Forked while token in the woods. Socket to me.

[Mayo South Elgin]

I went over to a park in the afternoon - around 3 or 3:30...
Looked at the dirt piles that had been pulled from the ball field and decided to check out the woods first. I read the big sign about erosion and glaciers and be gentle on the land blah blah blah and then went in off the trails.

My first set down of the coil was right on top of a gold ring - a kids ring with 3 tiny stones of dubious value but the band looks to be real gold - not plated. No markings inside it though. About 3 inches down. Correction: On further inspection, it's probably plated

Speaking of hairy digs, I spotted a black plastic garbage bag and went over to check it out.
There were a few holes in the bag and I could see hair or fur - so my guess is someone tossed their dead cat or small dog.
People are such a**holes. Hopefully it was dead before they bagged it and tossed it into the woods.

Wandered around through the spider webs for awhile, fed some mosquitoes, dug up a lot of canned food tin lids, saw bottle remains in several places and dug mostly junk. Got the part of a pocket watch that holds the glass crystal, but no glass and no watch.
Headed back up towards the top of the gulley and on the way towards the fence got a nice toy derringer that fooled me into thinking it was real until I got it home and washed it off. Everything is intact - handle grips, spring on the firing pin, it still works. No rust. But it's not a real derringer. Made in USA. I think the brand is Nichols

Took a few swings on the above mentioned dirt piles and didn't get anything so I worked along the woodchips and fence.
Got 6 clad dimes here and there. About 5 mem cents.
I got really excited when I found my first token with two slots in the back side.
About 8 inches down.
Now for sure I was thinking I would find silver if this was one of those old phone tokens.
A couple minutes and 6 feet farther down the wood chip road later, another token with slots. Wow - this is getting promising (I thinks to myself)
I'm sure I'm gonna hit into some silver now...
About 3 more feet away from the last one, I get the THIRD token. Holy crap I thinks.
I keep searching here and there but no more tokens.
All the great sounding signals I got after the tokens turned out to be flattened screw caps. And I mean flattened. 8 inches down.

OK so I call it a day - it was now about 7pm and I was content with the derringer and the tokens and the ring.
Until I got home and washed off the tokens. Sonsab**ches they're Brunswick Zone tokens!!!
Well that explains why there was no silver nearby anyways.

It was good to get out and dig again anyways. Hopefully my next token will be a genuine relic.

 

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[Lowbatts]

Flippin' caps!

Lemme know when you wanna hit again, I'll show you some of the finer points of the park.

 

[kimsdad]

Cool old fork'n toy gun!

Sounds like there's a lot of earth moving going on out there in your parks.

I just can't believe that the lure of the woods was strong enough to pull you away from those dirt piles!

 

[twistidd]

"Looked at the dirt piles that had been pulled from the ball field and decided to check out the woods first. I read the big sign about erosion and glaciers and be gentle on the land blah blah blah and then went in off the trails."

LOL, I love your rash tone, I was laughing out loud over here. Erosion, glaciers, whatever. You don't let nothin' get in your way! lol

Take those tokens and go bowling! If you don't use them, I will. I suck at bowling and could use the practice.

Joe

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

Hey speakin of bowling... I LOVE bowling and I suck at it too!
(Watch while I hijack my own thread...)
I go every other week, Sunday night around 7:30 or 8 until I finish 4 games.
The place to go for CHEAP bowling in Elgin is Woodview Lanes, aka Espo's.
It's just north of Rt 19 (Irving Park Rd), at 11 Woodview Drive
The price just went up to $1.50 per game for Sunday night bowling. I think shoe rental is still $3.00
Unfortunately the Brunswick tokens won't be good there. It's not a glitzy, new, Brunswick entertainment center - it's basically an old fashioned bowling alley which does have automatic scoring that sometimes gives you extra pins, occasionally doesn't count a spare, but that's half the fun of it.
They have a snack bar with surprisingly good pizza for a bowling alley (and the other usual stuff)
There's a bar if you want beer/alcohol, soft drinks at the snack bar.

So the question is...
WHO IS UP FOR SOME BOWLING ACTION?
No league stuff - just an informal get together once in a while to knock down some pins.
If enough people are interested, this might be something to do through the winter months just to get together and BS.

 

[twistidd]

The Dude (me) is up for some bowling action!

Who else??

 

[watercolor]

That Derringer's cool!. . . I had one like that when I was in 5th
grade. . . the teacher caught me with it so I had to leave it on her
desk until school was over at 3:00. . .

 

[litefire56]

Yeah, I believe I saw those "Trail Closed" signs also and I fully respected them. Just walked over 6' and went in blazing a new trail.
Didn't we all have a Derringer like that when we were kids. My used "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and fired a spring loaded plastic gray bullet.

 

[Pocket Spill]

Great post! Cool toy gun!

 

[Lowbatts]

Sunday night is good for me, that's the lanes up by "The Creek" and there's good beepin' across the street, uh, bring that derringer....

 

[kimsdad]

No league stuff - just an informal get together once in a while to knock down some pins.

I was thinking about it until I read we actually have to knock down some pins......

Can I use a Beretta? I think my score would be higher.

Count me in for a trip or two out yonder in wintertime!

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

Maybe I should start a new topic for Bowling Club...
Since a perfect score is 300 we could call it the 300 Clu...
no wait - that's taken.

Besides, with the way I bowl, I'm lucky if I make it into the One Fitty Club.

 

[Lowbatts]

I can get in the mid to upper double digits, in fact my bowling scores usually look more like Tiger Woods' golf scores, (front nine) which come in dangerously close to my IQ which competes with my sleeping heart rate now that I think of it. I like puppies too.

See ya at the digs!