Badger-NH

Great photos. Very helpful to get an idea of what the site is like. Looks like plenty of swinging room.

Finally, a place to post my wheat pennies.  🙂

9 minutes ago, Commonwealthdetector said:

Just my odd sarcasm is all

Ah, now I understand your list of gear used.  🙂

What does Montana (not Montana) mean?

I've dug a few Minie Balls here in NH. I don't know much about them though. Sorry I can't help you there.

21 minutes ago, Noah (FL) said:

That’s pretty cool.  You never know what those low tones might be!! 😂

A piece of iron that big would surely be a high tone. It certainly has the classic look of a train from the period.

8 hours ago, Carolina said:

Only Alexandre knows the fate of the AQ. Tom Walsh is CEO but the ball is in Alexandre’s court. 

There's not much Alexandre can do besides try to sell the idea to detector companies. My gut feeling is that FT is done with the AQ. Innovation doesn't seem to be their thing. We haven't seen anything new from FT since they got into selling detectors except for a re-packaging of what already existed.

Those woods look nice too.

That's very generous of you to share the locations. Is that because you have no competition or you just don't plan on ever going back?

I've never been beyond the east coast but deserts have always fascinated me. I would love to hunt those places. I've watched so many westerns, I can imagine hundreds of scenarios of how people might lose stuff in the desert.

It's way more difficult to find stuff now than it was twenty years ago as every year more and places get hunted out.

We used to just drive around looking for places to detect. Virgin sites were everywhere. Now you have to think outside of the box. I do tons of map research and still get skunked more often than not.

So the heartbreaker was that ring wasn't valuable?  They can't all be gold.

Nice old relics.  The brass fork thing looks like the inner part to a shoe buckle.

10 hours ago, BMc said:

The Archeological community was equating them with grave robber, pot hunter, thief of time types that were destroying history by having the audacity to excavate outside accepted archeological procedures; 

Not only that but much of the general public equated the actors to be a couple of idiot morons. When asking for permission to detect a property, this was the impression landowners had of us. It made the hobby look bad. Many detectorists including myself sent emails to NGS demanding that the show be removed. It was a very heavy topic on the forums.

In contrast "detectorists" was very well done.  Andy and Lance are likable guys. They portrayed the hobby in a good way. I loved that show.

Interesting spot. Beautiful coins. It's been a while since I've found a Barber Quarter.

I have to side with NGC canceling Diggers. Glad they did it. They should have canceled it before it aired.

I went to the Meadowbrook a few times. I remember a really good Led Zeppelin cover band one of the times I was there. The motel/lounge was torn down a long time ago and replaced with a big car dealership.

I know Mike from NH Beach Metal Detecting pretty well. I've been in some of his videos. He lived not far from me before he moved to Hampton. What I don't like about his channel is that he gives away the location of all the hot spots. Next day a dozen or more people show up. I wish he would stop doing that. I'm hoping he spends more time at Hampton Beach now that he lives there. You can also find him on the NH Metal Detecting Forum. He goes by the name saltwaterking.

You must mean the Seacoast Coin and Jewelry detector shop in Hampton. I drive by it all the time but have never been inside. There's also a Cabela's in Scarborough that might have a lot of detecting stuff. I've never been there either. I do all my shopping online.

5 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Klaatu , Nicto Baradek !  

I had to look that up.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto

The Basin in Phippsburg was one of my favorite anchorages. I explored and detected that area for years. Sold my last sailboat in 2009 and took up surfing in 2013.  Just started wing foiling last fall.

I still detect when I can. Finding stuff is a lot more of a challenge now than it was 20 years ago.

I'm closer to Maine than Hampton. I grew up on the Piscataqua looking over to Eliot.

In '69 my parents moved to the other side of town near Great Bay. That's where I live today. I'm 65 now. Parents have been gone many years.

I know Kittery well.

3 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Between the mouths of two rivers , one of which keeps having some big things called DDG 1000 go by.  https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2391800/destroyers-ddg-1000/ (I sometimes wonder what might have been lost overboard as they go by ???)🤔

You're way up there?  Most people would call that mid coast, not south coast. 

South coast usually means south of Portland. Mid coast is Portland to Bar Harbor.  Downeast is Bar Harbor to Lubec.  I've spent a lot of time cruising along all three of Maines coasts.

7 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Sons Of The Beach 

Season 3

Southern storm in town and the temps hit the 60s on the coast yesterday.I                         So I spent the day watching the white stuff melt......... orrrrrrrr NOT !

The surf was UP big time and the tide was LOW . 11" coil Beach 2 this run  and recovery speed 3  . The blood red Roger rules, No target gets out alive . 30 yards of flat below the 1st drop  to the waterline , well , sorta. Half of it was in the surf wash and it was sudsin' up like the blizzard l couple of weeks back. No boots again so playing tag with the wash made it hard to get close to that sweet spot out in the wash zone but of course I tried ,,,and got a couple of wet socks before it was ... BEEP  over,, , a 30 .  About 10 scoops  , the hole was sloppy wet and caving in as quick as I could pull the scoops out completely under a couple times when the wash won but ,,finally out of the hole . A few distributin' kicks and a quick swing  and bang , oh yeah . Opening bid a qwaatah !

Left the fully charged pointer in the holster. 

Spiral out steady as she goes mister low and slowwwww ignoring the foam a foot deep and my coil looked like a half dissolved marshmallow and so did my wet boots but was thinking those wool socks were doing their stuff and my soggy tootsies were actually warm annnnnd another BBweep on the second rev. loud and shallow maybe one scoop on this one?  but LOOKOUT RUNNNN  ! It was underwater and so was my foot  skuh kuh kuh kuh kuh , I didn't  make it ! .   Only 6 scoops this time and in the sand was , is that arrrING ? poke poke  NO a broken off edge of a  Stinkin' Zincoln , OH My Goshk ! Well , some of the rest of it was just below ...  one foot extra wet now (c'mon woolies!)  spiral spiral BIP ? wuzzabip ?  It's a 6 !!! Ooh huh huh huh huh....scoop ,and GOT it ! kick swing drag my foot across again hit built in pinpoint and ,,,,it's,,,,,gone? OK , fire up the profind  bzzzzzzzzzz grab the tip with the sand  poke poke it's a clip off a wire trap .awwwwwww

Looks like the work of the  KRAKEN !😳 

 Spiral spiral ,,,,,spirallll ,,,,,, nuts' head for the rocks  , oooo a nice cut from the wash next to the ledge !  Yup yup !   and 10 steps to another beep ! a high one ! 24  , di...hmmm scoop only go 3 inches before hit ledge. only one tool left and the plastic spoon was clearing the rest of the sand easily. the profind sez there ! it looks like another ring....it's silver ! ,,It'sssssstuck in a crack in the ledge just like a nuggie ! and I can't get it oOUT.arrrrrrrgh , gotta go back to the car lot to see if I have a screwdriver of the straighr slot variety on the trunk....but ....I can't leave an open hole  arrrrrrrrrrrrr ! Fill it in. pick up everything and back up the hilllllll.   Found that old bent driver in mom's tool kit ! and shlepped everything back down to the "scene of the beep"  RATS kids  , playing in the foam right , over my preciousssssss!.ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ! 

But they're NOT digging !  Guess I COULD use a water break ..Never mind ! Those kids sure do move fast !  back to work Mr Lazy . Scoop , spoon spoon spoon , glove glove it's still there ! Duh , kids didn't have a screwdriver !  careful nowwwww, scrape scrape ,still stuck hard, well , it's a really old screwdriver so jam it in that ledge pops !  PRY .it got a little looser ,,,pry on the other side LOOSER , , dang not a ring and looooooser. It's OUT , a dime worn half thickness and totally smooth on one side and not much left on the other , but it's NOT CLAD !!!!!!!!!!!   Noxie's first silver treasarrrrrrr found and in the pouch ! with a clad qwaaatah and a two piece zinc thingy .  A nothing hour of swinging later except for an incredible surf show just a quick run away !  

That's when it happened , real treasure !    One of the kids in the foam was near me and I told her mommy that she "couldn't buy that much fun at the toy store !" and she agreed , but the little girl was looking at the nox and scoop . 

Yup , "What are those things ?"  so I began to explain .."Are you looking for TREASURE Mister ???"  🤗     " I sure am !" ,,      "CAN I HELP ?    "Well , OK for a little while IF mom says you can...

"Can I  can I can I ? " mom caves  "You can be my wave lookout . Tell me when a wave is coming " as I took off the headphones so she could hear the detector... ..

And we swung , and swung , and the threshold dipped out. "OH , is that treasure?"   "I hope so ,,HERE COMES A WAVE !". I stepped on the scoop and ran ! like my foot wasn't already soaked ...   so we waited ,,,and then she ran out and got ,,,the , scoop !!! ahhhhhhhhhh ! NOOOOOOO ! skuh kuh kuh kuh kuh  I tried to keep my eye on the spot. but by the time the wash was over it was gone........ but the nox still worked and it was back under the scoop 5 times as quick as I could pull 'em out. and " RUN WAVE " we made it this time and the scoop was still in the hole too ! But the 5 scoops and the hole were right there ,,,,,,gone ! But the scoop wasn't , and then another wave was back , the tide was coming back in !  But my crew went out and happily brought it back to shore for me.  Now d id I mention it's still Februrary ? ,,,and the sea temp is 35* ?  Mom wanted to go get a heavier coat out of the car so I told me crew she probably should go with mom so's she wouldn't worry 'bout the Kraken and stuff.  

Headphones back on and of course  I pulled a couple of pull rings (also silver ring colored) and a rusty Corona cap in short order. and me crew comes running back ,,"Did you find anything?"  "unh huh " ,, "what WAS IT ???" and I showed her the contents of the pouch  which included the coins , the zincoln was the object that got the most questions so I decided to share the booty with me crew and gave her the zinc pieces to show her friends and  then my treasure and her mom headed to the lot with this ol' Son Of The Beach  ,,,with a "half dime" in the poke !! 

Hey , does that count ?

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Kinda hard to follow the story but sounds like you got a Half Dime.  Good work.  No pics?

It think it's more likely a tag not a token. Could have gone to any number of things. 

16 hours ago, philber said:

I had a friend that participated in the filming of an episode of Diggers and apparently the site was hunted by multiple detectorists to find some good finds, and then they were planted for the "stars" of the show to find.  Which kinda makes sense.  Think about it - its expensive to have all the supporting crew and the logistics to produce a television show.  And you need to make it exciting; who wants to watch a half hour episode of finding pull tabs.   As detectorists, you know from experience how long it can take to find an actual "good" target.  And these guys did it every time in just half an hour?  It takes many hours to find something good and that time frame can be drastically decreased by multiple people searching an area until a few good finds are made.  It was more interesting to hear the side history of an area or about the find they made, than it was to watch their silly shenanigans and freakin out like they just found the Holy Grail.  But again, gotta make it "Exciting"!

That doesn't surprise me a bit.  It's sad that people enjoy that crap and that people got paid to do it.

Slow computer George? Have patience. Give it time to process.

I had never heard of Large Cents until I got into metal detecting. I call them Large Cents because that's what the Red Book calls them and call them cents because it says Cent right on the coin.

Canadian coppers are called pennies.

Most Colonial coppers are Half Pennies.

Modern cents are often called pennies here in New England, but that's more of a nickname.

Calling a Large Cent a Big Penny just sounds funny.

1 hour ago, George Kinsey said:

Never had one turn black.

Do you clean the oil off with a solvent or leave them oily?

I've never tried motor oil. I would think it would turn them black, especially used motor oil. Twenty years ago, everyone used olive oil which I finally concluded doesn't work at all and just leaves them dirty and stinky. These days, I just scrub them under the faucet with stainless steel wool and some soap and I'm happy with that.

Out of hundreds of Large Cents found I've only dug two in good condition. They had almost zero corrosion with just a light surface coating of green oxidation. I put them through electrolysis which made them look shiny new. After a few years or so, they toned to a beautiful caramel brown. When they reached the tone I was happy with, I coated them with Ren Wax.