HobBob
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The 60's today and a little excitement!
Got out today, 2nd time this week at our local church. It sits on 26 acres, and the parsonage shows up on a plat map from the 1870's as a farm house on a 40-acre farm (and it looks like it). I've been hunting there since January as weather permitted, but up to today it had given up 43 cents in clad and lots of metal junk, including an old brass hose nozzle.
I started swinging the loop this afternoon around the base of a large tree in the backyard of the parsonage. Within an area of a few feet, I first found a pull tab, an old small rectangular padlock, and a hot rock with a small piece of glazed china (I think it might be metal ore of some kind).
Then I detected something that made my heart jump. I got multiple hits over a small area; the Bounty Hunter indicated nickels at 6 inches. I started digging, and at around 6 inches, I felt a smooth, round object, but it was LARGE - more like silver dollar size. Then I felt another round edge, then another. Now my heart was really racing! With it starting to get dark, and thinking that I had found my first cache, I pulled out the Lesche and really got serious with my digging. Man, were they stuck in there but good!!
Then I found something I had never seen before.
Apparently in the dim distant past, Pabst Blue Ribbon made beer cans about the size of a small V-8 can. When one is squished and buried, it's just the right size to fool the stuffing out of someone who is thinking silver dollars.
Methinks the beer can must predate the church's purchase of the house as the church parsonage, and I think I know where the pull tab came from.
HH,
Bob
Got out today, 2nd time this week at our local church. It sits on 26 acres, and the parsonage shows up on a plat map from the 1870's as a farm house on a 40-acre farm (and it looks like it). I've been hunting there since January as weather permitted, but up to today it had given up 43 cents in clad and lots of metal junk, including an old brass hose nozzle.
I started swinging the loop this afternoon around the base of a large tree in the backyard of the parsonage. Within an area of a few feet, I first found a pull tab, an old small rectangular padlock, and a hot rock with a small piece of glazed china (I think it might be metal ore of some kind).
Then I detected something that made my heart jump. I got multiple hits over a small area; the Bounty Hunter indicated nickels at 6 inches. I started digging, and at around 6 inches, I felt a smooth, round object, but it was LARGE - more like silver dollar size. Then I felt another round edge, then another. Now my heart was really racing! With it starting to get dark, and thinking that I had found my first cache, I pulled out the Lesche and really got serious with my digging. Man, were they stuck in there but good!!
Then I found something I had never seen before.
Apparently in the dim distant past, Pabst Blue Ribbon made beer cans about the size of a small V-8 can. When one is squished and buried, it's just the right size to fool the stuffing out of someone who is thinking silver dollars.
Methinks the beer can must predate the church's purchase of the house as the church parsonage, and I think I know where the pull tab came from.
HH,
Bob
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Can you imagine all the exercise an md'ers heart gets?! 
