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    Badges, Pins, Marbles, Relics - Recent Finds - Pic Heavy

    Well, it's been such a challenge to keep up with cleaning and posting my finds that I have decided to outsource that part of the operation: It was back to the creek for some more relic goodness ( Here are the results of mixing road rage, holiday stress, and alcohol (or worse): Here's a...
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    A Little SIlver and a Whole Lotta Lead

    Well, I've been trying to get myself to post last weeks finds for a few days, but life keeps happening. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and ate less than I did! It's a pleasant time to get out around here - temps in the 60s, just right for me, and we got a little rain, so nice damp and...
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    A Little SIlver and a Whole Lotta Lead

    Well, I've been trying to get myself to post last weeks finds for a few days, but life keeps happening. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and ate less than I did! It's a pleasant time to get out around here - temps in the 60s, just right for me, and we got a little rain, so nice damp and...
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    A Few Interesting Keepers - Belt Buckles, Yukon Gold Rush, Early Boy Scout Slide

    Found a few nice keepers last week including a couple of belt buckles and a seal from the Yukon gold rush. My dentist sent me on a wild goose chase to Las Cruces (350 mi. round trip) to see an Endodontist who couldn't do the work, but I did haul my recycling along and got $225 for it. I made...
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    A Few Interesting Keepers - Belt Buckles, Yukon Gold Rush, Early Boy Scout Slide

    Found a few nice keepers last week including a couple of belt buckles and a seal from the Yukon gold rush. My dentist sent me on a wild goose chase to Las Cruces (350 mi. round trip) to see an Endodontist who couldn't do the work, but I did haul my recycling along and got $225 for it. I made...
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    Chinese Gardens & Creek Finds for the Week- Pic Heavy

    Had another pretty good week hunting the old ruins and landfill area - here are a few of my favorite finds: Found a couple of brass tokens - one is an El Paso City Lines bus fare, and the other is for Evans Consoles of Chicago (Domino Line, Lucky Line, Lucre Line). I found this brass hotel...
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    Chinese Gardens & Creekside Ruins Finds - pic HEAVY

    Well, I finally got my lazy arse in gear to post some of my early October finds from the Chinese Gardens Ruins and area. Quite a nice variety - not many coins, but some nice bits of history like this 1935 Tax Token: "Emergency School Tax on Purchase of Twenty Five Cents" from the "New Mexico...
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    Chinese Gardens Finds for the week, Marbles, Bottles, Silver, Token...

    Well, I had a pretty good week down at the Chinese gardens ruins. I got three hunts in and finally got the finds scrubbed up and photographed. Since I'm fond of marbles, here are the 18 from this week: Ask and you shall receiveth! Maybe two days after telling someone that I wanted to find a...
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    Early Oil Lamp, Bottles, Marbles...:tongue:

    Found a few keepers on Monday's hunt down along the creek ruins. It was a five-marble day, 'nuff said :clapping: Found this cool little oil lamp - I though it was an espresso maker at first, heh. Bottom is stamped "Universal Lamp Co., Springfield, Illinois" . It's about 4" high and 2" wide...
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    Friday's Finds, Chinese Gardens Gives up a Little SIlver

    I decided to head over to the creek ruins since it's been productive. I wasn't disappointed - I dug a 1926 D Mercury Dime in pretty nice shape. A little while later, I dug the pewter (?) 'Match King' box from the front yard of one of the stone ruins. It's a new one on me - basically a...
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    Creekside Ruins, Ghost Town Stuff, Lots of Relics & a Little Silver

    Well, I'm finally getting around to posting some finds from my last four hunts. <begin boring medical saga>I was out of commission for almost a month - long story short; I had some minor outpatient surgery at the end of July. A week later, the doctor sent me to the ER with a 104 temp. They...
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    Creekside Ruins Hunt

    I headed down to the creek just below the town, to an area where there are several stone and adobe ruins. It's paved in iron & other trash from floods and because the town dump used to be just up the hill from it. I used the AT Gold & 5x8 coil because it's so good at picking through trash...
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    Are You Practicing Safe Swinging??

    I sure hope so! I've been meaning to post my coil protection experiments, hope they are of use to someone :twodetecting: (photo at the bottom) I tried a coil cover first, but the rocks are sneaky around here in New Mexico - they hide in the grass and strike when you least expect it. The edges...
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    Wild West Ghost Town Action, 4 Sheriffs, Gunfire, Chase Scene...

    (pics of finds after the hair-raising tale) So, I headed up to my favorite ghost town honey hole the other day. I was doing OK, found 5 wheats across the ravine from where I found the 1901 Barber dime a while back, as well as an old army knife (cutlery type), and a few other goodies. I had...
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    Ghost Town Copper FLOOD & Last 3 Hunts (pic heavy)

    The first hunt was back at the site that produced the Barber dime, military buttons, etc. It's still producing, but not as much - I'll hit it with the new AT Gold when it arrives next week (right, Bart? :cheers:). It did cough up the pocket watch parts, Wheaties, some bottles, spoons, and the...
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    Sat. & Sun. Ghost Town FInds (pic heavy)

    Hit a nearby ghost town Saturday and was conducting my methodical AWP (Aimless Wandering Pattern). Time was passing, and there was no way I would hit my profit point on this dig unless I could identify a MPS (Miner Pocket Spill) in my TRZ. I located a bottle dump and did some digging to see if...
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    Last Couple Hunts- CCC Scout Site & Ghost Town (pic heavy)

    Tigger & I got brave and decided to attempt the old CCC built Scout camp up Meadow Creek again, preferably without cracking the oil pan this time. It was still a wild ride involving some boulder driving & I had to do a little road work here and there, but all but three of the creek crossings...
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    Ghost Town Goodies (very pic heavy)

    I had just too much fun exploring a couple of ghost towns - well, a ghost town and a ghost ranch (the town itself is posted off-limits by a mining company). I hit the ranch first. This looked like a good spot to have lunch: Tigger kept watch from a tree (having just barfed his breakfast all...
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    A Few Ghost Town Relics

    Spent some time at a local ghost town this weekend and found a few things amongst the amazing volume of rusty cans and party debris. I spent some time at the site of the old schoolhouse (unfortunately, the area around it was graded and is a partier hangout, but found the little lead toy piece...
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    A Few Finds From Last Week

    I tried a few new spots last week, sorry to say none were wildly productive, but I still had fun. I did pull about $10 ($5 in an hour at the skate park) in clad and another $8 in recycling. I also cleaned up ~850 zincolns and ran 'em through the Coinstar - It kicked about 70 back at me and said...
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