A (non) EPIC Weekend!!

[Steve in PA]

Everyone seems to be describing their hunts as "EPIC" these days. Allow me to show you what NON-EPIC is like

Anyway....

I have been working an old house site on an ex-girlfriends parent’s property off and on now for a number of years. Previously I have found a couple draped bust large cents, a couple 2 cent pieces, 15-20 IHPs, and 15-20 older buttons, including several large tombacs. The place was probably built in the very early 1800s and used up until the 1980s. Lately I have been finding some early buttons and other relics in an area away from the house where another house may have stood. All the large tombacs have come from this area. Saturday, the ground was not frozen so I thought I would give this area a shot and try to hit some high grass that has been matted down some from recent snows. Good targets were few and far between, but I did get another large tombac button, a toasted and unidentifiable copper, a reins guide, and an 1898 IHP.


I followed Saturday's non-epic hunt with another non-epic effort on Sunday. I wanted to hit a well pounded colonial site further up in the mountains, but when I got there the field was frozen solid. So I went back down the hill with no good backup plan. I stopped at a house that I had hit casually many years ago, but had got 5 or 6 mercs out of the yard and figured there might be more. There are still plenty of targets in this yard (I left many penny signals in the ground), but the only silver I got was this little silver ring.


Here is everything that that I took home from this yard, and didn't throw away, with the exception of a gas valve that I am saving for Thad (PA dirt_NC sand)

 

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[Brendan75]

Hi, nice finds. Congrats Love the silver ring you found

 

[Hawks88]

Nice variety of finds. Congrats. I like the IHP and that’s a great looking ring. Well done.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[SD51]

You did better than here watching it snow!

 

[BLK HOLE]

YAWN yep non-epic....NOT! Love the IHP

 

[civilman1]

I'm going to have to wait now for my non-epic hunt with 6 more inches on the ground!!!! Shoot Steve,nothing wrong with that dig

 

[Johncoho]

I would call that a very decent hunt. Congrats. The Tombac, Indian, and large copper would make it epic for me.

 

[OreElse]

Quite a hunt in my book!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Hey, gas valves are epic finds my friend. You had a great weekend. Congrats !

 

[Argentium]

Hey ! The Indian Head Cent alone would have made it epic for me ..but you PA guys/ gals find those things like I find Zincolns !!

 

[Yak1366]

Very nice finds, Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

I think you had a very good weekend, congrats!

 

[Whyme]

Nice IHP! I like the buttons and the ring too. Congrats!

 

[Inspector]

Looks like a productive weekend to me, I went out Sunday and brought back one IHP because the ground was like concrete and I was happy I didn't come back empty. Anyway, congratulations on the saves

 

[Steve in PA]

Hey, gas valves are epic finds my friend. You had a great weekend. Congrats !

And you were witness to the most EPIC of all gas valve recoveries......This one still has not been topped

 

[Kona Koma]

Very nice ring and other finds. I think most people mean they had an “Epic Time”. A bad day of treasure hunting is better than a good day of not hunting. We have a great hobby. Now there’s a good question for us to ponder. Is it a hobby, sport, job, pastime, vocation, service, fitness program, or all this and more. It’s a great whatever.

 

[Ahab8]

So my big question is this buddy....and I won’t judge you based on the answer. Did you date this girl because her parents had an old property that you wanted to detect? Lol. I can’t think of many better reasons to start a relationship. I’m guessing if that was a bigger property with even better finds you’d be married to her. Nothing wrong with those finds buddy. Obviously very nice history there.

 

[Steve in PA]

So my big question is this buddy....and I won’t judge you based on the answer. Did you date this girl because her parents had an old property that you wanted to detect? Lol. I can’t think of many better reasons to start a relationship. I’m guessing if that was a bigger property with even better finds you’d be married to her. Nothing wrong with those finds buddy. Obviously very nice history there.

LOL Abe She was my first high school sweetheart. We moved to Texas together when I got out of college and we almost got married. I've been back in Pennsylvania for 25 years and she's still in Dallas on her second husband. But I'm still welcome on the property haha!

 

[Steve in PA]

Very nice ring and other finds. I think most people mean they had an “Epic Time”. A bad day of treasure hunting is better than a good day of not hunting. We have a great hobby. Now there’s a good question for us to ponder. Is it a hobby, sport, job, pastime, vocation, service, fitness program, or all this and more. It’s a great whatever.

For me Epic is "one for the ages", and that can't happen too often. I figure I have had maybe 7 epic hunts in the the last 14 years. I might just make an Epic Hunt post on the Best Finds Forum - lol. But I would answer your question - all of the above!