Hunt Cut Short By Rain, But It Was Worth It

[F350Platinum]

Looked at the weather this morning, it looked like the rain would hold off until afternoon. I grabbed my WS6 Master and gear and loaded the golf cart up, I thought I'd go hit a local spot I got some great finds in over a year ago.

I know this field looks like all the others, 😀 but it's less than a mile from my house. It's a 200 acre farm that has given up some good stuff but should have been better had it not been bushwhacked by another detectorist who really didn't have permission.

They didn't know there was anything in this field, there was a house here up to the 60s, and it's long gone. It's just a small hotspot that I dug a lot of great military buttons and other relics, mostly Victorian.

I hunted around this spot for a while, got a 1918 wheat and a pretty cool Blue Bell jacket button, a really old one. Blue Bell ended up being a part of Wrangler, but I don't know when.

Got to looking way back in the field, I really hadn't searched much there.

There was next to nothing until I got in a wash, a dip in the field that runs into a ravine. I had a feeling something would turn up. I suddenly got a 90, dug my plug, and then it shot up to 95. I thought "oh great, a deep aluminum or steel can". 😵 However, this field doesn't have much trash at all...

Well my feeling became reality. 🥳 My first Standing Liberty quarter! I know some of you probably find these a lot, but here it's a shocker 🤯 I've finally done it tho, Seated, Standing, Walking, and a Barber. Yay. Only took almost 3 years.

Went back to the hotspot, dug a few more things, and it started raining. I was happy so I jumped in the cart, went back to the house, and took my wife out to lunch. 😀

Got a small spoon, a button back of some sort, very thin and broken, and a razor handle. Got silver! 🙂

Not much trash today.

[rvpopeye]

Looks like it's a silver sunday ! A nice SLQ for yer set ! 

 

[F350Platinum]

52 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Looks like it's a silver sunday ! A nice SLQ for yer set ! 

 

Thanks, RVP. 👍 Shame about the date, but it's older than 1925, and newer than 1917 😀

[JCR]

Nice little hunt there.

[jim tn]

Nice before rain hunt. SLQ are a fun find. Good hit! HH Jim Tn

[Valens Legacy]

Congrats on the find as I know you have been looking for them for a long time.

Got some other nice finds to go with it so I would say that you had a great hunt.

Now go home, sit down, and have a drink to celebrate.

Good luck on your next hunt.

[mn90403]

WTG

Nice to have a spot so close that holds so much promise.

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, mn90403 said:

WTG

Nice to have a spot so close that holds so much promise.

Thanks, it's what got me hooked. Found some Spanish silver pistareens the first time I went detecting in the farm field about 50 yards from my house. 😀 Even found some old musket balls and buttons in my yard. I had to walk a long way hearing nothing for that coin. 🙂

After a couple years of detecting these farms I'm getting to know where to look!

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Congrats on the find as I know you have been looking for them for a long time.

Got some other nice finds to go with it so I would say that you had a great hunt.

Now go home, sit down, and have a drink to celebrate.

Good luck on your next hunt.

The tradition (a pretty successful one) is to take my wife out to eat if I find silver or gold. Gold gets the fancy place.

It's so infrequent I'm not going broke yet 🤔

[matt]

Wow! Great finds. Like already said by somebody else, how nice having such fantastic places to hunt so close to home. I would be out every day. Actually, I think you hunt almost every day as long as the weather is nice! Thanks for posting all your finds.