Bullets And The Brass Ring

[F350Platinum]

Big Culpeper hunt today. Liberty Hall Plantation. Chase was nice enough to invite me to go along, it was a 2.5 hour drive but well worth the trip. About 70 detectorists were there, it was a seeded/natural Civil war camp for both armies at one time or another.

200+ acres of rolling farm. Here's some genealogical history:

http://signup.libertyhallva.com/

I was first to get something in the bag, but Chase maintained his mentor status overall. 😀 There were 3 large spots that were "seeded" with some great relics, and places you could dig some serious stuff from the civil war.

We put in a few miles today, a morning and afternoon hike. This place is really well maintained and run, the hunt was fair and fun. At one point we hit on a plan to find more seeded stuff and it paid off. We both started out with Deus 2's, later Chase switched to his GPX to find more bullets. 

We couldn't go in the paddock areas, but there were a lot of great photo ops. 😀

Here's my take for the day:

I got possibly 4 "seeded" bullets, two Sharps bullets on the right, a .69 caliber Minie on the left, a Williams cleaner center, and a .52 Three ringer. Anything white was probably seeded. On top is a ~60 caliber round ball, possibly colonial. The brass ring was the only non-lead Item I dug that was worth keeping. 

Here's the trash, the place was loaded with nails, staples, and wire. 😀 Really not bad!

I dug an ancient cowbell with the clapper still inside. It's the large item on the bottom left. There was a building there, we searched around it for a bit but moved on.

So, how did the Deus 2 do in this soil? 🤔

Great. Sometimes there were mineralization bars across the screen, sometimes nothing. I didn't notice any lack of depth although I'm sure there was, and the ground was pretty hard due to the slight drought we've had this year. I ran the detector in pretty much vanilla Relic program, except Reactivity at 2, and 00 notched out with a little bit of threshold. (Thanks Chase) Sensitivity was 93 default, but I bumped it to 96. It was basically a "go/no go" day. Some stuff, particularly the wire and nails managed to get past me, but I used my Quest pinpointer to leave a few behind. 😁

We both won prizes, I was first to win the raffle, and got a book.

This was my first organized hunt, and I had a blast. 🙂

[Joe D.]

   Great job Bob, looks like an awesome place to detect!! 👍👍

[F350Platinum]

Just now, Joe D. said:

   Great job Bob, looks like an awesome place to detect!! 👍👍

Thanks, some people didn't get much. One woman with a GPX scored a 1730s 1 Reale! Targets were all over, but not everywhere. More swinging than ringing, I would say... 🤔

[kac]

Nice hunt. When you getting a GPX? hehe

[F350Platinum]

Thanks! 🙂

After having to pay a small fortune to fix my truck last week, probably never 😁

[kac]

ATX sounds tempting, has an iron check on the dd coils but the weight scares me. All pricey, heavy and require a lot of digging.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Beautiful location and great finds! Looks like the D2 did pretty well for you. Well done!

[Valens Legacy]

Great hunt at a beautiful site, did you put a pin pointer on the end of the nose of the horse.

Wish I could have taken time off for something like that.

Good luck on your next outing.

[F350Platinum]

5 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Great hunt at a beautiful site, did you put a pin pointer on the end of the nose of the horse.

Wish I could have taken time off for something like that.

Good luck on your next outing.

There were a couple of horses that gave us that opportunity at the end of the hunt, we were kicking back on our chairs at the end, drinking coffee and enjoying a break before the long drive home. Should have taken a photo. One had a face blinder on, guess that was the male. 👍 I don't know if there was a penalty for "booping" horses, but there was a reward for tranquilizer darts. We both got one. Mine ID'd as a 90-something, thought I'd found a half dollar.

I found long ago that the best times are times you make. 🙂

[GB_Amateur]

Sounds like you had a good time.  Camaraderie can add to the enjoyment of finding good stuff.

When you find a relic, how could you distinguish if it was planted or authentically positioned?