead zone with no signals. After a bout 15 minutes of nothing I got a nice high tone. I dug out a plug about 5 inches deep with a rock covering the bottom of the hole. The target was still in the hole and it sounded like it was off to one side of the rock. I scooped out some dirt with my trowel and the target now sounded like it was under the rock. So I pried the rock out and pinpointed again and scooped up a coin. It was black where the mud wasn’t covering it and I could see it was thin. I was pretty sure I had Spanish and it was bigger than most I have found so I was hoping it was at least a 1 reale. It is my first 1 reale coin and my first from the Lima Peru mint, a bucket lister. I have found a nice bunch of half reales and a 2 reale and a 4 reale cob coin, but all of them were Mexico City mint coins. The mint mark is strange, but it looks like the LME of the Lima mint. If anyone knows for sure please chime in. Unfortunately it is slightly scratched on the back. I believe it may have been scratched by the rock when I pried it out of the hole because it was in the middle of the dirt I scooped out.
I was going to move to the upper field to see if I would have any luck there, but I noticed they were moving dirt onto the infield of the baseball field with a loader so I thought it best to stay on the lower field. I got into another nothing zone and again out of nowhere I get another nice high tone and scooped out a muddy plug. I broke it open and there was a bent silver ring. So a three silver day, with the first barber dime in a long time, a bucket list 1 reale and nice looking silver ring. A good way to start my 24th year of detecting.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found this nice little red eft (juvenile eastern newt) on the road during one of my morning walks. He is a bout an inch and a half long.
The scout camp had geese on the dock (poop machines, they leave quite a mess behind on the beach) and one of the many violets blooming now that will fade before the scouts get there.
A sweat bee on a dandelion I saw on a hunt.
I went to the market and found 3 dimes, a nickel, a penny and a washer in the coinstar reject slot and a quarter and a penny in the coin return when I checked out (I always use self checkout).
So a great start to my new year. 21 hours of hunting with 299 coins worth $20.90, 4 silvers and a minie ball, and an assortment of other stuff as well. I will be 75 next week, I hope I can find a good spot to hunt for my birthday. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.F
DAY 1
I got back to the K to 12 school for a little more cleaning up. I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and the finds were pretty thin. I did manage to find 27 coins with a face value of $1.41, a couple pieces of cheapie jewelry, an old pen top, a wheatie, a modern bullet, bottle caps, copper wire, window latches, whole aluminum cans and slaw, 24 tabs and 2 pencil ends.
The wheatie is a 1941. The pen cap is an E FABER USA made in the late 40s or early 50s. The pair of window latches are a nice green brass. The windows are now an aluminum frame type that replaced the older ones with the brass latches.
DAY 2
I got back to the private school. I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 looking for promising spots of new losses and trying to see if I could expand some areas I had detected in the past. I found 63 coins with a face value of $4.40, a token, a silver ball, a minie ball, a brass tag, a wheatie, part of a toy car, a brass reduction elbow, aluminum bottle caps, can slaw, 14 tabs and 6 pencil ends.
I went back by the baseball field and went off the edge of the property into the edge of the woods. I have found roundballs and a British copper on that field so I was not greatly surprised when the .58 caliber minie ball showed up beside a tree. It looks like a drop that was scraped up a little as it was moved around in the dirt over the years. It definitely was not fired.
I thought the decorative silver ball was a bead at first. When I got it cleaned up I noticed only one hole and it is threaded so it is probably the end of a belly button ring or some other form of jewelry.
The brass tag is obviously a label of some kind. ATT 10.1 however is a mystery, not sure what it was labeling. Probably not A T & T telephone. If it was theirs it would have the & on the label.
DAY 3
I got back to the scout camp and cleaned up a campsite and worked around the boat dock and swimming area of one of the 3 area the camp is divided into. In 6.5 hours of swingin the CZ21 I found 125 coins with a face value of $9.76, 63 camp tent pegs, a dead pocket knife, an unusual vaping device, a small brass turtle, a brass hat adjustment, a hat pin back, a corner from a chest or foot locker, a rope tensioner, sinkers, a mess kit wing nut, melted aluminum from the campfires, some personal tent pegs, 2 aluminum cans, 13 tabs and 1 pencil end.
This was a decent day for the camp these days. When I first started there 13 years ago it had never been detected and a 6.5 hour hunt would produce 200 to 300 coins.
DAY 4
I went to a set of 2 ballfields in a small town 25 miles to the east I visited for the first time a few weeks ago. My last visit I found lots of clad, but not much else. The fields are fairly wet, the ground was muddy and the targets were widely spread with almost no iron signals. That is both good and bad, good because I didn’t have to do a lot of extra digging, bad because my arm gets tired from swinging constantly and digging gives my arm a break from swingin LOL.
I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 84 coins with a face value of $5.33, 3 silvers, 2 pendants, part of a zipper, a Canadian penny, 5 aluminum bottle caps, 15 tabs, 1 pencil end and a small hand full of can slaw. Total targets for the time was way down from my usual spots and the Canadian penny is badly eaten because of the damp condition of the field.
The first silver was the Barber dime. I had been swingin less than 10 minutes and had found a bottle cap and a tab when this turned up. My first coin of the day. I could tell it was close to the surface so I used the Garrett carrot and took a small scoop of dirt with my trowel. I broke the plug with my hands and there it was sitting on top. A 1914 Barber dime. It has been a long time since I found a Barber.
I dug a couple of dollars in change and ran into a dead zone with no signals. After a bout 15 minutes of nothing I got a nice high tone. I dug out a plug about 5 inches deep with a rock covering the bottom of the hole. The target was still in the hole and it sounded like it was off to one side of the rock. I scooped out some dirt with my trowel and the target now sounded like it was under the rock. So I pried the rock out and pinpointed again and scooped up a coin. It was black where the mud wasn’t covering it and I could see it was thin. I was pretty sure I had Spanish and it was bigger than most I have found so I was hoping it was at least a 1 reale. It is my first 1 reale coin and my first from the Lima Peru mint, a bucket lister. I have found a nice bunch of half reales and a 2 reale and a 4 reale cob coin, but all of them were Mexico City mint coins. The mint mark is strange, but it looks like the LME of the Lima mint. If anyone knows for sure please chime in. Unfortunately it is slightly scratched on the back. I believe it may have been scratched by the rock when I pried it out of the hole because it was in the middle of the dirt I scooped out.
I was going to move to the upper field to see if I would have any luck there, but I noticed they were moving dirt onto the infield of the baseball field with a loader so I thought it best to stay on the lower field. I got into another nothing zone and again out of nowhere I get another nice high tone and scooped out a muddy plug. I broke it open and there was a bent silver ring. So a three silver day, with the first barber dime in a long time, a bucket list 1 reale and nice looking silver ring. A good way to start my 24th year of detecting.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found this nice little red eft (juvenile eastern newt) on the road during one of my morning walks. He is a bout an inch and a half long.
The scout camp had geese on the dock (poop machines, they leave quite a mess behind on the beach) and one of the many violets blooming now that will fade before the scouts get there.
A sweat bee on a dandelion I saw on a hunt.
I went to the market and found 3 dimes, a nickel, a penny and a washer in the coinstar reject slot and a quarter and a penny in the coin return when I checked out (I always use self checkout).
So a great start to my new year. 21 hours of hunting with 299 coins worth $20.90, 4 silvers and a minie ball, and an assortment of other stuff as well. I will be 75 next week, I hope I can find a good spot to hunt for my birthday. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.F
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