tnt-hunter
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I haven’t been out to the scout camp for a while so yesterday I made the drive. The weather was nice and I was the only person in camp except for the rangers. I went to a site I had done part of about 4 years ago hoping to pick up some new losses and things I missed in the first trip. It is a wooded area with movable wooden platforms for the tents and a latrine. In 5.5 hours I managed to find 86 coins with a face value of $6.48, 3 cob copies they sell in the trading post as pirate loot when the pirate theme is used, and 2 NO CASH VALUE tokens also used as loot.
Also 8 aluminum rope tensioners, a generic Cub Scout slide (pre 2005), and 3 Webelos slides.
A Zippo lighter, a Pennsylvania Rail road pin, a Bear rank pin, a pack clevice pin, 1 lonely little pop tab, a brass nut from a lantern, 3 pin backs, and a collection of fishing sinkers all added to the variety of finds.
Of course it wouldn’t be a trip to Camp without a pile of tent pegs for the camp to reuse next year. Yesterday’s count was 104 pegs which brings my total pegs returned to camp since 2014 to over 8,000. The picture shows a pile of light personal tent pegs on the left and the pile of hawavy pegs the Camp uses on the right. I only count the heavy Camp pegs, the light ones are not part of the count.
Some pegs are right under the leaves and easy to retrieve, others are buried under years of dirt laying flat and some are still driven into the ground and have to be pulled out. I use a small pick with a point on one end and a claw on the other. The nail style pins get the claw and the L type get the point. Some times the pegs have been in the ground so long they have a heavy layer of rust that makes them hard to pull. When that happens I can drive them down about a half inch with the point and then pull them. Yesterday the ground was soft and I could pull them without driving them down first. The picture illustrates how the pegs get hard to pull when the rust is thick.
Along with the pictures finds there are always bits of foil, melted aluminum for the fire pits scattered about, cot springs and other assorted trash items that go home with me. The Camp has given up a lot of coins and a ton of other stuff. That’s why I keep coming back, you never know what the next signal will bring.
I had a busy day with some fun digging and a good deed for the camp. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
Also 8 aluminum rope tensioners, a generic Cub Scout slide (pre 2005), and 3 Webelos slides.
A Zippo lighter, a Pennsylvania Rail road pin, a Bear rank pin, a pack clevice pin, 1 lonely little pop tab, a brass nut from a lantern, 3 pin backs, and a collection of fishing sinkers all added to the variety of finds.
Of course it wouldn’t be a trip to Camp without a pile of tent pegs for the camp to reuse next year. Yesterday’s count was 104 pegs which brings my total pegs returned to camp since 2014 to over 8,000. The picture shows a pile of light personal tent pegs on the left and the pile of hawavy pegs the Camp uses on the right. I only count the heavy Camp pegs, the light ones are not part of the count.
Some pegs are right under the leaves and easy to retrieve, others are buried under years of dirt laying flat and some are still driven into the ground and have to be pulled out. I use a small pick with a point on one end and a claw on the other. The nail style pins get the claw and the L type get the point. Some times the pegs have been in the ground so long they have a heavy layer of rust that makes them hard to pull. When that happens I can drive them down about a half inch with the point and then pull them. Yesterday the ground was soft and I could pull them without driving them down first. The picture illustrates how the pegs get hard to pull when the rust is thick.
Along with the pictures finds there are always bits of foil, melted aluminum for the fire pits scattered about, cot springs and other assorted trash items that go home with me. The Camp has given up a lot of coins and a ton of other stuff. That’s why I keep coming back, you never know what the next signal will bring.
I had a busy day with some fun digging and a good deed for the camp. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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Man you dug a lot of holes!
