10-25-2016, 08:01 PM
Well I guess maybe it's Karma from me pulling all that crap out of the woods! I went back to that spot of the 44 War and nosed around and then decided to cross the ravine and go check out a bigger area where I also found about 6 or so wheats but never any silver. I have the aftermath of this one on video and am compiling a bunch of clips for a post later this week.
I'm swinging around this area following the river. I'd never done this area very carefully (about the fourth time now) because it's so loaded with river debris from flooding and beer bottle caps plus a real nasty amount of mineralization that I almost wrote it off. I wasn't getting much of anything and every time I made a 90 degree turn into the woods it was bullets galore. Big .30 caliber ones too. So I just decided to stick to the trail and the tall oaks. I really didn't expect to find anything! And about an hour in of zig zagging, by this small oak tree right near a high river embankment, I get this blaster 81, mostly 82, a few 84 and 85's and man, I'm thinking, great, a memorial, just what I need. So I dig it. Ground there is peaty as the river almost never gets up that high in that spot. To my great surprise out pops a real tarnished Merc, a 36! That's when I turned on the camera. I couldn't believe it was a Merc and not a Memorial! And only about an inch and a half down! This coin was probably dropped in the early forties as it's not terribly worn. The roots of the underbrush just took it over and kept it dry and comfy. And I can't believe I actually found a silver there! Although almost all the wheats I have found there are from the forties. So I suspect that this was a hunting and carousing area for the younger guys that were going off to war or had already been there. Back in those days, in that spot, you could shoot and drink to your hearts' content and not a whisper was heard about it. Today, well, you'd be in jail.
You know it's real strange to see a world of the past by the things you find and realize the comparative differences we have today. I think about that a great deal. Our freedom today is not what it was in yesteryear. And our advantages against that........
Have fun out there Guys & Gals and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed/ODF
I'm swinging around this area following the river. I'd never done this area very carefully (about the fourth time now) because it's so loaded with river debris from flooding and beer bottle caps plus a real nasty amount of mineralization that I almost wrote it off. I wasn't getting much of anything and every time I made a 90 degree turn into the woods it was bullets galore. Big .30 caliber ones too. So I just decided to stick to the trail and the tall oaks. I really didn't expect to find anything! And about an hour in of zig zagging, by this small oak tree right near a high river embankment, I get this blaster 81, mostly 82, a few 84 and 85's and man, I'm thinking, great, a memorial, just what I need. So I dig it. Ground there is peaty as the river almost never gets up that high in that spot. To my great surprise out pops a real tarnished Merc, a 36! That's when I turned on the camera. I couldn't believe it was a Merc and not a Memorial! And only about an inch and a half down! This coin was probably dropped in the early forties as it's not terribly worn. The roots of the underbrush just took it over and kept it dry and comfy. And I can't believe I actually found a silver there! Although almost all the wheats I have found there are from the forties. So I suspect that this was a hunting and carousing area for the younger guys that were going off to war or had already been there. Back in those days, in that spot, you could shoot and drink to your hearts' content and not a whisper was heard about it. Today, well, you'd be in jail.
You know it's real strange to see a world of the past by the things you find and realize the comparative differences we have today. I think about that a great deal. Our freedom today is not what it was in yesteryear. And our advantages against that........
Have fun out there Guys & Gals and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed/ODF