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    Nat Geo Diggers TV show.......

    The local newspaper had an article in it today that said National Geographic is going to film an episode of Diggers at the old Gulf Ordnance Plant in Prairie. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Prairie is a community about 25 miles southwest of where I live, but...
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    May not qualify as a good deed but.......

    A forum member who read it on Carl's forum asked me to post it here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few months ago I went to the elementary school down the street to kill an hour while waiting on a ballgame to come on tv...
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    Odd pin..........

    The pin in the photo was 9 inches deep in the yard of a house that was built between 1900 and 1920. It's 1.5 inches long and 1 inch high. Nothing on the back except the pin clasp and no letters of any kind anywhere on it. It could be a pin for some organization or club, or considering the...
  4. J

    Help ID'ing an old sword.........

    The sword in the photos was found in an old house here in town when it was being torn down. Any input as to age appreciated.
  5. J

    Help ID an old sword....

    The sword in the photos was found in an old house here in town when it was being torn down. Any input as to age appreciated.
  6. J

    A question for 2200 users.......

    I'm constantly buying, selling and trading detectors and a few days ago traded for a like new 2200. When I tried it I found it reads down scale with both the audio and meter on a dime deeper than four inches and a quarter deeper than 5 and a half inches. By downscale I mean it drops from a...
  7. J

    A sad find......

    I found the silver plated heart in the photo on the high school lawn awhile back. I knew it had been there a long time as it was at least 6 inches deep and the plating was pitted and scratched, and I was surprised to see the name of a friend I played softball and basketball with and against in...
  8. J

    $$$$$ ring.......

    A man who is co-owner of three manufacturing plants in this area said his wife lost a ring and asked if I could possibly find it. He said the ring was lost four years ago when they were walking across the lawn when they were leaving a local school after watching a program one of their kids was...
  9. J

    Lost ring at a hard place to hunt......

    About 8:30 this morning a guy and his son came to my house. The guy said his daughter-in-law, the wife of the son who was with him, had lost an expensive ring and wanted me to search for it. She was exiting a four lane highway, tossed a McDonald's box out the window and her ring went with it. I...
  10. J

    Can a Tesoro find a cache?.......

    Found several years ago with a Silver Sabre
  11. J

    A lost knife?.........

    I usually go to the football stadium the morning after home games and search for the coins lost there during the game. I had just got there this morning when a guy came up and and said he had lost a new Case pocket knife last night, either in the grass behind the visitors bleachers or in the...
  12. J

    Cellphone......

    Last night I got a call from a guy who uses tractors, bulldozers and other heavy equipment to dig graves, haul gravel and dirt, do fill work and also landscape yards for newly built houses. Early yesterday morning he was discing up what was a sage grass field to make the yard for a newly built...
  13. J

    Golden

    We have a lot of graveled parking lots in this area and a lot of coins and other things are lost in them. Since I started hunting in them about 25 years ago I've found thousands of coins, quite a few silver coins, gold and silver rings, gold and silver bracelets, necklaces and earrings, one...
  14. J

    Lost twice....

    Back in 1994 or 95 a guy here in town lost the biggest gold ring I've seen. He had it in his pocket and thought he had pulled it out with his keys in the parking area of a building supply store, but said he may have lost it in his yard and asked me to look for it. I found it in a flower bed...
  15. J

    Not a bad trade.......

    A couple of days ago a relative traded a $25 air rifle for the canteen in the photo. It's an 1858 smoothside and according to the guy he got it from it was found at Manassas over 40 years ago. It has E Hanford scratched on the spout, probably the name of the soldier who it belonged to as there...
  16. J

    Alma Mater classring.....

    Three or four years ago I found the 2007 class ring in the photo in a shallow ditch by the girls softball field here in town. The ring is from Nettleton High School and the initials inside the band are JMB. I graduated from Nettleton High School in 1962, and JMB are my initials, so I was...
  17. J

    A tale of two rings.....

    A few years ago a co-workers daughter was driving down a county road and tossed out an empty candy wrapper, and a gold ring with her birthstone slipped off her finger and went with the candy wrapper. Her dad asked me to see if I could find it, so after work I met the girl where she thought the...
  18. J

    Returned ring and religious medal/coin......

    Since a return hasn't been posted in the last two weeks I'll post a couple. The ring in the photo is platinum. I found it in April of 2010, along with the earrings in the photo, in a graveled parking area where high school kids park. It had the students entire name inside the band and there...
  19. J

    Wedding band found while relic hunting....

    A couple of weeks ago I made a post on the Civil War forum about hunting Civil War relics at Prairie Mount, an old townsite that had troops passing through it on a regular basis during the Civil war and also had a running battle between Nathan Bedford Forrest's troops and William Smith's Union...
  20. J

    A lost treasure we didn't find, a long story.....

    In early 2000 I was browsing the Civil War Official Records and ran across a report that mentioned a regiment of Tennessee calvary had camped at a church on the Pontotoc-Verona road near Palmetto. I went to the USGS online database, got the coordinates for the three churches in the vicinity...
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