REAR FLANK DIGGING on CW BATTLEFIELD

[mudduck]

REAR FLANK DIGGING on CW BATTLEFIELD
Found me a new spot that is has been good to me. It is private land that belongs to a family friend.

It is a diggers dream AND a diggers nightmare. It is THICK! I am talking so think you can hardly swing the coil. This goes on for acres and acres. You walk just looking for a patch the size of a living room to swing your coil. It is THICK with thickets, thorn bushes and other knee high vegetation.

It is a dream in the sense that it is virgin land to metal detecting. 95% of the holes I dug today were relics and I dug ZERO trash other than a few shotgun shells.

I have pulled a bunch of frags (nice size pieces), bullets (various shapes and sizes), a flat button, grape shot AND what looks like a compass for maps. I have only touched 5% of this site. The other 95% is so thick, it is impossible. However, there is hope that that will change soon.

 

[Ifoundit69]

Nice finds mudduck , maybe you will get lucky and the thick stuff will lay down during the winter months !

 

[carcusrex]

Great finds. My advice since this is a new untouched site and from what you said it sounds like a large area I would highly recommend skipping the iron signals and going for the sweet ones. This way you can cover more ground and then after you have done a good sweep then come back and start digging the iron ones. Keep digging.

 

[ghost]

Can I come on down and help you dig? Live in Northern Va

 

[Davers]

See if the land owner will let you & maybe rent a bush hog for a day or two [ if possible & worth the work ,time ,and money.]
Sounds like a great spot .
Good luck ....Davers

 

[ModernMiner]

Some sweet CW relics there MD.
Congrats,
MM

 

[mirage83]

Nice finds. Might even be worth investing in a decent chainsaw and spend 1/3 of your time clearing about a 20' x 20' area, then the other 2/3's hunting that spot HARD. As bad as you say it is, and based on what you already recovered in the rare open spots, you could find anything and everything under the scrub brush and gotcha vines.

 

[mudduck]

I wish I could tell you to come on but the land owner is tight on who he allows into the property. Sorry.

 

[Valley Ranger]

Good stuff and interesting post MD.

 

[DocBeav]

Great finds man! Hope you keep pulling more!

 

[parsonwalker]

Glad I was close by yesterday to lay eyeballs on the stuff! I'll go halvsies with ya on the bush-hog . . . in fact, I'll haul one UP THERE.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[romeo-1]

Nicely done!