Week Long Relic, Coin And Water Hunt Day 1, Updated With Day 2

[F350Platinum]

8 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Great way to start off, F350, and congrats on the rings! I bet those shotgun caps date from the era of the hunting lodge. 

You're right I'm back to basics with V1.1, but really liking it too and learning even more about the capabilities of the D2.

Enjoy your vacation and I'm looking forward to your posts of more great finds! ?

Thanks Cap'n, I decided to do the same thing today, start with vanilla General and slap some stuff on it. 

Did about the same as my newer version of Relic Reaper I'm working on.

Still not digging much iron tho, so I'm digging that ?

[F350Platinum]

Day 2 was kinda short so I'm adding it here, it's my 14th anniversary so I didn't stay out too long, mainly hunted newer areas of the campground, and some parts I've already hit hard.

I was also interrupted for about an hour by this turtle laying eggs, she's over a foot long. She was getting attacked by crows while laying in the open, so I metal detected around her for a while, and covered her eggs better when she left. 

Sadly I came back later and the eggs were all dug up by some animal. ?

I went over the farmhouse site, I'd defy anyone to find anything here, it's machine gun everything.

Aluminum, steel, copper tubing, all the junk you can think of and more. ? Over the past couple years I've got some coins out of here, mostly wheats and some Indian heads.

Here are the finds today, just some modern clad and a fancy washer. All from the 70s to today.

Trash wasn't bad.

No detecting tomorrow probably, going shopping further south. My wife is looking forward to it!

 

[F350Platinum]

59 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

That blue sky alone was worth the trip F350. Digging some goodies was just a bonus!

Thanks LC, the weather is nice here. Very mild and sunny spring so far.  ?

The only day it's supposed to rain is tomorrow.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Way to sniff out those coins from unforgiving ground! Too bad about the turtle eggs, probably a dog or racoon got them. 

BTW, Happy Anniversary you crazy kids!

 

[F350Platinum]

11 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Way to sniff out those coins from unforgiving ground! Too bad about the turtle eggs, probably a dog or racoon got them. 

BTW, Happy Anniversary you crazy kids!

 

Thanks. I was pretty impressed to have the D2 pull some coins out of all that junk, one spot was a bed of iron but I heard a high tone in there, zeroed in on it, and it was an old memorial. This is with the 13" mind you, just bumped reactivity to 3.

This is my second marriage, so it hasn't been all that long ? but it's been great.

[strick]

350 thanks for taking us along. The turtle is cool...While at work yesterday I seen a crow pick up a baby ground squirrel and fly off with it chirping in it's claws then came a hawk to try to snatch it from the crow but the crow dropped it and I could not see what happened after that. The signet ring may clean up. I always hold out hope for things like that. As you know gold is softer then brass so you should be able to tell if doing a scratch test by that alone...one thing that used to fool me was that brass will test positive to 10k acid. 

strick 

[PI-Man]

Congrats — Ah I see you found all that stuff we planted for you.  Joe D made me do it ? 

Happy Anniversary!  I have one of those coming up.

 

[Ogliuga]

Very interesting your report about the 13”. By the way very nice photos. And happy anniversary! 

[F350Platinum]

11 hours ago, strick said:

350 thanks for taking us along. The turtle is cool...While at work yesterday I seen a crow pick up a baby ground squirrel and fly off with it chirping in it's claws then came a hawk to try to snatch it from the crow but the crow dropped it and I could not see what happened after that. The signet ring may clean up. I always hold out hope for things like that. As you know gold is softer then brass so you should be able to tell if doing a scratch test by that alone...one thing that used to fool me was that brass will test positive to 10k acid. 

strick 

Thanks man, the second hunt was a bit disappointing but they can't all be gems, at least I got something ?

I'm hoping the ring is gold, that would be nice. I think it was under that tree since at least the 70s. My wife says she had one like it a long time ago, and it was gold.