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DIV Hunt wrap-up
Posted by Daniel Tn
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DIV Hunt wrap-up March 29, 2015 01:59AM |
Well the hunt is officially over. I do gotta say...it was a slow start for me but I ended up doing pretty well on the last couple days. I was able to knock two pretty big items off my WANTED bucket list. Including my #1 item. For those that know me...it has been a long time coming. Seemingly one of the easier things to find has always eluded me in my relic hunting adventures. I'm talking about a US oval plate. Either a belt plate or box plate. I've had them dug literally just yards from me. But I never could get one. Well I got one. It's probably the roughest shape plate I've ever seen but as they say....it is what it is.
I also got my first large cent. I can't read the entire date on it but the last digit is a 9. I thought I had a soliders ID disc when I first popped it from the dirt clod. I dug it at nearly 18 inches deep with the GPX.
And literally...in the last few minutes of the hunt, I decided to play around with the F19. We were parked right beside a spot and I was waiting on the other members of my crew to get back to the truck. This particular spot had been hammered for yrs at each of the hunts at DIV, INCLUDING this one. There was so many nails and ration can pieces...barrel bands, etc that you can walk 20 yards in any direction and a pulse detector will overload the entire time. It clicked in my head....hmm....I'll grab the F19 and play. The guys were working their way back to the truck as I was doing this. I turned it on...walked maybe 10 steps and got a good repeatable signal. At around 5 inches...out pops a round disc. Got it back to the hotel and cleaned it up...it's an 1860 indian head. I had just pulled it from the dirt with 5 minutes to go before the hunt cut off time. I am sitting here wondering what else is in that iron junk now. I shoulda tried the F19 there earlier but it always had so many people on it that I didn't want to try.
There was some good finds made on the hunt but you can tell the property is starting to run thin on the quantity of relics. I would FOR SURE go back if given the chance...but I think it would be better if they reduced the amount of people so that the areas could be searched better without people running all over one another. Here are my coins:
Here is my total take for the hunt:
I spent the last couple days exploring areas I had never been in before. I got into one big field that was always corn stubble when I was there on past hunts. This time it was cut soy beans...and was like a well cut yard. Nobody was really in that field so I gave it a go. According to Google Earth, it is a half mile long and quarter mile wide. I made some zig zag patterns through it and started stumbling onto the shot bullets. I then found out that this field is actually part of the battle of Brandy Station and that the shot bullets I found were probably actually shot in the battle. Pretty cool...and several of them are sharps bullets too. I got 3 eagle "A" artillery buttons and a NY cuff staff button. The rest are just plain shield eagles.
I also got my first large cent. I can't read the entire date on it but the last digit is a 9. I thought I had a soliders ID disc when I first popped it from the dirt clod. I dug it at nearly 18 inches deep with the GPX.
And literally...in the last few minutes of the hunt, I decided to play around with the F19. We were parked right beside a spot and I was waiting on the other members of my crew to get back to the truck. This particular spot had been hammered for yrs at each of the hunts at DIV, INCLUDING this one. There was so many nails and ration can pieces...barrel bands, etc that you can walk 20 yards in any direction and a pulse detector will overload the entire time. It clicked in my head....hmm....I'll grab the F19 and play. The guys were working their way back to the truck as I was doing this. I turned it on...walked maybe 10 steps and got a good repeatable signal. At around 5 inches...out pops a round disc. Got it back to the hotel and cleaned it up...it's an 1860 indian head. I had just pulled it from the dirt with 5 minutes to go before the hunt cut off time. I am sitting here wondering what else is in that iron junk now. I shoulda tried the F19 there earlier but it always had so many people on it that I didn't want to try.
There was some good finds made on the hunt but you can tell the property is starting to run thin on the quantity of relics. I would FOR SURE go back if given the chance...but I think it would be better if they reduced the amount of people so that the areas could be searched better without people running all over one another. Here are my coins:
Here is my total take for the hunt:
I spent the last couple days exploring areas I had never been in before. I got into one big field that was always corn stubble when I was there on past hunts. This time it was cut soy beans...and was like a well cut yard. Nobody was really in that field so I gave it a go. According to Google Earth, it is a half mile long and quarter mile wide. I made some zig zag patterns through it and started stumbling onto the shot bullets. I then found out that this field is actually part of the battle of Brandy Station and that the shot bullets I found were probably actually shot in the battle. Pretty cool...and several of them are sharps bullets too. I got 3 eagle "A" artillery buttons and a NY cuff staff button. The rest are just plain shield eagles.