Civil war finds for oakshunter.

[quicksilver]

Oakshunter is new to the forum, and he is also a good friend of mine, these are pics of his finds over the last couple of months and until he gets the forum all figured out, I'll post pics of his finds for him. He digs a lot of CW relics, his main target, as mine, I don't remember all the stories behind these pics, but the two I clearly remember are the gold coin, which was dug at a camp used by both sides early in the war. The shell was dug in the Antietam area on private property, with land owner permission. The shell, and the coin we're both featured in American digger magazine. Thanks for looking.

 

[laplander]

Nice digs Oaks hunter, whats the story on the gold?
Jeff

 

[Digger70pa]

Nice finds.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Wow Wow

 

[oakshunter]

I found the 2.50 gold coin in a camp in southern pa. Everyone said it was hunted out. But 5 years later and very slow hunting Im up to 473 keepers out of it. buttons coins and my favorite carved bullets. over 80 of them. Also many types of bullets.

 

[laplander]

Thanks for the scoop on the gold! To many variable for a site to ever be hunted out lol JMO
Jeff

 

[pan4au]

Amazing finds Congrats

 

[quicksilver]

I swung by that coin many times Mike, I think I was hunting that spot also about the time you found it. Oh that one hurts. But I'm very happy for ya you. Rare find.....

 

[Confetrit]

Great finds and Historical Saves Oakshunter. I really like the gold coin and the Artillery Shell, heck, all nice finds. Yep, you can tell by the amount of relics you found there that this site was "hunted out" years ago. Lol Congrat's to you. I see by your pic. that you use the MXT PRO also. Great relic detector.

 

[oakshunter]

IM sure others went over it too quicksilver. I got a small iron signal along with a high squeak. usually that's an old horse shoe nail. Sure enough a nail popped out first but I waved the plug over the coil and got a 35 reading and the gold was still in the plug. Nail and gold in the same hole. Just lucky that day I guess.

 

[Digger70pa]

IM sure others went over it too quicksilver. I got a small iron signal along with a high squeak. usually that's an old horse shoe nail. Sure enough a nail popped out first but I waved the plug over the coil and got a 35 reading and the gold was still in the plug. Nail and gold in the same hole. Just lucky that day I guess.

That's amazing. I wonder how much stuff is left in the ground because of iron. What machine do you use? Beautiful finds buddy. HH Tim

 

[oakshunter]

I use a whites mxt all pro and a garrett at gold with a garrett carrot.

 

[Digger70pa]

Cool. I'm out of commission for now or I'd ask you to go hunt. Keep posting your finds. Good luck & HH.