choppadude
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Had a great time and reconnected with some great friends and made a few more. As usual the hunt was awesome and the location was KILLER!
The site was Maddens Tavern which was built in 1840 by a free black man. The property saw a lot of visitors including Union troops as well as Confederate.
The highlight of this hunt was the number of plates that were found (seemed like everyone but me found one LOL!) I saw 2 nice SNY plates. A fella that was new to organized hunts killed it finding 5 US plates and a Eagle breast plate to boot. And to make it even more unbelievable, he was running the CTX3030 with the stock coin program LOL!
In all I believe 30 plates or more were recovered and some killer coins.
My highlight of the hunt was the recovery of a 1773 Virginia Half Penny. I have heard what a rare coin this was and even dreamed of finding one at one of these hunts in VA but never actually thought it would happen!
I started the hunt off with the GP3500 machine the first day and dug ALOT of iron but managed a few bullets. On the second day it was a pleasure swinging the Deus and that is the machine that I recovered the half penny with. On the final day I pulled out the Nokta Impact with the15 X 14" IM40 big coil and was able to recover some nice deep bullets. I must say this machine is balanced well and even with the big coil it was very easy to swing for long periods.
Still standing Tavern
The site was Maddens Tavern which was built in 1840 by a free black man. The property saw a lot of visitors including Union troops as well as Confederate.
The highlight of this hunt was the number of plates that were found (seemed like everyone but me found one LOL!) I saw 2 nice SNY plates. A fella that was new to organized hunts killed it finding 5 US plates and a Eagle breast plate to boot. And to make it even more unbelievable, he was running the CTX3030 with the stock coin program LOL!
In all I believe 30 plates or more were recovered and some killer coins.
My highlight of the hunt was the recovery of a 1773 Virginia Half Penny. I have heard what a rare coin this was and even dreamed of finding one at one of these hunts in VA but never actually thought it would happen!
I started the hunt off with the GP3500 machine the first day and dug ALOT of iron but managed a few bullets. On the second day it was a pleasure swinging the Deus and that is the machine that I recovered the half penny with. On the final day I pulled out the Nokta Impact with the15 X 14" IM40 big coil and was able to recover some nice deep bullets. I must say this machine is balanced well and even with the big coil it was very easy to swing for long periods.
Still standing Tavern
