Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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This was a new place I had gotten permission to detect, but hadn't done it yet. Dates to the early 1800's; stone foundation, huge 250 year old oak trees on the property.
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I was hoping for one of those old coin bananza paradise yards, but what I got was a solid blanket of junk and overload signals. Smashed potted meat cans, big iron, crumpled pie tins, etc.
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Did manage to find this very crusty old buffalo nickel, and one old clad quarter. Didn't find any wheat backs, or memorial pennies.
I did lose my electronic pinpointer, first time in 13 years. I had so much junk in my pouch that I couldn't get the pinpointer down in it far enough, and it dropped out somewhere in the yard. Mind you, there's 3" of oak leaves covering this yard; it took me 15 min. of backtracking (I could see where I had walked through the leaves) to find it.
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One of the big signals I got turned out to be part of a brass candle stick.
The whole time I was detecting this hilltop, these deer were out in the field eating. I'd whistle, they'd look up, I'd take their picture, and they'd go back to eating. They were about 70 yards away. Deer season is still on, till the 6th of January. As far as I could tell, they were two does.
Oh well, didn't find much but... beats a jab in the eye with a sharp stick!
Vernon
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I was hoping for one of those old coin bananza paradise yards, but what I got was a solid blanket of junk and overload signals. Smashed potted meat cans, big iron, crumpled pie tins, etc.
[attachment 13660 buf.jpg]
Did manage to find this very crusty old buffalo nickel, and one old clad quarter. Didn't find any wheat backs, or memorial pennies.
I did lose my electronic pinpointer, first time in 13 years. I had so much junk in my pouch that I couldn't get the pinpointer down in it far enough, and it dropped out somewhere in the yard. Mind you, there's 3" of oak leaves covering this yard; it took me 15 min. of backtracking (I could see where I had walked through the leaves) to find it.
[attachment 13661 Untitled-1.jpg]
One of the big signals I got turned out to be part of a brass candle stick.
The whole time I was detecting this hilltop, these deer were out in the field eating. I'd whistle, they'd look up, I'd take their picture, and they'd go back to eating. They were about 70 yards away. Deer season is still on, till the 6th of January. As far as I could tell, they were two does.
Oh well, didn't find much but... beats a jab in the eye with a sharp stick!
Vernon
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