civil_war22
Relic Recovery Specialist
- Dec 5, 2008
- 3,215
- 2,813
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 1
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75 SE/LTD2, minelab Etrac, whites classic id, spectrum xlt, fisher f7, fisher 1266, king of all Tesoro Cibola, Tesoro Vaquero, Fisher 1280-X, minelab equinox, Fisher F75+ Garrett AT MAX
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Broken_detector, and I went out researching today talking to some old family friends that I’ve never met, but they knew my great grandpa, and great uncle, and great grandma. The old man was in his 90’s, he’s dying, and his wife let us come in to talk to him. He was a huge wealth of knowledge for the area, and helped us find a old train filling depot for loading water into the steam engines. I’ve been using a 1936 map, to go off the old roads, homes, schools, churches, and railroad depots. Our main focus is the depots in the area, especially the ones that are long gone that are in someone’s field now where the tracks run through. We walked, and walked, fell in thorn bushes that were somehow still green, and about fell down a sheer bluff. I had on my RedWing waterproof, composite toe, and steel plated puncture proof insole. All in all we never found what he called the actual depot, but did locate the filling station for the train, and where the telegraph line was torn down.
We moved on along the old map going going through an unincorporated city we’re very familiar with, then back to a small town of maybe 350 folks, and was going off the 1936 Arkansas Highway map, that showed houses, businesses, train tracks, fords in the creek, churches, and schools, along with unknown cemeteries. We decided to stop off at a local community building. We were worn out from trying to decipher all the data, from one map to the next, and finally decided to hunt the community building which was a old house, and was on the 1936 Hwy map. Had a big yard in back, and in front, and the side yard on one side was where a baseball field is, and the other side is empty grass, with a halfway maintained city street. Immediately after turning the F75+ I had some good EMI chatter so changed frequencies to F3, to clear it up, and lowered the sensitivity to around 65-70, and then had it on 3H for tones. Been finding it great for coin hunting, and even relic hunting most areas. The first target was very quick, and realized it hadn’t been hunted, it was a 65 dime, and 64 cent. I told Broken_detector that it hadn’t ever been hunted. There were far too many good high signals in there. All in all, I found 5 Lincoln’s all in the early 60’s to early 70’s, and a 1948 S Wheat Cent, two 1960’s dimes, a sweet twin engine 1995 hot wheels drag coupe, that was in horrible shape when I found it, I gently heated the metal near the wheels with a heat rod that only allows heat to one spot, straighten them all out enough to call it good, and think for being almost 25 years old it’s in amazing shape, also found a very sweet Hubley Texan Jr. Cap Pistol. There was also a part to an old Hubley car I had found, but it was broke. The other item, has an area for a monogram, possibly a pocket hand warmer, or zippo cover. Either way it’s pretty cool. I’ll definitely be going back there soon, and am going to be doing some more research on depots, and stores that are no longer around. We have a small ghost town near us, a high school sweet heart, and her husband are going to be buying. It was her grandpas, and she said there’s close to 5,000 acres. The ghost town was built in the early 1870’s to accommodate the fur, trapping business in the lower valley, has a general store, cellars, house foundations, as well as a train depot. Her grandpa never would let us hunt it because there is two different stories from some old folks that lived there when he was a boy of two different areas of a jar full of coins(how many times have we all heard stories like these). Thanks for looking, and maybe Broken_detector will post his.
We moved on along the old map going going through an unincorporated city we’re very familiar with, then back to a small town of maybe 350 folks, and was going off the 1936 Arkansas Highway map, that showed houses, businesses, train tracks, fords in the creek, churches, and schools, along with unknown cemeteries. We decided to stop off at a local community building. We were worn out from trying to decipher all the data, from one map to the next, and finally decided to hunt the community building which was a old house, and was on the 1936 Hwy map. Had a big yard in back, and in front, and the side yard on one side was where a baseball field is, and the other side is empty grass, with a halfway maintained city street. Immediately after turning the F75+ I had some good EMI chatter so changed frequencies to F3, to clear it up, and lowered the sensitivity to around 65-70, and then had it on 3H for tones. Been finding it great for coin hunting, and even relic hunting most areas. The first target was very quick, and realized it hadn’t been hunted, it was a 65 dime, and 64 cent. I told Broken_detector that it hadn’t ever been hunted. There were far too many good high signals in there. All in all, I found 5 Lincoln’s all in the early 60’s to early 70’s, and a 1948 S Wheat Cent, two 1960’s dimes, a sweet twin engine 1995 hot wheels drag coupe, that was in horrible shape when I found it, I gently heated the metal near the wheels with a heat rod that only allows heat to one spot, straighten them all out enough to call it good, and think for being almost 25 years old it’s in amazing shape, also found a very sweet Hubley Texan Jr. Cap Pistol. There was also a part to an old Hubley car I had found, but it was broke. The other item, has an area for a monogram, possibly a pocket hand warmer, or zippo cover. Either way it’s pretty cool. I’ll definitely be going back there soon, and am going to be doing some more research on depots, and stores that are no longer around. We have a small ghost town near us, a high school sweet heart, and her husband are going to be buying. It was her grandpas, and she said there’s close to 5,000 acres. The ghost town was built in the early 1870’s to accommodate the fur, trapping business in the lower valley, has a general store, cellars, house foundations, as well as a train depot. Her grandpa never would let us hunt it because there is two different stories from some old folks that lived there when he was a boy of two different areas of a jar full of coins(how many times have we all heard stories like these). Thanks for looking, and maybe Broken_detector will post his.
Upvote
10
