BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Here is the story of two hunts. The first hunt old Shanegalang and I got out on a good field and managed to turn up a couple old finds. He whipped my tail that day on the finds. Hell, by the time I even got to the site he already had a Spanish Silver in his hand.
I figure that doesn't happen too often since I bought and learned the F75, so I won't complain.
Anyhow, I did find a few buttons, one of which I haven't had time to clean yet but will do so soon, and I did get two trade beads in one day, which has never happened before. I love finding them, since they are something that I could never find in my sites up North. Here are the two trade beads I recovered. There is some great in situ footage on the video that documents both hunts. You will want to take a look at it:
Shanegalang also dug a shield nickel that day, and a plantation token. I thought I recognized it by the shape and size, but now I'm having trouble IDing it:
And of course a photo of Shane's KILLER 1807 Half Real.
He considered throwing it back for me to find, since it was a date he'd already dug. 
Well, fast forward to yesterday. I was at a site that is a very difficult site to work. We know that the land was parceled out in the 1760s as a Spanish Land Grant, and that there was a series of plantation homes on it up until the Civil War, at which point they were abandoned and fell to ruin. Then in the 1910s some crappy houses were built around the site. In the 1970s, the owner took a grader to the site and leveled it all out, spreading the finds over about 2 square miles. Subsequent deep plowings have buried some of the finds up to several feet deep.
So really in that field you can hit it big or not hit anything at all. There is no "hotspot." You just pretty much wander, and have faith that something good could be found at any point.
Well, I got no relics but I did get two nice coins, one of which was my first LC dug in Louisiana. Shane has found two, so we knew they were possible here, but after digging 15 Spanish Silvers and 15 Seated Coins here, I would've thought I'd found one before now. Funny thing is that it is a date I have never dug before. Over the past 20 years, I have an almost complete set of Matron Head LC's, but had never dug an 1824 before.
The other coin I felt sure was going to be a Seated, but it ended up being a Barber Dime. Here are the photos:
It really felt good to dig a Copper again. I had forgotten what one looked like in the dirt! It has been since 2009, when I dug 20 LC's in Kentucky. Crazy.
At any rate, Best Wishes to all and Happy Hunting!
-Buck
Here is the story of two hunts. The first hunt old Shanegalang and I got out on a good field and managed to turn up a couple old finds. He whipped my tail that day on the finds. Hell, by the time I even got to the site he already had a Spanish Silver in his hand.
I figure that doesn't happen too often since I bought and learned the F75, so I won't complain.
Anyhow, I did find a few buttons, one of which I haven't had time to clean yet but will do so soon, and I did get two trade beads in one day, which has never happened before. I love finding them, since they are something that I could never find in my sites up North. Here are the two trade beads I recovered. There is some great in situ footage on the video that documents both hunts. You will want to take a look at it:
Shanegalang also dug a shield nickel that day, and a plantation token. I thought I recognized it by the shape and size, but now I'm having trouble IDing it:
And of course a photo of Shane's KILLER 1807 Half Real.
He considered throwing it back for me to find, since it was a date he'd already dug. Well, fast forward to yesterday. I was at a site that is a very difficult site to work. We know that the land was parceled out in the 1760s as a Spanish Land Grant, and that there was a series of plantation homes on it up until the Civil War, at which point they were abandoned and fell to ruin. Then in the 1910s some crappy houses were built around the site. In the 1970s, the owner took a grader to the site and leveled it all out, spreading the finds over about 2 square miles. Subsequent deep plowings have buried some of the finds up to several feet deep.
So really in that field you can hit it big or not hit anything at all. There is no "hotspot." You just pretty much wander, and have faith that something good could be found at any point.
Well, I got no relics but I did get two nice coins, one of which was my first LC dug in Louisiana. Shane has found two, so we knew they were possible here, but after digging 15 Spanish Silvers and 15 Seated Coins here, I would've thought I'd found one before now. Funny thing is that it is a date I have never dug before. Over the past 20 years, I have an almost complete set of Matron Head LC's, but had never dug an 1824 before.
The other coin I felt sure was going to be a Seated, but it ended up being a Barber Dime. Here are the photos:
It really felt good to dig a Copper again. I had forgotten what one looked like in the dirt! It has been since 2009, when I dug 20 LC's in Kentucky. Crazy.
At any rate, Best Wishes to all and Happy Hunting!
-Buck
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Good eye on the trade beads. They are very underrated finds in my opinion.
