Larry (IL)
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and had a great hunt. As dry as conditions are, yard hunting has come to halt but I thought I might be able to find some CW bullets further South. I have hit that spot pretty hard and bullets are getting hard to find but I did find a few. The highlight of the day was a pocket spill masked buy a large nut where an old house once was on the property. I hunted under this old tree many times when I used another detector while relic hunting but this time I used the CTX 3030 and glad I did.
I was done for the day (or thought I was) and I was on my way back to the truck and tried under the walnut tree again primarily because it was getting hot out and the shade offered a little reprieve when I got a "thunk, chirp........ chirp, thunk" signal which I heard as iron with a possible good target. The CTX showed two targets on the screen so I started digging and there was a big iron nut at 5 inches. After getting the nut out of the ground and rechecking the hole, the CTX started singing to me. Not one, but four Barber dimes and two Wheats were all within three inches of each other under the nut. The Barbers were 1902, 1908, 1909 and 1914. The wheats were 1909, no mint mark and no VDB and a 1916.
The other neat find is what might be a gate latch/lock ......
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I was done for the day (or thought I was) and I was on my way back to the truck and tried under the walnut tree again primarily because it was getting hot out and the shade offered a little reprieve when I got a "thunk, chirp........ chirp, thunk" signal which I heard as iron with a possible good target. The CTX showed two targets on the screen so I started digging and there was a big iron nut at 5 inches. After getting the nut out of the ground and rechecking the hole, the CTX started singing to me. Not one, but four Barber dimes and two Wheats were all within three inches of each other under the nut. The Barbers were 1902, 1908, 1909 and 1914. The wheats were 1909, no mint mark and no VDB and a 1916.
The other neat find is what might be a gate latch/lock ......
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i sure wish it would rain