AeroMike
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- SE Area of Nevada
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- Minelab eTrac, Minelab Equinox 800, Minelab Excalibur II, Whites MXT, Tesoro Tejon
Well, Daryl, aka BioProfessor is down here visiting Tybee Island and Savannah, Georgia. We met up on Friday to hopefully hit a site that I heard had produced some decent civil war relics. We made our way to the site only to see about 6 acres of what used to be woods completely torn asunder. All but a few live oaks were left standing and heavy machinery was all about the place. I ask and was denied access to the place and we hit another spot across the way which did not produce too much. I did manage to find a coat button back piece. I am still waiting to find my first intact button!!!
Anyhow, I had family plans all day Saturday and could not make it out but today was a different story. Daryl was to meet me at the site in the morning but I would get there about an hour before him. I started hunting and right off the bat I find a nice 5 inch brass square spike/nail. I was using my Whites MXT and Daryl was letting me use his Super 12" coil (I have to get me one of those!) and I had dug up at least a dozen different beer or soda pop cans and then I got another "buckle" reading at around 72 on my scale, same as the other cans but I have to dig them all up because it would kill me to know I passed one up and it was a real buckle!
Anyhow, the conditions were rough, you had at least 6 inches of heavy mulch and you were walking over branches.
Back to my signal, I start digging and I am thinking "another can" and started to dig deeper and decided to use the hand tool with my Bullseye II pinpointer and found the piece was in the loose dirt and I didn't see any shiny can, nope! I did see a dirty round piece and when I flipped the piece over I knew I can now cross off a U.S. box plate off of my "things to find" list. Check it out, I have more cleaning to do but overall it is a beautiful box plate with one loop still intact.
Daryl also find a keeper but I will let him show and tell it
5" brass nail/Spike
U.S. Box plate and coat button back
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Anyhow, I had family plans all day Saturday and could not make it out but today was a different story. Daryl was to meet me at the site in the morning but I would get there about an hour before him. I started hunting and right off the bat I find a nice 5 inch brass square spike/nail. I was using my Whites MXT and Daryl was letting me use his Super 12" coil (I have to get me one of those!) and I had dug up at least a dozen different beer or soda pop cans and then I got another "buckle" reading at around 72 on my scale, same as the other cans but I have to dig them all up because it would kill me to know I passed one up and it was a real buckle!
Anyhow, the conditions were rough, you had at least 6 inches of heavy mulch and you were walking over branches.
Back to my signal, I start digging and I am thinking "another can" and started to dig deeper and decided to use the hand tool with my Bullseye II pinpointer and found the piece was in the loose dirt and I didn't see any shiny can, nope! I did see a dirty round piece and when I flipped the piece over I knew I can now cross off a U.S. box plate off of my "things to find" list. Check it out, I have more cleaning to do but overall it is a beautiful box plate with one loop still intact.
Daryl also find a keeper but I will let him show and tell it
5" brass nail/Spike
U.S. Box plate and coat button back
Back
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5 SWORD BUCKLES!?! ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDIN' ME!?!LOL Now that is awesome!
