S8 E28 - Show Us Your Relics - Show and Tell Time on the Relics Radio Podcast - Relics Radio show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hold on, man, I gotta get ready here. Yeah, let
me just put this on like this, everyone dkir for
Adventures in there. It welcome Wednesday Night Relics Radio. Need
to get my co host on with me, he is,
mister cheers the Adventures Cheers, buddy, cheers. Man.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
You only got I wanted to I did want to say.
It's been a little bit since we've been on. I
think it's been two or three weeks since I've had
some whiskey. So if you see me off my chair,
it's because it's been a while.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
So you're out of practice. We're trying to say, I am,
I am, so hey, how are you let to say? Thanks? Man,
you've been busy. You've been huge news.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I know it's not metal techting related, but I finally
sold my house, so I'm really excited to uh to
get into uh a new studio.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, it's been a long time coming and a lot
of a lot of uh stress and and and sleepless nights, but.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
We're good to go. So yeah, we're moving.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Soon and and uh, you know, there's a lot more
to the story obviously that we don't need to talk about.
Our share per se but thumbs up for me for.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
For selling finally. So it's awesome. Oh I know one thing.
Tony's like, I'm gonna have a war room and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like, yeah, oh, you can't. You can't believe what this
war room is gonna look like. It's gonna be incredible.
I can't wait. So but hey, we got out digging
within the last time that we've been on.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So yeah, talked a little bit about it. Quick. You
want to talking about that now? Okay? Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
we're gonna talk about finds tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're gonna have kind of a show and tell so
we can we can save it if you want.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, it doesn't matter to me. We can.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, I'll tell you what, yeh, tell everybody what the
show is about. First, a little bit different for Relics
Radio tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right, and real quick too for those of you that
joined us last time we were on two weeks ago
and helped us kind of say goodbye to Loy Milem
and had our tribute show to Loy two weeks ago.
If you missed it, go back and take a look
at take a look at it or listen to it
on the audio replay. We got a bunch of people
join us. Just some amazing people in the community show

(02:21):
up to reminisce and tell stories about Loy and Tennessee.
Jeff was on and we had like a plug master
forward and court order and you know, Heith Jones and
Butch hkam not how not how tons of people on
with us, all chatting about Larry, talking about Loy and
remembering him and reminiscing and stuff. So it's great. If

(02:42):
you missed that, go back, but thank you to everybody
that showed up to listen, interact and participate with us.
That was fun. I will say.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I just want to introduct real quick about that
episode that was my favorite show, and not because of
why we were there, but what we did when we
were there, reminiscing and talking and sharing stories, shedding some
tears for a friend to all of us in the
medal ticing community.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
So definitely, out of many.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Years that I've been doing this, that I've been on
with you and and been listening to even Lloy and Tennessee,
Jeff my favorite show one hundred percent and absolute an
incredible heartfelt show. And I think everybody you know really
should go back and listen to it.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Watch it. Maybe because it was.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It turned out a thousand times better than I could
have ever expected.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So yeah, I agree, I agree. I think we really
did did injustice. It really was a tribute show. I'm
glad it came off the way it did. So tonight
tonight we're doing a show and tell show, so we
thought I would come together do some things, show some
stuff we found lately. I said, wait, let's just I
mean we can Tony and I talked to and he's like,

(03:52):
let's get other people on to see what they've been
finding with that. So we kind of put it out
there if you want to come on, you want to
do some show and tell, And hey, if you're listening
to us right now and you want to come on
and show some things, come on. We can send you
the link. We just need a way to get a
hold of you. If you know us on Facebook, send
us a message on Facebook and we can shoot you
the link and you can come on with us just

(04:14):
like this. And some of our guests are all lined
up ready to show us some cool stuff and we'll
get to them. But it should be a good show.
I'm really excited about it. Yep, it's gonna be awesome.
We should have. Uh, we got some good people waiting
right now.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
We're going to get to you right now that has
some pretty incredible fines, and again hopefully we get more
people that want to reach out, come on, show their face,
show some fines and tell stories and just kind of.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I mean, the show's about you, guys.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
The show is about the community and the fines and
the stories about what we love doing and and everything.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So we shared it all together. Yeah, and uh, have
a good time tonight. Yep, yep. Yeah, everyone's popping in.
Say hi, hey, five mile, what's going on? You get
on here with us, Bud, come on, Larry, jump on
with us. I sent you a link. Just click on
that thing. Come on up. Yeah. So if you guys
want to come on, just let us know. Uh, you know,

(05:06):
I saw a picture of today. Seth and Kevin Dowd
sent me a picture. Yeah they're all yep, they're all
out and about getting together and out and about, and
I was like, oh man, I hadn't seen those guys
together for a while. I just wish you they were
luck out there. If they're out there hunting this week,
have a great time. Go get the good stuff. Tell

(05:29):
me about it. That'd be awesome, that's right. But I
was I was talking with Jason before, who's waiting in
the greenroom. I was talking to him about us digging recently,
and uh, was that last weekend of the weekend before?
I don't I think it was a weekend before.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
My days are gone. My brain is gone. But we've
and we try to get Michael on to tell this story.
But yeah, some of you have heard story of the
exhilarating moose story of Tony's. Yeah, finally all together got
our own hair raising animal story. It wasn't too bad,

(06:06):
but we had an episode with a bull with a bull, yeah,
first time I've had that.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Happen out in the fields of the cows.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, you figure, I mean out here in Colorado,
we're more livestock than planting. You know, back Ohio it's
corn beans, soybeans, Like, we have more grazing out here,
so you know, we figured a field might be safe.
We had permission to go out there, and they were
very interested in what we were doing.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
So they will have some tips on how to keep
bulls away. We will coming up very shortly. That's right,
Your tips on how to fend off the bulls. That's right.
You say hi to anybody popping the thing and we'll
get to it. We'll start getting Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Let's do it real quick here, going all the way
up to the to mister Bill Hayes always in the chat,
uh and going back to uh last last episode with
the tribute Tolly. Bill was there on episode one and
it was great to have Bill with us and talk
about that stuff too as well. So Yeah, Craig Thompson,
brush popper detecting, how's going there.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Craig see Man, Bob Rose, Bob Roe, Reletive, Scott Lafleur,
He was going to join us tonight and he had
had something come up. He had to kind of step
back and uh, maybe next time. Scott says, he's been
watching listening for a long time and watching our watching

(07:40):
our video, so we appreciate that. But he had to
kill her fine lately. You know, he found he found
a he found a plume holder. You know what that is? Uh?
On a hat, right, because it's on a hat. Yeah,
on a hat, and I don't know what those hats
are called. It wasn't a keppy hat, it was, yeah,
some other type of hat has the hat badge on
like that. I don't snap badge and stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
And I've never heard of anybody finding something like that,
so that's pretty interesting, pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely
real quick. Want to shout out to Teresa the Treasure Hunter.
Hopefully mom's doing well. Mom had a little bit of
a medical episode and and I think she's back out
of the hospital, so on the.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Road to recovery. So happy. Yes, absolutely, James Lucier, Hello
from Massachusetts, Silver Assassin Metal Detecting, Welcome along with us.
Good to see it. I think we had Brandon townsend
up there. Yeah, Drummond detect Good to see you. Shacko

(08:45):
Drumm Detext. It's a Shacko Shacko plume holder. So the
hat's called the Shacko. Gotcha, Chris, Chris a Shacko hat.
There we go. Cool to learn my hat. I don't
have much, you know, much sort of pre Civil War
era here in Colorado. That's right, Hey, we found an

(09:06):
old mining hat. Let's get to our guests. Absolutely, here
we go. Ye, all right, introduced these fine Jim. Yeah,
we got a got a couple of longtime listeners. In fact,
both of these guys have been on the show this

(09:27):
past season, so we've got jagged from playing the past.
Thanks for coming on, Jag and Jason.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yep, yep, yep, have you it's.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Up, guys.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh? Man, Wednesday night? What's it like? It's hot here? Man,
it's hot where you guys are at.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Well, we've had this storm pushing through and so the
weather drops significantly today. But this past summer has been
one of the most brutal summers I think I've ever
bear witness too. And it gets pretty hot and humid
in North Carolina, especially near the coast where I live,
but this summer was just unbearable. And usually about ninety

(10:04):
five degrees is where I draw the line, and it's
been well over one hundred degrees every day here in
North Carolina. It's just some absolutely insane weather. And when
it's not blazing heat, it's pouring rain like it was today.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
It's a humid, humid, really.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Really hard metal detecting conditions.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
You have to really time it well between the weather
because it's really unpredictable.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow, how about you there?

Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah, well, you know we get some of that Colorado
weather as well.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's been ridiculously hot.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
In fact, they just started school on Tuesday, and a
few of the schools don't have air conditioning, so they
actually did early releases yesterday and today to start off school.
So I think today hit ninety nine. Yesterday was just
as bad, and so yeah, makes for some tough conditions
out there, for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I think we're all ready for some cooler weather for sure.
Every every year, I'm like, man, I love the hot
weather and then all right, by this time, yeah, fall
needs to fall.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hey, we got one more person joining us, all right,
who's the who we got?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Hey it's Larry Yo.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Good, Thanks, thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, we're good. Talk about some relics.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Hope everybody brought their their show, show and tell fines.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, lots of lots of stuff to talk about. Has
anybody been out? Tony and I were just telling the
story about us us recently getting out, Like we don't
get out all the time. If we get out on
a weekend every other weekend, it's usually a really good
streak for us. But how about you, guys.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm real quick. I just got to say I dressed
up for you all the night. Yeah, you know, thanks for.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Coming, Larry. We'll see you later. Have a goodness. Oh,
something happened to Larry. We dropped him there. Oh sorry,
let that guy in the room.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Only for you guys, only for you guys house.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
That hurts. Yeah, we're going to have a good season
this year. Well, uh, we'll see you in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
That's you, guys say.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
You guys definitely have been proved. That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Hey, I've been out much.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
It's been It's been one hundred degrees here, man, it's
just been wicked hot.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
But I did get out a couple of times this week.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
And uh, I don't know if you guys looked at
my Facebook, but I got my first eighteen sixties Indian head.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
I don't think I saw it.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
Larry over there, eighteen sixty five, so whoa, yeah sixty five.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
I was actually hoping to get into the eighteen seventies
because I've never found a seventies.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
So, I mean, I didn't want to get greedy, right.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
So I'm looking at it now. That's really cool, man.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
I cleaned that baby up and flipped her over sixty five.
You know, I was a year away from a fatty,
but you know, you gotta have you gotta have motivation
and goals, right.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
So there you go, there you go. I was gonna
show it a good deal.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Man.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know, we stay here in Colorado. If we ever
can get into the eighteen hundreds, it's a great thing. Like, yeah,
you know, will you find nineteen hundreds in nineteen oh six,
nineteen fourteen's all the time. But we get into eighteen hundreds,
it's awesome. But eighteen sixty five Indian Head, that would
be really cool.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
I love finding an Indian Head. I don't care what
year it is. I just love finding those. Yeah, a
beautiful corn.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's always a good fine man. I think I've only
found what once one in my entire hunting career. Yeah,
I thought.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Indian Header won eighteen sixty five.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Had penny. Yeah you believe it? Wow, I remember it.
I remember the day. It's crazy you would think that
here I would be finding them all the time. It's
just my coil has not gotten over it. Man.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
Of course we all know what y're that one year
we're looking for, Right, you're smarter.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Than a relic hunter. We absolutely, at least at least
me and Ken dud. Yeah, we do.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
So.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Larry's alluding to Tony puts on a show called Are
You Smarter Than a Relic Hunter? Where he does sort
of a trivia question show on Sundays, And that was
one of the questions when Larry and I were on
the show. And what here is that? Larry eighteen seventy
seven yep, yep. And I watched plug master Ford dig

(14:50):
one of them live on one of his videos while
he recorded it, and he showed it later, but he
he live, he live dug it, and he went over
and hand dropped it on Missouri Mike video. It was Mike,
we do don't rub it? Mikey. That's awesome. So real quick,

(15:10):
what I know you got this jersey on? But what
part of the country you and Larry south?

Speaker 7 (15:15):
Southwest Missouri? Okay, I'm about ten minutes south of Joplin.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, Yeah, that's right. We talked about that last time.
Hm mm hmm. All right, Well, who wants to go first?
Well we should probably get to some of these finds
and if somebody else us, we'll bring them up. They
want to talk about who wants to go first, we'll
do round robin. Oh. Also, hey, guys, listen, let me
just some ground ground wolves. You're welcome, leave whenever you like,

(15:41):
you know, yeah, welcome to stay as long as you like.
Don't feel obligated, don't you know what I mean? Just
so if you want to share some stuff, hey, I
gotta get going. Don't worry about it. Just do that.
That's that's this format. I just want people to be
able to jump on, jump off.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yeah if they Well, I've seen this young fellow's fines
and he's quite a hunt.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
So yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Man.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
It's a it's a whole different ball game here on
the East Coast. There's a a completely different era of history.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
There's so much stuff that happened here on the East Coast.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, but uh, yeah, what what do you guys want
to see first?

Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'll leave it up to y'all. We can do uh,
we can do civil war, we can do colonial we
can do Spanish teeth. It's like, what are some of
the things y'all want to see?

Speaker 3 (16:27):
How about one of each?

Speaker 5 (16:29):
One of each can.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Take it old, take us old, and work it up modern. Man.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
All right, all right, probably teeth first, right, that's old. Yeah,
sharks teeth, Yeah, we can.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Start with some sharks teeth.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
All right, So.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Up here in North Carolina towards the east coast.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
You guys may may may not heard of the Aurora
Phosphate mine.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Back when they had opened pits.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
When I was a little kid, we used to go
in there and dig big holes in their pits and
find great big shark teeth. And these ones, of course
are the big ones. These are meglodons. These are probably
five to ten fifteen million years old, if I had
to guess, And this is my biggest one that I found.
This is a North Carolina tooth. I do have several

(17:17):
others that came out of some of the rivers here
in North Carolina towards the east coast.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
You can actually dive in.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
The rivers are so deep that when the water passes through,
it erodes away the old.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
Oceanic fossil layer.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
So you can go and find like whalebones and dolphin teeth,
shark teeth all from different airs from millions of years ago.
Those are North Carolina teeth. But I also have a
few teeth that I found in Florida. And you'll notice
these ones, while they're a little bit smaller, have a
really beautiful color to them that the actual lama is

(17:51):
blue and The roots are all white on a lot
of these teeth, and this specific formation can only be
found in South South Florida, and they home in every
color of the rainbow. This one's more of like a
black color. But I have a few like green colored teeth,
some tan colored teeth. Yeah, they come out in really
really beautiful colors in Florida.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Fossils.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
I just got into fossils, so I don't have too many.
Those are just some of my better shark teeth that
I found over the years. I guess we can move
up to Native I don't really have a lot of
insane Native American stuff because out west you have a
lot better quality, like arrowheads and stuff.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
But this is one of my better points that I found.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I think I was probably fourteen or fifteen years old
when I pulled this up out of a tobacco field
behind my house after school one day. And yeah, along
with this point came a few hundred other points, I
would imagine, most of which were broken, but that was
one of the only complete ones. Arrowheads are pretty easy

(18:55):
to find here in North Carolina. But I think I
said on the last time I was on the show, Uh,
we didn't, we don't really have good stone out here.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
There's we just have quartz and a bunch of like
hard shirt.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's really makes it really difficult for the Native Americans
to nap.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Was there a stone of preference that they just chirt?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
H Specifically, it's rhyolite here in North Carolina that was
corried a lot in the mountains. We have a point
type out here in North Carolina referred to as the
Moral Mountain, and Moral Mountain was a Native American corry
for rhyolite and then they would corry out like big
chunks of ryolite and then trade it with other Native
American tribes throughout the state.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Gotcha, yatcha?

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:39):
You never found any other type of teeth, Like, have
you ever found any other type of teeth like mammoth
teeth or anything.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
I don't have any mammoth teeth. I don't have any.
I don't have a lot of mammals.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Stuff you do find like ice age horse teeth a lot,
and some like you find some like weird deer bones
and stuff. I do have a few great whites and
some Maco's some his stylist shark teeth, but they don't
get nearly as big and they're not as impressive as
the megalodons in my opinion, But most people when they
look for shark teeth, they like to see the great

(20:10):
big ones.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Favor it.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
I do have one coin from like the ancient times
that I may have talked about last time I was
on the show.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
This is my oldest metal detecting find.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
It is a coin from the Byzantine Empire and it
dates back to around the fifth.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Or sixth century.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Wow, believe it or not, this actually came up in
the front yard of an old house here in North Carolina.
I had it looked at by a few coin experts
and they said that it was one hundred percent legit.
And I don't know what it's doing here. My only
guess is it was part of somebody's coin collection and
then they lost it and that's how I found it.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
But something I never expected to find here in North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
You have to think it was some kind of a
trinket or some kind of first, right, You're.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Like, yeah, right, I thought it was a bail seal
when I first found it, you know, like one of
them lag bail seals.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Sometimes they come out like.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
In weird like designs and stuff, weird shapes, and uh,
my friend was looking at it and he said, no,
this is an ancient coin. And I didn't even know
what it was at the time. He sent me a
whole bunch of info and then this coin the other
guy wrote me a little card with some information on it, uh,
to kind of help explain what it was.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
But that's so cool, man.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
I think I was probably like twelve or thirteen when
I found that.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, and real quick before you get into the next stuff,
we got one more guests that joined us over here,
so it was good.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, let's bring on j Man for Metal Sharks.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Hey, how we doing.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Hey, Hey, what's up? J Man?

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Hey Dan, Hey Towny.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Good to see everybody.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Good to see it, Thanks for coming on, appreciate it,
thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Thanks for joining. What part of the country are you in.
We kind of went around and said that already, yes.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
Sir, I'm in North Florida, and then Saint John's County,
so just south of Jacksonville, Florida.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, yeah, how far from you is that?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Jag he's part of that East Coast team where he's
North Florida.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
He's probably about seven and a half eight hours.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah cool.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
But he's on that East coast or east coastal stuff,
that's right.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, so cool. Thanks for joining us, Jamie. We'll get
with the jags kind of working this up from you know,
nine million years ago to I think we're in the
fifth century right now, so he's working his way forward.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Well, I haven't made it to England, so I don't
have anything else from the ancient times. But all across
the East coast, as you guys know, the Spanish came
and ruled a lot of the East coast North Carolina
all the way down to Florida mainly, and I have
with me several Spanish coins that I thought I would
show you guys. This one came out here not too

(22:55):
far away from me. And this is a Spanish cob.
You guys have seen these before. This is a one
real cob, uh Carlos the third, I think, so this
would be like, uh, if I'm correct, like early sixteen
or late sixteen hundreds or early sixteen hundreds, one or
the other. But this is a Carlos the third, uh,

(23:17):
one reale cob. This was actually my first cob that
I ever dug. Again, another little one real Cob and
they're just I love. These are my favorite coins to
ever find. I love the crosses, and I love how
every time you find one, it's different than the last.
Like every single pod that you find is a little
bit different. And uh, it's hard to really date these

(23:38):
because some of them don't have exact dates. I think
I've only got one with a partial date, but most
of them date. I think some of the ones that
came from down South are a little bit older.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Uh, they may be pushing like late fifteen hundreds.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
And then I have cobs all the way up to
like seventeen fifteen.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Anybody else on our panel find a Cob or any
kind of Spanish?

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Does anybody find I'll get some call out in my
garden every.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Once in a while, a cord cock pipe.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's about all I can say about Cob.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Danish.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Huh, Yeah, I got a Spanish to real seventeen seventy
two Spanish to real.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah, did that come out out?

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Wet out Ohio?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
He said in Ohio. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
We were at a we were at a school site
in the middle of a field that had a blacksmith shop.
And the reason I was out in Ohio was my
buddy said, hey, you've never dug a large sent before.
You know, we don't see a lot of those out
in Colorado. So I went out there and we went hunting,
and he's like, we find those like wheaties you find
out in Colorado. So yeah, everybody was finding stuff and
I ended up finding an eighteen fifty two large scent.

(24:51):
Lost my mind, made my whole weekend, fell in love
with it. It was absolutely amazing. Went down to the end
of the row of the corn, came back up the
other side, and maybe ten feet away I found the
seventeen seventy two to real, which then, you know, kind
of trump the large set. I mean, like, how do
I how do I love both of at the same time?

(25:11):
I do, But you know, yeah, I went eighteen hundreds
and then seventeen hundreds within like I don't know, fifteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Philip three it was illuminum.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Is an aluminum one seventeen seventy two.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
That would have been like late Philip the third or
early Philip the fourth.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Okay, Tony lighty Liberty was your first love? Come on, man,
I agree, it's tough.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's tough not to love USA, But I mean, I
don't think anybody here would throw back a seventeen hundred
a Spanish coin.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
So remember excited you were, for sure? Oh my gosh. Yeah,
all right, Jack, we're into fifteen hundreds, right.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Hunters working through some colonial stuff. I'll show you some
other coins.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
This is a I think these are called like a
two deniers.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
I could be wrong, but this is a copper coin.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Wow, beautiful, seventeen seventy something. And uh, this is actually French.
This is a French coin.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Do you find a lot of French down there in
North Carolina?

Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's really hit or miss, like it's mostly British stuff,
but you can find French stuff. It's just really really rare. Uh,
you can find some French stuff. I found an Irish
halfpenny bank token or something that's from the eighteen hundreds.
So you have you have a lot of weird denominations
down here, and a lot of times it's like really
really unexpected because where I'm from and this area was

(26:46):
mostly trade. There wasn't a lot of money, so you
had all kinds of denominations, uh, and currencies from other
countries that were being traded and accepted here throughout the colonies.
Then as far as coins, uh, I have a couple
other Spanish coins.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
These are you've seen these? These are just the half reals.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh just a half. Yeah, yeah, that's a half. Don't
not not like that.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
But these are These are a little bit more common
here on the east coast, uh to find than the cobs.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
They are newer.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
These are These would have been like the smaller size
of the one uh he found the two real They
would have been the same design and size and everything,
or same design, no size.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
But my light's kind of messing jag.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
You ever find a quarter real? I saw buckle Boy
in the chat and that's the first time I'd ever
seen one.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, we've seen. Uh, we find quarter cuts all
the time.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm an actual quarter reale, like you know, you have
a full half real.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
I have a uh, I have a lead one. It's
not here with me on the table, but I have
a lead quarter real. It has like the little.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Castle on one side. On the other side. Yeah, it's
got the dragon or lying on the back.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, wow, very cool man.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
It's not silver, it's lead. For whatever reason. It's kind
of weird.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Here.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
I have one other thing from the seventeen hundreds. I
want to show you guys. This is actually somewhat of
a recent find.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
This is a French sword handguard from the Revolutionary War,
and unfortunately it's missing the rest of the handguard, but
that's where the handle would have went through and the
sword would have come up here.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
This is a specifically, this is a French small sword.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Is it like a rape yer or something or is it?

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yeah? Yeah, these are small swords.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
So yeah that I found that too.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Yeah. And then here we'll get into some civil war
stuff here. Now, this is probably my best find of
all time, in my opinion. I was doing some metal
detecting up in Virginia when I was I think I
had to be like thirteen or fourteen, and this is
actually my uncle's house. It was a he owns a
property up in Virginia that was I think the house

(29:07):
was built in like eighteen fifty. There was a civil
war skirmish not too far away, and I brought my
metal detector there.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I think at the time I was swinging the at
pro and in my hole I found.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
This eighteen probably eighteen forties, eighteen fifties malicious sword buckle.
I was super super excited with this, but I rechecked
the hole.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
And the signal got weirder.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
There was obviously still something down there, but the signal
was weird. So I decided to keep digging and this
came out.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
But so we have the belt one hole and.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
The sword were in the same exact hole and U yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
So and this this is for those that don't know,
this is a Confederate d Guard bowie knife. Makes sense
because I found it in Virginia. A lot of Confederate
troops stayed on the property. I think my only other
like really good fine was a v M I button
that came out of there. But it was obvious that
Confederate troops had stayed there. The house had actually been
metal detected several times before, but this was such a

(30:11):
weird signal.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
I can see why it had left.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Wow, it was left. Yep, that's incredible. So who wants
to show their fines?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
After Jag, We're gonna start seeing people just drop off
the show.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I found.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Pennies, Jack.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's pretty incredible, man, congratulations.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
And then.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
This was this was my this is my best Civil
War fine for this year so far. This was my
first hunt of the year. A carbine sling buckle. I
found this up in Virginia at a Pennsylvania cavalry encampment.
The troops stayed there for about a month, and Zach
there this past weekend. At that spot, I found a
couple of bullets and a few button backs, But this

(31:05):
buckle came out earlier this year, and my first carbine
sling buckle.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
I'm super excited with that.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's incredible. It's a special find. Man.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, there's one final Civil War relic. I'll show you guys.
This is my best condition US buckle.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Dang, that looked like there's.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
The back and I don't know if you can tell,
but right under there there is actually like a little stamp.
I haven't actually done the research to see like who
the manufacturer is, but uh, I found that was in
North Carolina. Find that came right out of sand, so
not that Virginia hot clay that most people find these in.
This is what they look like when they come fresh

(31:48):
out of sand.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
I mean, just absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, Yeah, that's incredible. I would think that's what they
would come out like in Colorado and that yomy soil
we have.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
But yeah, I don't know, probably in South Dakota too.
I would imagine, well, what kind.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Of soil do you all have out west? Like what's
the digging like? Is it just straight dirt pretty much?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah? Ours is sand. Ours is real loamy, real sandy
loamy in some areas. If we get in the mountains,
underneath all the pine trees, you got a bunch of
that pine drop keeps the soil nice and moist and actually,
you know, it'll kind of hurt relics more than it
does when you're out in the loamy sandy soil like
that protects relics. Yeah, we're digging old like shoe buckles,
knee buckles, stuff like that that are still operational right

(32:33):
out of the ground, you know what I mean, like
a full operational hinge, suspender buckle or something like that.
It's just very very delicate at least here. How about
you Jason up in South Dakota.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, it's it's a little bit of a the same.
The prairies aren't that bad when you get out on
the flats, but here in the Black Hills, the same thing.
You get, the more of the minimalized soil.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Same for you, Larry, or what's your what's your soil?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Like out there, Larry Rocky.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
Oh yeah, I mean it just depends on where you're
at sometimes, but the majority of the time is a
lot of rocks, and right now it's so dry, like
you can't the dirt is like powder. So like digging
a six inch hole, it might take you ten minutes
sometimes because of the rocks, because you're just picking and
picking and picking. So but you know, sometimes you sink

(33:25):
your shovel and you'll go eight inches deep and you're like, oh, yeah,
this is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, welcome change, for sure.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah you think it's a little a little moist down
in Florida, right, j Man.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
Yes, that's for sure. I do a lot of my
hunting at the beach, so that's one kind of detecting
I do. But I also do some interior detecting, and
so a lot of the woods near here are pine forests.
And a few years ago we had a hunt at
you know, Melrose, Florida, which is outside of Gainesville, Florida,

(34:00):
And just briefly I wanted to tell you about that
if I may. It was four to hunt eight and
it was an organized hunt, so that it was a
lot of natural hunts. And then there were a few
seated hunts too, but during the natural parts of the hunt,
I was able to go back in some least property
that they had access to for this organized hunt and

(34:22):
went into this one area that had a lot of brambles.
And this was probably my best find to date was
from that area.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Nice.

Speaker 8 (34:33):
Yeah, And I'm kind of afraid to show part of
it because it's so thin here. Yeah yeah, yeah, And
I've tried to really light electrolysis on it to protect it.
And then I did some research I think it was
called conservators wax or something like that that I was
able to put on it. I watched some videos like
my Bird Dog and other YouTube channels how to take

(34:56):
care of relics like that. But it's basically was a
socket bandet, probably from the war and probably an Enfield
design because we had access to an archaeologist who helped
us when we showed pictures and he could tell us
what he thought the relic would be, what aero would
be from.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, very nice, man. I bet you were shocked when
you saw it, Like what part of it came out first? Like, like,
did you was the tip? Just what you saw? It
was the base or what. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
It was a real surprise because I really didn't know
what I had. And so at first, you know, I've
only been detecting seven or eight years and we don't
have a lot of.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Civil War history in Florida.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
There were a few skirmishes like the Battle of Natural
Bridge and Battle of a Lusty, but not as much
Civil War activity here, so I didn't really know what
it was at first, to be honest. And I was
looking at it and getting this out of the ground,
and I'm like, well, I don't know what this is,
but I better.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Take good care of it.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
So I took my you know, you wear a glove
when you're out detecting, so I put my glove on
the tip. I was able to keep it in my
pouch and get it back in safely. But a fellow
that you guys know, Butch Holcombe, Sure, the publisher of
American Digger magazine, was on that hut, and so we
were just chatting, you know, as I was coming back

(36:14):
in from part of the hunt and talked to him,
and his eyes kind of lit up when I showed
him that and said, you know what you've got there,
So that that that really opened my eyes, and I
realized that it was a socket day in that and
just did a lot of research after that.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, that's incredible. When you don't know what, you don't
necessarily believe what could be in your area, and then
you find something that dates back to that time, your
whole mind just explodes as and opens up more more
not opportunities, but like just just your brain as to
what you actually could come across. Ken and I have
had the same thing in Colorado. You know, we're thinking, oh,

(36:51):
we're not gonna be able to find whatever, but you know,
there's there's places where we can get back in the
eighteen fifties, even before a little bit before. I mean,
right now, we're looking for a safe from eighteen thirty eight,
and if we find that, man, it's one of the
earliest sights in Colorado, which just blows our mind we
have could have an opportunity for something like that.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
I was really fortunate to find it too, because just
kind of give a shout out to Relix Radio but
also Loy who you guys had talked about at the beginning,
and I wasn't on the show a few weeks ago,
but when I first started detecting probably back in twenty eighteen.
I remember a few things Loy would say on the show,
like you know, go low and slow and take your

(37:35):
time and make sure you have a repeatable signal. But
I remember he would also not be one to be
afraid of going into some brambles or real thickets. So
that was another part of that bayonet find was getting
into a really rough area where maybe even bear rabbit
when don't want to go.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
That's a great tip. I mean everyone else using right,
I mean when you're hitting sites even you know, especially
if you think they've been hit before. We were just
on a site we know it's been hit, it's been
searched for years, and Tony was like, I'm only going
up underneath all the all the shrubbery, all the thorn bushes,

(38:12):
everything that we normally wouldn't touch. And he started finding
all the stuff there, and same thing on that that
buckle the buttonhouse, Right, Tony, we got up underneath all
that growth and it'd be like that's where all the
good stuff was.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah, the easy stuff is going to get picked
out right away. Nice open areas you know, pass that
go through between trees, things like that. But you start
slowing down, get up underneath the places that other people
maybe haven't spent time on. You're gonna find the stuff
that was there previously, for sure.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
Yeah, just briefly on one other find I wanted to share.
It may not look like a whole lot right away,
but it's this ring here, and when I looked on
the inner band of this men's wedding ring, which I
found in mid July at the nearest beach to where
I live. It's one of our first coast beaches in
Saint John's County, they called the historic first Coast. But

(39:06):
ken I think a while ago you might remember at
one point I found a gold ringing that said five
eight five, So I had to do a little research
and see what that meant, and it meant fifty eight
point five percent gold content, and so I think that
was probably a ring that was lost by a tourist
from Europe maybe, and they have a different system and
not putting like fourteen k but putting five eight five,

(39:29):
So you get used to these different numbers like nine
two five silver, but this one is nine to five zero.
So I did some research on that, and I believe
that it's probably platinum or maybe silver. So I'm still
doing research on it, but it also had an engraving
on the inside with some initials, and I'm hoping I
can find the owner and maybe return it. So I

(39:50):
listed it on one of our local sites, and I
may look one or two more sites and see if
I can put the power of social media to work.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yes, yeah, that's that would be so cool if you could.
That's a beautiful ring. Yeah, very cool man. We don't
get we don't find jewelry here much because we just
had a bloody.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
He just found a five eight five gold ring and
I think he said it was fourteen. It's two different
type of of of uh not valuation, but quality, and
it's fourteen. It's fourteen carrot, right, I think is what
the five eight five is.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, everyone in the chat saying platinum Jamie, there you go. Thanks. Yeah,
all right, I want to mention real quick.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
In between Jamie and uh uh and.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Jag Joe Copper Joe had posted that he he found
a two thousand clad dimes, so he he did he
did well too, so good job, good job.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Joe, Good job copper Joe. Yeah, every finds a good find,
everyone gets a ribbon. Yeah, it's funny. It's funny. Who
wants to go next? I know, I don't after these guys, man,
I don't know. I got to know. Yeah, got a penny.
I think.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'll get mine over worth, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
Yeah, you know. So I mean down here, R'm front man.
It's like you gotta work your boat off find stuff.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
You know.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
If you don't got good permissnger, I'll just hit in sidewalks,
parks stuff like that. Jag is just he's got a
nice gig up there. So I appreciate you finding all
that good stuff. Man, it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
You just have to be where the history is at,
you know what I mean, And it's uh yeah, if
you live in areas like out West, obviously it's not
as old, but you're finding In my opinion, it's just
as hard to find a large scent in Colorado then
it would be to find like a cob out here,
you know what I mean. It's the same rarity. Uh

(42:03):
one coins older than the other, but it's the same rarity,
you know what I mean. You have to work just
as hard to find both. Yeah, depending on where you're at.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
So myself.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
The touch on what Tony said while ago you know
when he found that Spanish and that large scent. You know,
you find something like that and you think, okay, man,
my luck's turn. I'm gonna start getting on a roll
and find the stuff, and you know, like down here
I might find something like this year has been pretty rough,
it's been hot, and I just haven't found a lot
of good stuff.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
But you know, you just gotta be patient.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
And just like when I got that sixty five Indian head,
you know, I was like, oh, yes, finally you know
something really good for me. You know, it's like, I'm
super excited about that. But and I've only been in
this about four years now, so and when you get
when you first start going and you get in some
good places, you get bucket listers kind of knocked off

(42:59):
pretty quick.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
If you can. You know, you got to get lucky,
of course.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
And for me, it started at my own house and
that's what got me into the hobby. And eventually I'm
getting ready to start posting some content on YouTube. I
don't have any on there, but my first one's actually
going to be labeled where it all started, and it's
going to be about my yard basically, because that's what

(43:24):
got me so excited about the hobby and then coming
on YouTube and start watching you guys and other guys,
and I just started learning so much. And now it's
like when I can't find something or I can't go hunting.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Now I'm doing bottle hunting, you know, stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
And I always arrowhead hunted. So I've got lots of arrowheads.
I've accidentally found arrowheads here recently in some fields and
I've dug some holes, you know, thinking oh, there's a
bullet in there, and dig around, and hey, what happens?
Arrowhead pops out of that hole. So that's the last
probably three four or five arrowheads I found was on accident.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
That's wrong, good luck.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
I love finding anything, honestly, like it's I will go,
like you guys said, I will go in the weeds
and the briars. I'll go in there because I just
you don't know what's under there. I'll get in there
and get dirty and get ticks and.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
All kinds of stuff.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
But I I'll show you guys a couple of things.
I've got a few things laid out here, and it just.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Kind of.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
I mean, like I love finding the relics, of course,
because I love the history that comes along with trying
to find you know where it came from?

Speaker 3 (44:41):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (44:42):
Sometimes you don't even know. And I'll get to a
story here in a minute. That's a real mind blowing
one for me. And you know about what's something I
found that. I love finding military stuff. I have a
lot of military buttons and different things, metal and different things.
But one of my favorite military fines is this right here. Oh,

(45:07):
and that is an officer's Air Force a pen that
went on its hat, the visor hat.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Wow, and that.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
Is that a World War two one?

Speaker 3 (45:21):
That post for it is World War two?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
I got you. Yeah, that's that's awesome.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
On the day when I saw that in the hole,
I thought I had something like I thought I had
something that was going to be.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Big time gold. But it didn't matter. I love this thing.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
This is just all intact. Do you find those folded
up all the time too, or missing parts and pieces
of deteriorated? You find a whole complete one?

Speaker 7 (45:50):
Yeah, And the pins were stuck in the hat at
the top up there.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
They're still sharp. So you could wear this again, You
could actually wear it. So was that a Missouri that?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (46:03):
I found that just a few miles from my house.
It was at a friend of mine's house. I also
found uh one of the US collar pins about five
feet away.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Uh, and that's in terrific condition too.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
There you go, that's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, the back as well.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Mm hmm look at that mm hmmm. Yeah cool.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Yeah, those you know. I love finding military stuff. That
just means a lot. So that was World War two.

Speaker 7 (46:35):
I found World War one and World War two stuff
as well, or World War one stuff.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Uh. A nice coat button.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, that's a great condition.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Yeah, the back is gone though, but still I love it.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (46:53):
And I have some Civil war stuff too. Uh a
kepi button tiny.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Oh yeah, you went on the side of the hat
at the strap yep.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:10):
So you know that's military stuff. I love finding those.
And Georgie, I have a lot of jewelry. Here's one
of the rings that I found. I found it at
the beginning of this year.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Let me see is that gold? There you go.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
It's I don't know if it's real diamonds or not.
I never have had it tested. Pretty, but it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
That's a great ring. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
And then opal it's a vintage silver.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
That's a pretty one.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
When you look at it in the right lighting.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, it's got a little blue tint to it.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
Yeah, it has that that crazy looking stuff. And of
course who doesn't accidentally like to find a Bennington marble
there we go.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
I have a couple of those, and then the relics.

Speaker 7 (48:04):
Everybody's found Harmonica reads right, yes, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
But have you ever found the Big Boy?

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Oh, oh, my gosh, that's a huge, big Mama jambo there.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
That's called the Goliath.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah it is, my gosh, is that not impressive? That's
a giant, giant instrument. Man, I don't think i've that.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I didn't know what he existed, but.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
I found a few that were that big.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
And I was told that I could be completely wrong
on this, but somebody told me that the big ones
like are about the size of the ones that you
found were Accordion reads.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
The boy just said it's a chromatic harmonica read.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Yeah, yeah, a larger range to it.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
And it's almost completely intact. It's just broken one little spot.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
When you uncovered that, did you uncover a quarter of it?
And you're like, oh, Harmonica read? And then it just
kept coming and kept out.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Yeah, kind of a first, I thought it was a
comb or something. Yeah, yeah, you know, because I was
the only thing like maybe that.

Speaker 7 (49:10):
And I had to be very careful digging it, because
you know, you break those harmonica reads really easy when
you dig them.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
But I got it out there, and then I'll just
hit on a.

Speaker 7 (49:22):
I mean, I've got just a bunch of crazy stuff,
but I'll touch on.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
A couple of my coins that I found, my favorites.
The Flying Eagle.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Oh, there you go, there to find very very very
difficult to find eighteen.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
It's a fifty eight. Yeah there yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
And then I showed you that Indian had that was
a recent fine.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
And then this one's hard. It's kind of hard to see,
but seated quarter.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
Yeah, great, fine.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah, that's the guys.

Speaker 7 (50:04):
I mean, that's like, when I find this stuff, it's
just mind blowing to me. It's I get so excited
because I just don't find it all the time.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
It's just very rare. And then a couple of my
better coins from my yard.

Speaker 7 (50:20):
This was at the very beginning of my detecting career,
probably the maybe the second silver coin I'd ever found,
and it was My first eighteen eighteen hundreds coins was
eighteen ninety nine Barber half dollars.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Oh what, oh wow, I can't believe half dollars.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Man, big chunk is over. Man, Oh, there we go go,
silver eighteen ninety nine. I just can't believe people people
would lose.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Would lose that and not find it and not go
back for it, like, like, what's the story?

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Why is it there?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Because if you lost something that big, you right, you
think that you you would know that you lost it.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
That's why those are so hard to find, because even
the dollars, because it's not like dropping a dime, you know,
like you said, you're gonna look down and oh, there
it is right there.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
And then one more coin that I found.

Speaker 7 (51:15):
In my yard, which I will touch on a story
when I do my uh YouTube video. Yeah, and this
has a this has a terrific story behind it. I
won't tell you tonight, but it's a it's gonna be
hard to see.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's a large scent, large sent Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Let me see if I got it turned the right way.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
To go, I can't see the day.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
It'd be like a fifty something, you are right, yeah,
double italicized five.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
That the fives are italicized. Just eighteen fifty five.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Wow, that was about ten feet off my rightway and
I just right here in the front.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
You talk about finding all this stuff on your at
your house, right, what's the history of your property?

Speaker 3 (52:10):
The house was early nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 7 (52:13):
But the fellow that owned this property that was two
hundred and forty acres, he was a German fella, and uh,
he was one of the pioneers of Joplin, Missouri. So
he came to Jopling in like the eighteen seventies when
Joplin was first becoming a city. So he bought all
this out here. I think he did it for the

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mining because the mining boom was going on, and I
think he was there's a couple of mines out here,
so I don't think he wasn't successful. So he just
ended up, you know, his family moved out here, and so, yeah,
I've done a lot of research and I'll touch on
that in that video as well.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (52:55):
So and then of course, you guys know I know Tony,
and can you know what I'm going to pull out next?

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Well, I hope, I know, hope, I hope, I hope
you do what I think you are.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah right right, pulling up my big boy.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yeah, let's go. Yeah. So it was exciting.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Yeah uh.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Yeah, that's so cool man.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Yeah, no flipping around.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
It's the time.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
On the other side, Captain America's training.

Speaker 5 (53:38):
Is that hollow there you go?

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh yeah, right, that.

Speaker 7 (53:43):
Is the eighteen sixty one Union Bullseye canteen.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
And where do you find that?

Speaker 7 (53:52):
The story behind this is I found this at the
Missouri show show Me pro Am back in March and
mentioned Hernita Barks puts this hunt on and it's on
seventeen hundred acres and there's a ton of history on
that acreage, like there was a train that went through
there at one time and Billy the Kid actually robbed

(54:12):
the train.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
It was the first train robbery in Missouri.

Speaker 7 (54:16):
General Grant had been on this property because there were
skirmishes there.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
The Trail of Tears runs through it.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
But anyways, they had seated fields, you know, designated seated fields.
But on seventeen hundred acres, the natural finds are they're
just everywhere. You know, you can you can go anywhere
and find something. But it was the very last day
on Sunday. It was a two day hunt, and the

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weather was getting really rough and they were going to
shut it down at one o'clock. So my wife had
came with me to the hunt. She wanted to go,
so she went and she had a great time too.
She found a lot of good stuff, and so at
the end of the seated hunt on Sunday, she was like,
let's go walk around look for some natural stuff.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
So we had it across the.

Speaker 7 (55:07):
Road and we had it and walked up through like
five big pastures, you know. We walked miles and uh,
we're coming up this last pasture and it goes up
into the hill that goes into woods. And we'd kind
of hunted around there on Saturday, but there was this
weird calling. Something was pulling me. I guess I had

(55:29):
this weird We just kept going and going and going.
I kept going back to this one spot.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
We walk up into the hills and I'm like, I
wanted to hunt around those woods, you know, because everywhere
you hunt was just mode fields, And I'm like, well,
why can't there be anything out in the weeds in
the woods, right, So I go out in them woods
and I'm picking around and going up and through them
trees and stuff, and I get this, you know, I
finally get this signal.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
It's just it's a terrible signal.

Speaker 7 (55:57):
I used my leg I was using my legend, and
it was like a just because this this canteen is ten.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
So it was a bad signal.

Speaker 7 (56:06):
But I went ahead and dug it and avoided stabbing
a hole in it. Somehow, the ground was really soft
up in there. I got her out of the ground
and I looked at it.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Like, what is this? You know? Is it a hubcat?
I mean, immediately, I don't know. So I turned it over.

Speaker 7 (56:29):
I started looking at and I see that hole, and
I'm like, oh, maybe that's too a stove, a gas
stove or something.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
So I was like, okay.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
I fortunately put it in my pouch. You know, I
could have just left it there, but I don't. It's
a habit. I don't leave my trash, you know what
I mean. I take all my trash and clean the
earth as we go hunting, you know what I mean.
So I stuck it up my pouch, which standing up
in my pouch, it's just in there, barely fitting. So
my wife's like, we gotta go, we gotta go. It's

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almost one o'clock. It's getting really windy. So we head
back and we go back to the to the field
where everybody was, and everybody had already headed back to
Greenville where they were set where they had set up,
where they had like the all the tents and everybody
was set up and they did all the giveaways and
have lunch and all that gets up. So we're down
in the parking lot going to get in the car

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and I see Murray Crow. So Murray and Randy ut
Church are down there, and I run over. I talked
to Murray and I was showing him that flying Eagle coin. Well, Murray,
let's at me. He goes, what you got in your pouch?
And I said, oh, I look over at it and
I said I grabbed it. I said, I don't know.

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I looked at him and his eyes were like this big.
Murray goes, he goes, you know what you got there?
I said, no, I don't. I thought it was just
up off the stove. He goes, let me tell you
you got yourself a bullseye canteen from the Civil War.
And I said, I was like, what, I said, You're

(58:05):
kidding me. He goes, no, he goes, that's what that is.
He goes, that is magnificent. He go, I mean, he
was like, you want me to take that for you?
I can take it off your hands. I said, no, Mury.
But anyways, uh, that was Murray was the first one
that saw it other than my Well, no, she saw
it at the same time. Murray did, because I did

(58:25):
need to show her when I had it. So we
headed back to the to the meet up place and
I went right to Butch and asked him about it,
and he said, go get it. And I went and
got it, and his eyes did the same thing. He
was like, oh my gosh. And you know, he was
just like he was as happy as I was that
I found it. So I was fortunate to make the

(58:47):
cover of American Digger magazine on the last year. So yes,
So you know, the four years of my battle detecting
has just been it's been full of just so much
fun and meat so many people and making to many
friends and learning so much, you know, and it's like,
I don't know, it's hard to explain that what it's done.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
It's just it's just so much fun.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
You want to know how deep it was, Larry.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
You know, people have asked me a lot of questions
about that, and because I thought it was trash, and
because when I got it out of the ground, I
still thought it was trash. I didn't take pictures, I
didn't take video, I didn't show my wife when I
had my pounds.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
And I know that it was probably it was probably
a good ten to twelve inches deep. But I will
tell you that that dirt, it was just so soft.

Speaker 7 (59:44):
There wasn't a single rock in it, and it was
just like this thing came out of the ground. When
I reached down in there, it was like it came
out of butter. And it just was, you know, saying
here I am so well.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
It just was to show you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I mean, you had said you'd started out by saying
it wasn't a good signal.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
He dug it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Anyways, you stay committed to it, going ten to twelve
inches deep on it, man, well paid off for your
congrats on that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
That's awesome, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
I appreciate that. But here's the other part. Here's the
other part where you're gonna have to kick my butt.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
I was I scanned around in that area because I
was like, there's you know, maybere's something else here, right,
and I was getting that same kind of signal in
multiple spots right there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Guess what I didn't do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
You didn't go back and dig it.

Speaker 7 (01:00:34):
I didn't dig those signals because when I thought that
was trash.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Yeah, I walked off it.

Speaker 7 (01:00:41):
I walked off from it. And it took me probably
it took me about a month to get over not
doing that. I mean, like, that's all I could think about,
was going back to that spot and digging up those
other signals, because how do I know there wasn't like
other Civil War relics sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
On the ground of it, So it's a hotspot.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
You got to get back there.

Speaker 7 (01:01:03):
Hey, it was lessons lesson learned. The hunt won't be
in Green It won't be in the same place this
year though, so we won't be going back there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Yeah, but let's learn. I mean, yeah, Buckwoods comments would
make us all sick. What gets thrown away by the unknowing. Sure,
that's why you spent four years writing the book he's
got coming out. But yeah, the stuff we throw away,
I I guarantee you that we've all thrown stuff away
that's probably been something you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:01:31):
I don't throw any of my trash away. I have
toutes and buckets full of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
So nice, that's so cool, he Jason, we want to
get up with you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
We want to get up to you next, Jason. First time,
we need to pose a question to the group, and
actually Jason will let you answer first, and then as
we make our way around we will get uh, we'll
get to your some of your fines. Start with you, Jason, like,
and think of the rest on the panel. Just think
about this. What would you consider boring to most that

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you find exciting? So it's something that you find exciting
that you think is just boring, would be boring to most.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
Yeah, that's a great question. That's actually my I first
find here, And like Larry, like, you've got to have
these stories that go along with some of these fines,
and it's this to most, it's probably just a Cadillac emblem, right, Yeah,
like Larry, it was found in our yard by complete happenstance. Actually,

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my wife and I had bought our nephew a metal detector,
and then his cousin actually brought it down when the
ground thought to ask me how to how to run it.
I'd never run a metal detector, and that was in
twenty twenty three, and we started digging around the yard,

(01:02:56):
finding nails, all sorts of things, and there was but
there there was this one tone that we and you know,
basically sending the machine into overload, and so we dug
and dug and dug, and up pops this Cadillac emblem
right from the yard. Completely unexpected. But again people have
probably found these. There's an impressive group in the chat

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room and on this.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Call as well.

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
But without this fine, I probably wouldn't have any of
the stuff I have today or do what I do.
So I do cherish this one a little bit. So obviously,
you know, we did the research on it. It looks
like it comes back from a nineteen forty eight to
fifty two Cadillac and it was in a unique spot

(01:03:40):
in our yard. There's some history behind our property. We
have a large what I would seem to be a
commercial type business that was here, so I think there
was vehicles coming and going and obviously that fell off
and we found it with one hundred dollars metal detector.
And so when we pulled that from the ground, you know,
my mind just exploded and I thought, well, what can

(01:04:02):
you do with a three do with so three metal
detectors later and uh, but but I credit that because
I don't know what we'd have done if we had
just found a bunch of stuff in trash in the yard,
but that this fine kind of spawned it for me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
So are you watching?

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Yeah? Cool? How about who else was to take a jag?
What do you think something you find it exciting? Do
you think most people would think was just boring?

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Well, everything that I find I find it pretty exciting,
and I feel like you guys would find it exciting too,
But I would have to answer that question.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Honestly.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
I collect a lot more than just like shark teeth
and bottles and arrowheads and metal detecting stuff. I collect
like antiques and stuff too. So a lot of times
when I go visit old places, I like to collect
like old books and like old maybe old signs, or
like like random things that are like non metal detecting
finds that are still somewhat preserved. A lot of times

(01:05:07):
I explore like abandoned houses, or I get the opportunity
to go like visit some abandoned places, and uh, most
people just handy, Like I don't know, a random piece
of something from their house, or sometimes you find like
a dusty book cover, and I actually find those really cool.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
I save a lot of especially books.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
A lot of people find books and don't really think
anything of them because most of the time they're like
all falling apart and stuff. But a lot of times
I like to save just the covers of the books,
and uh, I'll make like murals or I'll frame them
or something, because a lot of the like the old
antique books from the eighteen hundreds, they look really cool,
and uh.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Yeah, I think I think that's how I would answer that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
That's cool, Jamie. How about you hold on. I want
to I want to talk about what Jack said. I
like finding old books that have some sort of an
inscription on the inside of it that's someone David with
somebody else.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Like wrote to somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Yeah, I think that's really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Yeah, I think that's really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
And I don't know if other people find that boring,
but you were just talking about books themselves. But I
think it's always a treasure find when to open up
a book that you know that's been resold ten times
and it goes back to the twenties and somebody wrote
it out to their grandson for their birthday or something
like that, you know, happy birthday nineteen twenty nine or
something like that. Like I don't know, just the personalization

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of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
I love that. Sorry to interrupt you there, Jamie.

Speaker 8 (01:06:31):
Oh that's all right. Well, Tony and Ken, that's a
really good question. And it got me thinking a little bit,
and I think it goes back to I think when
I first got into the hobby around twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
I watched Liz to Dig and canuckt a former K
nine police officer in Canada. Yeah, she had a great show,
but she would always say, go with the history that

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in your area.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
So I thought about the history in Florida.

Speaker 8 (01:06:56):
We don't have as much Civil War history, but we
did have a heck of a lot of World War
II training that went on with all of our coastlines.
And a lot of that was where I used to
live over near Tallahassee, the state capitol down in Caravelle.
They had Camp Gordon Johnston and General Omar Bradley was
the commanding general there and at one point he famously

(01:07:18):
said that whoever picked this ground for training should be
court martialed because they had such rough, rough conditions there.
You know, they had chiggers, they had no cums, they
had all kinds of bugs. It was just miserable and hot,
and they didn't have ac yet. Long story short, when
I first started around twenty eighteen, I went to Saint
George Island and I had read this book Flotsam, and

(01:07:40):
I think it was called Flotsam and Jetsam that said
at one point, I think in the fifties or sixties
they would find World War Two relics everywhere at Saint
George Island, this Barrier Island, but more recently.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
A lot of those have been sanded in.

Speaker 8 (01:07:55):
But then after Hurricane Michael in twenty eighteen, I was
able to find this fifty caliber machine gun shellcase awesome giants.
So some people might think that this is kind of,
you know, not a big deal, because you know, it's
not a mini ball or something from the Civil War.
But I think of those brave troops and what they
went through the for that amphibious training at Camp Gordon Johnson,

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and how a lot of them did not come back
from D Day. So when I found this after Hurricane
Michael in twenty eighteen, that's one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Thing that really got me hooked in the hobby.

Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
And then fast forward a few years later and now
I'm living along the First Coast and another time I
found another case thing like that, and this one had
sl on the end here, so I think it was
made in Saint Louis. And it also had the number
forty five, so I think it was manufactured in nineteen
forty five and that same time, and it was after

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you know, hur or during hurricane season. I also found
these bullets to go with the fifty caliber shells. Man,
you can even fit them back in, you know, like
fit it back together.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
In some cases. Oh that's cool, like this one.

Speaker 8 (01:09:08):
But it's just something you know, I enjoy here in
Florida because we don't have as much civil war activity.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
So that's why I would share that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Yeah, enjoy the history you're surrounded by, that's for sure. Larry.
How about you, Bud? How would you answer that question?

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Oh, I mean, I've been to think about it. That's
a tough one.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
I just I mean, in general, I love history, especially
when I'm somewhere where there is historical evidence of things
like going to a fort and stuff. People might think
I'm crazy, but I try to take something from those places.
You know, if you're walking around and there's a sliver

(01:09:47):
of brick on the ground, I will pick up a
sliver of brick and stick out in my pocket. You're
probably not supposed to, I don't know, but it's laying there.
It just get stomped on. But for me, that's like, hey,
this is a brick from this sport, you know, from
whatever year, the eighteen hundred, seventeen hundreds, whatever it is.
It's just something cool that you know, most people think

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it's a piece of brick, man, because you know, maybe
a lot of a lot of people don't appreciate history
or or something like that. But I I love those things.
I also like Savannah, Georgia. They were tearing streets up
one time and I got one of those cobblestone rocks.
You know, they're just piles of them sitting there, and

(01:10:30):
I know they brought those. The story is, you know
whether or not it's actually either, but they brought those
cobblestones from Europe. Sure they built those streets in Savannah
and savannahs. I mean, you can spend you can, you
can spend so much time down there looking at historical stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
It's amazing. I just can't get enough of that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:10:50):
People, you know, That's that's one thing that someone would think, Hey,
if you don't like history, then you don't like history.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
But if you do, you just can't really get enough
of it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:59):
Yeah, And as far as maybe finding something in the ground,
you know, probably the number one is a week penny.
Like people probably are like weet pennies, right, But I
still if I find a wet penny, I'm good with it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
I like finding a week penny. Just you know, I'm
looking for that nineteen oh nine VDB.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
So that's right, got to turn a lot of them
over until you pull that one.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
You did?

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
What about you, Tony? Oh, I know we've been busy
behind the scenes, like cat and beggar for it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah, gosh, I I mean, I mean, honestly, I'm just
gonna say, buttons and bullets.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
It doesn't matter how many you know we're at.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
We're at sites right now that that it's you know,
late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hunreds. We're finding a lot
of modern stuff crossover and contamination. But if I find
an old, old button, I don't care, man, it's it
to me. It was on somebody's shirt who was a
pie ear coming through Colorado. And you know there's no
design on it. Maybe on the back it says extra

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quality or something like that. To me, it's still history
history to that site. And many people I've seen videos
and people maybe don't even don't even show them necessary
a lot on videos anymore. It's like, oh, just another
other flat button or whatever. I don't know, man, I
still just it was on somebody's clothing that was coming
across who weren't dropping any money.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
I can tell you that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
So I got to find the stuff that they were dropping,
and it was generally like a button or maybe you
know what, honestly, pocket knives. I like pocket knives too, Yeah,
especially especially if this is what blows on when you
find it and it's still open, like somebody who's using it.
They dropped it and they said, eh, I'll just leave

(01:12:49):
it there. I'm going to walk away from what.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Tony? What about you? Man? Oh, it's uh, probably tokens,
like anything token, anything like a tax token. I know
most people just get sick of those and they tired
of them. Now it's just a token. But tokens always
throw me anything has any writing on it. I don't
care if it's a clock part or anything if it's

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got writing on it. And I'm right with you there
for buttons, I mean, I'll put a button in a
place of honor and actually, you know, kind of put
it up in a what you got there?

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Oh, I was just thinking we were out at that
site not too long ago, going back out there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
That's right, early nineteen hundreds ladies. Button. But you know, hey, yeah,
cool design on it, and it you know, it retains
a place of honor in its own little thing. So
you know, most people just think us, it's a boring button,
but it's cool. You know what I do is when
I look at that in this case, I know who
I was with, I know what I was doing, I

(01:13:54):
know how tat it was, I know what happened during
that trip. I know how many steps I took and
other stuff I found with that. So yeah, you know
on that trip there were more than one of those
buttons found. And I do always got that memory when
I look at that button, that's right, I'll always think
mine has the center post and it just did not.
That's true too, Which is that crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
How you could look at something in your RelA case
and take you right back to that moment, right, that's
what's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I think that's cool, Jason. What other stuff you find
up there in South Dakota.

Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
Well, yeah, and for those who don't know, I'm located
out in western and South Dakota, not that far from
Mount Rushmore and not that far from Deadwood, you know,
Gold Discovery, a lot of that sort of stuff, And
I also hunt in the More on the central part
of the state as well. So what I've kind of
worked towards is really working the homesteads, and a lot

(01:14:50):
of the ghost towns that really are are just in
shambles now. Sorting through a lot of the iron and
I have some really great permissions, And for those you
know on this call, we wouldn't be able to do
what we do without really good landowners that let us
do our things. So I try to some of the

(01:15:11):
finds that keep some of them I don't, but I
really do have a neat permission. That was a community
at one point with a large community hall, not that
far from a military camp as well, that included all
sorts of even a hospital and and pretty big camp.

(01:15:33):
And so this town became kind of a focal point
for people to go to and celebrate. And so what
I'm finding are a lot of liquor containers, all sorts
of of shards of glass, and all sorts of things.
But what's also unique, I guess, and what I find

(01:15:54):
really interesting are is that it did actually have a
newspaper in the town. And so what I am finding is,
you guys know, but.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
I've got pictures here too, Jason, if you tell me
to throw them up, whatever you need.

Speaker 6 (01:16:12):
Throw up twenty one. Okay, that is a new perfection
cook where stove advertisement. So obviously the picture I had
to invert it so you can see it like it is.
But I think Ken and I both ran down a
rabbit hole about figuring out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
What affection Cookstone were.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
So trying to.

Speaker 6 (01:16:38):
Piece together these little relics and artifacts of how people
lived and how they operated and lived off the land. Essentially,
it is very interesting to me. I should have listened
a little better in history class, infected, because when you
find these pieces, you just really I mean, it gives

(01:16:59):
you some thing that people actually saw they read. And
I'll put this up as well, but I've probably tried
to organize them, and it's really hard to see. But
there's a bunch of pieces in here talking about patents.
There's a lot of for the DuPont paint company. There's

(01:17:19):
another DuPont advertisement talks about baseball team that they had
in town. It was it's quite interesting just to see
what people, you know, read in papers and how much
work actually went into getting the word out where now
you can post something on social media and it spreads

(01:17:41):
like wildfire really quick. It wasn't It wasn't like that back.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
In the day.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
One of the unique ones I I did it here
is actually it's a it's a picture of one of
the ones I have in here. I'd actually found one
of these pieces, put it in my bag. I went back,
I cleaned out my bag. I saw that it was
a plate. I kept it and put it aside. I
went back later, probably a couple of weeks later, and

(01:18:10):
actually found the second piece. And when I got home,
I started going through them and it actually saw that
they fit together.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
And what it is is actually as I printed out
what it meant on the back, but they're actually limericks
of sort of that old settler type type humor play
on words. And so I find particular interest in that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Hey, Jason, before we move on to the next one,
Ohioilla Hunter, as we were looking at the the New
Perfection stove, h he mentioned even the clock read six o'clock.
Actually does it read five o'clock or six o'clock, but
generally that would be what supper time. What kind of

(01:18:58):
like you know, minor detail that they put in an
advertisement like that as well.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Well, Jason, like Jason said, we went down the rabbit
hole in this, both of us, right, I found other
advertisements for this new Perfection cook stove, and some of
them had clocks and some of them didn't. And some
had times that were five, some had times that were six.
But I think he's absolutely right, that's exactly what they're
trying to insinuate, like when it's dinner time, it's time
to use your new profect cook stove. Like it was

(01:19:25):
a really cool to kind of go down research. Yeah, so.

Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
This is just another one. I mean, there are other
types of things that you're seeing. There's some scales. I
believe that's a heel plate, and then the fifty caliber
bullet here. Well, there's the second one I've seen. I've
found this. The other one I pulled out this one complete.
I actually pierced the other one with my shovel, and

(01:19:52):
I have that one here as well. But it's interesting
to imagine what life was like settling out west and
actually having you know, this sort of ammunition around. So jewelry.
This is actually a necklace. There's a little I think

(01:20:13):
it's This little piece here is from the Pana Pa
Panama Pacific Exposition. I believe it was held in nineteen
fifteen out in San Francisco. What's unique about this one
is actually does say South Dakota Exhibitor on it, and
I think obviously somebody had gone out there from the
town to actually, you know, showcase South Dakota, promote South

(01:20:35):
Dakota's agriculture, all sorts of things. So a little bit
more of the jewelry. Here's the the one that I
pierced for printing relief plates and then chewbuckle, all sorts

(01:20:58):
of different things.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
But and.

Speaker 6 (01:21:08):
I know this is fast, but a few of the
old brass rings really intrigued me a little bit. Interesting
story about these buttons. I think I've got a picture
of that up there as well. Is a year ago
I found four of them. They were all within an
area about three feet of each other. I went back

(01:21:31):
the next year and I found another set of four,
all within about a three feet square again and actually
only about twelve feet from one another from where I
had found the original part. So I don't know if
it was a piece of burned clothing, but I'm trying
to track down exactly what these is. What these are?
Actually the shined up one, I actually did a little

(01:21:52):
bit of work to see what it was, and I
was surprised at how well it cleaned up. But so
if anybody you know is the history.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Of those, Yeah, the chat there you go, buckle boy,
get after that one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
Looks like a cob.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
It's a Dakota cob. Sorry, was I was gonna say,
what's the back look like?

Speaker 5 (01:22:22):
Is it? Is it iron single?

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
It's a one piece one piece?

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
Does markings on the back or no?

Speaker 6 (01:22:31):
No it does not. There's nothing on it?

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
So weird. Farmers Association of America, I don't know, making
stuff up. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
That's pretty cool though, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
And can if I'll just rolled through the pictures here
makes it a little bit easier to see, I suppose.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Sure.

Speaker 6 (01:22:59):
So well, going back to that original question about boring finds.
For some this would just be a piece of jewelry,
a bracelet of some kind. But I got a call
last summer from the sheriff of one of our local counties.
He said, hey, do you think you can find a bracelet?

(01:23:20):
And he says, well, the backstory is the girl who
lost it her brother was involved in a fael vehicle
crash and as the story came to me, the ashes,
some of the ashes were actually inside this bracelet. So
when I heard the story, I was like, well, yeah,

(01:23:41):
I think I can find it. But I was also
in a rodeo ground a rough idea of where she
thought she had lost it, and within probably twenty minutes,
we were able to recover this bracelet out of a
rodeo ground. If you've ever been to a rodeo ground
that's been trampled by horses and loose soil, it was.

(01:24:06):
It was probably one of my more favorite finds. Obviously
gave that back, but had to snap a picture of
it before we did.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
So beautiful story. Yeah, that's awesome, congrats on that. That's
that's a big deal.

Speaker 6 (01:24:18):
And that's a piece of one of the front lens
and if you look closely, it'll actually say Kodak on
it of the old cameras. I'm no camera expert, but
it was the front piece of one of those larger cameras.
And so you know what we have up here. You know,
South Dakota wasn't founded as a state until eighteen eighty nine,

(01:24:42):
so finding some of this stuff is, you know, impressive
group of fines on this show as well as some
of these people in the chat room. Buckle boy, I mean,
he's finding bucket listers that I would deem to be
bucket listers about every episode out there. So and then
going back to a yard find if you want to

(01:25:04):
go to that next one. It's an old I'm sorry,
it's a it's a bad picture, but it's a military
infantry type ring that actually found in our yard. Again,
you never know where this stuff is and some of
those best finds are right right where you live. So
and then one other thing I wanted to bring up,

(01:25:25):
and I mentioned it earlier, is about you know, the
landowners and allowing us to do this. So on one
of the permissions, I am finding glass a lot of it,
from whiskey containers to a lot of liquor containers, all

(01:25:45):
sorts of thickness, colors, shapes, and I started to collect that,
and I was wondering what I was going to actually
do with all this glass I had found, and I
was four to have a glass blower that works out
of deadwood that I had seen some of the work

(01:26:06):
that she had done, but actually got these. I just
picked these up yesterday, and I had a whiskey glass.
She melted the glass down and actually made the the
shards of glass into this whiskey container and from the property,

(01:26:30):
and so I thought that was pretty need of her
to do. And I've got a couple more on order
because I'm impressed to how they turned out. And so
if anybody's looking for ideas and it, you know, there's
there's definitely some imperfections. She actually made two of them, the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Other ones a little bit taller.

Speaker 6 (01:26:47):
The landowner doesn't know I have these yet, and I
doubt he'll be watching, but I'm excited to give these
to him, because you know, without good people that allow
us to do this, none of this would be possible.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
So absolutely, yeah, absolutely, wow, Yeah, we had some you showed.
I mean, you went through a lot of stuff, and
there's a lot of comments, but buckle Boy really thought
that was awesome with the glass. Scott Lafleur says, now
that is rat in honor to drink out of one
of those.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Yeah, like absolutely, they're going to be thrilled. You're gonna
be absolutely thrilled.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, and they won't believe he did it.
And you know what I mean, Like, that's really cool, man.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
We were talking about that earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
I've never heard of somebody ever doing that before, of
taking that, melting it down and re doing what it
was intended to do and kind of respecting that relic
in the history and then and then on top of
it giving them back to the landowners.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
We've all like going put like relic cases together sometimes
right and given those to the landowners, which is highly
recommended for you all out there that are that are
doing this. But to actually have that melted down, I mean,
it's going to be so special, you know what I mean,
that's pretty cool. That'll be a that'll be a conversation
piece like, uh yeah, really cool, Jason, that's awesome, man,

(01:28:08):
keep us in a loop on that. Would you let
us know how that how that worked out with the
landowner so amazing Well, look, guys, we've been on for
an hour and a half. Any final uh, any final
relics you guys want to throw up?

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
I think I think before we started, uh, I think
we y'all had talked about y'all wanted to see some
dog tags?

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
Uh giving back to some people. Do you all want
to see this?

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
Sure? One second? First though, for those of you have
never seen a jag on our show, before you go
back and check it out. He was generous enough to
come on and give us some of his time like
he has tonight, and we talked about dog tags and uh,
he was has so many of them that he was
able to find that it would be a full time
job to try to find the owners and try to

(01:28:54):
return them to family members. So that's what he's leading
into right now. I asked him before we started to show,
do you still have a bunch of dog tags? And
go ahead and take it Jack?

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
Yeah, I've actually been going through quite the amount of
dog tags. I got in contact with a guy that
my friend put me in touch with.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
He lives overseas in Europe.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
And they have a lot more access to like research
documentation and like all like the enlistment paperwork and stuff.
They just have more access to that kind of stuff
since most of the fighting took place over there. Well
with him being on my side now, he's helped me
out tremendously researching these tags. And I've got five dog
tags right here that are confirmed going back to the

(01:29:42):
family members. I'll probably ship them out tomorrow or whenever
this storm passes through. I actually posted up on my
Instagram story today a small snippet of a text conversation
between me and the son of one of the guys.
And I called him, or I called the funeral home
to where his father passed. Uh, And then they forwarded

(01:30:03):
my information over to him, and then he called me
and uh, he actually didn't believe that I had the tag.
He made me read off the enlistment number, so I
read off the number. He still didn't believe me. So
I sent him a picture. And when I sent him
a picture, he started crying. Man, and it just he
went on to say how like his father served in
like all like all these different places overseas, and how

(01:30:25):
he didn't have the tags, how he never thought they'd
show up again. And it's really amazing because I these tags, Yes,
they're relics but they have somebody else's name on them,
and in my opinion, I think those artifacts should be
given back to the proper people.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
That's awesome, and more to come, many, way to.

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
Come, way more to come.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
I'm only through about fifteen percent of the ones that
are on my desk right now.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
It's a lot of it's a lot of work, but
it's so worth it when you get.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
To see these people's reactions. It's it's absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
People meant that might not have seen their show before.
How many do you think you have?

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
Well, I've been excavating this site since uh, I want
to say, I was probably like eleven or twelve years old,
and I've recovered well over four thousand.

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
In that time period.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
You got some work to do, man, got some.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
Work to do.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
Yeah, got a lot of tags to research. It's it's one,
it's one big project. But right now we're making a
lot of headway. Because for me, it takes me a
week to research one tag.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
I mean, it's just so hard to find the information
with these guys.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
But the boys over in Europe they know how to
do it, and I send them. I send my friend
a picture of one of these tags and he gets
back to me within two or three minutes, all the
information I need. All I have to do is make
a phone call, and that's wow.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Resource saves me a lot of work.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
And it's it's such an honor to be able to
get these tags back because like we like we were
talking about earlier, like it's uh, these dudes were people
who fought for the freedom in our country, you know
what I mean. And it's an honor to not only
have these dog tags, but to be able to return them.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
It's just it makes you.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
It makes me feel really good whenever I'm able to
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
If I could real quick.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
I don't have anything to show you, but I have
something to tell you, and Jack just led right into
kind of where I wanted to go. I appreciate you guys,
first of all, for what you guys do, and for
all of you how you respect the hobby, because I mean,
it's not all about going out and just finding something
and running off and bragging about it and then going

(01:32:37):
back out. There's more to this hobby than that. Which
led me to one of my findes that I had
returned to an owner. I was at a deal one
evening a gathering in the community, and I had a
couple of things I found in my pocket, and one
of them was a was like a nineteen forty one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
It was a Nazi coin that I found at an
old n And this.

Speaker 7 (01:33:01):
Old fella, he's in his eighties and he didn't know
anything about Melly Teching or anything, and he asked me
about how I found that. You know, I explained to him,
and he's just so interested, and he looks at me
with a serious face, and he's like, he goes Larry.
He said, can you find a wedding ring? And I said,

(01:33:24):
I said, Gene, I don't know. I've never tried to
find a wedding rink. You know, I had never really,
I've never been asked to go find something for somebody.
And this was this was a couple of months into
when I started hunting for stuff, you know, Melly teching.
So about three weeks later I stopped at their house
and they'd been married for years. He lost his wedding

(01:33:46):
rink twenty years ago, and he proceeds to kind of
explain to me where he lost it. And you know,
he's getting older.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
He didn't, you know, he wasn't served, but he said
it was way out here, way over here, way over here.

Speaker 7 (01:33:59):
So I kind of just used my senses to kind
of like decide where did he spend the most time,
and so I started.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
In that little area. And I'm not kidding you, this
guy had the greatest time.

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
I was down there digging the second hole and he
was on his hands and knees looking at me. He
looked up me in the face and he goes, Larry,
he goes, this is so much fun, you know, And
I'm like, yeah, I said, Jeane, it is a lot
of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
I said, I hope we find a ringing to be
even better.

Speaker 7 (01:34:27):
And by golly, the third hole, well, he had a
titanium ring on it. I said, can I scan that
to see what it sounds like? And it was not
a good sound, you know. And third hole in WoT
pops out of the ground a gold wedding ring. It
was his wedding ring, and his wife come out and

(01:34:47):
I had them slip it on his finger and I
took pictures. They're on my Facebook phage if you go
every want to go look at the and what Jack
was saying, no, that was that was such a great
touching moment, you know, to see see that come back
to live and be put right back on his finger.
You know, they were in tears and it was just like, yeah,

(01:35:07):
that's that's some of the things that just you know,
you would never suspect when you start doing mel techning
what's gonna come from?

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
You know, I was thinking about what you're finding, but
not what you discover, you know what I mean, and
all those things you discover. Jason, final words from you,
and Jay Man will final words from you, and we'll
go ahead and get on out of here.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
Hey Man, thanks for the invite to be on tonight.
It's uh, it's interesting to always hear everybody's stories and
it's very impressive fines and a good, good group of
people in here tonight asking some really great questions. So again,
thanks for having me on, and uh appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Sure so you soon, Jamn, thanks guys for having me on.

Speaker 8 (01:35:51):
Just one last relative share is this little manufacturing plate
from the Perry Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. And that's
from a carriage from eighteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Oh wow, And.

Speaker 8 (01:36:06):
I thought about that when we were talking earlier about
double check your pouch and make sure you don't throw
away your trash, at least not right away. And this
was all bent up and so I was able to
gently straighten it out and figure out what it was,
So that was really cool. I was funding with a
guy named as a channel called park rat Pat Sure,
So that was a lot of fun down in central Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
But one other thing, just.

Speaker 8 (01:36:28):
Briefly, is you guys have talked about the value of
being in a club, and I was in a Okala
metal detecting club, but it went inactive, and I realized
just earlier this year that I really missed being in
an organized club. So I'm going back into one for
the Jacksonville area. So I appreciate you guys sharing that advice.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
Awesome. Yeah, I hope you enjoy that, and I hope
it works out for you. I mean, we hear about
all kinds of different clubs all across the nation, and
you know, some are very active and some not so much.
But in any club, it is what you make of it,
you know. So I hope you make a good deal
of that, Jamie, and I hope things work out with
you there and you enjoy it. Thanks guys. Yeah, yep, cool. Well,

(01:37:11):
thanks everyone for joining us tonight. We appreciate you guys
giving us your time. I know it's always difficult when
we have sort of a panel, but I think you
guys all did great and showed some amazing things, like
all from our individual areas, you know what I mean.
And I just want to thank you guys for showing
up and showing us, and and our listening audits and

(01:37:32):
viewing audience all all kinds of cool things happened to
be catching us on the audio replay. This probably wasn't
the most exciting episode for you, but I encourage you
to come on over and check out the video portion
of of our of our podcast here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Yeah, Tony, Yeah, just I just want I was sitting
here thinking, you know, we're six guys sitting around this, uh,
this incredible technology that we have from from Florida to
North Carolina to Missouri to Colorado to South Dakota, and
we're all sharing our fines and passion about history and

(01:38:06):
we all can connect in this. I think it's a
fantastic community, not only the United States, but all across
this world. You know, we we we talk to people
all around the world and share this passion and I
think it's a it's a tremendous thing. I thank all
of you guys for coming on tonight with us, just
giving us your time hanging out and talking about our passions.
So thank you very much to UH, to all you

(01:38:28):
guys and UH I appreciate, appreciate it tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
Had a good show, enjoyed it. Yeah, excellent.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
Thanks thanks a lot for having us.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
Good luck everyone out there, you guys, man, guys Jack Jack,
thank you man. Go get that good stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:38:47):
Good luck everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
What you find out there, absolutely cheers everyone to checking guys, luck,
good night.

Speaker 6 (01:38:58):
Thank you so much for listening your Relics Radio.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
We will see you back here next week for another
exciting guest.

Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
Until then, get out and dig it all

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