AirmetTango
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I got permission on another 1890s home in town awhile back and finally got the opportunity to go hunt today. It didn't take long before I was pulling a bunch of clad up, mostly on the surface or within the top inch. An hour and a half later, I still had nothing in my pouch except clad and modern trash - mostly bits of aluminum probably from a gutter installation, miscellaneous hardware, and a couple pull tabs. Even though I had only swept maybe a quarter of the yard, I was seriously considering moving on to someplace else when I got a promising signal from deeper than the clad was showing - and turned out to be the unspent .22 round. It has a "U" on the headstamp, which is too ubiquitous to try and date - could be old, could be fairly recent. Either way, that was enough to rope me into continuing a little longer, and the next signal turned out to be the cool, old clock key, which ended up being the hunt saver! After another hour on site, I didn't get anything interesting other than the beefy, 3/8" thick gear. Rang up like a quarter and indicated 4" down - ended up finding it at about 6". I was out of time after digging the gear, so I packed up and left. I still have maybe 1/3 of the yard I could hunt, but not sure it'll be worth going back considering the minimal older finds.
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