Danimal
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I didn't get to hunt at the Iceberg this weekend due to my son's baseball commitments both Sat. and today, but we did get out for a short hunt both days after he was done. Yesterday we hunted a foundation of a house near my home with some history. Long ago (from early 1900's until early 1960s) there was a horse racing track near my home. Nearby was the home of the owner's family. When I was younger and in my partying days, we used to hang out in the house, even staying the night, burning fires in the basement fireplace. The home was torn down in the early 80's, and now sits in a heavily overgrown wooded area. This is my first hunt there and after an hour we had found lots of trash and one 1924 wheatie and a 43P silver war nickle.
Fast forward to Sunday. Spencer had a pitching workout indoors, throwing to live batters in the 14-15 yr age group, all from area travel teams (Spencer is 12). He did VERY well, striking out 14 of the 18 batters he faced, and NOT getting a line-drive to the face as he feared!! Even the coach of the 15yr old travel team commented that Spenc had as much pop as most of his pitching staff (Spenc hit 68 a few times today on a Jugs gun!)
After he was done, we went BACK to the local schoolyard where one carries their digging tool prominently and keeps one eye trained on the field's perimeter at all times (ok...maybe it's not THAT bad but that's how I feel there)
I ended up there with a few bullets (one hollow-point copper jacketed large caliber that looks like it has bone fragments in it!) Some weird junk and two wheats (1924 oldest) a 1920 Merc and a silver cross that is real nice.
As Nate has finally convinced me, I will gently clean my silver coins and not polish them. The cross however I polished.
Hope this weather holds!
HH all!!
Total finds for about three hours
Closeup of 1943P War Nickle, 1920 Merc and silver cross obverse
Reverse
Fast forward to Sunday. Spencer had a pitching workout indoors, throwing to live batters in the 14-15 yr age group, all from area travel teams (Spencer is 12). He did VERY well, striking out 14 of the 18 batters he faced, and NOT getting a line-drive to the face as he feared!! Even the coach of the 15yr old travel team commented that Spenc had as much pop as most of his pitching staff (Spenc hit 68 a few times today on a Jugs gun!)
After he was done, we went BACK to the local schoolyard where one carries their digging tool prominently and keeps one eye trained on the field's perimeter at all times (ok...maybe it's not THAT bad but that's how I feel there)
I ended up there with a few bullets (one hollow-point copper jacketed large caliber that looks like it has bone fragments in it!) Some weird junk and two wheats (1924 oldest) a 1920 Merc and a silver cross that is real nice.
As Nate has finally convinced me, I will gently clean my silver coins and not polish them. The cross however I polished.
Hope this weather holds!
HH all!!
Total finds for about three hours
Closeup of 1943P War Nickle, 1920 Merc and silver cross obverse
Reverse
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