Ed Steinhoff
Active member
Winter has finally given up and the ground is diggable, life is good!!
Only the second hunt of the year but made a "find" of inestimable value!
I was hunting a small out of the way strip park on the side of town that doesn't make the home show tour and hit a mother load of clad with a large percentage of quarters and dimes.
That usually means it hasn't been hunted to hard if at all. Found 74 total coins all clad so no point in posting pics of that (rational excuse for my inability to upload pics)
The real valuable treasure came along in the form of a gracious gentlemen of a spry 82 years that lived across the street from the park.
After the usual "find any thing good"? what is the best thing you've found? and "I used to have one of those, but it was a cheap radio shack one and it didn't work very good so I got rid of it"
The usual warm up chit chat that I'm sure you have all heard 100 times, we started getting down to it. We have all been advised to talk to the older members of our communities about
where things used to be, but this fellow began to volunteer reams of info about local old spots that would be good hunting,
Like 4 old falling down warehouse looking buildings were originally built for a WW2 German prisoner of war camp (and I just happen to know the fellow that owns them now)
How down on the old "lovers lane" under a big old willow tree, when he was 10 years old, there was shack where an old man lived, (shack is long gone, tree still there).
Seems this old man would get his kicks by throwing hand fulls of change in the yard around his shack for the local boys to scramble around hunting for!! "Bet there is still some there" he said wistfully!
Final story is the exact location of an an Indian wars battlefield site where as a teenager he found arrowheads, cartridge cases, broken gun parts, and buttons!!
This spot is 4 miles from my house, I drive by it regularly and you wouldn't know anything is there but sagebrush!!
This treasure trove of info even came back again with hand drawn maps to these and other old spots! A couple of times he said "I ought to get me one of those things and learn how to use it.
What he doesn't know is tomorrow morning my backup detector (pioneer 505) will be in the pickup with me and all the other gear and when i pull into his yard his learning curve will begin!!
HH Ed in co.
Only the second hunt of the year but made a "find" of inestimable value!
I was hunting a small out of the way strip park on the side of town that doesn't make the home show tour and hit a mother load of clad with a large percentage of quarters and dimes.
That usually means it hasn't been hunted to hard if at all. Found 74 total coins all clad so no point in posting pics of that (rational excuse for my inability to upload pics)
The real valuable treasure came along in the form of a gracious gentlemen of a spry 82 years that lived across the street from the park.
After the usual "find any thing good"? what is the best thing you've found? and "I used to have one of those, but it was a cheap radio shack one and it didn't work very good so I got rid of it"
The usual warm up chit chat that I'm sure you have all heard 100 times, we started getting down to it. We have all been advised to talk to the older members of our communities about
where things used to be, but this fellow began to volunteer reams of info about local old spots that would be good hunting,
Like 4 old falling down warehouse looking buildings were originally built for a WW2 German prisoner of war camp (and I just happen to know the fellow that owns them now)
How down on the old "lovers lane" under a big old willow tree, when he was 10 years old, there was shack where an old man lived, (shack is long gone, tree still there).
Seems this old man would get his kicks by throwing hand fulls of change in the yard around his shack for the local boys to scramble around hunting for!! "Bet there is still some there" he said wistfully!
Final story is the exact location of an an Indian wars battlefield site where as a teenager he found arrowheads, cartridge cases, broken gun parts, and buttons!!
This spot is 4 miles from my house, I drive by it regularly and you wouldn't know anything is there but sagebrush!!
This treasure trove of info even came back again with hand drawn maps to these and other old spots! A couple of times he said "I ought to get me one of those things and learn how to use it.
What he doesn't know is tomorrow morning my backup detector (pioneer 505) will be in the pickup with me and all the other gear and when i pull into his yard his learning curve will begin!!
HH Ed in co.
What a great write up of a truly Once in a Lifetime find! An unexpected Friendship!
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