Persistence finally pays... sparse location coughs up something good!

[John 3:16]

Hi all,

For several hunts now, I've been hitting a large field where I had got permission to hunt.   I had done some research and was pretty sure there had been one or more houses there.  

There was a lot of ground to cover.  Huge field, really.  I thought I knew, from the old map, where the houses should have been.  Yeah, right.  There was no trace now.  Just 'falfa.  

So, I went and did some detecting.  A lot of detecting.  First I found nothing but junk.  Aluminum, and oh yeah, a Hot Wheels Trans Am, out in the middle of the field.  It wasn't even in good shape.    I found wire, I found pulltabs, I found useless whatsits of recent manufacture.  I got one really sweet signal, and it was a wire connector  

The field was along a creek, and the place had flooded badly many times.  I could not decide... had the house remnants been completely scraped down to the hardpan, taking everything away, then replaced with topsoil?  Or had the remains sunken down like 3 feet?   Three hunts, several hours each, and nothing.   Not even square nails!

So anyway, I said no way, man, this is not going to end like this, where the map showed houses and there is not a trace.  Unacceptable!  There has to be SOMETHING there, said I.  So after dilly-dallying around for far too long (chores) this mornin', I went out detecting... to that field again.  And I wandered.  Turned up a memorial cent.  So I wandered some more.

Then I found something.  A Dandy button without the shank.  I dropped my coat and started hitting the area thoroughly.  I had already been through this spot like 2 or 3 times before, but somehow I hadn't quite gotten in just the right section of field.  Up turned another flat button, and another perhaps later button, and a piece of pewter.   Aha!



By now it was starting to get dark.  I was in this huge field, a long distance away from my vehicle, and the neighbor's dog was yapping its head off.  A quarter mile away, and this little beast was trying to project its voice clean across the valley.   It struggled to make me hear it.  You could hear a frantic tone in the barking of this little dog!  It was kind of silly, and weird at the same time.

Anyway, I was getting tired, but you know how there's always that "one more dig" before you go to the car.  "Just one more, really, this time, then I'll quit for the day".  Yep.  

I got a screamer of a signal.  In fact, I thought it was a beer can (again).  But something was really nice about it.  Just very clean sounding.  I dug, and dug, and I was beginning to get discouraged.  Then, in the half-dark, I checked the pile, and sure enough, I recognized that size and color.





1836.  Not bad.  There was no iron, not an "iron patch", nothing.  No good iron relics, but I'll settle for a copper.  

Big coppers are not that easy to find, even when you hit the books.  This really made my day, actually sort of made my week, because of what it took to find this.  

Anyway, thanks for looking.  

HH,
R.I.

 Nice buttons and the 1836 Coronet Cent is in fine condition.

sweet largie!!!!! still looking 4er mine..  MR TUFF

Thats so very cool, Congrats, Persistence does pay all, and you scored Nicely!

Good luck,
HH.

Your perseverance paid off.  I know what you mean about not wanting to quit for the day without that one last decent find.

[John 3:16]

sweet largie!!!!! still looking 4er mine..  MR TUFF

Thanks Mr. Tuff!  The way you wield that 202, I know you will find one. 

Thats so very cool, Congrats, Persistence does pay all, and you scored Nicely! thumbsup

Thanks BandB1! 

I know what you mean about not wanting to quit for the day without that one last decent find

It is a kind of disease, but a good one to have   

nice find must be an award to you for showing such patience. thanks for sharing and hh

sweet, sweet, sweet! The largie was worth all the work, congrats

Nice find... been in a couple of sites where I went through and for some reason I seemed to have walked around a few good targets.  I don't like to give up on fields that I know hold targets and will revisit on occassion.

Nice find... been in a couple of sites where I went through and for some reason I seemed to have walked around a few good targets.  I don't like to give up on fields that I know hold targets and will revisit on occassion.

random finds are what point to potential sites and I'm sure that every site must have a few random finds around them....there's stuff everywhere, I just have to make time to go there

Nice work!  As you have shown here, Persistence is truly the key to making good finds.


Congratulations on a nice 1836 Coronet.   

Congrats on a beautiful LC. Glad you stuck to it, RI, and were rewarded for it. 

"one more dig" before you go to the car.  "Just one more, really, this time, then I'll quit for the day".    So I'm not the only one......

Keep digging!

good research and finds !!
keep going back, theres more there !

[John 3:16]

nice find must be an award to you for showing such patience. thanks for sharing and hh

sweet, sweet, sweet! The largie was worth all the work, congrats

Thanks for your kind comments Ricky and G4E!

Nice find... been in a couple of sites where I went through and for some reason I seemed to have walked around a few good targets.  I don't like to give up on fields that I know hold targets and will revisit on occassion.

Yeah, you know when you're finding like one or two things out in a field, you always wonder... was this a random drop, or maybe something else is here?  That's what was happening to me... and I walked around the good target area like twice... even though I should have known better, as I had a [crude] old map.

there's stuff everywhere, I just have to make time to go there

I second that, Ironhorse.  That's what it really comes down to... making the time to swing the coil.  Sometimes it's hard to get out there and "just do it".

Nice work!  As you have shown here, Persistence is truly the key to making good finds.
Congratulations on a nice 1836 Coronet.   

good research and finds !!
keep going back, theres more there !

Thanks Buckleboy and Allen!

Congrats on a beautiful LC. Glad you stuck to it, RI, and were rewarded for it. 

"one more dig" before you go to the car.  "Just one more, really, this time, then I'll quit for the day".    So I'm not the only one......

Heheh... nope, you're not the only one, Michiganne. I think it runs in the metal detectorists' genes.   

By the way, I was back out today, and I have some more things to post.  If I get the chance tonight or maybe tomorrow I will get some pics together for y'all.  Finally got some iron, haha.

last shot in the dark paid off

i did much the same thing myself years ago. i didn't find the good stuff until i wandered way off from where everybody said the loot would be found.
Nice going
teddy

[John 3:16]

last shot in the dark paid off

Thanks CMD.  It was weird, I sort of had this feeling I was going to find something good as my last find of the night.  But then that's always the excuse for "just one more", isn't it?   

i did much the same thing myself years ago. i didn't find the good stuff until i wandered way off from where everybody said the loot would be found.
Nice going
teddy

Thanks teddy.  I'm starting to think that's a good strategy all around for detecting.