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1700's musket ball and some other oldies!

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pizzacoil

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Had a great day with NHBob and RonNH!!! Ron's been my friend and hunting buddy for a couple of years, and Bob I'm just getting to know, but he's well known around this site. I owe today's finds to their generosity and allowing me to hunt a couple of their sites.

The images speak for themselves. This is the part about metal detecting I love, the old stuff!

Thanks for looking!
 
Thos are some fantastic finds. Relic hunting is a blast. :thumbup:
 
All the clad and ring posts are the ones getting hits, praise, and help. Funny thing (for me, at least) to realize that most of the Garrett machines are being used for clad shooting. Maybe it's just about demographics?

I got tired of reading about quarters and Hot Wheels cars on the TD Garrett forum, which is why I opted to limit my posts to the Relics Forum on that site. Here, it seems no different. Am I the only Garrett user digging up oldies? And if so, why?

It's nice to know someone appreciates and seeks out history like I do.

Thank you, and happy and good hunting to ya!
 
I guess I'm just hungry (as most of you are) for some peer support and recognition. :)

Dig, dig, dig... Gotta find me something older now! Tough act to follow... I just keep setting the bar higher for myself.

Thanks to all for looking.
 
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The images speak for themselves. This is the part about metal detecting I love, the old stuff!

[/quote]So do I. the part of California I live in was a Spanish land grant form 1830 (young by your standards). Most the old houses are from the late 1800's. Getting permission is pretty tough. I hunt old sites when I can but they are far and few between. this is the land of fences and no Trespassing signs. Here is one of my finds. A little beat up but I like it, a powder flask form behind an old house, circa 1850's.
Maybe we should start a thread to post relics only. No matter when they were found. What do you think?
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This question has been raised before, and in part, it seems to be true. Many Garrett users are NOT relic hunting in the traditional sense.
Demoraphics or what have you, most relic heads are NOT Garrett users.

I think it comes from good marketing choices on Garretts part. They are selling detectors, not relic machines. They dont cater to a sequestered market, but rather, have opened up to the entire market, especially the newcomer.

Garrett is concerned with making good instruments and bringing them to the masses - what the user does with them is his or her choice.

To face the fact, many detectorists are NOT just relic hunters. Rather, they pursue all that the hobby offers.

Very nice Large Cent. Its one of my favorite coins and I have never found one - good for YOU! I can only wonder how any one can lose one...
 
I am an opportunist. What is available I detect. I like the old things. I get real tired of clad. In Fl. I did my home work and found some old sites. I came up with a coin from the 1700's and a large cent. Also IH, some v nickels and 8 mercury dimes last year. Do you have any places I can detect? I am open. Things are different here in WVa. I am learning to adjust. Old schools have asphalt around them here. The dirt roads have gravel on them and are hard to dig in. They have an unspoken law here. If you mow it and care for it, you own it. People are very personal and private here. In Fl. they didn't care what you did as long as you didn't do it to them. Easements were open to MDing in Fl. Here they mow it, they own it. You don't dig in it. People will go out of their way to find out what you are doing and what you are up to. (The crime rate is very low here.) When I drive down a dirt road, people are judging me. Who are you and what are you doing on our road. I lived on one of those roads years ago. It is a rule, you have to wave at your neighbor as he drives down the road. When you look up and it is not your neighbor, then you wander what they are doing on your road. Many people haven't much here. If they think you are going to make a profit, well they might MD it some day, so they won't let you. They tend to leave trash lay around, because they might need it some day and don't want to get rid of it. I would go to the beach or park in Fl. and find gold rings. I go to a popular beach here and I am lucky to find two cents.
I MDed an old motel today. It looked like individual stone cottages. They were built in the late 20's. 3 hours in the sun and I end up with 2 dimes and 2 cents. Nothing older then 68. There is a large cw encampment 12 mi. down the road. Why go to all the trouble to get permission when my Ace can't penetrate more then 4" in this soil.
If you are in a good place, take advantage of it. I am trying to do the best with what I have got.
 
It has a lot to do with geography, the size of the city you live in, age of the state you live in. One has to realize that people were living, fighting wars, losing stuff, etc. back east for a couple of hundred years before many of the western states were even discovered.

Arizona didn't become a state until 1912 and California was practically unheard of until 1849 when gold was discovered. Also it's tough to find relics in a city of a million or so. In Los Angeles you can drive for 200 miles and never get out of town. They have city streets there 60 plus miles long. People drive a couple of hundred miles round trip every day to work and back. Makes a big difference.

Bill
 
You may have to move up or get a DD coil to punch thru that soil. The ground in that neck of the woods is nasty.

Bill
 
I suppose we are very lucky if we have within our grasp to dig such old items. Despite being beat up, the powder flask is one a heck of a find!

Around here, access to some sites is almost as difficult as what JOhnVa described in his post. Still, living in New Hampshire, with so much undeveloped land and older houses still standing, I suppose I do have the advantage over someone who would have to drive hundreds of miles to get near such sites.

Thank you for sharing that beautiful piece of history!
 
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