Started as a bottle hunt

[VaJim]

Hey everybody a newbie here,My girlfriend and i were digging some bottles out of a ravine behind an old homeplace i found while i was turkey hunting.Most of the bottles ran from about 1900 to 1930 or so.Anyway this spot was about spent so i went looking to see if i could find another spot that they had dumped.I hadn't gone 100 yds. and i found another home place,it was getting late so i told my girlfriend i would come back and detect it.The first thing i dug was a 1936 merc. dime then a buffalo nickel which were in the same time frame as the bottles we were digging.The next thing that came up was a nice union breast plate, now that will get your blood to pumping .The next thing to pop up was a copperhead,time to go,i hate when that happens.see ya'll and good luck.

 

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[allen]

that is an awesome find...

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Sounds like some good hunting

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[creeper71]

hahaha ...when you said Copperhead you meant snake? not a large cent?

 

[Nuttdriver]

Sweet find Jim!
After I almost stepped on a 5' Western Diamondback rattlesnake metal detecting, I ALWAYS hunt with the left headphone off. The rattlesnake was rattling, but I couldn't hear it until it was almost too late. I stumbled across a copperhead once, but he was on a mission. He took off when he saw me with my long handle digger.
I'm not afraid of snakes, I just don't like surprises!

 

[{Sentinel}]

Nice Eagle Breastplate! How deep was it? My machine hits very solid on those breastplates. What did yours sound like?

 

[VaJim]

Nice Eagle Breastplate! How deep was it? My machine hits very solid on those breastplates. What did yours sound like?

Hey Sentinel it was down about 9 maybe 10 inches.the machine was screaming, i use a minelab explorer 2 i got it about 4 years ago,i love it. When i bought it my girlfriend was living and working in Chester,Va.,there was a small patch of woods behind her shop.We got permission from her boss to detect it and had a blast.It had been hunted hard for years but there was plenty of stuff to find.It's a place called The Bottle,General Beauregard had Gen. Butler and about 65,000 troops bottled up there for almost a year.We found alot of stuff,if i get a chance i'll try to post some of it,well good luck. VaJim

 

[geo4472]

very nice finds and welcome to tnet

 

[panzermeyer]

Wow ! super nice find.Its always a good rush to see something from a soldier pop outa the dark ground.HH...Panz