The Buzzard King
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Hey folks, it's been a LONG time since my last post.
October turned out to be an interesting month for me.
I didn’t make any “spectacular” finds, or anything really old, but just different.
My hunts have been limited to 1½-2 hours lately. Usually right before dark. But I got out about 8 or 9 times in October.
Anyway, the first interesting thing happened early in the month, when I stopped by an old church site that I’ve had permission to hunt for the last 2 years. (It’s 2 1850’s churches, side by side on about 6 acres). When I knocked on the groundskeepers door to let him know I wanted to detect again, his wife came to the door and asked “Where have you been?”
She said that her husband lost his wedding band 2 weeks earlier, and that they’ve been spending an hour or so each night for the last 2 weeks wandering around the grounds looking for it . I asked her to describe it, and told her I’d do my best to find it, and explained the whole “gold sound” VS. “silver sound” thing to her, and that “it could be hard to find, but if I find it, I‘ll be knocking on the door to return it”.
So I start detecting, figuring I’ll just keep looking for old coins, and if I find the ring that’ll be great too.
About 10 minutes into hunting, I get a huge mid-high tone between 2 pine trees. I look down, and there’s the gold ring laying right there!
I couldn’t believe it. A beautiful big gold honker with 3 diamonds on the front.
I returned to their front door with the ring, and said “You ain’t gonna believe this”!
She said “You found it?”, and I held it up and handed it to her.
She seemed floored, and it looked like her eyes welled up! She said they’ve both been very upset over loosing it, cause this year was their 30th anniversary.
She offered a reward, but I refused. I said “Your husband’s already rewarded me by letting me hunt here for the last 2 years, and I’ve found all sorts of old silver coins here, it's the least I could do. I'm just glad I found it before a lawnmower did!”.
The REAL reward was the look on her face! AND the happiness that it brought me, being able to do that.
I think I realized for the first time, the capablility this hobby has to bring so much joy to SOMEONE ELSE, besides myself.
The very next day, I was hunting in some woods not too far from home when I found 2 bird-bands. They were just under the leaves. The bird was dead right there. Only a skull and some feathers were left. I assume a bear or fox got to it, and carried the rest away.
A few days later I started looking at the bands again, and saw the 800 number, and the $100 reward on it.
lol.
So out of curiosity I called the number. I figured nobody would answer, or it would have been out of business for years. I wasn’t "expecting" a reward or anything, just trying to be helpful if I could.
Sure enough, someone answered the phone. I ended up on the phone for about 15 minutes, giving them all the exact details about where I found the bird. Condition, etc. And they said to expect a letter of appreciation, and a $100 reward in the mail!
No complaints here! 
About a week later, the letter and check were in my mailbox!
So anybody who's ever found bird bands, you ought to take a closer look at them again!
All the coins were found in October also.
A 1920 SLQ, a 17 Merc, a 57 Washington, and 2 Rosies.
The Injuns are an 87 & 89, the Wheat is a 1909 V.D.B (very tough to see), and the 2-center is an 1871. (My favorite coin of the month!).
Like I said, a “different” kind of detecting month.
Thanks for looking!
Oh, I never did get a photo of the ring I recovered. Although, I'm sure he'd still let me take a picture anytime.
October turned out to be an interesting month for me.
I didn’t make any “spectacular” finds, or anything really old, but just different.
My hunts have been limited to 1½-2 hours lately. Usually right before dark. But I got out about 8 or 9 times in October.
Anyway, the first interesting thing happened early in the month, when I stopped by an old church site that I’ve had permission to hunt for the last 2 years. (It’s 2 1850’s churches, side by side on about 6 acres). When I knocked on the groundskeepers door to let him know I wanted to detect again, his wife came to the door and asked “Where have you been?”
She said that her husband lost his wedding band 2 weeks earlier, and that they’ve been spending an hour or so each night for the last 2 weeks wandering around the grounds looking for it . I asked her to describe it, and told her I’d do my best to find it, and explained the whole “gold sound” VS. “silver sound” thing to her, and that “it could be hard to find, but if I find it, I‘ll be knocking on the door to return it”.
So I start detecting, figuring I’ll just keep looking for old coins, and if I find the ring that’ll be great too.
About 10 minutes into hunting, I get a huge mid-high tone between 2 pine trees. I look down, and there’s the gold ring laying right there!
I couldn’t believe it. A beautiful big gold honker with 3 diamonds on the front.
I returned to their front door with the ring, and said “You ain’t gonna believe this”!
She said “You found it?”, and I held it up and handed it to her.
She seemed floored, and it looked like her eyes welled up! She said they’ve both been very upset over loosing it, cause this year was their 30th anniversary.
She offered a reward, but I refused. I said “Your husband’s already rewarded me by letting me hunt here for the last 2 years, and I’ve found all sorts of old silver coins here, it's the least I could do. I'm just glad I found it before a lawnmower did!”.
The REAL reward was the look on her face! AND the happiness that it brought me, being able to do that.
I think I realized for the first time, the capablility this hobby has to bring so much joy to SOMEONE ELSE, besides myself.
The very next day, I was hunting in some woods not too far from home when I found 2 bird-bands. They were just under the leaves. The bird was dead right there. Only a skull and some feathers were left. I assume a bear or fox got to it, and carried the rest away.
A few days later I started looking at the bands again, and saw the 800 number, and the $100 reward on it.
lol.So out of curiosity I called the number. I figured nobody would answer, or it would have been out of business for years. I wasn’t "expecting" a reward or anything, just trying to be helpful if I could.
Sure enough, someone answered the phone. I ended up on the phone for about 15 minutes, giving them all the exact details about where I found the bird. Condition, etc. And they said to expect a letter of appreciation, and a $100 reward in the mail!
No complaints here! About a week later, the letter and check were in my mailbox!
So anybody who's ever found bird bands, you ought to take a closer look at them again!
All the coins were found in October also.
A 1920 SLQ, a 17 Merc, a 57 Washington, and 2 Rosies.
The Injuns are an 87 & 89, the Wheat is a 1909 V.D.B (very tough to see), and the 2-center is an 1871. (My favorite coin of the month!).
Like I said, a “different” kind of detecting month.
Thanks for looking!
Oh, I never did get a photo of the ring I recovered. Although, I'm sure he'd still let me take a picture anytime.
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