FoxHound0985
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Hello all,
BuckleBoy and I had a chance to hit a newly found site here in Southern Indiana. To date we have pulled some pretty nice stuff out of there such as BuckleBoy's beautiful Half Dime. We went out today with the hopes to come away with just a few nice Tombac buttons or maybe a wheat. Well, let me tell you, we came away with MUCH more!! I decided that today would be a great day to test out my new XLT and he wanted to become more familar with his Tesero Silver uMax. My first target was a flattened copper jacketed bullet point, nothing special. I didn't expect much at that time because we were not even on the site yet. My next target was a surprise first, a 1919 buffalo nickel! I had never found one until now. It wasn't long before BuckleBoy, like usual, started pulling out the Tombacs and Wheaties! He recovered 3 or 4 Tombacs and 2 wheaties, 1917 and 1924. A little later I pulled out a nice 1943 Washington Quarter and a button of my own. As the day was starting to come to a close we decided to check in the woods next to the field. I got a strong signal in a small pile of dirt and pulled out a very nice frame buckle! As we were about to head for the car BuckleBoy got a really good signal followed by a loud "Oh my God!!" which could have been heard from a mile away. I ran over to see him pull a brown colored disc from the ground and I knew he had just found a Large Cent! I congradulated him and said "Now I have to find another coin and we will tied again". I took no more than two sweeps with my coil and got a VDI # 80 and started digging. I searched the hole and it was gone so I knew it was in the plug. I broke the plug in half and saw something thick and round sticking out and said "No way!". Out popped ANOTHER Large Cent, an 1833. My 3rd oldest coin! Who would have thought that two Large Cents would be dug no more than a minute apart!! And that is how we finished out the day. BuckleBoy's Large Cent unfortunately has a hole right through the date. It is the braided Hair type, so probably 1840s. It was the end of the greatest hunt that I have been on. All together we managed to pull out 6 coins, 6 or 7 buttons, 3 or 4 musket balls, and a very cool Boy Scout Good Luck medal along with numerous other goodies. We will definately be hitting that site pretty hard in the future. Thanks for looking and HH!
BuckleBoy and I had a chance to hit a newly found site here in Southern Indiana. To date we have pulled some pretty nice stuff out of there such as BuckleBoy's beautiful Half Dime. We went out today with the hopes to come away with just a few nice Tombac buttons or maybe a wheat. Well, let me tell you, we came away with MUCH more!! I decided that today would be a great day to test out my new XLT and he wanted to become more familar with his Tesero Silver uMax. My first target was a flattened copper jacketed bullet point, nothing special. I didn't expect much at that time because we were not even on the site yet. My next target was a surprise first, a 1919 buffalo nickel! I had never found one until now. It wasn't long before BuckleBoy, like usual, started pulling out the Tombacs and Wheaties! He recovered 3 or 4 Tombacs and 2 wheaties, 1917 and 1924. A little later I pulled out a nice 1943 Washington Quarter and a button of my own. As the day was starting to come to a close we decided to check in the woods next to the field. I got a strong signal in a small pile of dirt and pulled out a very nice frame buckle! As we were about to head for the car BuckleBoy got a really good signal followed by a loud "Oh my God!!" which could have been heard from a mile away. I ran over to see him pull a brown colored disc from the ground and I knew he had just found a Large Cent! I congradulated him and said "Now I have to find another coin and we will tied again". I took no more than two sweeps with my coil and got a VDI # 80 and started digging. I searched the hole and it was gone so I knew it was in the plug. I broke the plug in half and saw something thick and round sticking out and said "No way!". Out popped ANOTHER Large Cent, an 1833. My 3rd oldest coin! Who would have thought that two Large Cents would be dug no more than a minute apart!! And that is how we finished out the day. BuckleBoy's Large Cent unfortunately has a hole right through the date. It is the braided Hair type, so probably 1840s. It was the end of the greatest hunt that I have been on. All together we managed to pull out 6 coins, 6 or 7 buttons, 3 or 4 musket balls, and a very cool Boy Scout Good Luck medal along with numerous other goodies. We will definately be hitting that site pretty hard in the future. Thanks for looking and HH!
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Don't ya wish every hunt was like that one! 8) 
. It looks like the patina on the Vermont copper I found this year. Beautiful. 
