{"id":1345,"date":"2012-12-08T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-12-08T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T21:00:36","slug":"woods-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1345","title":{"rendered":"Woods Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family is doing a mall crawl (something I will not do under any circumstances, especially this time of year), so I got to do some detecting this morning.\u00a0 I may even get to tomorrow morning if it doesn’t rain.<\/p>\n

Anyway, a member of our Facebook club put together a hunt for this morning, it was an hour and a quarter drive for me, but I decided what the hell, I just wanted to meet some of the other people.<\/p>\n

I had no time to do any research on the site, and had no idea where to go, so I just started milling around these woods more or less where everyone else was, and was finding nothing.\u00a0 As far as I could read the terrain, the woods were second growth (reclaimed farmland), so it was like hunting a farm field.\u00a0 I couldn’t even get iron nulls, and if you ain’t gettin’ that, the odds of getting anything else at an old site are between slim and none.<\/p>\n

Eventually I did find where an old house was, you can tell from the domestic vegetation, bricks, and so forth, and most importantly, constant iron nulls.\u00a0 So I focused there for quite some time, carefully gridding, and still got nothing but junk.\u00a0 I did have one heart pounding moment when I found a small ceramic jar with a metal lid, I says, ok here is my first cache, but it was empty.<\/p>\n

I was about 2 hours in, and still had not found a single coin or other keeper.\u00a0 These sorts of hunts can be like this, and more often than not they are for me.<\/p>\n

Burnt out on constant nulling\/TTF, I decided to go into the purer woods from the homesite grass for some peace, got a 12-43 which I figured was a wheatie or a copper, but it turned out to be an abused 1919 merc.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Just randomly in the woods when the homesite turned up bupkis.<\/p>\n

Then I found an old road bed, and this was something worth focusing on, and I hit a spill of a wheatie and a 1946 Q.\u00a0 On the board with my second silver of the day.\u00a0 Two ahead of what I expected.\u00a0 There was also a huge hunk of iron in the hole.\u00a0 First I got the iron, and I said, are you kidding me?\u00a0 I hear silver in here.\u00a0 Scanned again, got the wheatie.\u00a0 Scanned again, got the Q.<\/p>\n

Found another old roadbed and got another weird signal, but I heard silver in there.\u00a0 I pulled out of that hole 2 coppers fused together, a silver dime (1913 Canadian), and a huge hunk of iron.<\/p>\n

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The above pic shows the coppers fused together.\u00a0 I cannot identify either one.\u00a0 Here is a side view of the fusion —<\/p>\n

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After forcing the coppers apart, I still can’t identify them.\u00a0 Since they were shallow, were in a hole with a Canadian dime, and rang a little light\u00a0 (12-40 range), I’m think the possibility is that they are Canadian large cents (tho some early 1800 American LCs have been pulled from this site by others), who knows?\u00a0 The one with the X looks like it has a bust, the other looks like a mirror image of that bust.\u00a0 The one with the X also looks like it has the LC wreath on the back.\u00a0 I’ll never know; scored as unidentifiables\/smoothies.<\/p>\n

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One final thought on the iron.\u00a0 At sites like this, it seems if you are not getting lots of iron junk, your odds of a silver or copper are low (occasionally you get a random one in the woods for fields, but that is rare, at least for me).<\/p>\n

Below is the iron I had to deal with in 2 of the 3 holes with silver.\u00a0 The Q is for size reference.\u00a0 The smaller piece was on top of the wheatie and the Q in that hole, and the E-Trac still heard the silver; the larger piece was in the hole with that Canadian dime and fused copper pair.<\/p>\n

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All in all a fine morning hunt when I did not expect to find anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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