- Dec 12, 2009
- 2,817
- 3,356
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Pro, Tesoro Vaquero, Bounty Hunter Land Star, Teknetics Delta 4000, Minelab Equinox 600, Garrett Carrot
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Got out today with some fine gentlemen from the Midwest Coinshooters Club. Headed out to our un-disclosed battle site near St. Charles. We dug a lot of barbed wire and spent shotgun shells. Haven't quite narrowed down our fire line yet but the tease of the earlier posted pistol ball and forged axe head keeps us encouraged that it's only a matter of time.
Toward the end of the day, some of the fellas had left and I found myself in a deep gully with nearly chest high boulders on either side of me and separated by about eighteen inches. I squeezed myself into the narrow channel and swung the Vaqueros coil into the bottom of the gully. I got a decent signal and placed the detector up high and out of harms way. I didn't want to risk having it rolling into the channel.
I began digging carefully until I exposed an elongated ring of metal with a shape that was familiar to me. I began sweating profusely by this point and I knew I had something special.
I don't know how it happened but just then my scoop slipped out of my hand and into a manhole sized pit. I could just see it about six feet further down but it was impossible to reach. I would be putting my safety in jeopardy by trying to retrieve it.
I had made my sacrificial offering to the relic gods, the trowel belongs to them now but never mind that.
Before the scoop took it's final journey, I had managed to expose enough of my prize that the tool wasn't needed. I rubbed a bit of the mud off a section to just see the word Winchester. I gingerly lifted it out of the hole and this is what I brought home.
The steel item in the middle pic is some type of farm implement.
More to follow.
Don't get TOO excited.
Toward the end of the day, some of the fellas had left and I found myself in a deep gully with nearly chest high boulders on either side of me and separated by about eighteen inches. I squeezed myself into the narrow channel and swung the Vaqueros coil into the bottom of the gully. I got a decent signal and placed the detector up high and out of harms way. I didn't want to risk having it rolling into the channel.
I began digging carefully until I exposed an elongated ring of metal with a shape that was familiar to me. I began sweating profusely by this point and I knew I had something special.
I don't know how it happened but just then my scoop slipped out of my hand and into a manhole sized pit. I could just see it about six feet further down but it was impossible to reach. I would be putting my safety in jeopardy by trying to retrieve it.
I had made my sacrificial offering to the relic gods, the trowel belongs to them now but never mind that.
Before the scoop took it's final journey, I had managed to expose enough of my prize that the tool wasn't needed. I rubbed a bit of the mud off a section to just see the word Winchester. I gingerly lifted it out of the hole and this is what I brought home.
The steel item in the middle pic is some type of farm implement.
More to follow.
Don't get TOO excited.
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I'm having fun with this! Mike you should be getting a PM.
Thanks for posting them!
