Week at scout camp yields lots of pegs, other goodies, and a little silver love

[tnt-hunter]

I went to camp last week with the troop and spent most of my time working with the boys, but I did get 5.5 hours to go out and swing my CZ21. I spent most of my time close to our campsite detecting parts of the site that were occupied years ago, but not this year. Later I was able to go to the area by the lake they use to make their primitive shelters for overnighting as part of the Wilderness Survival merit badge. I also spent an hour trying to find 3 missing throwing knives in the archery range. (No luck on the knives, somebody went wild with them and they were no where on the range. I couldn’t go off the range because of the heavy brush.)

All in all I found 155 coins with a face value of $15.75 (heavy in quarters) and a Sierra cup that was buried deep under a blanket of hemlock roots so, judging from the size of the tree, it could have been there since the camp opens 40 years ago. I will try and trace the name etched on the bottom, but it is probably a lost cause.

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I also found a stainless spoon, a Girl Scout knife, a Swiss Army knife (probably salvageable), 4 neckerchief slides, 3 blank shell casings, a sterling pendant, 4 quarters shot on the old rifle range (found while looking for the throwing knives), a copper leaf metalwork project, a recently lost watch (still running, no one reported it lost in the last 3 weeks so I get to keep it), and 84 large tent pegs for the camp.

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The shell casings are NATO fired blank rounds (the circle with a cross in it is the NATO mark, marked LC 81, which means they were manufactured in the Lake City plant in Independence, Missouri in 1981.

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While looking for the throwing knives I did find 13 aluminum arrows for the rifle range.

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The pendant has JIM on one side and LOVE NANCY 9-18-80 so It was given to Jim the year the camp opened. There is no way to trace it because there are thousands of boys who attend this camp every year and in 40 years there have been a lot of Jims in camp. It could have been lost by a boy or an adult leader, no way to tell for sure.

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So not as much time detecting as I would have liked, but a nice coin value, goodies returned to the camp, a good watch and knife, and a little silver and a lot of fun. Not a bad week at all.

Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[A2coins]

wow cool finds you could save tons of money on boy scout gear lol

 

[vpnavy]

Nice assortment of finds TNT-Hunter. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Hawks88]

Nice variety of finds. I like the knives. Nice amount of cash and a working watch. That’s a good day. Congrats

 

[alaskaseeker]

I had a chance to visit a old scout camp in the 80s on one of my trips to Nebraska, IT WAS a SILVER MINE....

 

[tnt-hunter]

I had a chance to visit a old scout camp in the 80s on one of my trips to Nebraska, IT WAS a SILVER MINE....

Unfortunately alaskaseeker this Camp was built in 1980 and there is very little silver. However it has hardly ever been hunter so the coin count is usually very good and usually high in quarters. Of course I find a pile of neckerchief slide that I clean up and give to new scouts and a TON of pegs I give back to the camp (over 8,500 since 2013).

Keep swingin.