MangoAve
10-27-2015, 08:58 AM
Yesterday there was a hunt that can't be beat. Maybe it wasn't quite a gold or silver cache, but I can say no one has ever had a hunt like this.
After work I had to hit Walmart for a few items, which now irritates me that I ran out of peroxide last night with the cleaning which I should have picked up at this trip there. I got to the P.O. to get out a Bday card and might as well get the bill out 3 days early. Around 5 I was able to get out to hunt. The 1926 that I was gonna try and hit looked like the guy was inside, and the last two times meant no one answered when I tried to make sure I could detect at that time. So I went down to the 1798 house where I scored the Balboa, three ringer, 1818 Matron, buff, Kearny cross, and 1936 electrical connector item. I brought the Kearny with me just in case I was going to that house to offer it to him. The story for that is on the latest AD contest...
He is a nicest guy and said to have at it. I took out the Tpro and I thought I was ok to use it. I did get an iffy target that I dug. The coin shape was there with the old bottle cap, but I noticed with the pinpointing the numbers were erratic. When I was swinging I was getting the iron category popping. Umm. The dog fence was giving me an issue. So I threw it back in the car and grabbed the TRanger. Not more than 5 feet away I snagged my first dog tag; 1917. A few feet away I get an ok tone, but it was a little broken. I dig down and get a medal. Now this is strange because I pulled up the Kearny cross before, why is there another medal? When I was checking I had gotten two spots the pinpointer was going off. I checked again and out pops another. Then a third. Then a fourth. I swing over it again and see there is more. In the same hole I pulled out 5 medals along with three bars for badges, a fob, and a small one medal similar to the 4 identical ones. Now I am swinging paying attention to any tones I am getting. Not quite in all metal mode. I go along to the big tree and get a target 6 inches down. Unfortunately due to the roots and the amount of light still left I gave up on it. The tree is massive and any item under a root would be really old. Around the side of the tree I got another good tone. I thought it could be a LC near iron cuz the slightly lower VDI. Turns out it was a large dandy button, period for build of the house. Now that one is the same size as the one I pulled up about a month ago at an 1800 house maybe 2 miles away along the same route. When I came back around to the area where I got the medal spill, I checked again. Another nice tone just a few inches over. wth??? Annd out pops another medal. I didn't stay too much longer because it was dark and was using all the lights. When he was taking off, I showed him the items and told him I was going too because it was dark.
It was nothing short of spectacular to find a medal/fob spill. I have heard of button spills. I have heard of jewelry spills and coin spills, but medals??
They all look like they were turn of the century items, about 100 or so years after the house was built. I have to now research why they were there. Some pottery was in the hole too, but Im sure by early 1900s that trash pits were not used, and to be right out front of the house in view? No way it was a trash pit there.
The four identical medals, along with the smaller similar one, was made by Whitehead and Hoag out of Newark NJ. The Kearny from before was Schwaab S&S out of Milwaukee. The others I can't tell. The 4+1 are for the Governor's foot guard officers started in 1771. It is the oldest service in the country for protection of a government official. The round one is for the second company (said like platoon) which was started out of New Haven CT in 1775 for the same protection. One bar is for the first company as it has the date of 1771. At first I thought it was a badge number. One is blank. The other just says St Louis 1907. There was something medal that connected below it and idk which one. The fob is for the Jamestown Tercentennial in 1907 depicting the Connecticut house and the state seal. The last round badge is for the Worcester Infantry Centennial in 1903. I Included the picture of the Balboa and Kearny as well. Now the pics to share in the joy I got from this hunt. Drew, keep saying you hope I get good luck hunting cuz it is surely working.
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After work I had to hit Walmart for a few items, which now irritates me that I ran out of peroxide last night with the cleaning which I should have picked up at this trip there. I got to the P.O. to get out a Bday card and might as well get the bill out 3 days early. Around 5 I was able to get out to hunt. The 1926 that I was gonna try and hit looked like the guy was inside, and the last two times meant no one answered when I tried to make sure I could detect at that time. So I went down to the 1798 house where I scored the Balboa, three ringer, 1818 Matron, buff, Kearny cross, and 1936 electrical connector item. I brought the Kearny with me just in case I was going to that house to offer it to him. The story for that is on the latest AD contest...
He is a nicest guy and said to have at it. I took out the Tpro and I thought I was ok to use it. I did get an iffy target that I dug. The coin shape was there with the old bottle cap, but I noticed with the pinpointing the numbers were erratic. When I was swinging I was getting the iron category popping. Umm. The dog fence was giving me an issue. So I threw it back in the car and grabbed the TRanger. Not more than 5 feet away I snagged my first dog tag; 1917. A few feet away I get an ok tone, but it was a little broken. I dig down and get a medal. Now this is strange because I pulled up the Kearny cross before, why is there another medal? When I was checking I had gotten two spots the pinpointer was going off. I checked again and out pops another. Then a third. Then a fourth. I swing over it again and see there is more. In the same hole I pulled out 5 medals along with three bars for badges, a fob, and a small one medal similar to the 4 identical ones. Now I am swinging paying attention to any tones I am getting. Not quite in all metal mode. I go along to the big tree and get a target 6 inches down. Unfortunately due to the roots and the amount of light still left I gave up on it. The tree is massive and any item under a root would be really old. Around the side of the tree I got another good tone. I thought it could be a LC near iron cuz the slightly lower VDI. Turns out it was a large dandy button, period for build of the house. Now that one is the same size as the one I pulled up about a month ago at an 1800 house maybe 2 miles away along the same route. When I came back around to the area where I got the medal spill, I checked again. Another nice tone just a few inches over. wth??? Annd out pops another medal. I didn't stay too much longer because it was dark and was using all the lights. When he was taking off, I showed him the items and told him I was going too because it was dark.
It was nothing short of spectacular to find a medal/fob spill. I have heard of button spills. I have heard of jewelry spills and coin spills, but medals??
They all look like they were turn of the century items, about 100 or so years after the house was built. I have to now research why they were there. Some pottery was in the hole too, but Im sure by early 1900s that trash pits were not used, and to be right out front of the house in view? No way it was a trash pit there.
The four identical medals, along with the smaller similar one, was made by Whitehead and Hoag out of Newark NJ. The Kearny from before was Schwaab S&S out of Milwaukee. The others I can't tell. The 4+1 are for the Governor's foot guard officers started in 1771. It is the oldest service in the country for protection of a government official. The round one is for the second company (said like platoon) which was started out of New Haven CT in 1775 for the same protection. One bar is for the first company as it has the date of 1771. At first I thought it was a badge number. One is blank. The other just says St Louis 1907. There was something medal that connected below it and idk which one. The fob is for the Jamestown Tercentennial in 1907 depicting the Connecticut house and the state seal. The last round badge is for the Worcester Infantry Centennial in 1903. I Included the picture of the Balboa and Kearny as well. Now the pics to share in the joy I got from this hunt. Drew, keep saying you hope I get good luck hunting cuz it is surely working.
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