Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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I only have a few minutes to file this report before we go out the door again for day two of Search and Recovery of Civil War Relics.
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Here's a photo of Butch detecting for four hours in the field of bullets. To sum it up... he found diddly squat. After watching him detect for several minutes, I have surmised that his problem is that he's not holding his mouth right. However, Butch didn't come home empty handed... well, yes he did. You see, he found a pair of binoculars that belonged to the land owner, that had been laying out in the field a year and a half, and still worked. So Butch returned them to the land owner as his good deed for the day.
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Here is his wife, the lovely Pam. She did better, but in reality, ended up with diddly squat. She dug some deep iron, a pair of wire cutters looked to be made around 47 A.D., and a pouch full of basically everything you don't want to find. But I have to give Pam an A+ for effort.
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I faired a little better, but not much. I tell you, I had to scratch to get these couple of things, just so I wouldn't look bad. This first thing, after I got it home and cleaned it up, turned out to be a compass. I believe its a small personal compass from the Civil War, as it is very old, and was found in a Civil War area. The glass on the front is broken, but after I got home, I removed the glass, cleaned it up a little bit, and you can see the N, E, S and W indicators.
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Also managed to find 2 dropped .58 caliber bullets. I was starting to have my doubts that I was even going to find one.
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Also found this Timex watch that was three inches in the ground. It belonged to the land owner, he had lost it several years ago. I gave it back to him, and suggested a new battery in it might get it going again, it looked to be in workable order.
Today we're going to another place. I talked them into staying one more day, in hopes of putting them onto some relics. I've already had two friends of mine dump four 5 gallon buckets of mini balls on an old ball field... I'll take Butch there and see if he can possibly stumble across one.
Later,
Vernon
[attachment 22645 butch.jpg]
Here's a photo of Butch detecting for four hours in the field of bullets. To sum it up... he found diddly squat. After watching him detect for several minutes, I have surmised that his problem is that he's not holding his mouth right. However, Butch didn't come home empty handed... well, yes he did. You see, he found a pair of binoculars that belonged to the land owner, that had been laying out in the field a year and a half, and still worked. So Butch returned them to the land owner as his good deed for the day.
[attachment 22644 pam.jpg]
Here is his wife, the lovely Pam. She did better, but in reality, ended up with diddly squat. She dug some deep iron, a pair of wire cutters looked to be made around 47 A.D., and a pouch full of basically everything you don't want to find. But I have to give Pam an A+ for effort.
[attachment 22638 compass.jpg]
I faired a little better, but not much. I tell you, I had to scratch to get these couple of things, just so I wouldn't look bad. This first thing, after I got it home and cleaned it up, turned out to be a compass. I believe its a small personal compass from the Civil War, as it is very old, and was found in a Civil War area. The glass on the front is broken, but after I got home, I removed the glass, cleaned it up a little bit, and you can see the N, E, S and W indicators.
[attachment 22639 b1.jpg]
Also managed to find 2 dropped .58 caliber bullets. I was starting to have my doubts that I was even going to find one.
[attachment 22640 watch.jpg]
Also found this Timex watch that was three inches in the ground. It belonged to the land owner, he had lost it several years ago. I gave it back to him, and suggested a new battery in it might get it going again, it looked to be in workable order.
Today we're going to another place. I talked them into staying one more day, in hopes of putting them onto some relics. I've already had two friends of mine dump four 5 gallon buckets of mini balls on an old ball field... I'll take Butch there and see if he can possibly stumble across one.
Later,
Vernon
I hope ya'll have a good time and some good hunting...er finding!!!
c'mon Butch tighten it up buddy.
great try folks,better luck at the new spot.