Second Hunt on the Year - (With Mastereagle22!)

Baldingboy · Mar 20, 2010

Well, Mastereagle and I were supposed to hunt the North Carolina Group Hunt, but it was called off. Since it takes about six months notice for Mastereagle to get off work and arrange his personal life, we decided to go ahead and detect Friday since we didn't go to the hunt. He already had the time off at work, and his wife had softened to the idea that we would be gone hunting for four days, so the one day detecting close to home wasn't a tough sell.

He was supposed to be at my house between 8 and 8:30.....I called him at 9:00 and asked him where he was. Apparently, he was at Wal-Mart buying batteries and fighting with everyone in line. It sounded like the front lines on the beach at Normandy. He was cussing and ranting about price checks and slow people in line and mean women, so I eased up on him. About 20 minutes later, I heard his car coming from a couple miles away. It sounded like a wooden roller coaster derailing while someone was shooting at it with a pump shotgun. I sheepishly loaded my gear and climbed in. The game was on.

There is a very small town north of where we live that has an old school and church side by side that we wanted to detect. We got straight to work, and after about an hour, we realized that someone had pretty well picked these places clean as well. I did manage a few things. My heart about jumped out of my chest when I dug up the gold plated ring. Fortuantely I had seen these on the forum before and new it to be a "Lord of the Rings" inspired junk jewelry ring. After I found it, Mastereagle stuck it on his finger and kept saying "My precious" and wouldn't give it back. I had to hit him with my Lesche digger. :icon_pirat:

BTW: Mastereagle did manage to find a silver Rosie.

We moved on to another place and realized right off that it was just too grown up and had too much iron to be a viable place to detect. So we headed south where we came across an old house that was calling us to detect. I stopped and got permission while Mastereagle cowered in the car. I discovered that the house was built in 1876! The owner had lived there about 10 - 15 years and didn't think anyone had detected it before. Well, it was lean pickings anyway. Mastereagle found a Silver Rosie and one Silver Merc. I have my finds pictured here. I really liked the little baby ring I found, that was a first for me. I wish the stone was still in it though. Two rings today for me and three silver for Mastereagle. Not too bad. I wish my rings were more valuable though...despite Mastereagle calling it his precious. :dontknow:

hikeinmts · Mar 20, 2010

Good hunt, even if it turned out being "Plan C." Sounds like you and your hunting buddy have a workable agreement.
(Would have loved to hear his "car?" coming up the hill. Must be an old, mean machine.)
Have some more great hunts. When can you go back to the place that was too grown up with weeds to hunt? Might haave
kept all other hunters off of it, too. :thumbsup:

Tin Nugget · Mar 20, 2010

If you make it to the CTH3 you better take your car instead of that heap ME drives

CRUSADER · Mar 20, 2010

its not often, if at all that I have seen the whole drawer pull arrangement :icon_thumright:

Baldingboy · Mar 21, 2010

Yeah, I actually think the pull I found is a part of the cigarrette lighter off of Mastereagles car.
The place with all the weeds is a place we have gone in the past, but there are tree tops laying everywhere and tons of iron in the ground. It is an old slave house that is still standing. I found an 1870's overall clasp there a couple years ago. It kills me since I know this place has goodies hiding there. It is just so overgrown and has so much iron, it is almost impossible to make any finds.

BTW...Mastereagle actually has a new car. I give him trouble about everything. He needs it. :laughing7:

DMN · Mar 21, 2010

The pen knife is in great shape. I suppose it's not all that old but even if it was out a year it still seems to be a nice one. And I like the old hoe too (but I guess that's a matter of taste and accessibility :laughing7:

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mastereagle22 · Mar 21, 2010

Friday 3-19-2010 approx time 8:30 A.M. While standing in Wal-Mart with a pair of shoe strings and two Snickers Bars late for my hunt with Baldingboy I knew trouble was coming. I needed new boot strings since Baldingboy used my last pair to tie his raggedy POS truck together long enough to get us home from a hunt. He said he would replace them. He never did. The snickers bars were to toss to BB when he got hungry and tried to eat whatever or whoever was around him when the urge hit.

It took a long time at Wal-mart between a price check that never came, a bag of moldy grapefruit and a man who had to count 78 cents out in pennies and 2 nickels. Just when I was checking out BB calls and says he is too lazy, er I mean tired to go hunting. I tell him too bad cause I'm almost there, as I am finishing up my conversation, I pull up in front of his house.

When I get there his wife has just made him change from his bib and diaper into real clothes and we load up and head off to hunt. BB made me take my new car because apparently his is much nicer than mine and he didn't want to get his dirty.

We drove to the site we planned to hunt and spoke with 3 older gentleman who told us about a possible new site, which we never could get a hold of anybody to hunt. After a short time hunting I hear this strange hissing and the voice of someone who has lost their mind. I walk around the front on the buidling and see BB hunched over staring at his hand petting something in it. As I get close he spins around and swings the shovel he has brought with him at me and says stay away from my precious. I tossed him a snickers bar and got back to detecting. I ended up finding 5 wheat pennies and a 1952 Rosie.

We went to two more places and in the end had a good day of hunting.

BB lies like a dog though. In his version he said he hit me with his leche. Well he didn't have one with him, he forgot his. Also forgot his belt. good thing his crazy friend carries spare hunting items. :-)

These are pictures of where we hunted and one of the great Missouri Wildabeast