Yankee Camp after Church . . .

[parsonwalker]

Wonderful, unusually warm February day in central Virginia, so I packed up my Tejon before church. Took off after and had 2 1/2 hours on my first hunt of 2014. Sure hope the rest of the year produces like today. Several buttons and more partials. A dozen bullets including two Richmond Lab Sharpes (#s 2 & 3 for this site).

 

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[ModernMiner]

Holy cow, that's a lot of nice CW recoveries. Great hunt!!! Tesoro rules.
-MM-

 

[Sooper Dave]

Outstanding Finds! That's a great spot to produce like that! A lot of nice buttons & bullets, I hope there is plenty more for you to find. Good luck and keep it up!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Wow! You were digging that by the shovel full! Nice!

 

[CSA2K]

Nice saves

 

[vpnavy]

 

[park pirate]

Awesome finds..

 

[HomeGuardDan]

Well done! Not a bad way to start out

 

[tennessee]

Congratulations. You had a good day. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy seeing all the great CW saves.

 

[treblehunter]

Nice finds

 

[MissIron.Maiden]

That's crazy... Lol.. It's like they planted them for you to find! awesome.. What machine do you use? How far down were they on an average?

 

[parsonwalker]

That's crazy... Lol.. It's like they planted them for you to find! awesome.. What machine do you use? How far down were they on an average?

I use a Tesoro Tejon. Some say it likes iron too much, but I'm sold on it. Average depth yesterday was probably 5". Some field bullets were deeper, and some woods-edge stuff was shallower. One bad story: I was digging through pine roots and crushed a nearly perfect Eagle button. When the back popped out, the inside was nearly dry with that green Patina-dust and I went, "Uh-oh." I didn't HIT it . . . but apparently, I crushed the face against a root. If you look just below the Eagle button and the New York - There's a fragment of the face of the button. Everything else was dust.

 

[MissIron.Maiden]

I use a Tesoro Tejon. Some say it likes iron too much, but I'm sold on it. Average depth yesterday was probably 5". Some field bullets were deeper, and some woods-edge stuff was shallower. One bad story: I was digging through pine roots and crushed a nearly perfect Eagle button. When the back popped out, the inside was nearly dry with that green Patina-dust and I went, "Uh-oh." I didn't HIT it . . . but apparently, I crushed the face against a root. If you look just below the Eagle button and the New York - There's a fragment of the face of the button. Everything else was dust.

Disheartening, yes, but can't be helped sometimes .. Uuhhggg

 

[Ifoundit69]

Nice scores P.W man looks like you are definitely at the right spot. That sucks about the button , but sometimes these things happen especially digging through roots ussually for me I dig and cut and get down about 12 inches to realize its a big ole piece of iron , but then again I have dug down and scored big ! Where abouts in VA are you located ?

 

[ThTx]

Congratulations on the awesome finds.

 

[Davers]

Awesome digs
IM- experience the Tejon usually sounds off (loud) on larger iron [ witch in a relic situation ,I would likely dig it anyhow]
& gives a sharp short screech-ey sound on the smaller iron.

And for what it's worth , i,m beginning to be able to tell a 22 bullet from a 22 short or LR Casing ,\.

Also there's not much I hate more than striking the piece i,m digging.
Look's like you got a good spot there ; that's a lot of Relics for a couple hour hunt.
Davers

 

[diggervet]

beautiful! get back to that spot!

 

[markp]

Great CW saves, nice work

 

[flatbutton]

Heck of a good day! Congrats!

 

[Wldbil]

Man that is a great hunt for that many CW relics to come out in a short time. Heck of a spot you have found! Hope to see you clean it out!