VOL1266-X
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- Location
- Northern Middle Tennessee
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher 1266-X, F75 X 2
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Earlier this week, tennessee digger (Donnie) graciously shared one of his sites with us. Unfortunately, we didn't have much over an hour to hunt it before sunset as we had hit a Kentucky CSA site earlier that day. He urged us to go back whenever we liked as he had left that site in his rear view mirror. I might add that his trunk was also filled with 9 U.S. plates and many bullets and silver coins recovered by him and his wife Julia when he left-LOL.
Since we couldn't talk him into returning to the site today, Dman and I arrived there about mid-morning. Donnie said there had been an old home there that he felt dated to circa 1900. CW relics had been recovered in the house area and in other areas of the very large field where Winter Wheat was growing.
Dman fired up his SE and started in the trashy house area while I took my F75 and began searching for any hot spots in the field. It took me over two hours but I finally got into a small concentration of fired bullets, dropped bullets, and several pieces of campfire lead. We talked to BB and Shane a couple of times as they were hunting in LA today too. Today's finds from our Tennessee hunt are in the first pic.
The best finds today were Dman's sterling silver man's ring and the "badge". The writing on the wings of the badge read "Goodyear Highway Patrol Eagle Club". We were baffled by this one as was BB. Any info. is appreciated.
I dug the U.S. bayonet scabbard tip and had a wide variety of bullets. The last pic is of my solo hunt at a CSA camp yesterday.
Check out Buckleboy's article entitled "Great Finds-Luck or Skill? " published in the March issue of W & E Treasures magazine. It's a good one!! HH from Dman and myself, Quindy.
Update-I forgot to put the cast brass part I dug in the pic we made at Dman's house. We knew it looked like something we should know and it was. Thanks to BB who identified it as the brass side and broken part of the top of a stirrup.
Since we couldn't talk him into returning to the site today, Dman and I arrived there about mid-morning. Donnie said there had been an old home there that he felt dated to circa 1900. CW relics had been recovered in the house area and in other areas of the very large field where Winter Wheat was growing.
Dman fired up his SE and started in the trashy house area while I took my F75 and began searching for any hot spots in the field. It took me over two hours but I finally got into a small concentration of fired bullets, dropped bullets, and several pieces of campfire lead. We talked to BB and Shane a couple of times as they were hunting in LA today too. Today's finds from our Tennessee hunt are in the first pic.
The best finds today were Dman's sterling silver man's ring and the "badge". The writing on the wings of the badge read "Goodyear Highway Patrol Eagle Club". We were baffled by this one as was BB. Any info. is appreciated.
I dug the U.S. bayonet scabbard tip and had a wide variety of bullets. The last pic is of my solo hunt at a CSA camp yesterday.
Check out Buckleboy's article entitled "Great Finds-Luck or Skill? " published in the March issue of W & E Treasures magazine. It's a good one!! HH from Dman and myself, Quindy.
Update-I forgot to put the cast brass part I dug in the pic we made at Dman's house. We knew it looked like something we should know and it was. Thanks to BB who identified it as the brass side and broken part of the top of a stirrup.
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.The average hunter has no idea,how much time goes into making great finds time after time,and how many hunts produce little to nothing.
It's always nice to see something you wrote in print. Your article in that issue was great. Something that EVERY detectorist needs to see.
