MTHA 2025 Fall Open Hunt (Massachusetts)

[jimther]

WHAT: Our annual SILVER seeded hunt for coins, including lots of buried U.S. silver coins and donated silver finds, tokens for foreign silver coins and equipment (Minelab detector, Garrett pinpointer, etc.) on a beautiful sandy, fresh-water beach. Great raffles too. A morning and an afternoon hunt plus, for finders of special tokens in the first two hunts, a BONUS 3rd hunt to find one of TWO Gold ingots. Several FMDF members have attended our past hunts and have reported having a great time.

WHEN: Sunday, October 19th, 2025 RAIN or SHINE - see hunt registration form online for more detail at https://masstreasure.com/2025-hunt-registration/

WHERE: Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation, in Milton, Massachusetts, near Boston.

PLUS: Qualify for early registration drawing by registering by September 19th

A snapshot of the day:

REGISTRATION 9:00 -9:50 AM
First Hunt 10:00- 10:45 AM
1st Hunt Awards 10:45-11:00 AM
1st SILVER Raffle 11:15 AM
Break for LUNCH 11:20-12:15 PM
2nd Session of Hunt Check In by 12:00 PM
Second Session of Hunt 12:20 – 1:00 PM
Second Hunt Awards 1:00-1:15 PM
2nd SILVER Raffle 1:30

SPECIAL Gold Coin EXTRA HUNT at 2 PM for those who find a special token in the ground for a third hunt.

PHOTOS from last year's 2024 hunt:

MTHA Webmaster, Sandi G. captured a group portrait before the first hunt and sent it to me to include in a shared Google Photos Album.

All photos (except Sandi's group photo) are courtesy of Dave R. Captions and photo post-processing provided by me [with permission].

I have uploaded 52 photos to a Google Photos Album, available at this link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TSYkZeM8ycTzacJ88 ~ Once there, click on the first, very wide photo of the entire group to begin viewing the photos. At the right of each photo will be an arrow that you can click to advance thru the photos.

 

[vmc1161]

I already signed up for it. I have had a great time in the past. Would be nice to see some of you there to put the face to the name. Some of you might even think I'm not that big of a jerk ... maybe.

 

[jimther]

Hi Charlie… see you in October- Jim

 

[Tajue17]

Is it for members only, im in plymouth and currently not a member of any clubs

 

[jimther]

Hi Tajue17.
As always, our OPEN hunt is open to all, club members and non-members. We have one member from your town, Plymouth, a couple from Weymouth, and Hull. At our OPEN hunts every October, we've had hunters from Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York and beyond.

Hope you can make it.
Jim

 

[jimther]

R E M I N D E R -

The deadline to qualify for the early registration drawing is THIS Friday, September 19th

 

[jimther]

Just two more weeks until the MTHA Hunt on October 19th. Hope to see a few more FMDF'ers there.
Don't let Charlie (vmc1161) find it all.

 

[vmc1161]

Just two more weeks until the MTHA Hunt on October 19th. Hope to see a few more FMDF'ers there.
Don't let Charlie (vmc1161) find it all.

Hey, I want to know who told you my plan. The rest of you guys ignore him, but please sign up I won’t mind if you find a few things.

 

[jimther]

Just one week left until this October 19th Open Hunt. Still time to register. See the link in my original post above.

Hope the weather cooperates and Mother nature "gets it out of her system" these next few days with this nor'easter we're getting now.

 

[vmc1161]

Maybe some members should come by even if they're not hunting. Maybe meet some of the people on this site.

 

[jimther]

See you there tomorrow, Charlie. Good idea about nearby forum members dropping by to the hunt to check it out see what were all about.
Decent weather expected tomorrow.