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Post by Rebel KGC on Dec 9, 2007 22:18:06 GMT -5
Yo! ;D Anyone that wants to "fly in" for Civil War Battlefields in Virginia... I will try to "post" info as requested... I will review Commonwealth of Virginia "laws" re. Treasure Hunting, MDing, etc.; as far as I know now, Fed/VA lands are "no-no" for treasure hunting and/or MDing. I would just take "pics" of interesting "sites", etc. ALSO want "in-put" from "seasoned" folks on this... PLEASE share...
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Post by kydave on Dec 10, 2007 7:43:33 GMT -5
Yo Rebel! This will be a pay to hunt deal on privae land! Told ya those farmers were makin big bucks on the relics! They never give out the location until a few days before the hunt for obvious reasons. Also i'll actually be working with the "Feds" on a dig at Lincolns boyhood home near here soon. Don't know how that will pan out.
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Post by beale on Dec 10, 2007 18:18:27 GMT -5
kydave,
Look real careful around Lincoln's homesite. You know Ole Abe's father was John C. Calhoun?
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Post by kydave on Dec 12, 2007 12:32:49 GMT -5
What could i expect to find? I think they will just be trying to find the exact location of the cabin using a magnetometer and doing soil test for pieces of anything of interest during that time period around 1816.
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Post by kydave on Jan 15, 2008 17:58:02 GMT -5
Haven't found anything except a few flint chips, diggin and screening! As soon as they saw my black Fisher metal detectors hat they informed me that there would be "No Metal Detecting" by me or anyone else! So just doin volunteer work and freezin my butt off 20 degrees this morning!
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Post by beale on Jan 16, 2008 16:49:59 GMT -5
Haven't found anything except a few flint chips, diggin and screening! As soon as they saw my black Fisher metal detectors hat they informed me that there would be "No Metal Detecting" by me or anyone else! So just doin volunteer work and freezin my butt off 20 degrees this morning! Kydave, Since you can't metal detect about dowsing for what you want, then dig? A couple coathangers is all you need.
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jan 16, 2008 18:04:25 GMT -5
Yo! ;D beale is correct... did this "water-witching", when I was younger; cut "hanger" part off of TWO coat-hangers like beale said; straighten "wire", then bend into "L"-shape. SHORT end gotta be @ 3'' & LONG end gotta be @ 7". "Tune" into what ya wanna find, then walk a "line" (holding SHORT ENDS); when TWO Long ends cross... THERE it is; how far down... depends on what cher looking for. "Google" HOW TO DOWSE on the internet... LOTS of "sites". Even SOME Treasure Hunting web-sites have "Dowsing" sections... I think TREASURE NET does... www.treasurenet.com Good luck... hh... and have FUN!!
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Post by kydave on Jan 16, 2008 19:42:35 GMT -5
Yep i have a pair of rods, mine are silver tiped! Been in a few contest where silver dollars and silver bars were hidden. Also have done the water witching thing, as they say "been there and done that"! Lot of fun, hard to concentrate though with a crowd watching and laughing at you! ha!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jan 16, 2008 21:45:15 GMT -5
;D Gotta agree with ya on that, kydave...
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Post by kydave on Jan 21, 2008 14:12:55 GMT -5
Seems the "joke " is if i dig up anything i would be "destroying" the site! Ha! Ha!
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Post by beale on Jan 21, 2008 18:40:31 GMT -5
Haven't found anything except a few flint chips, diggin and screening! As soon as they saw my black Fisher metal detectors hat they informed me that there would be "No Metal Detecting" by me or anyone else! So just doin volunteer work and freezin my butt off 20 degrees this morning! kydave, You mention it being so cold, if you will get out there in the early morning preferably about the time frost starts to melt, if you will look at the ground-------it will melt first where large metals and then small metals are located. If you get there at exactly the right time, it only last for a few minutes-----you can see the image of items buried under the ground. I have seen it done many times, that is how I found things before I got a metal detector. Try it, it will amaze you. If there is a box of gold bars, the frost will melt and you will see it's image just before it all melts.
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Post by kydave on Jan 21, 2008 22:46:22 GMT -5
Now thats something only a REAL treasure hunter would know! Thanks for the info! Rebel mentioned the "witching" thing, i've been told when locating a stream you need to know that "good" water runs north and south and the bad like sulpher, runs east and west. Or maybe it was the other way around, so much to remember in this game! Instead of just coin hunting i'm trying to do it all, relic, beach, cache, prospecting, cryptograms and treasure signs and symbols and anything else pertaining to treasure hunting, lot to learn in what little time we have here trying to have fun.
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Post by beale on Feb 8, 2008 8:00:50 GMT -5
Now thats something only a REAL treasure hunter would know! Thanks for the info! Rebel mentioned the "witching" thing, i've been told when locating a stream you need to know that "good" water runs north and south and the bad like sulpher, runs east and west. Or maybe it was the other way around, so much to remember in this game! Instead of just coin hunting i'm trying to do it all, relic, beach, cache, prospecting, cryptograms and treasure signs and symbols and anything else pertaining to treasure hunting, lot to learn in what little time we have here trying to have fun. kydave, that is what makes you a REAL treasure hunter too, searching for everything. That is what I do. If I am researching one treasure and run upon research that pertains to another treasure I will copy it and save it for future reference. You can't always find what you are looking for? Sometimes you pass more treasure up by searching for only one treasure, myself I search for them all, simultaneously 24-7. I think maybe you do too.
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Post by kydave on Feb 12, 2008 18:36:43 GMT -5
Yeah but i bet you could do a book on "Little Known Secrets of Treasure Hunting"! Here's one you could add to it! When Gensing hunting, look for what's called a "Pointer Plant". It will be sitting out in the woods all by itself and the leaves will be pointing directly at the main patch which shouldn't be too far away. Even a big patch is hard to locate if you don't have a keen eye and knowing about the pointer plant could be a great help.
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Post by beale on Feb 12, 2008 21:16:34 GMT -5
kydave,
Been there done that. The only problem if you notice those pointers point in all directions. I use to take people on ginseng trips with me, I had them believing I could smell it as I could find it in any direction I turned. Almost got one boy ate up by rattler one day, he froze and I had to shove him out of the way before the rattler struck. True. No rocks to kill it, I had to take a pole and run it's head in the dirt. I knocked off some of the rattlers it still had 14 and button.
I told my dad one time of being with a man in slick rock upper slate creek, wva and this man found a four prong ginseng that was over his head with a pod of berries as big as your fist. My dad joked the next time you go "seng" hunting be sure to shake the squirrels out before you dig it. I came in the next day with one that stood over the high banisters on our front portch. My dad sat there spinning it around and around, I never knew ginseng growed that big. He dug ginseng his whole life as his father before him. Thanks kydave for the memories. Nice.
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