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Last spring Nate and I attended the Tuscazoar DFX only hunt in Dover, Ohio. It was a cool place to hunt and a lot of good finds were made. There were at least 50 people in the hunt yet most people got at least one silver. Anyway, Don lured me back to this site with talks of old silver back by the mines “where no one hit”. It seemed reasonable and we always had the fallback places. We met Don and Brian at the Bob Evans in Dover.
From left to right – Don, Nate, Beefcake (Brian), Bob (Mirage)


We noted that the mines were right along Icky’s trail so if we stayed on the trail we would be fine.
The trail:



Well, the trail was marked well until near the end. That’s when we got a little lost.




An hour and a half later we found the mine area:

Also found this pitiful Geocache:


I expected to find some kind of log in the box with some goodies. No paper, no pencils, no goodies. Junk!
Well, we tried detecting the area but the detectors were not behaving with all the iron. We still gave it a try but after not finding anything moved on. Nate and I pretty much headed back to where we knew we could find coins. It was the same spot we pulled numerous silver coins from last year. Don and Beefcake took there time and detected a few spots on the way back to the main camp area.

Within a few minutes of getting back to our “honey hole” Nate and I both had wheat pennies. Within a half hour we also each had silver.
A little while longer Don and Brian show up and Don shows me his nice find:

My finds for the trip:

Nates Finds:

It was fun being out and getting some exercise. I know I’ll sleep good tonight.

Sunday's Hunt turned up some keepers

Nate had some luck at the site we call the Iceberg last weekend when I was in North Carolina. So we went back there today. It was warm and we didn’t bring enough water but the silver was popping up regularly so we were happy.



Also found a 1903 Indian Head in with my wheat pennies when I started cleaning them.



Nate found some nice coins as well:



Barber Quarter is a little beat up but those are not easy to come by.

North Carolina Hunt

Last winter another Treasure forum member from North Carolina invited me down to hunt with him. I accepted and had a great time with him. So this year the invitation was open and my wife came down with me as well.

So Saturday ModernMiner, DDD-777 and hooked up for a Saturday hunt in North Carolina. We didn’t find anything that spectacular but it was a lot of fun. It’s always a treat to go to new parts of the country and hunt.



Left to Right – Andy, Doug, Me

A few highlights of the trip:

The properties were awesome. You felt that you could pull anything from colonial to civil war to modern era stuff.




Yes, that’s Doug(on the far right) in his fruity looking hat.


Doug found a Caped Bust halfdime in this pasture a few months ago.



A house from the 1920s



At the first site Doug went behind me and starts digging in an area I had just covered. At first I was apprehensive thinking “wow, did I miss something?”. Then I was reassured when he dug a big piece of iron.

At the 1920’s house there were not a lot of targets other than under the magnolia tree. I dug some pennies and moved on (didn’t want to waste time on shallow clad). Andy eventually made his way over and started digging the area. A while goes by and Doug and I inquire as to what he is finding. He informs us of how much clad was in the area. Confirming what we already basically knew we continued hunting. Another 15 minutes or so later Andy yells over to Doug “I knew it! Persistence paided off working this area. I got some wheat pennies and an Indian Head.” Now I was thinking, what?! So I asked him “really”? “No, not really” he replies, “I was just trying to get Doug”. Well he got me.

Here is one I really did find:



The last site was fun because the owner of the home – an elderly man in his 60’s was showing Doug his fencing sword. He wanted Doug to use it as a probe. Well somehow he steered the guy over to me. Seeing that the guy was not to be turned down I took the sword and demonstrated the use of it as a probe. Then I politely set it down against a tree and started detecting. So I “shook” the old guy and he went back to Doug. He then followed Doug all over – talking his ear off while Doug was trying to detect.