tnt-hunter
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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- All Treasure Hunting
I made 2 trips to the scout camp and did a little cleanup in areas I detected a few years ago. I expanded the area I detected In the site beyond the area usually occupied by tents in the summer and went a little slower looking for deeper finds. The first day, in 6 hours I managed to find 146 coins with a face value of $11.99, 154 tent pegs that were left at camp for next year, a lock from a foot locker, 2 Boy Scout neckerchief slides, an official scout knife, a rope tensioner, lots of sinkers, some fishing gear, a light weight carabiner, and a nice splitting wedge.
The knife has stainless blades and some rusty spots I think I can clean off to make it usable. The slide on the left is a hard molded form with a ferrous loop. It is an older style slide, but I can’t get a date on that style. The other slide is a standard brass slide, slightly flattened.
More pegs than coins which is a rare occurrence here, but it helps me reach my goal of finding and returning 10,000. The wedge is in good shape and hardly used from the condition.
Day 2: I went back to the same campsite and tried to finish up. No luck there I still have more to do. It was raining for the first time in a long while so it was cold and wet and the wind was blowing off the lake so the weather was a bummer, but we really need the rain. I managed to hang in there for 5.5 hours. I found 127 coins with a face value of $11.40, an old dart with the tip rusted off, an eyeballed army man, a DO NOT DUPLICATE security key, an aluminum pin from a backpack, a scout knife, a pin with the pin back missing, a bunch of fishing gear including the usual sinkers, tabs, some foil, and of course 88 tent pegs for camp.
The knife is one I have never seen before. It is pretty badly rusted so I’m not sure I can salvage it but I will give it a try. The pin is a Tenderfoot pin like the mother’s pins we used to give at a court of honor. They don’t get used much anymore, but they used to be real common.
There was one “little Bertha in the bunch of pegs (in the front, it has a manufacturers number stamped into it). That makes 242 pegs from this site and I haven’t cover it all yet. There are over 30 campsites in the whole camp so you can see how my total peg count for this camp is almost 9,000 since 2013. Pegs get lost all the time, some driven into the ground and not retrieved, some left on top of the ground and covered with leaves and some laying flat 3” down that were lost years ago (the camp is 40 years old this year). At the rate I find the pegs they should never have to buy another one.
2 fun days of swingin the CZ21 with lots to find, some gas money and lot of sinkers for me and pegs for the camp.
I’ll be back one day each week until the ground freezes and see what else the guys have lost over the years. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
The knife has stainless blades and some rusty spots I think I can clean off to make it usable. The slide on the left is a hard molded form with a ferrous loop. It is an older style slide, but I can’t get a date on that style. The other slide is a standard brass slide, slightly flattened.
More pegs than coins which is a rare occurrence here, but it helps me reach my goal of finding and returning 10,000. The wedge is in good shape and hardly used from the condition.
Day 2: I went back to the same campsite and tried to finish up. No luck there I still have more to do. It was raining for the first time in a long while so it was cold and wet and the wind was blowing off the lake so the weather was a bummer, but we really need the rain. I managed to hang in there for 5.5 hours. I found 127 coins with a face value of $11.40, an old dart with the tip rusted off, an eyeballed army man, a DO NOT DUPLICATE security key, an aluminum pin from a backpack, a scout knife, a pin with the pin back missing, a bunch of fishing gear including the usual sinkers, tabs, some foil, and of course 88 tent pegs for camp.
The knife is one I have never seen before. It is pretty badly rusted so I’m not sure I can salvage it but I will give it a try. The pin is a Tenderfoot pin like the mother’s pins we used to give at a court of honor. They don’t get used much anymore, but they used to be real common.
There was one “little Bertha in the bunch of pegs (in the front, it has a manufacturers number stamped into it). That makes 242 pegs from this site and I haven’t cover it all yet. There are over 30 campsites in the whole camp so you can see how my total peg count for this camp is almost 9,000 since 2013. Pegs get lost all the time, some driven into the ground and not retrieved, some left on top of the ground and covered with leaves and some laying flat 3” down that were lost years ago (the camp is 40 years old this year). At the rate I find the pegs they should never have to buy another one.
2 fun days of swingin the CZ21 with lots to find, some gas money and lot of sinkers for me and pegs for the camp.
I’ll be back one day each week until the ground freezes and see what else the guys have lost over the years. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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