Indian In The Wheat And A Visit From The King

[F350Platinum]

I was going to add this to yesterday's post, but it kinda got a life of it's own. Yesterday I was going to hunt this area, but there were hunters and dogs all over the place. Didn't mind because I got a silver half dime. 😀

Today was another warm day but overcast. My goal was to hunt around that group of trees right of center, it's an old car repair shop that closed about 15 years ago, I remember when it was still open because I worked near here.

It's now abandoned and overgrown, only one side is available to me as this huge farm permission runs up to it. It's almost a mile away from the road into the field, so I 4 wheeled it down there.

Got 4 wheats and not much more than what I expected to find near a service station, lots of old busted car stuff. Happy with the 4 wheat pennies all pretty much from the 1940s, I went back to an area that I hunted a few months back and got some interesting finds.

Today I was running the Equinox at my usual settings plus recovery speed 2, or mid. There is a cell tower here but I never had to run sensitivity lower than 20, as I got closer to it it got better and I could turn it up as high as 23.

There was a house here in the early to mid 1900s, it's gone now.

On the way over to it I got a nice 21, and popped out my first surprise of the day:

A Buck USA 119 phenolic hunting knife. It's not in too bad shape, the handle has some chips and the aluminum parts are a tad corroded, but the blade is nice and sharp. Pinpointer to show size.

Cleaned it up a little, not bad.

While hunting around I got a 16/17 and dug this iron, yikes. It weighs about 5 pounds.

I randomly hunted the relatively small area where the house was, and snagged the following with which I included the 4 wheats from earlier:

7 wheats total from 1910 to '17 to '26, and then mostly 40s. I was glad to get a 1905 IHP, a 1911 V nickel, an aluminum button I found near the garage, some sort of wrench, a bag seal, a small clip of some sort with a pattern on it, and an undated buffalo nickel.

It was getting late in the day, I was heading back to the truck, and got a 27/30 that I thought might be a quarter.

Nope...

I think it's a King George copper, you can make out the bust looking right. It's pretty worn from the field, the reverse is unintelligible. I hoped I would get one here!

It might be this one, a half penny, 1770s:

Or it could be this one, 1775:

Here's the trash, from copper junk to bullets to iron.

[rvpopeye]

Nice old Buck ! Somebody cried when they lost that ....

 

[F350Platinum]

Just now, rvpopeye said:

Nice old Buck ! Somebody cried when they lost that ....

 

Yeah, it's a $69.00 knife... 😬

[rvpopeye]

The coin god smiled on ya too ! 

Not a bad hood to swing a detector fer sure.

[schoolofhardNox]

Your getting in some good hunts. Nice to see a Geo III copper show up. Nice looking Buck too. I never knew they had aluminum in them. I always thought they had brass. Kind of sad really.

[F350Platinum]

2 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Your getting in some good hunts. Nice to see a Geo III copper show up. Nice looking Buck too. I never knew they had aluminum in them. I always thought they had brass. Kind of sad really.

There have to be some KG's around here, I think this is the second one, maybe the third I've found. This one by far is the most recognizable. 😵

I didn't know Buck used aluminum in knives either, my M9 bayonet weighs a ton, but here we are:

https://www.buckknives.com/product/119-special-knife/0119FAM01/

It's special... 🙄

[kac]

So there is a sign others detected there!

Think earlier Bucks had nickel silver and brass fittings. Still a descent freebie 🙂

[rvpopeye]

I still have a 112 folding Ranger I got @ Bean's in 1972 .

50 years ,,,,,,how is it possible I've never lost it ???????????

I don't wear it on my belt anymore...😏 that's for sure.

(Maybe I should see what it IDs on the Nox  JIC though ?)🤔

 

 

[Valens Legacy]

Another great hunt for you.

Keep up the nice hunts and save some of the history that is buried.

[NCtoad]

When I first glanced at your pic of the knife, without reading the text first, I was thinking “he really uses a nice knife to dig with!”   Lol!

Congrats on the knife, big copper and wheaties!