greasecarguy
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Well, my buddy (catskill comics) and I went out to the forest yesterday enroute to an old abandoned park. We checked it out friday afternoon as well but did not locate the foundations. SO Sat. we went back out with better directions. ~ a 3 mile hike and we arrived there and did locate 1 foundation and found nothing but trash...oh I did find a musket ball. To make a long story short, we hiked and hunted and hiked and hunted to no avail. This park was completed in ~ 1900, so we thought there was potential. This weathy gentleman put an awful lot of $ into this place. The road leading in was adorned with elaborate rock walls and concrete work. Turnarounds; even retaining walls along the stream...I mean 3 miles into the woods and this was still pretty fancy work. My buddy found a few wheats and a war nickle. I found 30-06 after 30- 06 casing. All coming in at 7 22 on digital.....I was frustrated with this after 2 hours. We were there for 5 or 6.
This morning he called me and at 10:30 he had a rosie, an injun and an 182? LC from a park we have worked over and over. It has recently given up 20 or so silvers to us, but nothing really old until today.
So I had an hour this AM and went to another hunted out park...Dug 1 deeper wheat and that was it other than clad. Later in the day I had another hour prior to my hockey game ( for me, its ice hockey, MD ing and poker) so I went to the same park he was at. I am always looking for a new patch of grass I have yet to swing over so today was no different.I took my time, planning to go very slow and cover a small area. I deciding to work in a linear manner unless I hit a coin ( words of wisdom from angellion), then I circle and circle. I had traveled ~ 100 yards in a straight line and dug a few deeper pieces of clad when I got a tone at 8 22 or 8 24. I checked several directions and then pinpointed. In this mode it was depper than 6" which is where I want to dig but it said 31 31 (iron). So I scanned again in normal mode (AM) and sounded good . I pinpointed again to verify the location and dug expecting a deep lincoln. I mean yesterday, this reading was a rifle casing!. When I got it out, I picked up some of the dirt as usual and waved it in front of the coil ( stock SE). Sounds good, but really, I cant hear the dif. between a wheat and a silver. WHen I saw the edge in the clump I was happy. If this was a barber, it surely would have read 2 or 3 28 but wasn't. Thought I had a barber as I moved some of the soil off and then realized I had yet to hold one of these. I am guessing this is a 1/2 reale, but have yet to check. When I saw the date, I did a double take as I haven't seen 17?? yet.
I immediately called Scott and he said "I am coming down there". He snapped these photos as my scanning software wont let me post here. He couldn't believe he was bested today of all days when he ws deep into the 1800's. Just a lucky find for me and I hope to find an oak tree shiiling next (yeah right I'd also like to win the world series of poker!). I had to leave soon after but did dig an 1893 injun too a few minutes later. No pic of that as Scott had already left.
Thanks for listening and HH
Aaron
This morning he called me and at 10:30 he had a rosie, an injun and an 182? LC from a park we have worked over and over. It has recently given up 20 or so silvers to us, but nothing really old until today.
So I had an hour this AM and went to another hunted out park...Dug 1 deeper wheat and that was it other than clad. Later in the day I had another hour prior to my hockey game ( for me, its ice hockey, MD ing and poker) so I went to the same park he was at. I am always looking for a new patch of grass I have yet to swing over so today was no different.I took my time, planning to go very slow and cover a small area. I deciding to work in a linear manner unless I hit a coin ( words of wisdom from angellion), then I circle and circle. I had traveled ~ 100 yards in a straight line and dug a few deeper pieces of clad when I got a tone at 8 22 or 8 24. I checked several directions and then pinpointed. In this mode it was depper than 6" which is where I want to dig but it said 31 31 (iron). So I scanned again in normal mode (AM) and sounded good . I pinpointed again to verify the location and dug expecting a deep lincoln. I mean yesterday, this reading was a rifle casing!. When I got it out, I picked up some of the dirt as usual and waved it in front of the coil ( stock SE). Sounds good, but really, I cant hear the dif. between a wheat and a silver. WHen I saw the edge in the clump I was happy. If this was a barber, it surely would have read 2 or 3 28 but wasn't. Thought I had a barber as I moved some of the soil off and then realized I had yet to hold one of these. I am guessing this is a 1/2 reale, but have yet to check. When I saw the date, I did a double take as I haven't seen 17?? yet.
I immediately called Scott and he said "I am coming down there". He snapped these photos as my scanning software wont let me post here. He couldn't believe he was bested today of all days when he ws deep into the 1800's. Just a lucky find for me and I hope to find an oak tree shiiling next (yeah right I'd also like to win the world series of poker!). I had to leave soon after but did dig an 1893 injun too a few minutes later. No pic of that as Scott had already left.
Thanks for listening and HH
Aaron
