Scouting With The Ws6 Master 2 - Crazy Day

[F350Platinum]

I have 4 more areas I'm looking at quickly to get an idea of what is there, one 35 acre field next to the last one I scouted, an old farmhouse field a few miles away, a cellar hole deep in the woods in another area, and a possible war of 1812 landing site.

Managed to get to two of them today anyway. Got out pretty early.

The first was the 35 acre field across the road from the last field I posted, I didn't expect much of anything because there is no evidence of any house on it. I walked a long time crossing the field and checking the most likely spots, pretty much all I got was lead. Buck balls, bag seals, and one mangled pistol ball. It wasn't until I crossed the center of the field one more time from another direction that I found anything, but I'll tell ya later. 😁

Next up was a small field a few miles away that I suspect was used for subsistence farming, there was a house there but it is long gone. 

The house was on a bluff overlooking the road where I parked, after dealing with the power line EMI near the road, I finally got up on the hill and things got quiet but not for long. 😵

All of a sudden a couple trucks came down the road carrying digging equipment, and one of the guys asked me to move my truck because they had to dig in a fiber conduit "right there" 😀 I moved it and they got all their equipment running, the ditch drill added more EMI. 😡

Off in the distance I saw another truck, it seemed like the driver was watching me. I was wrong. A while later I heard dogs, and then the shooting started in the woods behind the hill. A bunch of hunters showed up. Dogs and blam blam blam! 😀 Glad I decided to wear my blaze orange vest. At one point I had to duck behind the hill because they got pretty close.

That hill was loaded with relics, coins, tokens, hardware. Not a heck of a lot of iron! The stuff ranged from the early 1800s to mid 1900s, I had to change my "Relic Reaper"™ program to reactivity 2 to get more separation. 🤣 Probably could go to 3 next time, but I got enough stuff...

First the trash:

Not too bad, a little more than a handful. Threw out a couple of steel cans.

Next, the hardware and large relics:

A few cheap spoon handles, a fork, hinges and sinkers and stuff. A little compact tin with no markings, and an unmarked lipstick tube cover.

Now the fun stuff.

Got.37 in modern coins, 3 wheats from 1941 to 1958, one 1886 IHP

It appears to be a "Type 2", I'm waiting on some cleaning pencils. 

Got 5 buttons, 2 aluminum, one Tombac but it looks newer, one copper flat. A small pendant thing with one chain link on it, it's brass and heavy. 2 belt buckles, the cheesiest brass one I've ever seen, and a nice decorated one with a "P" on it.

This turtle shell thing I dug I have no idea what it was used for or came off of, but it's decorated and heavy.

I got a couple pieces of decorated metal that again I have no idea what they were from, and 3 tokens, one broken. The coolest one is this:

What the heck is a "Capers Check" ? It was made for a long closed local manufacturing company in town. It's copper and has a big 1 on it. Another is for Snow King Baking Powder, a company that was absorbed by General Mills in 1937:

The only way I was able to read any of these tokens was to buff the snot out of them with steel wool. 😀 The third broken one was for a free car wash.

And now the pièce de résistance, the object I found smack in the middle of the first field:

Civil War eagle "I" button. I have no idea what it was doing in the middle of that field, but I pictured the farmer plowing with the only warm jacket he had, his Civil War wool coat.

it finally did quiet down, the hunters got their deer and the diggers left for the day. Glad I didn't get shot. 😎

 

[Joe D.]

   Great finds, and story to boot! Thanks for posting! "Nearly" as good as being there! Chase is very lucky to be invited for hunts!!🍀👍👍 

[F350Platinum]

1 minute ago, Joe D. said:

   Great finds, and story to boot! Thanks for posting! "Nearly" as good as being there! Chase is very lucky to be invited for hunts!!🍀👍👍 

Thanks! 🙂

Today might have unnerved anyone a bit, it did me, but he's no stranger to ranges like me I'm sure. I tried to stay behind the hill until they were done. Thing is if I went down the hill I walked into the EMI. 😡

[rvpopeye]

I was going to comment on the other post about this detector but I had seen this one too and couldn't wait to see what else you found !🥸

You sure have some kind of voodoo magic you're using on those landowners !

I don't think you'd cover all that in 100 years  , even if everybody showed up !

So many permissions and such big fields ! 🤔  I'd forget which place I was at and have to ask the neighbors ! 

 

[F350Platinum]

10 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

I was going to comment on the other post about this detector but I had seen this one too and couldn't wait to see what else you found !🥸

You sure have some kind of voodoo magic you're using on those landowners !

I don't think you'd cover all that in 100 years  , even if everybody showed up !

So many permissions and such big fields ! 🤔  I'd forget which place I was at and have to ask the neighbors ! 

 

Thanks RVP!

I've got Chase to help me, he's more than willing. 😀

Believe it or not it's not all that bad, usually there are "hotspots" where you find a lot of stuff, and "dead zones" where there's nothing. You can kill a place like this pretty fast.

I don't believe in "never hunted out". I could show you places I found tons of stuff and there's nothing left within the reach of a VLF. At least they're not worth searching again without a new toy! 😀

[rvpopeye]

Uh oh ! When are you getting your Axiom ?😜

[F350Platinum]

11 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Uh oh ! When are you getting your Axiom ?😜

If the permissions dry up, then. 😀

I've considered looking around for a really lightweight PI detector...

Oh yeah, there aren't any 🤔

[strick]

Relic heaven over there. I'm glad the weather is giving you decent shot..what  great hobby isn't it? I mean half the fun sometimes is trying to find out what your found  😀 nice work once again 350 

strick

[F350Platinum]

7 minutes ago, strick said:

Relic heaven over there. I'm glad the weather is giving you decent shot..what  great hobby isn't it? I mean half the fun sometimes is trying to find out what your found  😀 nice work once again 350 

strick

Completely agree with you! 🙂 I think it will help me avoid Alzheimer's. 🤣 This last spot still has a lot of stuff to be found, and it looks innocuous unless you do some research. That's the other fun part.

Looking ahead the next 15 days are gonna be in the 50s, it's about normal here to have a "warmer" January. February and March usually suck. 😡 March especially due to high winds. Ground isn't frozen, and all my permissions are open, no winter crops! I'm going to be busy. 😀 Chase is retired now so I'll be hunting with him more. He's done a great job keeping me on track.

I like writing, and hope my posts make those who can get out there do so, and in turn post stuff. I know when I can't get out I vicariously enjoy others' exploits, and it shows the newer people what's out there.

Hope I'm not wearing out my welcome 🤔

[CPT_GhostLight]

Congrats on more awesome finds, F350! The scouting trips are turning up some great stuff, I can't wait to see what the gridding turns up, well done again!

And congrats on not getting shot! 😆