diamondjim
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I've been pounding this site for a couple of years...last few trips not a single hunk of metal. But it was FINALLY a nice sunny day so hit it one more time.
Heavy rains and long hard winter musta done something to it...I was starting to look around to see if I was in the same spot...getting one strong hit after another, in a place where I'd chased every ghost signal to death. This is a very small area, not more than 50 feet long of pure OLD dirt. Nothing from this section of ground has ever been dated later than 1876.
First hole flipped over the plug and saw a round object...real cause to get excited cause it's GOING to be old. Mega crusty 1874 injun...sweet. A little bit later, another round object in the plug...just not possible, but there it was, 1868 sheild, and not in bad shape either.
Now the coins here get pretty crusty and kick target ID all over the place, so you dig everything, not hard to see how a couple of coins slipped by...but how on earth did I miss the POCKET WATCH
? I was truely stumped to see that come out of the ground today.
Got other stuff too, old bullets, part of a pocket knife, a boot heel and a few hunks of mystery metal. Now I'm wondering what the winter has done to some of my other worked over super sites...hmmmm...
Heavy rains and long hard winter musta done something to it...I was starting to look around to see if I was in the same spot...getting one strong hit after another, in a place where I'd chased every ghost signal to death. This is a very small area, not more than 50 feet long of pure OLD dirt. Nothing from this section of ground has ever been dated later than 1876.
First hole flipped over the plug and saw a round object...real cause to get excited cause it's GOING to be old. Mega crusty 1874 injun...sweet. A little bit later, another round object in the plug...just not possible, but there it was, 1868 sheild, and not in bad shape either.
Now the coins here get pretty crusty and kick target ID all over the place, so you dig everything, not hard to see how a couple of coins slipped by...but how on earth did I miss the POCKET WATCH
? I was truely stumped to see that come out of the ground today.Got other stuff too, old bullets, part of a pocket knife, a boot heel and a few hunks of mystery metal. Now I'm wondering what the winter has done to some of my other worked over super sites...hmmmm...
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