This Post is For Those Who Believe We ALWAYS Make Good Finds!!

[VOL1266-X]

Dman (Doug) and I scouted for a CW camp today and came up on an old tenant house in the woods that Doug thinks went back to circa 1930. Since the CW camp was not on that property, we hunted the little two room house (Doug loves to hunt old houses but I prefer CW sites). The temps were in the mid to upper 40s and it was a pleasant day to hunt.
Normally, we would not even bother to post these finds but we decided to show that every time we hunt that we don't always have a good hunt. If you are new to detecting, don't go out hunting and expect a good day all the time because it will not happen. The key is to keep at it. Our scouting trips turn up good finds about 1 in 20 hunts. Doug hunted around the home and I worked the perimeter of the yard. He dug the Wheaties and ladies brass oval pin. My best find was a thick flat button that had a "Double Gilt" back mark with gold gilt remaining around the shank. The most curious find was the iron stool looking thing with the 4th leg broken off. We have no idea what that was. Doug recovered two toy gun pieces but that was it. You will rarely find a virgin CW camp unless you spend a lot of time looking for it. HH, Doug & Quindy.

 

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[Dman]

Tip #1.... use a Minelab! Tip#2......carry a picture of Donnie in your wallet for good luck! Tip#3........ Call some of your "peoples" down in Gallatin and see if you can hunt they yards....... Tip#4...... always carry something with you and act like you just dug it. Tip#5....... Get Donnie and Quindy's autograph for FUTURE luck. Tip#6......... Buy Donnie and Quindy's lunch and see if they want to get something to go. Tip#7........ use a Minelab! Tennessee digger

That's funny.

 

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[ivan salis]

50 cal rim fire (50 / 70) is a old blackpowder era cartridge type casing from the old days

 

[granthansen]

Sorry to disagree with you ... every dig is indeed a good dig, even junk, as we help cleanse Mother Earth of garbage left behind from yesteryear. Yeah, that's what I tell myself!

 

[got2dig]

Quindy, I know what you mean some days your in the good stuff, then the next ten days it all junk. But it is what we do and to get to the Relics we just got2dig. Good thread lets us all know the hard work we do to save just one Relic makes it all worth the time. HH

 

[fishstick]

Any day we are able to hunt is a GOOD day. Just sum are better than others. We know where your comin from Q. It was nice to see your human just like the rest of us. LOL. HH bud...

 

[Breezie]

Q, it looks like y'all had another productive hunt! The 3 legged piece looks like a chemistry lab stand. I've seen some with 3 legs and some with 4 legs. They still make these stands today. Generally they are used to hold a vessel while a heat source (Bunsen Burner) is underneath. BUT more than likely, your stand had a candle under it because the legs look fairly short. Breezie



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[VOL1266-X]

Q, it looks like y'all had another productive hunt! The 3 legged piece looks like a chemistry lab stand. I've seen some with 3 legs and some with 4 legs. They still make these stands today. Generally they are used to hold a vessel while a heat source (Bunsen Burner) is underneath. BUT more than likely, your stand had a candle under it because the legs look fairly short. Breezie

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Laboratory Antiques | Medical & Scientific | Curious Science

I just knew you would know know Breezie. Leave it to Doug to take me digging at an old Meth Lab-LOL. Thanks for your experience & expertise Breezie & HH, Q.

 

[materdigger1]

You said it right Vol - I think we all could fill up a cargo ship with the trash we dig - keep swinging

 

[Breezie]

I just knew you would know know Breezie. Leave it to Doug to take me digging at an old Meth Lab-LOL. Thanks for your experience & expertise Breezie & HH, Q.

LOL Q! It's amazing to me how certain objects end up in the places they do. I'm still wondering how a 1950's lipstick tube was in the same hole as a 3-ring minie! I dug the minie first, then looked down in the hole, and thought, dang, look at all the gilt! Little did I know at that time, it was the 'Lady In Red.' Breezie

 

[VOL1266-X]

Thanks to all who replied and looked. Special thanks to Grasshopper, BB, Breezie, & Cooper for i.d. help. Doug & I both (and Josh) get requests quite often to recommend a detector for someone "who think they want to search for coins and relics". We recommend detectors at a modest price for beginners but with enough discrimination to avoid digging all junk. We tell them after they learn to use that detector, THEN they can go to the next level. Individuals who buy a $1,000+ detector without any experience or a mentor with lots of experience to hunt with are just asking for a disappointing detecting experience. Soon, most will sell that detector at a fraction they paid for it and that's sad. As many of you implied, everyone should have reasonable expectations about our hobby. HH, Quindy.

 

[Breezie]

I just knew you would know know Breezie. Leave it to Doug to take me digging at an old Meth Lab-LOL. Thanks for your experience & expertise Breezie & HH, Q.

Q, After giving this stand a little more thought, it's possible it could have been a stand to hold a lead ladle for making bullets. You don't have to tell Doug so you can keep riding him about taking you to a Meth lab! And speaking of . . . . many (and I do mean many) years ago, I found a hash pipe, very uniquely made with plumbing pipe pieces/elbows etc. I threw it in my bag with the rest of my finds and kept metal detecting. When I got back to the car, I separated the good stuff from the junk, which meant the hash pipe ended up in the console tray with the rest of the trash. As I was driving home, it hit me . . .YOU HAVE DRUG PARAPHERNALIA in this car! Not wanting to see that printed across the small hometown newspaper, I pitched it out the window immediately. Sometimes littering is a necessity. Since that time, I've found several 'mammy made' crack pipes, and now I have enough sense to let that sleeping dog lie!

Breezie