Old Farm House Hunt in NC

[homebre]

Well I feel a little better about my Vaquero today. Went on a club hunt at an old farm circa 1840 and was finding a lot of iron and not much else except what I thought was junk, though not iron. Near the end of the hunt, after about 3 hours in hot and humid NC I found an army button and a 1917 wheatie along with what I thought was a door handle and a screw driver handle and hose nozzle. After posting on the whatz it forum, I found the button was probably just after 1902, the screwdriver handle was a tire valve cover from a Model T, and the handle was probably from a Civil War era or before trigger guard. Most of the other club hunters were using $1000 plus machines, and I do not think they found as much. Made my day.

 

[tabman]

Very nice finds. That's some really neat stuff. Especially the button.

You had an unfair advantage using the Vaquero. I wonder what my Outlaw could do in all that iron.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

thats right you dont need a 1000.00 machine to find good targets, and some of those high end machines ma have told you not to dig , I remember my TID machine would tell me a silver dime next to a nails was foil it would split the signal and go for half adn half, so In my opinion, you are better off without the High end machines, lets get back to basic less is more.

 

[mojotrout]

very cool relics. Hope you had fun researching them!

Thanks for sharing them with us!

 

[upnorth]

Some cool finds there bud. I find about half a dozen of those valve stem covers every year.

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