Midwest Diggers News

Had a blast at the 2022 Topeka Treasure Hunt.  We did very well, alot of silver coins and got lucky with 1 gold coin.   Also won 3 minelab pinpointers!  There was about 135 people from all over the Midwest who attended this hunt, it started out very wet as there were a few thunderstorms that rolled through before we could get started!   Looking forward to 2023!

We got access to some awesome permissions on a old farmstead and another older part of town.  We did really well on the first day of spring for 2021, a great way to kick this virus stuff behind us!  Hopefully many more great hunts for this year!    

I finally found my first Barber Half Dollar and boy was she a pretty thing, it was about 7 inches down under a tree at one of our favorite places to detect.  Also found a few other coins and some neat artifacts, probably the last hunt of the season with winter around the corner.  You can watch the Awesome findings with us Here:  

I was lucky enough to get invited to hunt on the Oregon Trail at a location in Southeast Nebraska.  And boy was it fun, found lots of goodies and found one of my bucket lister items, a 1852 - 3 Cent Trime!  Some other's in the group found some great items as well, below are some pictures of the Hunt and here is a video of the great experience.  

Hunted two older Indian villages on a windy day with winds howling over 40mph.  The first site was from early 1820's where we found an old metal arrow head, a flat colonial button and a neat piece of jewelry, the other site we hunted was from an older early 1400's site and found some neat flint stones, Hyde scrappers and neat pieces of pottery and all were surface finds!