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Another Saturday of hunting for some Colonial History. Myself and Dave Wise​ are gluttons for punishment as the day started off slow for us. The woods were extremely humid, infested with mosquitos and the rain came upon us...par for the course when cellar hole hunting in the Summer. Persistence...

I see that Dave already described our busy weekend so I wont get into many details. The priceless moments I am referring to in my Title were when Thomas and Mike dug up their first Colonial Cellar Hole coins. Both of their coins were in beautiful condition. The smiles on their faces were...

Dave and I hunted 12 hours Saturday at three new Cellar holes. The day started off with a KGIII within the first 15 mins of swinging but for the next few hours, things really slowed down for me. The targets were scarce for me after the KG coin at the first cellar and when we moved on to the...

All four of us exclusively used the 13"DD in this Colonial Farm field on Sunday. The coil is ideal for these sites as opposed to using it at a cellar hole. I put it all on Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPWgvkGVzSI

Testing out the new Detech Ultimate 13" DD coil that is now compatable with The White's MXT line and up. These results were from the weekend at some cellar holes. Had to put on the smaller coil around the cellar hole lips due to all the iron and stubby over growth, which is expected for all...

Great news White's users! Detech has one of the best after market coil lines in the business and now the 13" Ultimate Coil will be compatible with the White's MXT line and up. I have one in hand and will be putting it to the test on my MXT pro this weekend. Man this coil is so light for 13"...

I have been getting a lot of questions over the last few days in regards to my current adventure here in Sweet Home Oregon. Some of you may or may not know that myself and Dave Wise were hand picked along with 6 other people through out the country by White's Electronics as part of a "Focus...

Thursday I had done some special recon and found a new site to hunt. Friday I took Dave with me to see what we could pull out. This was an old site and seemed like every other target that came out of the ground was a Dandy Cloak Button. One of the cloakers has an odd design that looks like an...

Ray (Kray) made is annual trek up north and probably realized mine and Dave's M.O. for most of our hunts. This was the 4th time Ray hunted with us and has probably learned by now that he should always expect Dave and I to arrive late and be prepared for a long grueling hike:lol: He's most likely...

So Saturday Dave and I found a new spot. We walked circles around the site before we finally found it:duh: I always expect every site we hit to be hammered and this one was no exception but we never let that discourage us as it is the norm yet, we still always manage to walk away with some...

Sunday Cellar Hole hunt. Dave and I found a new spot, it was a beautiful site yet hammered pretty hard. I still managed a few keepers with a General service Eagle Civil War Button, 1848 Braided Hair, and a more modern silver coin spill. Probably lost from hunters or logger's in the 40's.

It's always a good time hunting with CtTodd in the group with plenty of good talk and good laughs. He opted out in joining Dave and I to our back up sites but he probably made the right choice. Besides I am sure he made the wifey happy by spending some quality time with her. The hike to the...

Over the last two months of hunting, I accumulated over 100 buttons and common colonial relics that I knew I would never find enough time to hand clean. I decided to put them in my tumbler to save hours of my time. I am glad I did because there were a couple of diamonds in the ruff...including...

I had to work all week including yesterday so I was itching to hit some sites. Last night Dave and I noticed a spot near one of our sites we hit last summer that we never noticed before. It looked very promising as it was tucked away in the nook of a river deep in the woods. When we got there...

Friday Dan got a group of us together to try and find some cellar holes and boy did we try but with little results. Only thing notable for me that day was a buffalo nickel spill and 2 Wheaties however, it was good to meet Jim(MangoAve). While driving to meet Dan Saturday morning, I started...

The last two hunts from this past Saturday and previous Sunday produced a little bit of everything for me. These sites keep producing for me and Dave, we are going to be sad when we finally clean them out. Persistence paid off for me as I was fortunate enough in finding a total of seven...

Great job By Carol Rio, Dave Wise, CT Todd and GK Man in making this hunt happen. Dave and I met up with Carol, CT-Todd and Gary Killmer in New York on Sunday morning. We were lucky enough to secure permission on hunting this area that was hiding a few cellar holes. They were all hit already...

While driving to some new sites at 6:00am Sunday, I said to Dave that I had a good feeling. The ticks were out in full force and I am still soar from all the hiking but it was worth it. The scenery was gorgeous and so were the finds. Scored my second solid Knee buckle but this one seems older...

Finally a day off from work on Sunday. Got out to a few cellar holes with Dave and Dan. Targets were hard to come by but I got some really nice keepers including my 7th George Washington Button, a Vermont State Copper and very cool early 1700's knee buckle with Crown pattern that I've never seen...

I don't even know what to say? So many crazy things happening during this weekends hunts.:crazy: I guess I will go in chronological order with so much happening but I don't want to ramble on so here it goes... Saturday Sept 6th: -Dave and I secure permission to hunt Mill sites and Cellar holes...