Musket ball from the layer @16+ "deep

[kaolinwasher]

the orange thing on the right is the musket ball, I was shocked that i had the disq up to zinc penny and it was still coming in loud & clear I was hoping for a coin but it turned out to be a musket ball from the 1880,s in the layer , This layer is 18" deep and i dig down 6" at a time and this was in the 12" to 18" bottom layer along with the big cut nails , the layer is dark colored and has charcoal bits in it and so On then at the bottom it go nice and light colored clean sand lots left to dig tho , I also have 100.00$ in gopher feet to cash in , and you would not believe the frogs , Its like the plages of egypt but I must say they are keeping the mosquitoes away . Compadre did well in the road finding non ferrous targets in the gravel road , which has a faire amount of basalt and magnetic sand in it , I forgot to turn back the disq from the L in foil and was searching and actually hit a nice electrical connector down in the gravel so I know this compadre is set up good .

 

[tabman]

Now that's deep for any detector!

Gopher feet? Do you get paid per four or a little for each one?

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab its 2.00$ per gopher but you have to present the two front feet

 

[Jeff (or)]

I am amazed.

 

[kansa54]

Your saying the compadre hit on that musket ball at
16inches?

 

[kaolinwasher]

No , the layer is 18" deep and I dig down 6" at a time detecting every thing and keep digging down so I was in the bottom layer when i found it it was 16" deep you never would have heard it with any detector , thats why I dig down and detect , good chance a coin may be lurking in the 6" to 18" deep zone

 

[kansa54]

Hey Gunnar, I thought I was going to have to trade in my Vaquero and buy a compadre for relic hunting. LOL

 

[JimmyCT]

Nice job on the musket ball bro. Look at all those little hoppy toads and gopher feet! Glad you were able to get out and do some detectin' on the farm.

 

[jld66]

the orange thing on the right is the musket ball, I was shocked that i had the disq up to zinc penny and it was still coming in loud & clear I was hoping for a coin but it turned out to be a musket ball from the 1880,s in the layer , This layer is 18" deep and i dig down 6" at a time and this was in the 12" to 18" bottom layer along with the big cut nails , the layer is dark colored and has charcoal bits in it and so On then at the bottom it go nice and light colored clean sand lots left to dig tho , I also have 100.00$ in gopher feet to cash in , and you would not believe the frogs , Its like the plages of egypt but I must say they are keeping the mosquitoes away . Compadre did well in the road finding non ferrous targets in the gravel road , which has a faire amount of basalt and magnetic sand in it , I forgot to turn back the disq from the L in foil and was searching and actually hit a nice electrical connector down in the gravel so I know this compadre is set up good .

a hundred dollars in gopher feet? where do cash them in? is that one of those old rewards? i read somewhere that in a few cities there are still things in the books like a 10 cent reward for each rat head turned in to the city. oh, glad you found something else again in nail hill besides nails. haha

 

[kaolinwasher]

Jidd I cash them in at the town hall , they have a bounty on them , back in the 1890,s my grandpaw, made a lot of money trapping wolf, the bounty was 25.00 and in that day that was a lot of money

 

[tabman]

Jidd I cash them in at the town hall , they have a bounty on them , back in the 1890,s my grandpaw, made a lot of money trapping wolf, the bounty was 25.00 and in that day that was a lot of money

Back then that would be in today's dollars around $650 per wolf.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab my grandma would try to scar the wolves away so they did not get shot , in her day they would walk to school and the wolves would be out their but they never did attack my grandma, that was up in milaca MN in the teens

 

[jld66]

Jidd I cash them in at the town hall , they have a bounty on them , back in the 1890,s my grandpaw, made a lot of money trapping wolf, the bounty was 25.00 and in that day that was a lot of money

yes, a bounty. well, thats a way to make money and help the landscape.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thats some tough area where Gunnar lives boys!

I trapped beaver for the DNR out of Fosston back in the 80's, got paid 15 bucks per tail, and I could keep the pelt and meat!...no way you could wipe them out, though I tried!..all the way to Bemidji, Gonvick, Gully, Bagley, north to Grygla...never seen so many skeeters and ticks like MN has! Leeches? heck, every pond and puddle is loaded with them too! ...very interesting place you live in Gunnar! Lots of homesteads abandoned out in the woods during the big Indian wars in the early 1900's where folks just left everything and headed to the cities. (Sioux/Chippewa uprising)....a fellow would trip across little abandoned farm communities from time to time, up by Grygla and Northome waaaay out in the sticks..in the peat bogs west of Red Lake, north of White Earth....the old Swedes had some great stories of wolves, bear, moose...I remember driving from St Cloud to Pierz one rainy spring day, frogs and those cool tiger salamanders crossing the road by the thousands! Took me forever, I like them both and didnt want to run any over...thats some tough Country up there that can kill a person right quick...cant say how many times I fell through the ice, but it was a lot...tip to Gunnar: wanna make some REAL money? Go dig around in the dumpster behind the town hall for bags of 'cashed in gopher feet', then walk back out front, go inside and double up!! Anyway, Gunnars part of MN is some tough duty...great finds lurking, and He's hot on it!
Mud

 

[kaolinwasher]

Mudd you are so right it gets brutal up hear , no my cheating days are over , I am serving jesus , he will multiply my feet, but I know something has to be in that layer