My buddy and I like to follow old wagon trails by the base of the Yosemite and Sequoia Mountains. We always end up finding old coins and relics and this trip was the best so far.
We started walking on one of the wagon trail and after about a mile and a half from where my truck was parked we came across an old shed about 75 yards from the trail. At first it appeared to be just an old shed, but after looking at it better it looked like an old Spanish Ammo Stop or storage shed. It had three windows with iron rails across them and below the windows were rifle slits / openings. I noticed the inside framework had wood pegs holding it together not nails or bolts, so this would mean that it was probably built in the late 1700s to early 1800s but I'm not an expert on dating carpentry work. I wish I had my camera with me to show you all.
Anyway, I started using my Explorer SE with the Coiltek coil "Joey" next to the shed and hit the mother load. At first I thought it was gonna be scrap iron the way my detector was screaming, so I had my friend come over with my XLT and it was still sounding like a big piece of junk, but I dug it anyway. I started hitting ball after ball, hundreds and hundreds of them. I was finding them as deep as three feet down. I stayed and dug while my friend took my truck to buy a red wagon. Their was no way that I was going to carry these 1.5 miles to where my truck was. It still took 4 trips. We only took a small portion home with us. I got 679 and my friend only wanted 20 or so. He is not much of a collector. He uses my Whites because he don't have a unit. I will probably go back in the spring to get another batch of them, I hope my back is better by then.
We started walking on one of the wagon trail and after about a mile and a half from where my truck was parked we came across an old shed about 75 yards from the trail. At first it appeared to be just an old shed, but after looking at it better it looked like an old Spanish Ammo Stop or storage shed. It had three windows with iron rails across them and below the windows were rifle slits / openings. I noticed the inside framework had wood pegs holding it together not nails or bolts, so this would mean that it was probably built in the late 1700s to early 1800s but I'm not an expert on dating carpentry work. I wish I had my camera with me to show you all.
Anyway, I started using my Explorer SE with the Coiltek coil "Joey" next to the shed and hit the mother load. At first I thought it was gonna be scrap iron the way my detector was screaming, so I had my friend come over with my XLT and it was still sounding like a big piece of junk, but I dug it anyway. I started hitting ball after ball, hundreds and hundreds of them. I was finding them as deep as three feet down. I stayed and dug while my friend took my truck to buy a red wagon. Their was no way that I was going to carry these 1.5 miles to where my truck was. It still took 4 trips. We only took a small portion home with us. I got 679 and my friend only wanted 20 or so. He is not much of a collector. He uses my Whites because he don't have a unit. I will probably go back in the spring to get another batch of them, I hope my back is better by then.
