{"id":2076,"date":"2013-09-15T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2013-09-15T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:19:55","slug":"merc-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2076","title":{"rendered":"Merc & Button"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got out for a Sunday morning hunt today, weather was gorgeous, at a construction site where they are putting up some McMansions where an old house stood.\u00a0 I generally don’t have all that much luck at these sorts of sites, but I have found a walker, a 2 cent piece, and a handful of bulk silver at similar in the past, so why not?\u00a0 You never know — a big fish could lurk at such a property.<\/p>\n

The problem with this site is that the area near the house is overgrown with grass.\u00a0 You can kinda swing in it, but you do lose a couple of inches, and you have to swing faster than I would like.\u00a0 No steady low and slow possible here.\u00a0 I did do some of that with no luck for about a half hour, but then decided to concentrate on shady areas that had little grass, but, unfortunately, were farther from the house.<\/p>\n

Eventually, in a treed area I found a clothespin — that’s a good sign, maybe the clothesline was in this area (but who puts a clothesline in the shade?), and all the sudden I was finding plenty of coins: 8 memorial pennies, and one wheatie.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 You won’t even give me a clad quarter?\u00a0 Where’s the loose change from 100 years ago?<\/p>\n

I felt like bagging it, but I did want to hit every shady zone where the grass wasn’t an issue, and I eventually got a flat button.\u00a0 It was pretty deep too, and I thought it was a copper at first.\u00a0 I don’t get too excited about these like some folks do, but it least it was a decent tell, and the only old thing I had found.\u00a0 That gave me the will to keep going, and eventually I nailed a ’44 merc.\u00a0 Why wasn’t it a seated or bust?\u00a0 C’mon, I want a big fish.\u00a0 But we’ll take it.<\/p>\n

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The FE number never read below 20, and it ranged from 20 to 26.\u00a0 This is almost always a bulbous ferrous (like a bolt or something), but you gotta dig ’em, especially an old site, cause sometimes they are see thru silvers.\u00a0 Sure enough, the threshold had a big null after I recovered it, tho I never saw the iron that was affecting it..<\/p>\n

Site seems like its been pounded pretty good, but you never know about these sorts of places.\u00a0 Between the grass, construction regrading, equipment, new foundations, and so forth, such a large percentage of the old land is lost.\u00a0 If the grass dies off and withers away, or it is matted down by snow, I might give it another go someday, but the site isn’t high on my priority list going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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