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rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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During this health issue, we who metal detect should have a lot more free time to pursue the hobby. Think about it....outside, alone, away from crowds or anyone else....exercise and found goodies. Cheers, RickO

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My thoughts exactly. And no ground hornets nests yet and no skeetos either. Pandemic be damned! Peace Roy

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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gov. is closing off the desert and forests to hikers with planes and helicopter spotters. Really?
    I saw a old timer wearing a " I Will Not Comply" T-Shirt.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well... they have not done that here in the Catskills...and the Adirondacks are so vast, they will not be able to do it...Cheers, RickO

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tried some open woods detecting yesterday. Found an old logger’s Vienna sausage lunch tin. Knew it wouldn’t be a big day

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yup, getting outside and digging is good for our body and mind. There's great relics and goodies waiting to be dug up. Have a good day. Keep that bandana handy should you bump into another human. Peace Roy

    BST: endeavor1967, synchr, kliao, Outhaul, Donttellthewife, U1Chicago, ajaan, mCarney1173, SurfinHi, MWallace, Sandman70gt, mustanggt, Pittstate03, Lazybones, Walkerguy21D, coinandcurrency242 , thebigeng, Collectorcoins, JimTyler, USMarine6, Elkevvo, Coll3ctor, Yorkshireman, CUKevin, ranshdow, CoinHunter4, bennybravo, Centsearcher, braddick, Windycity, ZoidMeister, mirabela, JJM, RichURich, Bullsitter, jmski52, LukeMarshall, coinsarefun, MichaelDixon, NickPatton, ProfLiz, Twobitcollector,Jesbroken oih82w8, DCW

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DNADave....Great pictures....Looks just like my mountains and woods... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nobody asking what your doing way cool 😎

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a practice football soccer field that I detected twice since this virus started. My wife keeps thinking I'm going to get arrested because we are under lock down. I keep telling her it's ok because it's exercise which is allowed. Her comment is since when is detecting exercise. Count the steps on my phone. :D

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pocketpiececommems you betcha detecting is exercise! Walking, bending, kneeling, digging, although when I see that coin artifact or relic, any discomfort disappears. The hunt continues. Peace Roy

    BST: endeavor1967, synchr, kliao, Outhaul, Donttellthewife, U1Chicago, ajaan, mCarney1173, SurfinHi, MWallace, Sandman70gt, mustanggt, Pittstate03, Lazybones, Walkerguy21D, coinandcurrency242 , thebigeng, Collectorcoins, JimTyler, USMarine6, Elkevvo, Coll3ctor, Yorkshireman, CUKevin, ranshdow, CoinHunter4, bennybravo, Centsearcher, braddick, Windycity, ZoidMeister, mirabela, JJM, RichURich, Bullsitter, jmski52, LukeMarshall, coinsarefun, MichaelDixon, NickPatton, ProfLiz, Twobitcollector,Jesbroken oih82w8, DCW

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Metal detecting has two rewards....The exercise and the finds....Of course, some finds are more 'rewarding' than others.... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @DNADave....Great pictures....Looks just like my mountains and woods... ;) Cheers, RickO

    Happened by an old house site today, fairly close to my house. I found what I think was a house foundation with a porch and front walkway. One place I’m fairly sure was the outhouse.
    Have you ever done a privy dig?

    Definitely going back to this place with a detector.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have not done a privy dig... have read about them. Some can yield interesting items - bottles for example. Check the foundation...look for where the kitchen may have been, likely with a window. Then look outwards from there for any potential landmarks - large tree or stump, corner of a rock wall, or large rock - those spots were favored for burying valuables - easy to keep an eye on from the house. Good luck, Cheers, RickO

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Made it back today. Here's what it looks like.


  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow...lots of trash... but that is not uncommon... all has to be removed to find the treasures....Cheers, RickO

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 22, 2020 12:09PM

    The only real “roundness” was that brass tool check. But I guess any of those zinc jar lids could have been attached to a jar full of silver. Some day.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The treasures are out there.... Our job - find them.... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭

    Now if only the weather would cooperate.

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