MarkCZ
Well-known member
There is an old Country Club golf course close to where I live, it opened in 1926 and for a number of years was an upper class place. It closed a couple of years ago and now the property is for sale.
Anyway both my older brothers (one being forum member WV62) used to caddy there back in the late 50's and early 60's. Well my middle brother grew up loving to play golf and had played on that golf course right up until it closed, so he is very familiar with where everything was and used to be. After the golf course closed my middle brother remembered that the caddies had a bench out behind the pro-shop that set right on the crest of a hill/bank. He remembered the caddies would sometimes play small change poker and coin toss waiting for a golfer to heir a caddy. Below the bench was just a brushy hillside and he remembered losing coins there. So, late last fall my middle brother had the idea to go and metal detect a couple of places at the golf course, below the caddy bench being the main one.
We went and checked it out and decided that the only way to hunt it was to clear some brush out first. The area is very small, maybe 15 feet down the hill and 25 to 30 feet across. The dirt was very lose on the hill, so much of the stuff we just pulled up and breaking up the dirt from the roots before we tossed the plants on over the hill. After that we started detecting it and was shocked at how few coins we found and were even more surprised at how much trash/junk they're was. He only found a couple of wheat's and I didn't do any better, one thing I did notice that stuff wasn't very deep at all, even the wheaties were less than two inches and those 1965 to 1975 pull rings tabs were laying everywhere on top of the ground!.
Well not finding much but it being very interesting and a place that is going to go away I couldn't leave it alone! I called my middle brother and said maybe the water (rain) may have washed stuff a few more feet on over the hill, he agreed. So we went back and cut some more brush out and re-detected the area. We did about the same as before, a low number of wheaties and JUNK!. We just thought that the area wasn't as good as we thought and left.
But spring is near and I kept thinking about the golf course
Well this past week I had an idea
we had gotten enough wheaties 8 or 10 that if I could pull out one or two more that I might be able to pop out a silver dime. My plan was to stop after work and try my Fisher F2 with the little 4" sniper coil (I don't have a small coil for my Coinstrike or my CZ7a-Pro), so Monday that's what I did. I didn't have any hopes of finding much but I thought I would waste some time satisfying and itch. WoW I'm glad I did!
I found 28 total coins and my first silver this year and the first silver for the F2. I found,
1 silver 1959 quarter,
1 silver 1960 dime,
1 clad quarter
14 wheaties,
11 memorial,
Only three coins were newer than the silver age!
I found more in three hours in one hunt than me and my brother had found TOTAL for the past two hunts of the same area
Some of the wheaties were less than a half inch below the surface, nothing is more than three inches deep, I had NO idea that those small coils could make that much difference, now I'm sold! if its a trashy area and the stuff isn't deep, I'm going in armed with a little coil! If its Deep, I'm going to use my Fisher 1266x and a little coil (the coil was a birthday present from my brother WV62).
So, I still can't get the golf course out of my mind, below the caddy bench has become a small trash dump, they set on the bench pitched stuff over the hill for years,
Chained pull rings.
Golf shoe cleats,
wire,
light bulb ends,
pop cans,
nails,
tools,
crown caps, (got to love those)
pipe,
and other trash that has just gotten tossed over the hill from vandal's destroying the place sense its been closed (that's really sad, but the country club building is destroyed now)
Anyway, this past Saturday I had another brain storm! I went back to the golf course with one of those magnets on a rod that you use to pick up nails with and went over the entire area with it, I used the edge of it and stirred around in the top 1/2" or so of the soil and was amazed at what I turned up, I found a lot of stuff that wouldn't stick to a magnet, like,
Pull tabs, (No square sta-tabs)
light bulb ends,
foil,
Two Pennies! (just kicked them up from the surface with the magnet)
ect..
And with the magnet I found,
screw driver,
crescent wrench,
large door henge,
knife,
nails, (long ones, short ones, square ones)
crown caps,
large metal tubes,
strips of rusty steel,
rusty metal flakes,
push pin,
bic lighter,
washers,
3/8" metal dowel rod,
nuts,
ect.....
And remember, this is a very small area! and all the junk was at the surface. See the below picture of all this trash and the first two times we hunted we picked up a lot trash that ISN'T in the picture, just what I got Saturday. You could say I went trash hunting LOL! Also see the picture of the goodies I found.
Now, I've got to go back and see what's been hid and with SMALL COILS! there is probably still more junk buried than I got out, but can you imagine hunting and finding anything in all that trash?
My other brother's name is Greg and I'm thinking were going to hit it again this coming Monday or Tuesday, probably Tuesday.
Mark
Anyway both my older brothers (one being forum member WV62) used to caddy there back in the late 50's and early 60's. Well my middle brother grew up loving to play golf and had played on that golf course right up until it closed, so he is very familiar with where everything was and used to be. After the golf course closed my middle brother remembered that the caddies had a bench out behind the pro-shop that set right on the crest of a hill/bank. He remembered the caddies would sometimes play small change poker and coin toss waiting for a golfer to heir a caddy. Below the bench was just a brushy hillside and he remembered losing coins there. So, late last fall my middle brother had the idea to go and metal detect a couple of places at the golf course, below the caddy bench being the main one.
We went and checked it out and decided that the only way to hunt it was to clear some brush out first. The area is very small, maybe 15 feet down the hill and 25 to 30 feet across. The dirt was very lose on the hill, so much of the stuff we just pulled up and breaking up the dirt from the roots before we tossed the plants on over the hill. After that we started detecting it and was shocked at how few coins we found and were even more surprised at how much trash/junk they're was. He only found a couple of wheat's and I didn't do any better, one thing I did notice that stuff wasn't very deep at all, even the wheaties were less than two inches and those 1965 to 1975 pull rings tabs were laying everywhere on top of the ground!.
Well not finding much but it being very interesting and a place that is going to go away I couldn't leave it alone! I called my middle brother and said maybe the water (rain) may have washed stuff a few more feet on over the hill, he agreed. So we went back and cut some more brush out and re-detected the area. We did about the same as before, a low number of wheaties and JUNK!. We just thought that the area wasn't as good as we thought and left.
But spring is near and I kept thinking about the golf course
Well this past week I had an idea we had gotten enough wheaties 8 or 10 that if I could pull out one or two more that I might be able to pop out a silver dime. My plan was to stop after work and try my Fisher F2 with the little 4" sniper coil (I don't have a small coil for my Coinstrike or my CZ7a-Pro), so Monday that's what I did. I didn't have any hopes of finding much but I thought I would waste some time satisfying and itch. WoW I'm glad I did!I found 28 total coins and my first silver this year and the first silver for the F2. I found,
1 silver 1959 quarter,
1 silver 1960 dime,
1 clad quarter
14 wheaties,
11 memorial,
Only three coins were newer than the silver age!
I found more in three hours in one hunt than me and my brother had found TOTAL for the past two hunts of the same area
Some of the wheaties were less than a half inch below the surface, nothing is more than three inches deep, I had NO idea that those small coils could make that much difference, now I'm sold! if its a trashy area and the stuff isn't deep, I'm going in armed with a little coil! If its Deep, I'm going to use my Fisher 1266x and a little coil (the coil was a birthday present from my brother WV62).So, I still can't get the golf course out of my mind, below the caddy bench has become a small trash dump, they set on the bench pitched stuff over the hill for years,
Chained pull rings.
Golf shoe cleats,
wire,
light bulb ends,
pop cans,
nails,
tools,
crown caps, (got to love those)
pipe,
and other trash that has just gotten tossed over the hill from vandal's destroying the place sense its been closed (that's really sad, but the country club building is destroyed now)
Anyway, this past Saturday I had another brain storm! I went back to the golf course with one of those magnets on a rod that you use to pick up nails with and went over the entire area with it, I used the edge of it and stirred around in the top 1/2" or so of the soil and was amazed at what I turned up, I found a lot of stuff that wouldn't stick to a magnet, like,
Pull tabs, (No square sta-tabs)
light bulb ends,
foil,
Two Pennies! (just kicked them up from the surface with the magnet)
ect..
And with the magnet I found,
screw driver,
crescent wrench,
large door henge,
knife,
nails, (long ones, short ones, square ones)
crown caps,
large metal tubes,
strips of rusty steel,
rusty metal flakes,
push pin,
bic lighter,
washers,
3/8" metal dowel rod,
nuts,
ect.....
And remember, this is a very small area! and all the junk was at the surface. See the below picture of all this trash and the first two times we hunted we picked up a lot trash that ISN'T in the picture, just what I got Saturday. You could say I went trash hunting LOL! Also see the picture of the goodies I found.
Now, I've got to go back and see what's been hid and with SMALL COILS! there is probably still more junk buried than I got out, but can you imagine hunting and finding anything in all that trash?
My other brother's name is Greg and I'm thinking were going to hit it again this coming Monday or Tuesday, probably Tuesday.
Mark
I've got to know if that trash was hiding anything else.
