Week Long Hunt Day 7

[F350Platinum]

Y'all must be pretty sick of all this, 😀 but today was another good day. Kinda went everywhere today, started near the boat launch.

Lots of vehicles park here so it's a good place to look for coins, but i didn't think I'd get this very old duck call:

The horn is some kind of old translucent plastic, it has two reeds that appear to be made of nylon, and the wood looks like ebony. Would not have found it if it didn't have the huge brass collar. This is a throwback to the old hunting camp.

I also found an old bent copper ring there.

After this area I hunted some of the tent sites I missed, and found more coins.

Got 29 coins this morning, and the bent ring. Here's the junk:

Got a few pull tabs because I was really hoping to find nickels today.

Took a break for lunch, and went back to the place I got a bunch of coins yesterday, managed to get quite a few more, and even one nickel!

31 more. This spot is really small, pictures don't do it justice but something was going on here in the 80s.

It's the area ringed by trees with my detector there for scale.

Last place I visited caught my eye this morning:

"Kids Corner". If you want to find coins, where kids are, you'll find a lot. I only searched for a short time, but got quite a few quarters. 60 coins today!

Well that's it, it's going to rain tomorrow, and we're going home Tuesday. 🤗 I'll do a recap later to show the sheer magnitude of stuff I found here. Wish I had a working chance to hunt the water. I am very grateful to this campground for the opportunities to hunt it over the past 3 years.

[ColonelDan]

What a week you’ve had my friend.  Great job!

👍🏻

[UKD2User]

Looks like part (chanter/drone) of an old bagpipe?

[F350Platinum]

 

32 minutes ago, UKD2User said:

Looks like part (chanter/drone) of an old bagpipe?

It may well be a spinoff design from Scots who emigrated here. 🙂 I am part Scot, and despite my family living here since such immigration, bagpipes are one of my favorite instrument sounds. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I had never seen (or heard of) a Duck call until I moved from the North to the South and made a friend who made them. He was very proud of his work, he used exotic wood and tuned them for different Ducks.

This campground was a hunting camp with a lodge for over 100 years, they destroyed the lodge and farmhouse just a few years ago. The main reason they let me hunt this campground with impunity is because I dig up the live ammunition scattered everywhere. I also don't leave a trace, although I'll be blamed for holes turtles dig to lay eggs. 🧐

I love coming here because of the diverse detecting opportunities from relics to park hunting to the possibility of water hunting, someday I'll get the opportunity to do that here when the tides are just right. They tell me wind has to come from the North for a few days to make it shallow enough to not be neck deep. 😀 The Currituck Sound has a nice sandy bottom, but you can't scoop if you go up when your scoop is pressed down. There is no beach here, only a seawall with piers.

[UKD2User]

Now I understand your original reference to hunting!

I'm 50% Scots!

[CPT_GhostLight]

Wow, thats a great end to the week, F350, well done again!

That's certainly a beautiful place to hang and hunt and I'm glad the weather cooperated with your vacation as well. Great stories and hunts and a welcomed distraction from my "duck weather". Thank you for posting your adventures! 😎