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AT Team Relic Hunted During Rain & Snow, Then Performed Spoon/Lure Metamorphosis :shrug:

John-Edmonton

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My buddy and I met at Mc-Doggies for breakfast, and discussed some viable hunting spots. The 40% weather forecast for snow ended up being 100%. Luckily, it melted as soon as it hit the fields and trees. The weapons of trash reduction consisted of an AT Pro for my buddy, and the AT Gold for myself. Both machines utilized the 5" x 8" coils. The quartzite (eyeballed) may have been a leftover chip from building a stone tool of some sort.

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Here are the coins and grey matter. That coil can sniff out some nice deep coin size or smaller targets. The soil in this area is pretty hard on silver and copper coins.

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What I thought was an old rusty piece of iron turned out to be an old jack-knife. You just never know?

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Here are the better coins. The silver dime and quarter date somewhere from the late 30" to the early 50's. Those dates had worn off.

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Here are the 3 spoons found converted into spoon rings and a red devil also formed to a ring. The brass was stained real bad, and after sanding multiple times and polishing....I just couldn't get an even colored lure-ring, as the staining remained. That GEARGIA CAFE spoon was a great find!
 
John-Edmonton said:
Got any snow yet your way?

No, but it is going below zero for a few nights. We are supposed to upswing to the low 20's through the coming week. I was out to my old coin field and the farmer took the Canola off. I tried swinging for 1.5 hours, it was terrible. B.T.W., my best guess for your finds are: the conical lead weight, if it has a hole in it, is likely a sinker designed to be dragged over rocks. The corroded brass piece with the extended ring is likely a segment from a very old fish stringer. The main line went through the tubular body and the clip for the fish (long rusted away) was attached to the protruding ring. Just my guesses.
 
Nice finds and love the way those rings turned out. I saw some videos on you tube about making rings, but didn't have time to watch them. I admire your talent.
 
Cool old finds! And those spoon rings are neat. I bet I could sell a hundred of those here at the shop. Ladies are ALWAYS looking for "old" looking silver rings.
Good job, John!
 
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