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Well its been a great couple of days.
My dad and I meet up with Dirtyrob for a hunt on Saturday afternoon. I found a park on google earth that has a small section of woods. The west side of it was boardered by a 1800's graveyard, the north side had ball fields that were there in 1961, and the north east corner had a farm house in 1939. Thought for sure that we would get a keeper or two out of the woods. Unfortunately it just wasn't meant to be. My dad got one wheat but other than that its was just trash, a few head stamps ,and some clad! I don't think Rob and my Dad will be letting me pick the spot next time......
Still had a great time getting out with the guys and finally meeting rob he's a great guy.
On the way home my Dad and I hit a park for the last hour of light. I dug a die cast airplane with a "travel bug" zip-tied to it with a serial#. Its for people that geocache and can be tracked. It was started in Arkansas in 2008 for a 3 year old boy named Sutton. It traveled 17,021 miles from cache to cache till 2009 then went missing. I found it and posted that I have it and will be getting it "flying" again. I had a Email in about 5 minutes from the boys father thanking me and saying how cool it was that I found it and how happy he was that his boys plane would be traveling again.I plan on taking my 4 year old son with me to place it in a geocache. It will be a find I will remember and be able to track with my son for years to come hopefully! Here's the link:http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=847c2018-012f-4fb6-87c7-8f2829c0a627
On sunday my Dad and I hit a park that had old farm stead on it. I was swinging my ctx and got a 12-45 / 1-45 signal at 8" in a ground coin program (mikeguard01's program). I switched to the gone hunting program and it was solid 12-44/12-45. I dug it and out popped my first LC!!!
It was a 1852 (my new oldest) with a bit of a checkered past. It has a few stab marks from a knife on it. They almost punctured the other side of the coin so the person meant business! I noticed a dimple on one side but there was no hole on the other for this one. I got to thinking and stuck a magnet to it. Sure enough the tip of the knife is still in the coin!
Serves the guy right for stabbing my coin.... Most would hate the knife marks but I love them as they add more mystery to the coins past.
And for my last find......... my best find of the year from today...................I will just let the last picture speak for itself.......
My dad and I meet up with Dirtyrob for a hunt on Saturday afternoon. I found a park on google earth that has a small section of woods. The west side of it was boardered by a 1800's graveyard, the north side had ball fields that were there in 1961, and the north east corner had a farm house in 1939. Thought for sure that we would get a keeper or two out of the woods. Unfortunately it just wasn't meant to be. My dad got one wheat but other than that its was just trash, a few head stamps ,and some clad! I don't think Rob and my Dad will be letting me pick the spot next time......
Still had a great time getting out with the guys and finally meeting rob he's a great guy.On the way home my Dad and I hit a park for the last hour of light. I dug a die cast airplane with a "travel bug" zip-tied to it with a serial#. Its for people that geocache and can be tracked. It was started in Arkansas in 2008 for a 3 year old boy named Sutton. It traveled 17,021 miles from cache to cache till 2009 then went missing. I found it and posted that I have it and will be getting it "flying" again. I had a Email in about 5 minutes from the boys father thanking me and saying how cool it was that I found it and how happy he was that his boys plane would be traveling again.I plan on taking my 4 year old son with me to place it in a geocache. It will be a find I will remember and be able to track with my son for years to come hopefully! Here's the link:http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=847c2018-012f-4fb6-87c7-8f2829c0a627
On sunday my Dad and I hit a park that had old farm stead on it. I was swinging my ctx and got a 12-45 / 1-45 signal at 8" in a ground coin program (mikeguard01's program). I switched to the gone hunting program and it was solid 12-44/12-45. I dug it and out popped my first LC!!!
It was a 1852 (my new oldest) with a bit of a checkered past. It has a few stab marks from a knife on it. They almost punctured the other side of the coin so the person meant business! I noticed a dimple on one side but there was no hole on the other for this one. I got to thinking and stuck a magnet to it. Sure enough the tip of the knife is still in the coin! Serves the guy right for stabbing my coin.... Most would hate the knife marks but I love them as they add more mystery to the coins past.And for my last find......... my best find of the year from today...................I will just let the last picture speak for itself.......
May also want to try womb balancing if your ID's are a little jumpy!!!!!!
