tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Got back to the civil war bullet school over the weekend. Life has been busy and it has been several weeks since I was able to get to this site. The finds are thining out, but there is always hope there will be a goodie in the next plug so I keep on going back. It has been hot and very dry so the digging is no fun, but that does not stop me from swingin and diggin.
DAY 1
I spent 4.5 hours with the CZ21 and found 37 coins with a face value of $1.25, 3 game tabs and part of another, a war nickel, a silver ring, a brass embellishment, a 2 piece button front (I thought it might be a good one, but it is not military and had a ferrous back that rusted mostly away, so just a blazer cuff button), an interesting brass whatzit (modern type, not old), some can slaw and a big pile of tabs.
When I first got to the site it was tab central, one after another and then I moved into an area that was can slaw central, but there were still tabs there as well. The tabs are mostly pull off or as we call them beaver tails. I found beavers with tails, beavers without tails and just tails without the beaver. There were a few more modern tabs, but the fun and games part was the 3 and a half game tabs. The 3 complete tabs are from a Coca Cola money game and the half tab is from a Pepsi monopoly game.
Digging all those mid tones you find nickels and this school has always produced a high percentage of nickels in the total coin count. Today was 4 dime 13 nickels and 20 pennies.
A nice clear mid tone right up against a chain link fence that I thought might be aluminum tie wire was actually the 1943 P war nickel. In the hole I could tell the color was off, not the normal shine of silver, but not the brownish color of nickels that have been in the ground a while. It only took a second to see the P on the back to know what I had. The ring is another small kiddie size silver with a striped stone that looks like turquoise.
The brass whatzit is interest, but it doesn’t look old is style or metal condition. Not a clue what it was used for.
I love the tiny little flowers that seem to survive all this dry weather. This group is one example. You can tell how small they are by the blades of grass around them.
That makes my streak 7 hunts in a row with silver.
DAY 2
I went back to the school and did a 5 hour swing session with the Cz21 continuing the grid I worked on the day before. I am slowly cleaning up the place and the targets can be kind of sparse in places. This section was not as good total target wise, but the coins were a little better and the tabs were fewer so not a bad thing overall. I managed to find 39 coins with a face value of $1.80, a bullet, a chunk of melted lead, a 1956 wheatie, a key, tabs, can slaw and foil oh my.
This is civil war bullet number 50 from this site. It may have been fired or it may just be the victim of construction and years of farming on this land before the school was built. It is a .44 caliber colt pistol bullet and the first and only pistol bullet from the school so far. It was a mid tone like the silver nickel and all those fun pop tabs I keep finding here. The lead chunk may well be camp lead. It is possible it is construction lead from one of the old homes on the farm that was here before the school. No way to tell for sure, but with what I have been finding here my guess would be camp lead. Still a high nickel percentage, but not as many as last time and that ends my silver streak.
DAY 3
I went back to one of the parks were the water level usually dropped dramatically during the summer to do some water detecting. I was hoping there would still be water, but not counting on it and when I got there the swim area was totally dry. I could see that someone had been there recently with a detector. Their foot prints worked a grid part of the time and wandered some as well. They dug some deep targets that they left behind in the ground. They sounded like nails to me and when I dug them out they were nails. I found foil and tabs in areas that had been covered so they were not careful in their hunting. They didn’t dig a lot so there wasn’t a lot to find to start with. I covered the whole area in 2.5 hours with the ATPro and found 2 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 tabs, a cheapie earring, a message from Mom pendant, a few pieces of miscellaneous non ferrous metal and chunks of foil.
I didn’t get skunked, but it was close.
DAY 4
Went back to a small town park that has given up a few silvers and some decent clad in the past. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and doing a walk around and small spot grids along the way. I had a good day for clad with some silver to make things nice. Altogether I found 142 coins (87 pennies LOL) with a face value of $8.72, a toy car and the base of another, 3 rings, a Hershey Park NO CASH VALUE token and squashed penny, some tabs, can slaw and a few big iron pieces.
The rings are always fun. The first one is silver and looked good coming out of the ground. It had been flattened, but I think it can be straightened. The second one is also silver, but it came out of the ground brown and ugly so at first I thought it was a junker. Silver turns black normally when it tarnishes, but on rare occasions it gets a brown coat. The third ring popped out with the stone up like a nice diamond engagement ring and I thought I had a winner. When I picked it up and the stone fell out I noticed it was brassy and not gold so just a junker.
I did find a few coins in coin returns and a few on the ground as eyeball finds. The best eyeball find was a skull valve stem cover. One trip to the grocery store I did find 2 coins and an earring back in the reject slot. One of the coins was a German 1 pfennig from 1939. Probably a souvenir some guy brought home from WW2.
So lots of fun, decent gas money and silver to add to the pile. All in all a good week. As always the old man is swingin and staying in shape in the great outdoors (when he isn’t cutting and splitting firewood for the winter). Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
Here’s another small flower picture and a young fawn that has adopted my front yard as his favorite spot. He seems to stop by every evening.
DAY 1
I spent 4.5 hours with the CZ21 and found 37 coins with a face value of $1.25, 3 game tabs and part of another, a war nickel, a silver ring, a brass embellishment, a 2 piece button front (I thought it might be a good one, but it is not military and had a ferrous back that rusted mostly away, so just a blazer cuff button), an interesting brass whatzit (modern type, not old), some can slaw and a big pile of tabs.
When I first got to the site it was tab central, one after another and then I moved into an area that was can slaw central, but there were still tabs there as well. The tabs are mostly pull off or as we call them beaver tails. I found beavers with tails, beavers without tails and just tails without the beaver. There were a few more modern tabs, but the fun and games part was the 3 and a half game tabs. The 3 complete tabs are from a Coca Cola money game and the half tab is from a Pepsi monopoly game.
Digging all those mid tones you find nickels and this school has always produced a high percentage of nickels in the total coin count. Today was 4 dime 13 nickels and 20 pennies.
A nice clear mid tone right up against a chain link fence that I thought might be aluminum tie wire was actually the 1943 P war nickel. In the hole I could tell the color was off, not the normal shine of silver, but not the brownish color of nickels that have been in the ground a while. It only took a second to see the P on the back to know what I had. The ring is another small kiddie size silver with a striped stone that looks like turquoise.
The brass whatzit is interest, but it doesn’t look old is style or metal condition. Not a clue what it was used for.
I love the tiny little flowers that seem to survive all this dry weather. This group is one example. You can tell how small they are by the blades of grass around them.
That makes my streak 7 hunts in a row with silver.
DAY 2
I went back to the school and did a 5 hour swing session with the Cz21 continuing the grid I worked on the day before. I am slowly cleaning up the place and the targets can be kind of sparse in places. This section was not as good total target wise, but the coins were a little better and the tabs were fewer so not a bad thing overall. I managed to find 39 coins with a face value of $1.80, a bullet, a chunk of melted lead, a 1956 wheatie, a key, tabs, can slaw and foil oh my.
This is civil war bullet number 50 from this site. It may have been fired or it may just be the victim of construction and years of farming on this land before the school was built. It is a .44 caliber colt pistol bullet and the first and only pistol bullet from the school so far. It was a mid tone like the silver nickel and all those fun pop tabs I keep finding here. The lead chunk may well be camp lead. It is possible it is construction lead from one of the old homes on the farm that was here before the school. No way to tell for sure, but with what I have been finding here my guess would be camp lead. Still a high nickel percentage, but not as many as last time and that ends my silver streak.
DAY 3
I went back to one of the parks were the water level usually dropped dramatically during the summer to do some water detecting. I was hoping there would still be water, but not counting on it and when I got there the swim area was totally dry. I could see that someone had been there recently with a detector. Their foot prints worked a grid part of the time and wandered some as well. They dug some deep targets that they left behind in the ground. They sounded like nails to me and when I dug them out they were nails. I found foil and tabs in areas that had been covered so they were not careful in their hunting. They didn’t dig a lot so there wasn’t a lot to find to start with. I covered the whole area in 2.5 hours with the ATPro and found 2 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 tabs, a cheapie earring, a message from Mom pendant, a few pieces of miscellaneous non ferrous metal and chunks of foil.
I didn’t get skunked, but it was close.
DAY 4
Went back to a small town park that has given up a few silvers and some decent clad in the past. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and doing a walk around and small spot grids along the way. I had a good day for clad with some silver to make things nice. Altogether I found 142 coins (87 pennies LOL) with a face value of $8.72, a toy car and the base of another, 3 rings, a Hershey Park NO CASH VALUE token and squashed penny, some tabs, can slaw and a few big iron pieces.
The rings are always fun. The first one is silver and looked good coming out of the ground. It had been flattened, but I think it can be straightened. The second one is also silver, but it came out of the ground brown and ugly so at first I thought it was a junker. Silver turns black normally when it tarnishes, but on rare occasions it gets a brown coat. The third ring popped out with the stone up like a nice diamond engagement ring and I thought I had a winner. When I picked it up and the stone fell out I noticed it was brassy and not gold so just a junker.
I did find a few coins in coin returns and a few on the ground as eyeball finds. The best eyeball find was a skull valve stem cover. One trip to the grocery store I did find 2 coins and an earring back in the reject slot. One of the coins was a German 1 pfennig from 1939. Probably a souvenir some guy brought home from WW2.
So lots of fun, decent gas money and silver to add to the pile. All in all a good week. As always the old man is swingin and staying in shape in the great outdoors (when he isn’t cutting and splitting firewood for the winter). Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
Here’s another small flower picture and a young fawn that has adopted my front yard as his favorite spot. He seems to stop by every evening.
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