Trooper Bri
12-27-2014, 07:48 PM
Couldn't ask for much nicer weather for late December, except for 4 more hours of sunlight maybe. Hope everyone took advantage of it.
So, driving home from work yesterday I see a couple cars on a retired farm field that's on my hot sheet for permissions next year. I've noticed a few homemade "no trespassing" signs appear very recently as well. So I pulled in and talked with the land owner. I guess he's getting ready to put up a house (doesn't speak English so well), so I asked if he'd mind if I hit the place this weekend. Permission granted, no more parks for 2014! :happydance01:
Had some stuff to do this morning, but got there about 10:30, said hi to the owner for a few and got started. Don't think I got more than 30 feet before I got my first signal @ 50. Button #1. Button #2 came maybe 2 minutes later. The field is kinda long and narrow, so all I was doing was walking a long straight line to get a feel for it. Button #3 came maybe 5 or 10 minutes later. Got a broken suspender clip a while later, but getting obvious that it was time to turn around. Not much until I got back in the area where I started, and got a good digging signal. Button #4. Ad not long after that came button #5.
Got a break from the button train with my first bale/bag seal. How common are these in CT? I don't recall seeing them in any reports. I'll have to find a site to try and identify it. I've got a couple good pics of it below.
Right after the bag/bale seal, I got a 2-coin spill. 1906 Barber in great shape, and a 1906 Indian. Button #6 came shortly after that, and then it slowed way down. The next 3 hours resulted in a button fragment, clad dime, and more of the lead chunks & slag I was digging all day too. There wasn't much in the way of junk, so if it made a decent tone, up it came.
Called it quits some time after 4. Probably be back tomorrow even though it got real quiet during the 2'nd half of my hunt today. Real happy with my finds. Probably doubled my button count for the year. All except the big dandy and the broken one have some sort of claims to double gilt, extra strong, best, or treble. The last has what looks like a flower pot ornamentation on the face.
Thanks for reading and on with the pics!
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So, driving home from work yesterday I see a couple cars on a retired farm field that's on my hot sheet for permissions next year. I've noticed a few homemade "no trespassing" signs appear very recently as well. So I pulled in and talked with the land owner. I guess he's getting ready to put up a house (doesn't speak English so well), so I asked if he'd mind if I hit the place this weekend. Permission granted, no more parks for 2014! :happydance01:
Had some stuff to do this morning, but got there about 10:30, said hi to the owner for a few and got started. Don't think I got more than 30 feet before I got my first signal @ 50. Button #1. Button #2 came maybe 2 minutes later. The field is kinda long and narrow, so all I was doing was walking a long straight line to get a feel for it. Button #3 came maybe 5 or 10 minutes later. Got a broken suspender clip a while later, but getting obvious that it was time to turn around. Not much until I got back in the area where I started, and got a good digging signal. Button #4. Ad not long after that came button #5.
Got a break from the button train with my first bale/bag seal. How common are these in CT? I don't recall seeing them in any reports. I'll have to find a site to try and identify it. I've got a couple good pics of it below.
Right after the bag/bale seal, I got a 2-coin spill. 1906 Barber in great shape, and a 1906 Indian. Button #6 came shortly after that, and then it slowed way down. The next 3 hours resulted in a button fragment, clad dime, and more of the lead chunks & slag I was digging all day too. There wasn't much in the way of junk, so if it made a decent tone, up it came.
Called it quits some time after 4. Probably be back tomorrow even though it got real quiet during the 2'nd half of my hunt today. Real happy with my finds. Probably doubled my button count for the year. All except the big dandy and the broken one have some sort of claims to double gilt, extra strong, best, or treble. The last has what looks like a flower pot ornamentation on the face.
Thanks for reading and on with the pics!
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45223
45224
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45227
45228
45229
45230
45231
45232