OutdoorAdv
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- Apr 16, 2013
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- XP Deus,
GPX 4500,
Equinox 800,
AT Max
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Got out for a hunt today and decided to leave my Deus at home and take the T2 along. These two machine seem to compliment each other well and when a site gets quiet for one machine, it usually has a few hits on the other machine. A lot of my targets today were totally invisible to the Deus w/11" coil and I think this is because my T2 had the elliptical coil on today... still waiting on Deus to release that new coil so I can clean up.
I didnt get much today, but I did get a few quality pieces. My favorite is the hand engraved acorn. A nice 1820 LC turned up, and another piece to my shoulder scales which is always great. The 11 rivets with leather were in the same plug as the scale piece. When I saw the hole filled with rivets and the scale piece, I was really hoping it would be something good... but after removing all the rivets, the machine went quiet. The umbrella slide piece still has fabric in it which is cool. Some pieces came off when I rinsed it so they're laying next to it. Lastly, the silver plated brass hook thing goes to a Banjo... more on that below.
I dug the bullet in the same area I've dug about 4 sharps carbines. It appears to have been chewed and has what looks like lots of teeth marks. You can even see where they bit down and the tooth slid across the lead. I'm fairly certain this would have been another sharps.
This piece was deep and came out with a great looking green color to it. The emerald green always seems to fade by the time I get home. I knew right away it was to a musket trigger guard...
After I cleaned the acorn up I figured I might as well check and see if it fits the trigger guard I dug a few months ago. Here is the post when the trigger guard turned up: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/476699-couple-colonial-keepers.html So I pull it out of the display case and I can't believe it... where one dips, the other sticks out, the break and bend is spot on! Buried 50 yards apart and dug about 4 months apart.
It closely matches #15 on page 211 of G. Neumann's "Encyclopedia of The American Revolution". Now I just need to find the back piece of the guard.
Another solid LC turned up. I feel spoiled since I've been digging ID-able coppers the last half dozen or so trips. I'm sure this streak will end soon and I'll go back to digging those pitted copper disks.
And that silver plated brass hook... when it came out of the dirt I thought to myself 'this has to tighten a drum head'
As I was cleaning things and taking pictures for you guys it hit me... it goes to a Banjo drum!! I found a bunch online that match it perfectly. Here is a similar one showing how they were hooked to hold the drum head on. Super cool to me since I love these personal items. I'm sure this banjo hook was on a banjo that entertained around a camp fire long before electricity. I've found the Violin Bow Frog and naturally... LOTS of harmonicas and a circle brass reed to some other instrument at this place. Seems like lots of music was played there.
I haven't zapped this yet, but it appears to be the top part of an old musket iron butt plate. It's contoured to curve around the stock and has mounting screw holes in the correct spots. Its cool to dig them in iron... I do wish it was complete, however I have 6 five gallon buckets full of iron from this place so there is a chance I already have it.
Another bone handled knife\spoon\fork also turned up... I forgot I had it in mineral oil when I took all the pictures. Its too bad the blade is missing.
The growing shoulder scales... I haven't counted a set of scales to see how many I'm still missing, but I bet I'm about half way there.
It's cool to start seeing pieces of things that go together turn up. The trigger guard, the shoulder scales... and I have 12+ broken shoe buckle frames. In my recent trips I started finding frame pieces that are fitting together.. just like the trigger guard.
I didnt get much today, but I did get a few quality pieces. My favorite is the hand engraved acorn. A nice 1820 LC turned up, and another piece to my shoulder scales which is always great. The 11 rivets with leather were in the same plug as the scale piece. When I saw the hole filled with rivets and the scale piece, I was really hoping it would be something good... but after removing all the rivets, the machine went quiet. The umbrella slide piece still has fabric in it which is cool. Some pieces came off when I rinsed it so they're laying next to it. Lastly, the silver plated brass hook thing goes to a Banjo... more on that below.
I dug the bullet in the same area I've dug about 4 sharps carbines. It appears to have been chewed and has what looks like lots of teeth marks. You can even see where they bit down and the tooth slid across the lead. I'm fairly certain this would have been another sharps.
This piece was deep and came out with a great looking green color to it. The emerald green always seems to fade by the time I get home. I knew right away it was to a musket trigger guard...
After I cleaned the acorn up I figured I might as well check and see if it fits the trigger guard I dug a few months ago. Here is the post when the trigger guard turned up: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/476699-couple-colonial-keepers.html So I pull it out of the display case and I can't believe it... where one dips, the other sticks out, the break and bend is spot on! Buried 50 yards apart and dug about 4 months apart.
It closely matches #15 on page 211 of G. Neumann's "Encyclopedia of The American Revolution". Now I just need to find the back piece of the guard.
Another solid LC turned up. I feel spoiled since I've been digging ID-able coppers the last half dozen or so trips. I'm sure this streak will end soon and I'll go back to digging those pitted copper disks.
And that silver plated brass hook... when it came out of the dirt I thought to myself 'this has to tighten a drum head'
As I was cleaning things and taking pictures for you guys it hit me... it goes to a Banjo drum!! I found a bunch online that match it perfectly. Here is a similar one showing how they were hooked to hold the drum head on. Super cool to me since I love these personal items. I'm sure this banjo hook was on a banjo that entertained around a camp fire long before electricity. I've found the Violin Bow Frog and naturally... LOTS of harmonicas and a circle brass reed to some other instrument at this place. Seems like lots of music was played there.I haven't zapped this yet, but it appears to be the top part of an old musket iron butt plate. It's contoured to curve around the stock and has mounting screw holes in the correct spots. Its cool to dig them in iron... I do wish it was complete, however I have 6 five gallon buckets full of iron from this place so there is a chance I already have it.
Another bone handled knife\spoon\fork also turned up... I forgot I had it in mineral oil when I took all the pictures. Its too bad the blade is missing.
The growing shoulder scales... I haven't counted a set of scales to see how many I'm still missing, but I bet I'm about half way there.
It's cool to start seeing pieces of things that go together turn up. The trigger guard, the shoulder scales... and I have 12+ broken shoe buckle frames. In my recent trips I started finding frame pieces that are fitting together.. just like the trigger guard.
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Man, how awesome would that be! Every setting has its pros and cons and man it would be awesome to have fast, deep and accurate all at once. You'll laugh, but when I turned my machine on yesterday I totally FORGOT how to ground balance it. haha I had to google it on my phone. I kept holding menu and pushing the trigger which was changing the frequency. That was how my v3i gb'ed. Funny how quick you forget something like that when you don't use it for a couple months.
