The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

[kimsdad]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

To Soupie - Wow! Thanks again for all the effort you put into the weekend. Feeding us, sharing your spots, and all the rest. Your generosity is amazing and your family treated us like kings! They are the best!!! I have never had soup that was cooked this way or that tasted soooo good!!!



To Mr. Senior - Thanks! Your generosity continues with the great prizes you donated! I am humbled not only by your skill in detecting with different machines, but also by your willingness to share your finds. Like I told Stan, I wish more people in the world (with me at the top of the list) were more like you! Thanks also for sharing all the pics you took! The 1622-23 coin you awarded me is the showpiece of my collection! Hammered silver the size of a U.S. half dollar!



I picked up only one silver on this trip along with a few cool relics, including a minnie ball. Good finds for sure, but when you compare them to what the masters were recovering, it's easy to feel a little inadequate. Even so, I had a great time and learned a lot. After watching Mr. Senior, D-Dub, Tommyboy72, and D-Dub work those finds, I realized just how little I really know about detecting. Some of it is technique, but all of it is operator proficiency! I wonder after so much exposure to loud noises all these years if my ears really are able to hear the minute signal differences you talk about.... The patience thing when working a spot, well, I'll have to work on that.

So now that I'm back home, I am sitting here wondering just how many good silver coins I've walked right over on my regular hunts and not even known.

All told, it was a great weekend full of treasure, promise of treasure, lessons learned, good food, and great fun for everyone. L4S was first to pull up a Spanish silver, first to drop a deuce in the port-a-john, and the one who can get more mid-tones out of a bag of Combos than anyone else I know - just stay upwind.

Scrounger, it was good to see you dig that Indian and watch that happy look on your face after you were toiling over that hole for so long!

Jason, the stories of your night with Tim deepened the ever twisting mystique of the one we call Lowbatts, and your homebrew was extremely tasty! Thanks for the glasses! Congrats again on your two quarters! Not a bad way to break into silver coins.



Tim, thanks for working like a dog to help me recover that piece of junk from under all those roots!

Speaking of dogs, thanks to these guys for brightening up Saturday morning.



Plus, I got to see one of these and know they really do exist outside of postcards and T-shirts:



It was good to see familiar faces down there and to get to meet some new ones. Thanks again, Soupie! I hope we all have a great 2011 detecting!

 

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[outlaw007]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

A great round barn we seen on the way down there!

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Man, Soupie you really went all out with this. Such a great time meeting everyone including your family. Gotta give you more thanks!

I am so excited to get my first two silvers! One at each site. I'm so happy everyone else got some great finds too. Makes all the research we did worth the time!

On my way home I took a scenic route and passed through some nice old towns with fancy courthouses. Stopped by my father's property in Shelby County and took advantage of the lack of poison ivy and exlored a bottle dump. The 7up bottles I found date to the 1930s. There was a LOT there and I only scratched the surface. An old reaper or something was back there in the woods as well as old appliances.

Since the wind didn't want to cooperate with me and my tent this weekend, I didn't get my fill of camp cooking so I cooked my dinner over my portable pocket rocket!

Enjoy the pictures!!

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

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Looks like a great time was had by all.
Excellent pics of the hunt, the finds, and the finders.
Even the local wildlife was cool to see!

Rumor has it that the elusive giant Treasure Gnome was seen crossing the road at one point.
Funny how they, like deer, always cross the road at the signs.
They tend to attract other wildlife too, as this candid photo indicates.


Personally, I think it's just a new fashion craze...

 

[kimsdad]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Rumor has it that the elusive giant Treasure Gnome was seen crossing the road at one point.
Funny how they, like deer, always cross the road at the signs.
They tend to attract other wildlife too, as this candid photo indicates.

Personally, I think it's just a new fashion craze...

 

[Lowbatts]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Had a great time guys! Got a few thoughts left so here they are:

The quality versus quantity issue was not resolved as D-Dub and Tommyboy rocked that silver out of the ground big time but Jon pops a reale as easy as pie and cleans house on tokens. Wow!

Master Senior held a bling seminar!

Jason breaks into the silver club very nicely!

Jason brought the brewer's best!

Scott's clan made a awesome fest!

Steve saves the day bringing his pal Johnny-on-the-spot along!

Best invertebrate trophy goes to... P2C although honestly, never had to go that bad myself. However I usually have to C2P according to the girls.

We've seen the Polish Treasure Digger and he rocked the lock out of the ground, awesome lock!

Yes Neil, it was a minie ball!

I'd like to thank all you guys for the good times but for inspirational digging and true hardcore detecting there is nothing like the Scrounger! Determination borrowed from God's tool shed and put into the swinging of a coil! Awesome display Scrounger!

Allow me to be a little self indulgent now and toss some pics of my Wadsworth Buckle circa mid-20's art deco, the 1893 Colombian Expo token and a holed buff. I'm trying to recover what's left of the 1865 2 cent piece that I scarred with experimental cleaning techniques. the shame is all mine.

 

[jfrag21]

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Well, I did not have the good fortune of finding any silver, but I did meet some great people. Thank you all for the opportunity to treasure hunt with very knowledgeable individuals and learn this hobby from some real pros.

Scott, thank you again for organizing and planning this awesome hunt. Everything worked out very well. The weekend went very fast and before we knew it we were heading back home. As they say: Time flies when you’re having fun!

The meal you and your family prepared for us Saturday was excellent. I especially enjoyed the ribs. Again, please thank your family for their hospitality and their hard work in preparing the delicious meal. If you ever come up to this area, please contact me; I will be honored. “MI CASA ES TU CASA”.

 

[ewcoinhunter]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Beautyful finds guys, I wish I was there! Congrats to all of you on a great hunts!

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Great digs guys. Great work Soupie.

 

[Lookn4Seated]

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1/2 Reale soaking in distilled water, looks like some more detail is coming through. will post pics soon.

 

[MR Senior L4S]

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SPECJAL THANK YOU FOR SOUPIE AND HIS FAMILY FOR HOSPITALITY THOSE FIELDS OF FOOLS !!! MY FINDS : coins --- 1 seated dime -1856 , 3 mercs-- 1919,1920,1945, -----tot 4 AG coins ///// 1- VN 1908 , and bunch of wheaties best 2pcs. of 1914 ( NO D !!! ) , 1912, 1910, ------- 6modern Q, 4md, one zinc penny from 7-8inch( Mr. Lovbatt puled out 2 center from that depth) Jewelery ------- 1 gold ring 14K ( missing diamond ) , 3 AG rings ( 2of them old , one with rube , circa 1860-80 ) , two rings have band on lup( never found B4, with band ) -2 costium rings, piece of braclet( nice engrawwings circ. 1880) couple of kind compacts circ. 1900-1910.Some other junk jewelery from 1960-70. Pictures on prev. posts. -------- Thanks every one for being NICE , Like Mr Kimsdat described "" not with wind ""--- up front .

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt..... Stories and Pictures Page

SPECJAL THANK YOU FOR SOUPIE AND HIS FAMILY FOR HOSPITALITY THOSE FIELDS OF FOOLS !!! MY FINDS : coins --- 1 seated dime -1856 , 3 mercs-- 1919,1920,1945, -----tot 4 AG coins ///// 1- VN 1908 , and bunch of wheaties best 2pcs. of 1914 ( NO D !!! ) , 1912, 1910, ------- 6modern Q, 4md, one zinc penny from 7-8inch( Mr. Lovbatt puled out 2 center from that depth) Jewelery ------- 1 gold ring 14K ( missing diamond ) , 3 AG rings ( 2of them old , one with rube , circa 1860-80 ) , two rings have band on lup( never found B4, with band ) -2 costium rings, piece of braclet( nice engrawwings circ. 1880) couple of kind compacts circ. 1900-1910.Some other junk jewelery from 1960-70. Pictures on prev. posts. -------- Thanks every one for being NICE , Like Mr Kimsdat described "" not with wind ""--- up front .

your seated dime came out to be 1876-cc pops.

you really proved to be "Master of Bling"

 

[makton]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Mr Senior,
You are the jewelry master for Illinois
It sounds like a great time was had by all.

Still waiting for P2C to post his leach

Makton

 

[soupie]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

Have a few more pics from the Sunday hunt...
Part way through the day we took some time away from hunting and spent some time with the owner of the property,we got a tour of his car collection,which was very nice and presented him with a few tokens of our appreciation for allowing us all on his property....PTD gave him an old railroad lock,seems it was dated somewhere in the mid 1800's ? and was found that day,Kimsdad presented him with a mini ball he found that day as well,we also made up a diplay case for him...

If anyone would like to add to the days events please feel free...

 

[soupie]

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Display pic...

Would also like to say,Mayo you are one funny guy I laughed all day just picturing Neil as the treasure knome...
Tim,the shadow photo turned out well....
I found the leech photo,it will be up tomorrow..

 

[Lowbatts]

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bump for SS to see.

 

[MR Senior L4S]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt..... Stories and Pictures Page

SPECJAL THANK YOU FOR SOUPIE AND HIS FAMILY FOR HOSPITALITY THOSE FIELDS OF FOOLS !!! MY FINDS : coins --- 1 seated dime -1856 , 3 mercs-- 1919,1920,1945, -----tot 4 AG coins ///// 1- VN 1908 , and bunch of wheaties best 2pcs. of 1914 ( NO D !!! ) , 1912, 1910, ------- 6modern Q, 4md, one zinc penny from 7-8inch( Mr. Lovbatt puled out 2 center from that depth) Jewelery ------- 1 gold ring 14K ( missing diamond ) , 3 AG rings ( 2of them old , one with rube , circa 1860-80 ) , two rings have band on lup( never found B4, with band ) -2 costium rings, piece of braclet( nice engrawwings circ. 1880) couple of kind compacts circ. 1900-1910.Some other junk jewelery from 1960-70. Pictures on prev. posts. -------- Thanks every one for being NICE , Like Mr Kimsdat described "" not with wind ""--- up front .

your seated dime came out to be 1876-cc pops. //////////// Thanks , Date was readed by Tim or Stan , right after recovery , I cant see single # on it anyway . Looks like all 3-st. are far away from 20/20 ////////////////// Sorry MR Kimsdad have to post my best pcs of You , just after You find that wiski bottle cover plug. is perfect connection to pcs. ///////////// last pcs. is some kind of silver ( any idea what was? ) ///////// Sorry Tim ( what hapen to You mind ? ) to destry that BEUTY patina on Yours 2- center , just that patina add 10$ to coin ( ONLY SOAP ANT WATER on something like that ) Post pcs. of this 2 -C ( with patina )

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

Re: The Official "Field of Fools" Hunt Stories and Pictures Page.....1/2 REALE FOUND

I'd like to thank all you guys for the good times but for inspirational digging and true hardcore detecting there is nothing like the Scrounger! Determination borrowed from God's tool shed and put into the swinging of a coil! Awesome display Scrounger!

this is absolutely the nicest thing anyone has ever said about

me. im not the worlds greatest hunter but i never give up.

i get so excited by the possibilites of the find. its all in the curious

nature of wondering whats underground.

didnt think too much about folk watchin me but i guess.

they are. im so tuned into trying to find cool stuff that forget how i must look. good thing. ha.

anyway tim. a big thank you for the compliment.

and congratulations on ur cool finds.

i need to make a bigger post but im having tech prob.

so look for a seperate post from me soon.

 

[d-dub]

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Finally have a chance to sit down and write something up. Been non-stop since getting home late Sunday. Soupie and family, thank you for such a great weekend. The food was outstanding and the detecting spots you managed to secure where quite the experience. First time I've hunted a corn field. That's some tuff hunting. And a whole ghost town for our detecting pleasure? Dynamite! Make sure you go back there and clean that place out. I have a feeling there are some more great finds to be had at that location.

Its was great meeting all of you that I have never detected with before and of course it was great seeing all of the chicago guys, again. It's been quite a while since I've had the pleasure of hunting with some of you.

 

[p2c]

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Hey guys,
Thanks so much for the hunt Soupie! It was lots o' fun having free range on a whole town pretty much. Sorry I wont post any pics, but I came away with 3 Roosies (1957, 1963-D, 1964-D), 8 Wheats (haven't checked dates), 1 I.H. 1896, 1 toy pistol, 1 homemade toy rifle, a match safe, a bunch o' clad, 2 matchbox cars, a bunch o' junk, and the leach I dug which won me a nice prize from Mr. Senior. Happy Times!