More silver from the campgrounds (another long post with tons of pics)

[time4me]

I've been back to the campgrounds three times since my last post, and got silver on two of these outings.

On the first outing, I got skunked on the silver, but in addition to the clad coinage and trash, I did find this little friend...

The next outing was last Saturday, and my son Kenny went with me. After a while in the field, I got that sweet high tone with the cursor of my Explorer II buried in the upper right corner of the screen.

The next really good signal I got turned out to be a small metal hanger from a boy scout medal. I knew this because I had found one once before. When I found the hanger that hooks on a shirt button, I knew there should be a tiny little sterling arrow nearby, so I went carefully over the hole and surrounding area until a few inches away I got a slight iffy high tone. BINGO, there was the little sterling arrow from an Order of the Arrow ribbon (pics towards end of post).

Then it was my son's turn, with a silver rosie (no pics of this one). Then my turn again, with a little bigger silver staring up at me...

Then it was Kenny's turn again, with a Merc...

So here are my finds from last Saturday's outing all cleaned up...

Then on Tuesday I went back to the same site but different area by myself as Kenny was in school. Here is a picture of the spot where I found my first good find...

And this is what I found there...

After about an hour of clad and other odds and ends, I got another sweet silver reading...

And not long after that and pretty close by, another...

And then about 30 minutes later, I got a nice Merc of my own...

Now some of you may have seen my post from about a week ago where I said I'd been wanting to find a 1949/1950 Statue of Liberty campaign neckerchief slide, and I'd finally found one. Well, go figure - within two weeks I've found my second one...

Here are the total finds from Tuesday's hunt...

I have been hitting this campground area hard - on average one to two times per week for 4 or 5 hours each time - since last summer. I thought it would be fun to show all of the silver I've found there since I started hunting it...

And man oh man, I go crazy over those reeded edges. Nothing better in my book than seeing a bright silver reeded edge staring out of a clump of dark soil (unless of course it is a bright gold reeded edge, and yes I have had the pleasure of seeing that one time in my life about six years ago). Here are those beautiful reeded edges from this particular site...

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed yet another very long post from me - I haven't heard any complaints yet, so I'll keep 'em coming.

Happy Hunting,

Jim

 

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[Michigan Badger]

Cool digs Jim!

Those SL halves are really hard to find these days.

Badger

 

[seger98]

Great post jim, that's alot of silver... Congratulations, looks like the Boy Scouts use that alot. Great photo with the little lizard guy!

 

[TommNJ]

WOW, nice job on the silver ! I like the Statue of Liberty slide too, hope to find one some day. I'd be pounding that place too, good job and keep it up.

Tom

 

[JerV3]

Nice silver,

That is a nice site to hunt. Love those neckercheif slides.

HH Jer

 

[kimsdad]

Now some of you may have seen my post from about a week ago where I said I'd been wanting to find a 1949/1950 Statue of Liberty campaign neckerchief slide, and I'd finally found one. Well, go figure - within two weeks I've found my second one...

Ha! Ha! I remember that post. You are the Slidemaster!

What a great group of finds! I like the way you have that walker surrounded by dimes. I also am happy to say that you have pulled more silver from that site than I found all last year. I've got to change that, for sure.

Thanks for the great post, Jim. It's really good to see your son out there with you getting into it!
Neil

 

[pokerdad911]

Awe man, love that libery plate. What is it? It looks like a belt buckle of some sort. Anyway, Great finds. Man I am going out tomorrow for hours. Keep up the good work.

POKERDAD

 

[time4me]

Awe man, love that libery plate. What is it? It looks like a belt buckle of some sort. Anyway, Great finds. Man I am going out tomorrow for hours. Keep up the good work.

POKERDAD

Hey Pokerdad,

It is a neckerchief slide used by the boy scouts in 1950 from the "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign celebrating 40 years of scouting in the USA (1910 to 1950). Check out this article on Wikipedia for more info on this campaign...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthen_the_Arm_of_Liberty

 

[time4me]

Thanks for the great post, Jim. It's really good to see your son out there with you getting into it!
Neil

Thanks Neil,

I really enjoy when my son goes out detecting with me. Every time he goes out he gets a little better at his swinging, pinpointing, digging, and filling his holes back in. I keep one ear cuff off so I can hear him and communicate with him the whole time we are detecting. I swear if he hears me say "low and slow" one more time he is going to throw his Lesche at me.

 

[Detectingfreak]

nice job on the silver! That boy scout camp seems to be very productive!!! Keep on hunting!

 

[silverfreak]

I love long posts...and I love lots of pics. You have pulled a ton of goodies out of that place

 

[hikeinmts]

Great finds!!! Great post!!! If there was a "Family Action" part of Forum, this would be an honorable mention in that catagory. Keep that boy and you hunting.

 

[John (Ma)]

Very nice

 

[Captn SE]

Wow, Jim, that's a lot of silver there!!

I've said it once before, and I will say it again, "You have got a really good place to hunt for the older coinage".

Great post!

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[49er]

Amazing amount of silver there Jim. Great digs.

 

[Historyhound]

Nice haul indeed!!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I too am a big fan of the silver reeded edge. Awesome finds I so far can only dream of a site so productive.

Keep @ it and HH!!