[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-25FODo28&feature=channel[/video]one of the shells, a U.S no 12 was made by the U.S cartrige co and went out of bussness in 1926 that is well into the silver age, and may have been reloaded at least into the early 30,s but still no silver , I want to find the hunters to ball them out why could they have not lost one silver coin for me but i have to admit i have not lost any thing eather so we are even
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more tell tale artifacts of past hunting in the wood
- Thread starter GunnarMN
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Critterhunter
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Keep the faith. When woods hunting not being around old cellar holes and such coin finds are far and few between, but the quality of the coin finds tends to be much better. Some of my best coin finds have come from the woods, and after hours of nothing in terms of signals. My seated quarter came from the middle of no where as did my 3 cent piece and several others. I try to concentrate on bottle necks or areas where people were forced to travel, such as along ridge tops, between bodies of water, and so on.
deepdiger60
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Walking through the woods you hunt back then must of been a very dangerous adventure 
sure are a lot of shells , i find those in fields a few 1800,s mostly modern though , remember .75 cents back then could get ya a nice steak and a pint of beer Good finds 
Jim
sure are a lot of shells , i find those in fields a few 1800,s mostly modern though , remember .75 cents back then could get ya a nice steak and a pint of beer Good finds Jim
you are funny Gunnar. Keep the humor rolling bro. Nice video and relic hunt - JimCritterhunter
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It was 3 years ago or so I think. A friend and I had been hunting through the woods for hours with no signals except shot gun shells and such. We got up on a ridge top and started hunting along the edge of it. Hunters like to travel the spines of ridges where they can look down on game below. Suddenly I got a good signal and dug. About 6 or 7" I see a silver quarter. No idea what it was yet as I left it in the ground to call my friend over. I let him do the honors of picking it up and seeing what it was. I knew from the look on his face that it was probably older than a barber because I never saw him get so excited. That was a good day. I found a barber quarter and a buffalo nickle as well.
For my silver 3 cent piece I had found a spot back in the woods overlooking the river below. Seemed like the perfect party spot. My friend had been doing good recently at a number of spots I have found in the woods for us, so I guess he felt guilty when he walked up to me with two large cents he got in one hole. Whenever either one of us is not doing so good the other guy will ask him to sweep a spot they just popped a good coin from, so he took me over to where he found the large cents. It was a slope that came up onto this ridge we were on from the valley below, and they were found about halfway down it. I think people would lose coins as they road their horse or wagon up and down these things. I swept around where he got the coins and about a foot away I got a jumpy signal that acted like a 22 casing. At the time I was using a QXT Pro and they would give jumpy signals on 22 casings. I left that signal to search the rest of the slope when I got a good coin hit that I was sure was going to be a large cent. Turned out to be a clad quarter. Lacking any more signals, I decided to go back and dig the "22" casing that was only a foot away from where the large cents were. When I saw the 3 cent piece laying in the dirt my first thought was it was a play token, because I've dug those about this size in the past. Needless to say I was happy to find out what it really was when I picked it up.
For my silver 3 cent piece I had found a spot back in the woods overlooking the river below. Seemed like the perfect party spot. My friend had been doing good recently at a number of spots I have found in the woods for us, so I guess he felt guilty when he walked up to me with two large cents he got in one hole. Whenever either one of us is not doing so good the other guy will ask him to sweep a spot they just popped a good coin from, so he took me over to where he found the large cents. It was a slope that came up onto this ridge we were on from the valley below, and they were found about halfway down it. I think people would lose coins as they road their horse or wagon up and down these things. I swept around where he got the coins and about a foot away I got a jumpy signal that acted like a 22 casing. At the time I was using a QXT Pro and they would give jumpy signals on 22 casings. I left that signal to search the rest of the slope when I got a good coin hit that I was sure was going to be a large cent. Turned out to be a clad quarter. Lacking any more signals, I decided to go back and dig the "22" casing that was only a foot away from where the large cents were. When I saw the 3 cent piece laying in the dirt my first thought was it was a play token, because I've dug those about this size in the past. Needless to say I was happy to find out what it really was when I picked it up.
Critterhunter
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By the way, that quarter was in unworn condition but had a small nick on it (not from me). According to the book if memory serves it was worth like $1300 without the nick. My 3 cent piece was also in perfect condition. I sold them both for $40 a piece to a guy. Didn't want to part with those coins but I needed the money.