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[releventchair]

Very different back.

Antique Button Brass Owl Perched On A Branch Above Two Mice 1 & 3/16 "

Antique Button Brass Owl Perched On A Branch Above Two Mice 1 & 3/16

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[releventchair]

Oh great. Now Canada has taken offense.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Excited to see the Pirate invasion this year. It’s been a while… something to put on your future must do’s…. Enjoy seeing my local friends participating in a cool local tradition

 

[Surf_Pirate]

 

[releventchair]

C'mon! take them cannons ashore!

 

[Evan in CA]

Yesterday hunt I’m keeping the silver streak alive

 

[releventchair]

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Congrats!

Merc. showing great detail.
43 got some milage on it!
Wheats always welcome.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Yesterday hunt I’m keeping the silver streak alive View attachment 2178607

Excellent!

 

[CreekSide]

Yesterday hunt I’m keeping the silver streak alive View attachment 2178607

Good returns

 

[ToddsPoint]

Yesterday hunt I’m keeping the silver streak alive View attachment 2178607

You guys out west are killing me with all your S mint coins!😫

 

[pepperj]

Yesterday hunt I’m keeping the silver streak alive View attachment 2178607

Great day of digging.
Congrats of the silvers and coppers.

Gee I just realized that you found 43 cents, and the quarter is a 43.

I'm going go get myself a lottery ticket now!

 

[releventchair]

 

[pepperj]

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[Chilli]

Classic.

 

[Chilli]

Sorry, tried to show our horses here in war but it seems an issue and no show.
I'll try another day.

 

[fishstick]

Good morning crew

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[robertk]

Good morning everyone.

I did a bit more hunting in the yard Sunday. Got a nice hit near the driveway on the way out, and dug up a modern penny. Then walking across the yard I got a lovely signal -- a solid 82 in both directions on my Dues II, nice crisp, short signal very similar to the penny I had just dug. I thought maybe another penny or a dime or something, so I stuck the shovel in the ground and immediately hit a rock. I tried moving around it -- nope. Big rock. Waved the detector over it again to make sure I was in the right spot. Yep. It must be under the rock. So I tried flipping the rock out. Umm... no. So I dug some more, and some more, and quite a bit more. Finally I went and got a prybar to flip that rock out of the ground. It was a lot bigger than I thought. Here it is next to my size 12 foot for reference. The photo doesn't do it justice -- that single rock pretty much filled our wheelbarrow (I wasn't about to re-bury it after the work I went to getting it out).



It's bit oblong, and it was standing vertically in the ground, with that point near my foot at the bottom. And it was in muddy soft ground, so it was quite a bit of work to get it out of there. So finally after getting it out, I wave the detector over the rock in case there's a coin stuck to it. Nope. Wave it over the hole -- yep, same lovely solid 82 signal is still down there. I didn't measure but it was well over a foot to the bottom of that hole, maybe close to 18". Given that, I was pretty sure it was not going to be a coin, but I had to know what it was, so I dug a little deeper. Finally, there was a glint of metal, and I retrieved the reward for all that effort... a crushed aluminum Mountain Dew can!



Now how in the world did that modern can get buried a foot and a half down under a boulder out in the middle of the yard?

(I did find a few other bits, too, over in the "mystery house" part of the yard.)

 

[ARC]

G morn T Crew.

 

[CreekSide]

Good morning everyone
Time for me to go back to work. I got 2 days off this week but had to catch up on chores. Maybe next week I can get out.