Not a total waste of time...

[portraitartist]

Got out this morning for a few hours of guilt-free hunting... hit the front of the nearby high school first (where one of my old productive ballfields are)... pennies, pennies, pennies... it got to be annoying hitting all those zinc memorials after a while, but I did manage to find a small silver ring and a small Mercedes Benz pendant that may or may not be silver, plus, what I think looks like a slug for a muzzleloader-type gun (Civil War bullet in front of a high school?!)... anyway, decided to move back to the old ballfield and see what happens... quiet, quiet, quiet... not much left there, I've hit it so hard, but there are some scattered targets left... managed a little bit of clad... still no silver out there (except for the '35 quarter I found there a couple months ago)... finally ended up going to another school built in '72 (thought it was older) and managed to find a few more coins and a couple cheap jewelry items... all in all an ok hunt, but I wouldv'e liked to have found some older coins.... alas, it wasn't for today...

$3.20, 97 coins, 1 silver ring, 1 silver pendant...

[WVaTom]

maybe a civil war camp or something at 1 time.If the bullet is a little smaller in diameter than a dime it is a .69 cal. does it have any markings or symbols in the bottom?

[robzombie852]

youve got to remember there is always a posibilitie of finding old stuff, the land has been there forever even if the school is only 30 years old

[Tom in SWW]

Hi P.A.!

You wouldn't believe how much ammunition, spent casings, and bullets turns up at school grounds here in SW WA state....
Recess must have been real rough in years gone by.

HH! -Tom

[Metalman]

Nice stuff Portrait!! sometimes things are brought in by way of fill dirt during construction of bigger projects. either way its all there so we can find it

Rick

[hoser]

Nice going Portrait. Hey, even if its clad that you find, its still money in your pocket. I sure wouldn't leave it lay.

[RingDancer]

Nice finds!

Pat

[timmyNY]

the sand in the infield of the local little league field here must have come from a shooting range. Its loaded with spent 45 slugs

TimmyNY