:csflag: Yestersays diggings (day4)~ buttons, buttons, whos got the buttons"

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=large]Yesterday afternoon we went dirt giggin' again. Dave, Nancy, Leanna, Sarah, and I spread out along the high ground in a field Civil War Troops camped in, to see what they had lost and we could find. [/size]

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[size=large]"Dances With Bullets" scores with a nice save on a Yankee infantry button, just look at that smile! SHOW OFF! [/size]

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[size=large]Closeup of smiling Dave's eagle "I". Dave was hunting with a Tesoro Tejon. He claims the button was 2 foot down under a big grass clump... well, OK Dave, maybe not that deep, but deep, huh?[/size]

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[size=large]Leanna digs this "really bad signal", figuring its another .22 bullet or peice of buckshot, and comes up with a Yankee eagle button of her own, her first. Now both my girls have Civil War buttons within 2 days of their first hunt. Leanna was using my backup XLT; both girls have tons of patience and tenacity... their artists, you know.They keep the coil right on the grass ~ I told them there's no relics in the air! [/size]

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[size=large]Closeup of Lee's first eagle button.[/size]

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[size=large]I got a couple bullets and this heavy brass "thingy". I figure it was either the handle of a desk bell or something along those lines, or possibly an old fashioned door ringer. Talk about a great signal, I thought I had a belt plate.[/size]

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[size=large]Here's our finds for the afternoon. Sarah found the little brass leather keeper; she was using my Tesoro Cutlass U Max. Nancy found the tent pole ring, Lee found the star-flower, heart and buckle. We all got bullets and there's a Spencer casing. The saga continues today.

Vernon, Dave and Girls... Out.[/size]

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Elson(La)]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Jigflipper]

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[General Ray]

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[Brandy[Ma.]]

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[MK_(MO)]

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[The Nutty Teacher]

Hey Guys,

You're having entirely too much fun.

I'm jealous.

I'm stuck in this classroom with thirty-six students, all infected with various stages of spring fever.

Respectfully,

The Nutty Teacher

 

[deathwind1]

As us older people (Craig-Ray-Elson) just don't have it any more our (for sure me) we have our fun seeing You and Dave & Wife and your Girls Dig all the good stuff-I wish we could hunt in the woods and find good things---I have Never seen any one hunt in the woods here because there is Nothing There-Besides you can't swing a coil as there is so much Underbrush---When I used to hunt the Brush, I probably fell 10 times a day by getting my feet tangled up in Brush and Chest High Ferns--Did SARAH go today-I did not see her finds posted--If she didn't go tell he she ain't gona get a plate staying home !