A Quick Hunt At An Old Site...

[Neil in West Jersey]

I had about 30 minutes to kill while waiting to pick up my son, so what better way to kill 30 minutes than by breaking out the V3i? I went to a dog park/ former farm field that has been heavily hit. I had been there years earlier with an inferior (green) detector and found nothing. I returned with my DFX a few years later only to dig a 9.5 inch memorial cent.

One thing I love about the V3i is its uncanny ability to sniff out deep, tiny targets like this flat, two piece button circa 1840's. It was not a great signal, but I have learned to recognize the sound of these types of targets. A few minutes later I came across a strong mid-range signal and was very surprised to see this musket ball sitting on the surface in the middle of a busy trail. My only two theories are that it was dropped by another detectorist, or more likely tossed aside by an inexperienced user who was hoping for another Zincoln!

Needless to say I need to revisit this site!

 

[Jim D]

Nice Quick hunt Neil!Ya Know that musket ball looks just like the ball I found in a field in tennesse last year except the one I found was a little larger than a 1/2 dollar very heavy,(same color and flat spots)

 

[TC-NM]

Nice find Neil, I would of past over the musket ball just because it looks like another pebble to me. Years ago a friend of mine and myself decided to go detecting (on a weekend) in the downtown area and hunt exclusively around the parking meters adjacent to the street and curb. The strip between from the curb to the old sidewalk was dirt and measured about a 4 ft. wide. We were just going for clad and nothing else. We used small coils going slow when I noticed a small round shape sitting on the surface of the ground. . . picked it up and lo and behold it was a '58 wheatie! I was surprised to even find something that old even though the meters are used day in and day out. It was pretty discolored and had some corrosion on it. I started to swing the coil around and found two more wheaties about an inch to inch and a half down. You all know that now a day's parking meters use a combination of dimes, nickels and quarters. I suspect that someone just dropped the pennies and couldn't hear them hit the dirt or didn't even care in picking 'em up.

It's been years and I gotta go back to hunt around parking meters again!

TC_NM