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ED, Bubba, well lets see the relics y'all dug?
- Thread starter Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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Butch in Colorado
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Craig in Alabama
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General Ray
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... I can't remember all that I found but here are some of the better pieces I remember above and beyond the normal pile of bullets, button backs, flat button's etc ....
A bayonet scabbard tip, not crushed with brass finial still intact.
A general service eagle coat button, not pushed, with loop still intact.
A staff officers 3 piece cuff button with about 60 to 80% guilt still evident
A confederate ammo box finial that the lid flap engages, according to Keith's relic book reference.
A carved 3 ring mini ball, Keith said it was confederate according to his relic book he referenced.
A couple really nice shell fragments.
I'll post some photos when I get the time.
I saw some really great finds including a gold ID tag and a silver ID tag and lots of plates .. box, sword, and breast .... union and reb, and complete artillary shells.
The ground in Culpeper County is so very hot with iron oxide. Some folks, who "back home" are considered to be really good and experienced relic hunters, could not find anything but nails in this unusally bad ground. I feel fortunate to have found as much as I did.
The DIV hunts are to most of us not about relic quantity but more about the experience of saving history from some of the worlds most difficult ground conditions and seeing and being with friends sharing all the work and experience of 3 days of rugged hunting.
A bayonet scabbard tip, not crushed with brass finial still intact.
A general service eagle coat button, not pushed, with loop still intact.
A staff officers 3 piece cuff button with about 60 to 80% guilt still evident
A confederate ammo box finial that the lid flap engages, according to Keith's relic book reference.
A carved 3 ring mini ball, Keith said it was confederate according to his relic book he referenced.
A couple really nice shell fragments.
I'll post some photos when I get the time.
I saw some really great finds including a gold ID tag and a silver ID tag and lots of plates .. box, sword, and breast .... union and reb, and complete artillary shells.
The ground in Culpeper County is so very hot with iron oxide. Some folks, who "back home" are considered to be really good and experienced relic hunters, could not find anything but nails in this unusally bad ground. I feel fortunate to have found as much as I did.
The DIV hunts are to most of us not about relic quantity but more about the experience of saving history from some of the worlds most difficult ground conditions and seeing and being with friends sharing all the work and experience of 3 days of rugged hunting.
Jim West Pa
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Forgive my ignorance here...if yer huntin arn, ( that's souther fer iron), 'n such. HOw does hot ground make it difficult to find it. No wait, i think i see,you'd be huntin with little or no disc. so's to find everything so that means you'd pick up every bit o' minerilization also ? I spose a novice would be diggin 'false' targets a LOT ?
General Ray
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.... put on the public display where all the finds are in Riker cases displayed for the DIV'ers to see on the last day of the hunt. Afraid someone might get sticky fingers.
Probably the best find of the hunt was what I think was called a Karney (sp?) Cross .... precursor to the Medal of Honor. Only approx 400 of them made, only 200 or so awarded for valor in combat. Just a tad bit less rare than Vernon's MVM plate.
Regardless, in a few weeks the DIV site will have photos posted in the DIV XVII gallery.
Probably the best find of the hunt was what I think was called a Karney (sp?) Cross .... precursor to the Medal of Honor. Only approx 400 of them made, only 200 or so awarded for valor in combat. Just a tad bit less rare than Vernon's MVM plate.
Regardless, in a few weeks the DIV site will have photos posted in the DIV XVII gallery.
.... pour it over the half dollar right after placing a few nails on the ground around the half dollar. Make sure some nails are straight and others are bent into a L shape. That's what detecting in that hot ground is like.
There isn't a VLF machine I know of that can accurately ID any target deeper than 2 to 3 inches or even get a signal on non ferrous targets deeper than about 6". To make things worse, in some places you might get a signal on a 3 ring mini ball at 6 to 8 inches, then walk about 10 to 20 feet and bury it at 3" and you won't even get a signal.
The only machines that could consistantly reveal a target was even there (iron or non ferrous) at deeper than 6 to 8 inches was White's TDI and the Minelab GP4000 and GP5000 gold machines. Over the past few hunts, using a TDI, I've dug a few small cuff buttons that audio ID'd as brass at upwards to 12 to 14 inches.
Some deep bigger iron targets might make a VLF machine whisper or warble the threshold tone a tiny bit but not give a beep ... and just don't believe any screen info ..... nails read like non ferrous and non ferrous reads like nails. The guys were telling each other that all the VLF detector info screens were lying like a cheap hooker.
When the DIV sites are first hunted, everyone can find some stuff because even the shallow targets are still waiting to be found although everything reads and sounds like iron. After a few hunts, all the shallow stuff has been dug and only the deeper stuff remains and the occassional shallow item just plowed up or not previously found.
There isn't a VLF machine I know of that can accurately ID any target deeper than 2 to 3 inches or even get a signal on non ferrous targets deeper than about 6". To make things worse, in some places you might get a signal on a 3 ring mini ball at 6 to 8 inches, then walk about 10 to 20 feet and bury it at 3" and you won't even get a signal.
The only machines that could consistantly reveal a target was even there (iron or non ferrous) at deeper than 6 to 8 inches was White's TDI and the Minelab GP4000 and GP5000 gold machines. Over the past few hunts, using a TDI, I've dug a few small cuff buttons that audio ID'd as brass at upwards to 12 to 14 inches.
Some deep bigger iron targets might make a VLF machine whisper or warble the threshold tone a tiny bit but not give a beep ... and just don't believe any screen info ..... nails read like non ferrous and non ferrous reads like nails. The guys were telling each other that all the VLF detector info screens were lying like a cheap hooker.
When the DIV sites are first hunted, everyone can find some stuff because even the shallow targets are still waiting to be found although everything reads and sounds like iron. After a few hunts, all the shallow stuff has been dug and only the deeper stuff remains and the occassional shallow item just plowed up or not previously found.
Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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