Frodov
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Egad! The titles I have to come up with to get people to read these little posts. Hello everyone, it's me again, the teller of tales of detectoring dementia and other oddities discovered while indulging in this habit forming hobby. I've not been detecting as long as some of you poor souls, and perhaps I've been at it longer than still other of you who have been bitten as well, yet I still consider myself somewhat a novice to this hobby of ours.. treasure hunting..er.. metal detecting. I used to muse at the wistful reflections of some of you old timers when you pined at not being able to get out and detect due to weather, family obligations, work.. or <dramatic music.. DUNH DUNH DUNNNNNH> WINTER! I didn't realize how badly I too would miss getting my fix, how much I would miss the feel of fresh dirt under my fingernails or the smell of a newly dug plug of sod.. the feel of woodchips under my knee pads.. the seductive squelching beep of a tantalizing target reported by my detector. Oh Yeah.. I'm hooked.. I'm hooked BAD! So it was with great delight that I found myself with a couple of hours to digress into this detector driven dementia that we call a hobby today. That and it wasn't raining!
I promised my wife that I would drive her to her weekly group meeting that she directs, and just happened to have my detector in the trunk of the car. After delivering my dearest to the door, I headed out to a nearby elementary school playground that I've had on my list to explore. Actually there were three schools on my list for today, but would I be able to search all of them? I was certainly going to try. At the first school, deserted of course due to it being SUNDAY, I geared up and started swinging on my way to the first tot lot. Just two feet from the edge of the parking lot I got my first signal. *sigh* It was a pull tab. Oh well. The next target a couple of feet later was a dime. That's better. There sure was a lot of trash in the grass outside of that first tot lot, and not much hiding in the woodchips to displace that little fact either. Alas, sometimes you just don't find very much.. or anything for that matter. Only one find, or coin anyway, in the woodchips at this school, a single dime. Making my finds for this school a few pull tabs, and 23 cents. On to the next schoolyard.
Pulling up to the second school on my list I noted that there were a couple of carloads of kids just leaving the playground. That's fine by me, I don't mind children around, but playing the pied piper gets old after a while, and I was kind of pressed for time today. Again, first target was just a few feet from the pavement on my way to the chips. This time it was a quarter though, and two pennies. Hey.. things are looking up. I didn't even have to dig very deep in the dirt to retrieve them either. Some more pull tabs, a couple of nickles and some pennies.. BUNCHES of pencil ends (the bit of metal that secures the erasure to the pencil).. and a lighter. A lighter? <shrug> Some little firebug dropped it I guess. I found a pair of nail clips. Boy, the things these kids are carrying these days. A few paces away from the clips I found this little slug too. Not sure what caliber it is, I'm guessing .38 or so, but it's definitely been shot (note the rifling marks) though I don't think it was shot directly into the chips.. I think it was ballistic.. shot up in the air and fell back to earth. There is wood packed into the center of the hollow point, but the bullet was not expanded as it would have been if it hit the chips with full force. Good thing there wasn't a kid standing where the bullet came back to earth.
With that sobering thought I moved on to the last of the three schools I had in mind for my whirlwind hunt today. This tot lot was HUGE! In the playground of a "Magnet School" I guess they had more funds available for playground equipment or something. Anyway, I did pretty well here, till I came upon the Zombie! Almost missed him, had it not been for the little Hottie that I found a few inches away under the swingset. I found this little band all curled up in to a small little roll, and almost threw it away when I noticed that it had something stamped or inscribed into the metal. I thought it might be some sort of bird marking band or something. It wasn't until I got it home and cleaned it up that I discovered that it was a "HOTTIE".
<laughing>
That little breechclothed, red eyed, surferdude zombie was something else though. He'll join my menagerie of other little plastic figurines found while detecting.. like my dinosaur skull, the teddy bears, my little ass (donkey people! DONKEY!).. the army soldiers, cowboys and indians. I need to get a toybox to put all these treasures in.. My wife is just about through with tolerating them cluttering up the computer desk here. <grin>
Along with the Hottie and Zombie, I found a couple of dollars in clad, more pull tabs, can slaw, some little metal plug of some sort, a battery, buttons, zipper pulls, and a butterfly.
Ahhhh.. to get the fix.. what a rush! With a renewed sense of well being, I returned to my wife's Group Gig to retrieve her for our drive home. I may not have hit it big with the coinage today, but I certainly found some interesting little treasures, and scratched that itch. And to think it was in the single digits three days ago, and today it was nearly 60 degrees (F).?? More rain on the way, at least I'll be working and it won't bother me too much not being able to get out and indulge in this habit..er hobby for a few days. Till then, I'll have to suffer the withdrawls, and do some *gasp* "research".
Here's everthing I found today, except for the trash I threw away.
Happy Hunting Everyone !!
Frodov
I promised my wife that I would drive her to her weekly group meeting that she directs, and just happened to have my detector in the trunk of the car. After delivering my dearest to the door, I headed out to a nearby elementary school playground that I've had on my list to explore. Actually there were three schools on my list for today, but would I be able to search all of them? I was certainly going to try. At the first school, deserted of course due to it being SUNDAY, I geared up and started swinging on my way to the first tot lot. Just two feet from the edge of the parking lot I got my first signal. *sigh* It was a pull tab. Oh well. The next target a couple of feet later was a dime. That's better. There sure was a lot of trash in the grass outside of that first tot lot, and not much hiding in the woodchips to displace that little fact either. Alas, sometimes you just don't find very much.. or anything for that matter. Only one find, or coin anyway, in the woodchips at this school, a single dime. Making my finds for this school a few pull tabs, and 23 cents. On to the next schoolyard.
Pulling up to the second school on my list I noted that there were a couple of carloads of kids just leaving the playground. That's fine by me, I don't mind children around, but playing the pied piper gets old after a while, and I was kind of pressed for time today. Again, first target was just a few feet from the pavement on my way to the chips. This time it was a quarter though, and two pennies. Hey.. things are looking up. I didn't even have to dig very deep in the dirt to retrieve them either. Some more pull tabs, a couple of nickles and some pennies.. BUNCHES of pencil ends (the bit of metal that secures the erasure to the pencil).. and a lighter. A lighter? <shrug> Some little firebug dropped it I guess. I found a pair of nail clips. Boy, the things these kids are carrying these days. A few paces away from the clips I found this little slug too. Not sure what caliber it is, I'm guessing .38 or so, but it's definitely been shot (note the rifling marks) though I don't think it was shot directly into the chips.. I think it was ballistic.. shot up in the air and fell back to earth. There is wood packed into the center of the hollow point, but the bullet was not expanded as it would have been if it hit the chips with full force. Good thing there wasn't a kid standing where the bullet came back to earth.
With that sobering thought I moved on to the last of the three schools I had in mind for my whirlwind hunt today. This tot lot was HUGE! In the playground of a "Magnet School" I guess they had more funds available for playground equipment or something. Anyway, I did pretty well here, till I came upon the Zombie! Almost missed him, had it not been for the little Hottie that I found a few inches away under the swingset. I found this little band all curled up in to a small little roll, and almost threw it away when I noticed that it had something stamped or inscribed into the metal. I thought it might be some sort of bird marking band or something. It wasn't until I got it home and cleaned it up that I discovered that it was a "HOTTIE".
<laughing>
That little breechclothed, red eyed, surferdude zombie was something else though. He'll join my menagerie of other little plastic figurines found while detecting.. like my dinosaur skull, the teddy bears, my little ass (donkey people! DONKEY!).. the army soldiers, cowboys and indians. I need to get a toybox to put all these treasures in.. My wife is just about through with tolerating them cluttering up the computer desk here. <grin>
Along with the Hottie and Zombie, I found a couple of dollars in clad, more pull tabs, can slaw, some little metal plug of some sort, a battery, buttons, zipper pulls, and a butterfly.
Ahhhh.. to get the fix.. what a rush! With a renewed sense of well being, I returned to my wife's Group Gig to retrieve her for our drive home. I may not have hit it big with the coinage today, but I certainly found some interesting little treasures, and scratched that itch. And to think it was in the single digits three days ago, and today it was nearly 60 degrees (F).?? More rain on the way, at least I'll be working and it won't bother me too much not being able to get out and indulge in this habit..er hobby for a few days. Till then, I'll have to suffer the withdrawls, and do some *gasp* "research".
Here's everthing I found today, except for the trash I threw away.
Happy Hunting Everyone !!
Frodov
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