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    a good day south of petersburg with olddigger!

    hello all. olddigger and i hit the ol' soybean fields south of petersburg again today, and had a good day. i pulled 15 sharps and 2 pistol bullets, 4 rivets, a neat brass padlock, 5 flatbuttons, an overalls button, a real nice finial, a perc cap, a broken j hook, a screw for a saw, a parasol...
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    two good hunts with pete and olddigger

    hello all. here's what i've dug up in my past two hunts with pete and olddigger. a few sharps and a pulled three ring, a nice patriotic american flag pin, two union cuff buttons, a union navy button [thought it was a droop wing at first - haha! ] an old iron buckle frame, a couple of rivets, a...
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    another good day around petersburg

    hello all. pete and i had a real good day just south of petersburg today. we dug 60 dropped sharps between us. a few are chewed up, and a couple of pistol bullets are there too. not a single three ringer in sight! pete dug a real nice belt adjuster and a u.s. bit boss, and an old tombac button...
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    a good day on petersburg's outer defenses

    hello all. a buddy of mine visited an old buddy of his who owns a small plot within sight of some of the longest and most masive earthworks around petersburg. the place is quite small, being nearly three acres, and had been hunted several times in the past. that didn't deter me at all, because...
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    my past three hunts with pete and olddigger

    hey everybody. the first pic is actually from my last hunt of '09. as you can see, we've been digging up all kinds of lead and the occasional nice brass piece. the button on the right is a sportsman's button. see the hunter with his dog in the woods? the one on the left, well, i don't know. it...
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    a good xmas hunt

    hello all. i managed to get out for a short while yesterday [anything to beat cabin fever] and did pretty well. i dug 13 shot sharps, a colt dragoon, 2 spencers, and two shankless flat buttons. not a single three ringer for once! i found the broken buckle pieces about 50 ft. apart along the same...
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    another good sunday's hunt with olddigger!

    hey everybody. frank and i hit the ol' soybean fields of dinwiddie co. where we've been detectin' for quite a while now. the old place just doesn't stop giving up the relics! a sweet 1942 dime came first, then the shot sharps .52 cal., then several pieces of broken bracelet. the two buckle...
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    all three virginias together

    thanks for looking, and i wish ya'll the best of luck. theyr'e still out there! hh!
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    ...and ANOTHER! too good to be true...

    hey everybody. i'm still speechless... it's my 3rd virginia button this week. this is the second virginia staff, found a few yards away from the first one. and, like the first, a harmonica reed was found right beside it. frank was with me when i dug it, otherwise, i still would have a hard time...
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    i got ANOTHER nice cs button yesterday!

    hello all. my old buddy pete and myself went back to a millet field we've been hunting on and off for a while now. a half hour into the hunt, i got a strong hit,and flipped a clod over to find this very nice coat sized virginia button. it has the horstmann & allien backmark with rays [prewar]...
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    dug a nice cs button yesterday!

    hey everybody. frank [olddigger] and myself hit a new spot yesterday, hunted around for a couple of hours, and wasn't finding ANYTHING. i had retrieved a single enfield bullet months before in a hunt cut short by my detecting pardner's sudden illness, and had been rarin' to get back out there...
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    does anybody know about caltrops? what's the deal...

    hey everybody. a good buddy of mine recently gifted me with a brass caltrop. it's solid brass, nondug, 6 sided, and about 1" around. it's a neat piece. is it from the cw era? there's been a lot of debate for years over whether caltrops were even used during the civil war, or if they even existed...
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    for those who like relics... i had a lotta catching up to do

    hello all. i'm just returning from a 45 day absence due to my work. i did manage to squeeze a few hunts in with olddigger, but didn't have the time to post 'em up. i thought this would be a good opportunity to catch up. as you can see, i've dug up a good bit. i'm not sure what type of musical...
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    my last couple of hunts / following the 'dozers part 2/and yes, virginia, there is a detecting god!

    hey everybody! the first pic of relics was found friday in the woods near the house, and the second pic is of the hunt frank and i went on this morning. i don't think i've ever dug such mangled and hard hit bullets like i did on friday. there's few rivets, what i think might be a solder - on...
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    you mean to tell me i've been here for two years?

    WOW, the time flew by on me. i don't usually say much, but i will say that i'm proud to be a member of find's forum and appreciate all the work the mediators and owners do. it's a great forum, and i'm always just amazed at the great finds everybody makes. i truly believe that online metal...
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    my last couple of hunts/following the 'dozers

    hello all. here's the results of my last three hunts with olddigger. i pulled the us beltplate out the ground this morning. finding the beltplate made my day for sure! it looks a lot better than in the pics! also shown is: a nice low base sharps in wood, a piece of a us swordhanger, a couple of...
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    all in one hole!

    hello all. frank and i headed out this morning to detect the edges of this massive beanfield on a farm we've been going to lately. the carved up and holed barber dime was my first hit of the day. after another hour of fruitless hunting, i headed to the woods. it's a good thing i did. a light...
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    today's short but good 2 hour hunt

    hello all. we were having a good day - until severe rainstorms hit. pete and i decided to hit some old homesites near the battle of haw's shop battlefield. the rain cut the hunt short, but we still had a good day. here goes: a nice brass cavalry flagstaff pommel with screw, a great looking 1904...
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    yesterday's short hunt - hittin' the pockets

    hello all. my ol' buddy pete and i decided to hit the woods yesterday, having the day off of work. after nearly an hour and a half of fruitless hunting, we hit the edges of a huge cornfield. the machine started to go crazy, beeping everywhere in an area 8' x 10'. i dug all twelve bullets in this...
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    we had a great day in the woods! yeehaw!

    hello all. we had a great day in the woods today! frank and i decided to revisit the area where we had found the rifle pits last weekend. i wasn't there a hot 15 minutes when i pulled this nice script " I " button from the base of a small tree. it has a good standup shank and the superior...
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