Couple of hunts and some nice buttons

coinnut

coinnut

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Well, the Pequot hunts have slowed down both in number of days out there, and quantity of good finds. I did a Thursday and Friday hunt at the location where the conical points came from 2 seasons ago. Total finds for the two days - good vs bad? 30 shot gun shells, 102 bullet casings, 85 22cal lead slugs. That's the bad :lol:. The good was only 3 musket balls. :shocked01: We need to move on to the next areas soon. Since there was no hunt today, I decided to try and get some coppers at a site that I found my best Constellatio Nova copper at. I spent about 5 hours there and did not score a single coin. But that's OK since I did get two military buttons. I forgot that this is also the site that some nice Excelsior buttons came from and it also gave up Eagle buttons in the past too. Today I got one of each. :clapping: The Eagle buttons don't hold up too well in this soil, but this one is decent enough. The Excelsior buttons on the other hand, have had a lot of silver plate left on them. Today's is no exception, it cleaned up excellent. For those people interested in what I'm digging to get these finds, I'm showing them all. I did use some discrimination on the GPX today, but also tested the bad targets by digging a bunch of them in order to verify the discriminator is not getting rid of good targets too. The pictures are typical of what you will dig using a pulse machine with limited discrimination. I'm getting better at it and believe it or not, there is a reduction in iron targets dug since last week :rolleyes: I didn't expect much but was really surprised at what I did get today. Next time out I am going to see how many buttons are left at the button site where 600 buttons came out of there to date.


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I knew when I saw it come out of the dirt that it had a ton of silvering left on it. The others from this site held us just as well. Here's a picture before I cleaned it, that I forgot to include. The back even has some silver left on it too.


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Man, you are dedicated! Worth it though if you're pulling out buttons like those. Congrats. Also see the square nut with a hole in it on the top pic. Those sound like true treasure in the ground don't they? Thx for posting.

John
 
George, that New York Militia Excelsior button is simply breathtaking! :loveit:

If I ever found something like that I would stare at it non-stop for a week!

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George, nice finds. I will give the shortened Dan version: sometimes you get lucky at a site.... said as far as how long you spent without finding a coin. The buttons make up for it tho. Esp the excelsior. This is less iron?? :shocked04: :lol: The pointer I have is pulse but obvi pointers don't have discrimination. Even tho it's pulse it will still set off the frequency sytle detector if it's too close. Didn't know you had a new machine that you were learning. Well..as you told me.. keep going man.
OxShoeDrew said:
Oh Boy! :drool: Sweet ox knob :lol:
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Hahaha, you would pick that item out of all the finds....
 
coinnut said:
Next time out I am going to see how many buttons are left at the button site where 600 buttons came out of there to date.
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That is a beauty for sure! 600 hundred buttons from one site! George, are there previous posts describing those hunts? Sounds like it would be interesting reading.
 
Lodge Scent said:
That is a beauty for sure! 600 hundred buttons from one site! George, are there previous posts describing those hunts? Sounds like it would be interesting reading.
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Thanks. There should be some posts floating around the web somewhere :lol: I tried to find some on here, but they may have been from before this forum was up and running. We figured that these sites were a place that may have been a cloth recycling area. Almost all the buttons were flat buttons. Very few pewter and only 1 military (I think), came out of there. The better buttons probably were resold. Some days I came home with 50 buttons :shocked01:. Next free day, I'm in there to see if any are left.
 
BTV Digger said:
Man, you are dedicated! Worth it though if you're pulling out buttons like those. Congrats. Also see the square nut with a hole in it on the top pic. Those sound like true treasure in the ground don't they? Thx for posting.

John
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Thanks John. That is a regular hunt for me. I dig a lot of holes. I always have :lol: I try to be efficient and can find, pinpoint, dig a target rather quickly. Pinpointers help a lot!! Covering a lot of ground in the least amount of time has always allowed me to find more relics. As for those square iron targets :girlcry: They sound as good as them iron rings do.
 
No words to describe that button besides DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!!! :shocked05: I can only dream. Incredible pull!!!
 
What a gorgeous excelsior button George. Looks like you're getting to know your machine. Congrats on the great digs
 
coinnut said:
Thanks. There should be some posts floating around the web somewhere :lol: I tried to find some on here, but they may have been from before this forum was up and running..
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You may have started it before this forum, but there were some posts, and you took me there once..and I didn't know you before this forum. So there are some somewhere.

Awesome button:envious:
 
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