Harvesting wheat and getting ready for war!:fisher:

[jim tn]

With my LTD leading the way, worked another edge stretch this morning and ran into a couple of Indians,98, a nice 1, and a 03, that were in the wheat fields with a couple of mini bullets and a 42P war nickel. Along the way got a watch band and case without the watch face. Dug everything around it that beeped, but couldn't come up with the face. The wheat cents were 1919 x 3 and a 42d. Wonder what the odds are of finding 3 1919 cents on the same hunt, let alone, 3 out of 4 being the same date. I count war nickels as a silver and that puts me at 141 silver coins for this year. They sure have been coming be-grudgedly the past couple of months, though. Got back to my vehicle and noted tabmans SUV parked besides mine. Thought he and Chris would have learned by now that the good stuff gets out early. Maybe they will luck onto a straggler. Merry Christmas everyone. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

But that said.... Tabs posts have been pretty good lately..He is getting experienced....

 

[mudpuppy]

Ok, war nickles count as silver..141 is about your standard year for silver eh? I think I remember you being right in this ballpark, really close ot 150 last year too about this time? About those 1919 pennys, most likely that was the standard daily wage at the buggy whip factory back then. Things havn't changed too much after taxes and all... Maybe Chris and Tab dont see in the dark as good as you do, or maybe they let you get in there early to be the first one attacked by a bum or dog or something...could be a plan of theirs, finding you all beat up and groaning on the ground, crying and sobbing about how some bum snuck up on you and took your 75, and your silver pill bottle, and all that stuff... I guess this is not too funny, could happen as much as we concentrate in our own little world!
Mud

 

[jim tn]

Ya, I was poking at tab and Chris, too, Elton. They both dig a lot of targets. Mud, ironic you mention someone sneaking up. Over the years a few bad things have taken place in the area. Quite honestly, aside from being an early riser, that is one of the reasons I hunt early. I'm getting off some of those rough spots about the time that element is just waking up. Merry Christmas. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah? Maybe my crude attempt at humor is a admonition to us all? Is so easy to sneak up on us as hard as we are concentrating, sheesh, a couple times a month a dog runs up and scares the liver out of me, and I TRY really hard to hunt heads up and looking around. Those dangerous parks do contain some nice loot though, its snowing here now, and maybe i'll go work one real early tomorrow am..or thursday even, good to see you are out hunting, most of us Yankees will be shut down very soon. Merry Christmas!
Mud

 

[Elton]

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[Elton]

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[campnagle]

Nice finds, Those green IH's would sure put a big smile on my face all day!

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Merry Christmas Jim!

 

[tabman]

I'll say this, I have not done as well as I would like to in the woods. Detecting alone in those woods is not safe. It's not someone face to face that concerns me. It's someone sneaking up from behind and splitting my scull wild open with an iron pipe that I worries me. Even carrying a gun won't prevent that from happening.

One thing that I won't do is go to the woods or anywhere else detecting without my cell phone in my pocket. I have detected some pretty seedy places and I have never had to use my phone, except when I fell and broke my arm. If you find yourself out detecting in a bad crime area and you're headed back to your car and see some seedy guys hanging around your car and watching you, you'll be glad that your phone is in your pocket and not in your car.

At any rate, Jim is amazing at finding good stuff. Maybe when I'm as OLD as he is, I hope that I'll be half as good.

tabman

 

[jim tn]

Well, this morning was one of those "read em and weep" kind of hunts. I dug 7 pennies, 2 clad dimes, a quarter, 2 pieces of lead and a pocket full of trash. I didn't check the cents in the woods, so I read them and wept when I got home. All zinc and Memorial cents. Gerald, I have been hunting those woods in the winter early mornings now for about six years. Never once have I had what could be considered a close encounter, let alone, an encounter. That is not to say something bad couldn't happen. Only a fool would think otherwise. However, someone looking for a easy mark is going to pick spots where targets are. And, a cell phone is part of my equipment when I hunt the woods alone. I see a lot more people walking those trails then do see me. OLD AS HE IS, HMMM! Merry Christmas everyone. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

Maybe we are just on edge a little, I do feel very uncomfortable taking the detector out any where near a school or park for the past week...for fear of somebody not recognizing what it is, and calling in the swat team...you know that will happen eventually, some looky-loo will misidentify the device, drop dime to 911, and all sorts of h3ll will break out.
Mud

 

[jim tn]

Anywhere we go we should use discretion and tabman isn't off base for being concerned. There have been a handful of incidents in and around those woodlands over the past decades. But, the same can be said for malls, school yards, corner gas stations and so on. Me personally, I feel safer in those woods then several other places we've hunted. Un-fortunately, if one wants to find something old within a city, the stuff is more often then not in less then desirable area's. One thing you don't want, mud, is for all of us to become clad stabbers, do ya? Merry Christmas everyone. HH jim tn

 

[rob]

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