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I shouldn't do this because every time I do I jinx myself but I am so excited about this hunt....I just gotta say something.
Our club had permission to hunt for the second time an historical estate that is way off limits to hunt and has been forever so as far as we know no hunting has ever taken place at this site.
Last time here I found my oldest coin, an 1865 2 cent, so everyone in the club was looking forward to our meeting last Sunday when we got the go-ahead to do it again.
Well, when we got there we were hoping the rain and really bad weather would hold off but luck was not with us.
I had just walked over to an area I suspected might hold some more old coins and who knows what else when the rain started and even hail which was pretty large.
I was in this area for maybe 2 minutes when the lightning also started so time to get away from these trees and then the whole thing was called off but we got permission to try again this Sunday so that is a great thing.
After an unusually cold week the prediction is sunny and mid 80's for this hunt.
Last time the 30 or so members covered a lot of the area but as far as I know it was all in the open ground around the estate.
As far as I know not one person went into these woods, and hunting in the woods is something I have been doing for the last several weeks and I think I am starting to get pretty good at it.
The side by side pic below is the area I found by comparing aerial view on modern maps and then the same area on Historical Aerials.
See the red lines?
That area is grown out some now as you can see in the color pic, the black and white view is off of Historic Aerials and was from 1969.
This property actually goes back to before the civil war so I assume if it had that open space in 1969 who knows what the same area looked like 150 years ago, or who was hanging out here when it might have been way less woody.
It is kind of hilly in here, but who knows what went on around here and the whole area might have been open and used all the way up to the property line...I hope.
Those 2 minutes in the woods found me a 1944d wheatie in the area that didn't have trees in the 1969 photo and was more open so I have hope that there is more and better older coins hanging around there, among other cool things.
I found the wheatie just a little in from where the treeline starts.
Guess where I will make a bee line to at next weeks hunt?
Not only did I find that wheatie, but I also picked up this thing which I assume is part of a modern cap gun...but it is the weirdest toy gun part I have ever seen.
I plan on using all metal with all the other settings as high as they will go and dig everything.
As noisy as these settings are, I have become very comfortable using them and I am getting good at noticing the good solid numbers when I roll across them and can ignore all the false and non repeating ones so that is the plan...at first, anyway.
I might change and use disc with some also blown out high settings but I plan on using that as a check program for all targets, anyway.
Our club had permission to hunt for the second time an historical estate that is way off limits to hunt and has been forever so as far as we know no hunting has ever taken place at this site.
Last time here I found my oldest coin, an 1865 2 cent, so everyone in the club was looking forward to our meeting last Sunday when we got the go-ahead to do it again.
Well, when we got there we were hoping the rain and really bad weather would hold off but luck was not with us.
I had just walked over to an area I suspected might hold some more old coins and who knows what else when the rain started and even hail which was pretty large.
I was in this area for maybe 2 minutes when the lightning also started so time to get away from these trees and then the whole thing was called off but we got permission to try again this Sunday so that is a great thing.
After an unusually cold week the prediction is sunny and mid 80's for this hunt.
Last time the 30 or so members covered a lot of the area but as far as I know it was all in the open ground around the estate.
As far as I know not one person went into these woods, and hunting in the woods is something I have been doing for the last several weeks and I think I am starting to get pretty good at it.
The side by side pic below is the area I found by comparing aerial view on modern maps and then the same area on Historical Aerials.
See the red lines?
That area is grown out some now as you can see in the color pic, the black and white view is off of Historic Aerials and was from 1969.
This property actually goes back to before the civil war so I assume if it had that open space in 1969 who knows what the same area looked like 150 years ago, or who was hanging out here when it might have been way less woody.
It is kind of hilly in here, but who knows what went on around here and the whole area might have been open and used all the way up to the property line...I hope.
Those 2 minutes in the woods found me a 1944d wheatie in the area that didn't have trees in the 1969 photo and was more open so I have hope that there is more and better older coins hanging around there, among other cool things.
I found the wheatie just a little in from where the treeline starts.
Guess where I will make a bee line to at next weeks hunt?
Not only did I find that wheatie, but I also picked up this thing which I assume is part of a modern cap gun...but it is the weirdest toy gun part I have ever seen.
I plan on using all metal with all the other settings as high as they will go and dig everything.
As noisy as these settings are, I have become very comfortable using them and I am getting good at noticing the good solid numbers when I roll across them and can ignore all the false and non repeating ones so that is the plan...at first, anyway.
I might change and use disc with some also blown out high settings but I plan on using that as a check program for all targets, anyway.
Seriously dude, you are thinking right.
.that ridge is un messed with dirt and a good place to camp if its a Southern or Eastern exposure..
