Hawaii trip Wrap Up.... Nothing like Hawaiian Silver

Buellride · Feb 24, 2020

What did you think I was going to bore everyone with finds from the beach?! Heck no I have plenty of success land hunting around military bases. If you recall my last 2 visits here netted me a Morgan Dollar and a silver Washington. Well this trip was no slouch.

First day of hunting got me about 8 wheaties but no silver, 2nd hunt was another 5 wheaties and the 1958D silver Washington. Today was 5 more wheaties and a 1957D Franklin half and a 1936S Merc.

Oh and yes those are 18 wheat backs!

$4.10 in clad, plenty of sun and a good share of Hawaiian silver!

HH and GL!

Tom_in_CA · Feb 24, 2020

good show. Great pix.

Buellride · Feb 24, 2020

Tom_in_CA said:
good show. Great pix.

Thank you Tom.... Still chilling in Hawaii

RainorShine · Feb 25, 2020

Aloha Paul. Great finds. Nice to see you back on the silver train again. That'll be pretty hard to beat when you come back to the 48.

Buellride · Feb 25, 2020

RainorShine said:
Aloha Paul. Great finds. Nice to see you back on the silver train again. That'll be pretty hard to beat when you come back to the 48.

Thank you Gale.... We will see on continuing the silver search

kingman mikey · Feb 25, 2020

Nice silvers & very nice close up pix. Now you need to find one of those Hawaiian coins they do exist. Congrats.

Jamflicker · Feb 25, 2020

Congrats on the oldies and nice looking silvers. Do you ever have problems detecting on the base?

Buellride · Feb 25, 2020

kingman mikey said:
Nice silvers & very nice close up pix. Now you need to find one of those Hawaiian coins they do exist. Congrats.

Thank you Mike, you are referring to the the 1881? King Kamehameha coins... Those are really hard to come by and rarer than hens teeth to metal detect and recover. I have lived in Hawaii on and off for over 10 years and never heard of one being found on Oahu. Most native Hawaiians threw those coins into the ocean for various reasons. But you never know

Jamflicker said:
Congrats on the oldies and nice looking silvers. Do you ever have problems detecting on the base?

No problems, I get queries from the residents of the base housing.... The MPs don't have any issues. It is the same old thing here as it is anywhere, you have to educate the "public" about what you are doing.

Now the SPs on Hickam are a little more of a problem... Good thing to have a retired ID card that is sort of a "get out of jail free card" when they see the rank

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Dirty Nails · Feb 25, 2020

No problems, I get queries from the residents of the base housing.... The MPs don't have any issues. It is the same old thing here as it is anywhere, you have to educate the "public" about what you are doing.

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Excellent finds - congrats! I've hunted on a couple of bases and all of them produced; however, it all came down to the SPs. Some were a problem, some were not.

GroundSweeper · Feb 25, 2020

Dang fine silvers and wheats, nice hunting!

Buellride · Feb 25, 2020

Dirty Nails said:
No problems, I get queries from the residents of the base housing.... The MPs don't have any issues. It is the same old thing here as it is anywhere, you have to educate the "public" about what you are doing.

Now the SPs on Hickam are a little more of a problem... Good thing to have a retired ID card that is sort of a "get out of jail free card" when they see the rank��...

Excellent finds - congrats! I've hunted on a couple of bases and all of them produced; however, it all came down to the SPs. Some were a problem, some were not.[/QUOTE]

I will venture to say that military bases, by and large, haven't been pounded as much (if at all in my case) as public locations

GroundSweeper said:
Dang fine silvers and wheats, nice hunting!

Thank you, the volcanic soil can give your PP a fit and the coins are dirtier than normal but the soil really preserves their beauty!

Leave-No-Coins-Behind · Feb 25, 2020

Congrats on the big, medium and small silvers! That is one fine trip you had.

Buellride · Feb 25, 2020

JAK said:
Congrats on the big, medium and small silvers! That is one fine trip you had.

TY sir

Tom_in_CA · Feb 25, 2020

The only problem I have encountered, in CA, with md'ing on military bases, is the post 9/11 world in which we live in. Seems that all the bases got "check-point charlies" now. Which, of course, has nothing to do with hobbyist metal detecting. We used to detect on military bases all the time, before 9/11. And their parks and green-belts were no different than any city parks or greenbelts. Ie.: Sure, you have to give lip service now and then, blah blah.

Buellride said:
...... Good thing to have a retired ID card that is sort of a "get out of jail free card" when they see the rank...

I had to chuckle when I read this. Because there's a local base here called the Defense Language Institute. AKA the Monterey Presidio. And the lower portion of this base is extremely sensitive off-limits historical monument. Military history dating back to Spanish times of the 1790s, etc.....

And a buddy of mine used to get away with metal detecting there all the time, back in the 1990s. Because he had a friend who was a high-ranking military brass. Ie.: someone who had come back from Vietnam highly decorated, or some such military status. So whenever the MP's would try to come hassle them, the guy would just show them his ID. The young MPs would just salute and slink away, and let them continue unbothered. Doh !

cruiserkev · Feb 25, 2020

Congratulations on the gorgeous Hawaiian silver! They cleaned up very well. Have a safe trip home.

N2990 · Feb 25, 2020

Nice finds!

Buellride · Feb 25, 2020

Tom_in_CA said:
The only problem I have encountered, in CA, with md'ing on military bases, is the post 9/11 world in which we live in. Seems that all the bases got "check-point charlies" now. Which, of course, has nothing to do with hobbyist metal detecting. We used to detect on military bases all the time, before 9/11. And their parks and green-belts were no different than any city parks or greenbelts. Ie.: Sure, you have to give lip service now and then, blah blah.

I had to chuckle when I read this. Because there's a local base here called the Defense Language Institute. AKA the Monterey Presidio. And the lower portion of this base is extremely sensitive off-limits historical monument. Military history dating back to Spanish times of the 1790s, etc.....

And a buddy of mine used to get away with metal detecting there all the time, back in the 1990s. Because he had a friend who was a high-ranking military brass. Ie.: someone who had come back from Vietnam highly decorated, or some such military status. So whenever the MP's would try to come hassle them, the guy would just show them his ID. The young MPs would just salute and slink away, and let them continue unbothered. Doh !

It works for me most of the time... I grew up in Hawaii and Sunnyvale so I know Fort Ord/DLI well.... I did my ROTC time in and around there and Camp Roberts.

cruiserkev said:
Congratulations on the gorgeous Hawaiian silver! They cleaned up very well. Have a safe trip home.

Thanks Kevin! Looking forward to getting home.

N2990 said:
Nice finds!

TY

Tom_in_CA · Feb 25, 2020

Buellride said:
.... I know Fort Ord/DLI well.... I did my ROTC time in and around there and Camp Roberts. ....

We pulled a lot of silver "back in the day" from Ft. Ord. The parade grounds were always productive. But it's been worked out now. As has all the obvious barracks were hit hard back in the 1970s and '80s.

Camp Roberts has been hit hard too. Lot of silver used to come out of there back in the 1980s.

And as far as the DLI : Believe it or not, there was a time when you could go, in broad daylight, and hunt there un-bothered. The museum there (that I docent at) even has some cannon-balls that were found by hobbyists with metal detectors (who donated them to the museum). The dossier doesn't specify that, but ... I know the guys who found them, so I know the back-story. :cool3:

But then in the 1990s and 2000s, I guess the era of "archaeological awareness" became more pronounced, and they started scramming people. But even then, as I say, I knew a guy who continued to go un-bothered, because he knew a retired military guy with the "right # of stars on his shoulder", ha.

digginpa · Feb 25, 2020

Looks like you had good hunts in a great place.

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