BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Well it's been a hot one here. We went out and dug in it, cause we couldn't stand ourselves. When the temps get to the mid 90s here, and the index into the 110s with no shade in the sugar cane rows, it's bad. The day just took it right out of us. We decided to start before first light, when it was in the upper 70s and felt like only 85.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Targets were sparse, as we were finishing up an area where we had found a couple of good signs earlier. Normally on that type of hunt, one can't expect much, but often there is at least something good to recover from the fringe areas.
I picked up a brass cupboard key, musketball, pewter spoon handle, and some bits. Shanegalang dug a couple flat buttons including a really nice pewter one with a star on it.
Then I got a nice high tone, and popped out a silver.
I could tell that it was One Real sized, and so I started the camera rolling. The hunt video is here:
Turned out to be an 1815 One Real
It was a great feeling to have an old silver in my pocket before 8am. That meant that the rest of the day's finds would be, as they say down here, "lagniappe."
But the other good finds were not to be found for me. Shanegalang got a really nice save with half of a good pre-CW spur. Then the heat got to us, and we called it a day. Here are some photos of our finds:
Stay cool out there, and Happy Hunting everyone!
Best Wishes,
Buck
Well it's been a hot one here. We went out and dug in it, cause we couldn't stand ourselves. When the temps get to the mid 90s here, and the index into the 110s with no shade in the sugar cane rows, it's bad. The day just took it right out of us. We decided to start before first light, when it was in the upper 70s and felt like only 85.
Targets were sparse, as we were finishing up an area where we had found a couple of good signs earlier. Normally on that type of hunt, one can't expect much, but often there is at least something good to recover from the fringe areas. I picked up a brass cupboard key, musketball, pewter spoon handle, and some bits. Shanegalang dug a couple flat buttons including a really nice pewter one with a star on it.
Then I got a nice high tone, and popped out a silver.
I could tell that it was One Real sized, and so I started the camera rolling. The hunt video is here:
Turned out to be an 1815 One Real
It was a great feeling to have an old silver in my pocket before 8am. That meant that the rest of the day's finds would be, as they say down here, "lagniappe."
But the other good finds were not to be found for me. Shanegalang got a really nice save with half of a good pre-CW spur. Then the heat got to us, and we called it a day. Here are some photos of our finds:
Stay cool out there, and Happy Hunting everyone!
Best Wishes,
Buck
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