dfxmatt
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saturday and today's hunt
Well, thought i'd finally try the county museum saturday while i had time alone to myself. It was built in 1876 and apparently this was the first town of my county. I see nothing of a town now but there's old houses all around, and when i look at this building it's pretty obvious there was activity here then. This was the old schoolhouse and now the county owns it. Got permission and off i went. I wasn't expecting much, as it's been raped during the years by detectorists. Even my whites dealer hit it back when he detected during the 80's and he's a awesome hunter. But i was armed with the dfx and super 12 coil, and thought i could squeeze atleast something out of there. There was alot of junk in the ground and i dug ALOT of it. Mainly iffy DEEP signals that turned out to be deep iron. There was really old horse parts, ancient nails etc.
after about a hour and a half with no good targets. I quit digging iffies and stopped and started observing the landscape. I decided to hunt along the fence line thinking detectorists wouldn't have looked there as much because it used to be a metal fence and now it's a nice pretty white wooden fence. My hunch paid off and i got a weird but unignorable signal and dug a plug around 6 and popped out a dirty silver p war nickel (1943). Then got a old cufflink a few steps later but it's all iron and nasty looking but it looks old. That was all i could muster on saturday.
I went back today and went outside of the fence this time and pulled a 1901 indian out but it was all i could muster. I think i'm gonna go back here maybe one more time, and try to get permission on a neighbors property and hunt the outskirts of this old school. I smell seated.......it's there somewhere. Hey kibitz i snuck out afer all! lol
Thanks for looking
matt
Well, thought i'd finally try the county museum saturday while i had time alone to myself. It was built in 1876 and apparently this was the first town of my county. I see nothing of a town now but there's old houses all around, and when i look at this building it's pretty obvious there was activity here then. This was the old schoolhouse and now the county owns it. Got permission and off i went. I wasn't expecting much, as it's been raped during the years by detectorists. Even my whites dealer hit it back when he detected during the 80's and he's a awesome hunter. But i was armed with the dfx and super 12 coil, and thought i could squeeze atleast something out of there. There was alot of junk in the ground and i dug ALOT of it. Mainly iffy DEEP signals that turned out to be deep iron. There was really old horse parts, ancient nails etc.
after about a hour and a half with no good targets. I quit digging iffies and stopped and started observing the landscape. I decided to hunt along the fence line thinking detectorists wouldn't have looked there as much because it used to be a metal fence and now it's a nice pretty white wooden fence. My hunch paid off and i got a weird but unignorable signal and dug a plug around 6 and popped out a dirty silver p war nickel (1943). Then got a old cufflink a few steps later but it's all iron and nasty looking but it looks old. That was all i could muster on saturday.
I went back today and went outside of the fence this time and pulled a 1901 indian out but it was all i could muster. I think i'm gonna go back here maybe one more time, and try to get permission on a neighbors property and hunt the outskirts of this old school. I smell seated.......it's there somewhere. Hey kibitz i snuck out afer all! lol
Thanks for looking
matt
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