Metal Detecting Rare finds in the Ridge
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- Found more of the oldest Shotgun head stamps this trip out at one time than I ever have. Detecting new ridge that I haven't tried before. Thanks for watching. " KEEPING IT REAL " LINKS: Dating Head stamps: www.cartridgeco... How to clean Shotgun Head Stamps : • How to TIPS for Cleani... SUBSCRIBE: LIKE AND SHARE: GROW YOUR CHANNEL: THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8. Mining History 9. Video Shorts All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
Gm All & Thanks Mr Donnie!☕️😊
Morning friend. Your very welcome.
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Thank you, Donnie.
God bless.
another great video and my hubby said they get his mind to going about how the hunters hunted for food and to feed their families, to put food on their tables. and now we can see the videos and are blessed by watching them. God bless you
I believe the old iron wheel you found is out of a window. I remember way back when my dad was still living, we'd torn down some old fallen and dilapidated houses and the old windows had weights in them. The weights had ropes and secured to a pulley that was mounted in both left an right topside if the windows. The weights helped in raising the windows up as they were much heavier back then. My dad used to have hundreds of these old weights. As always I enjoyed your video Donnie.
Could be my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Good finds! Thanks Donnie 🤗❤️
Your very welcome my friend.
Wow! You have more shot gun shells for your collection! And a couple of old ones. I hope you find more. Thank you for the video. And on a beautiful day. You and your wife have a wonderful blessed weekend!
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. Thank you. God bless you.
Cool video. Thank you for sharing. God bless you and your whole family....🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊🙂😀
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Thanks for all videos Donnie🤩 it’s always a pleasure to tune in 👍👍
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Nice finds Donnie Have a great weekend
Thank you friend.
Thanks again Donnie for another great video 👍🙏
Your very welcome my friend.
I Appreciate You 💯
God Bless You and Yours.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
The wheel looks like what was in my grandfather's hand crank sharpening stone. It had 4 of those wheels with two on each side that sat in a cradle. The axle that ran through the big stone rested on the rollers. The cradle held grease and there was a cover on each cradle that held the axle in place. The wheel turned real easy on those rollers. A logging crew may have had one to sharpen axes back in the old days. It was a bad day when they lost that wheel.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
So that’s what that was! Makes perfect sense
The loggers would have an axe sharpener! Thanks for solving the mystery of what the heck is that?? 😉
I kind had my mind made that was a 4 hole whatchamacallit but I believe you are probably correct ! Thanks !
Very well could be correct. Plus where it was found at it do make sense. I am looking Online photos of old antique axe sharpeners now. There a bunch different designs & types. Yes it did bug me enough. I just had try to research it to solve my curiosity.
@@greg7129 👍🤣
It is amazing what this channel can to to keep people going for various personal reasons. Your channel has truly been blessed. your friend, Louise
Thank you friend.
Hello Donnie ! Have a great weekend ! Thank you for bringing us along 😊great mystery
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Thanks Donnie. I really enjoy your finds.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
I would be so excited finding old things like this
Thanks so much for sharing this my friend.
Thanks for another good show !
Your very welcome my friend.
I love hunting in the woods. My best find was an old hatchet head I found tucked way up under a big spruce tree root. Now here in Tennessee, I have a creek behind my house down in a steep ravine. It’s extremely rocky and rough, but I found evidence that someone rode a horse down that creek a long time ago. On a little point of land I found a busted horse shoe and near that part of a file. This point of land is only big enough for someone to pitch a tent and maybe hobble a horse. I found an old tin can in the same area ,all but disintegrated from rust. Then I found a cowboy boot heel in the creek. It all tells a story to me.
WOW that's awesome my friend. I been wanting to find that under a rock ledge. That is amazing. You never know what you will find of history. Thanks so much for sharing this.
@@donnielaws7020 the earth definitely tells us a story. Finding coins is great but I love finding relics.
Me to my friend. I love it!
Howdy Donnie- nice finds. Thank you for taking us along with you. Hope y’all have a great weekend. God bless
Thank you my friend. God bless you.
I love hunting for treasures. We used to go out and look for arrowheads.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Awesome finds, thanks!
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Always enjoy,
Thank you friend.
What an interesting video, metal detecting is such a fun & rewarding activity. Such an enjoyable channel you have, love your sharings. I could listen to you talk all day Donnie, your voice is so soothing😊✌🏼
Thank you friend. God bless you.
CONGRATULATIONS on ur AWESOME finds today Mr. Donnie really enjoyed this video and love when u find ur favorite Shot Gun Shells 💙💙
Thanks so much my friend for sharing this. God bless you.
Glad to see you enjoying those shotgun shells! Thanks for another good video.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
That Find at 10:53 was a toy..A gyroscope that goes back n fourth on a wire like hands..
It's Sides are magnetic.
WOW, My wife thought so to. Why would that be laying there in the middle of nowhere. Thanks for sharing this.
@@donnielaws7020 My guess was a toy as well. I'd imagine that a father took his young son hunting and the kid brought that in his pocket.
That's a good possibility my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Was it magnetic?? I could be wrong Donnie. That's what it looked like when i first seen it.
I enjoy watching you're videos bud
I'll check it out my friend. Thanks.
Great show Donnie you gonna have to go back to that end of the rainbow and see what's lay in wait for you Thanks again God-bless
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Great video. I enjoy these videos.
Thank you friend.
Gotta go back for a second helping!
Good treasures!
Thank you friend.
From one detectorist to another. Good vid!
Thank you friend.
You've taught me more about old shotgun shell brands I never heard of than anybody. Great stuff. This was an exciting video.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Yes sirr...all kind of oddities cam be found in the mountains. One year late
In the year I found 2- 20 ft
log chains. New. They put them at the base of a big tree and
Also found a rifle.(rusted out). Many other find over the years. No detector either.
I enjoy this channel So much. Thanks!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Awesome shell heads Donnie, I've never heard of some of them before. That little wheel came off a wedge sharpener and axe sharpener. It was in the middle of around grinding rock, you had foot peddles to make it turn. When it spinned it would sharpen your tools. More than likely the stone wore out and split in half. When you change the stone a collar on the shaft, it had 4 fingers that locked in the 4 holes. Who ever changed the wheel, more than likely dropped it in the thick leaves and never found it. Our neighbor had one, back in the 70's. I use to set and watch him sharpen his tools. God Bless you! (Glen). WV.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. That makes sense.
That area sees to be a treasure trove spot , and you unearthed some neat finds, with those shells being some rare ones and in some really nice shape.I liked how that curious squirrel came down the tree to watch .Thanks again for the video Brother.
He was curious for sure. They are so funny. Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
awesome video thank you for sharing
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Awesome hunt Donnie I enjoy your video so much and good Luck to you.I hope you have a great Week.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Great videos! My primary hunt area is an old early 1900s community that was a deer club for the past 40+ years. I find more modern rifle cartridges than shotgun hulls and plenty of fired bullets in the ground. Even find .22LR and .22WMR cases.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Great video ❤
Thank you friend.
Awesome treasures enjoy metal detecting Donnie
Thank you so much my friend for sharing this.
So happy that you found so many treasures! Thanks for taking us along. Hope you have a great weekend and God bless!
Thank you so much my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Congratulations you found some nice things
Thank you friend.
Metal detecting was one of my favorite pastimes and my Son and myself spent many hours together doing so. Sadly, I lost my Son in February of 2020. In June of 2020 I lost my wife of 45 years. I lost all interest in my hobbies. Thanks to you Mr. Laws, I have dug out (no pun intended) my metal detector and venturing out once again. Thank YOU sir for motivating me and finding purpose once again. Have a blessed day Sir!
So sorry to hear that my friend. God bless. Take care my friend.
Mr David Sayre,
Many of Us here are terribly saddened by Your tragic news.
I like how some Folk -- includin' me -- feel..., "Our Loved Ones gone, remain here (in Our Hearts at any rate)..., as long as We Honor Thier memory, and tell Thier Stories".
God blesses You, Sir. An' I do, too.
☀
Rick Bonner
Amen my friend.
That was some amazing finds Donnie.
Thank you friend. I love to find the old ones.
I saw on news details are very thin right now. A 11 year old boy got killed Deer hunting Thanksgiving day with his Dad about 15 miles above old lady's house. It dangerous out there during these short seasons that come in. What happened I have no idea only its very sad news.
That's so sad my friend. Horrible news. Thanks for sharing.
good video and some nice shells. take care, be safe and well.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
A great good moanin', Donnie!
We're up an' at 'em early this Day, Neighbor!
Your videos and some good, strong Elly Mae coffee..., great way to begin.
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Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky
Morning my friend. Thank you. God bless you.
Hi Donnie - You had a great trip into those old woods - thanks for taking us with ya ...
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
New ridge, new old finds. You showed a few details about your Equinox 600, I had never heard of the Equinox before seeing yours. i looked it up on the internet. You mentioned that it is waterproof and I thought that meant that it could hold up in the rain. There are videos of people taking it scuba diving! I don't expect to see a video of you diving with yours, but it's good to know that your Equinox will hold up if you ever fall in the creek with it.
It's made by Minelab. I've had it 3 years now and still learning it. It don't lie. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I’ve noticed that when your detector goes off, that the treasure you find seems close to the surface. How deep of a signal does the detector give off?
About 12 inches my friend or with a bigger target.
Fascinating! I love watching your metal detecting videos. I learn a lot. Blessings! :)
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
I’ve never found any Sears shells. Never heard US Defiance or the US ROMAX one either. Interesting that they were both merged into Winchester. I looked too and didn’t see much on the US ROMAX one either maybe 1901-1920? Hard to say. Good finds Donnie and nice to see you out. Be careful in the woods with people out hunting right now. Have a great day, Char
Thank you Char. They are rare to find for sure. Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless.
Hope you get to detect that area again! We look forward to your finds especially when you find the really old stuff!
Me to my friend. Thank you. God bless you.
Not bad sir GOD FORBID see you on the next one GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
Thank you friend.
Good morning Donnie , God bless you and all reading this in Jesus Christ name
Good morning friend. God bless you.
Amen 🌞🙏
Thank You,
I pray that God will Bless You and Yours.
in Jesus name. Amen
@@regina805 Thank you friend.
I bet that wheel is a part from one of the old "portable" sawmills, the kind that ran of a belt from the side wheel on a tractor
Very well could be my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for taking us along on your hunting trip Donnie ! Interesting shotgun shells that I had never heard of !
Thanks for sharing this my friend with. Your very welcome.
Absolutely love your videos Donnie! Gonna get me a detector someday. Have learned a bunch from you! Thank you kindly!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Beautiful morning on the ridge..what an amazing adventure finding such history. Appreciate you sharing your research and knowledge of these old shells..so excited when you find one deep and rooted in..thinking it's gotta be old. Love to see how you display your collection. Great to see ya this morning my friend. May the Lord bless and keep ya🙏😇🦌
Morning my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Hi Don
Live here in ak your video's are the best
Awesome my friend. Thank you for sharing this.
Hey Donnie Tommy from Jonesboro looks like you hit shot gun shell jack pot if they ever logged up there it might be a part of a pulley for pulling logs god bless you my friend
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Some really nice old shells today!
I always give a Shotgun shell when you get a hit and the wife looks at me like I'm crazy.
That coaster wheel looks like it belongs on the carts they used to push the confederate Gold in..... Hmmmmm!!
Take care!
That would be great my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Hello my friend. ☀️
Hello friend. God bless you.
That wheel looks like a toy that was magnetic axle and it came with a steel thick wire with a handle you tilt back and fourth and the wheel traveled top and bottom of the wire., mostly sold at truck stops and tourist traps.,it kept kids fairly busy in the back seat...👍
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thanks for taking the time to put a picture up as you found them! How do you display your hard earned finds?
I have made a few displays in wood my friend. I have a few videos on the on the channel. Metal detecting videos. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing how something metal found outside could be in such great condition. Thanks for sharing Donnie!
Thanks for sharing this my friend
It all depends on the metal.
A lot of hunting up on that ridge! Wonder what a box of shells cost in those days?
Good question my friend.
Exciting hunt Donnie, the ridge must have been a good hunting spot.Some nice shotgun shells,finding the older ones makes it just that more exciting.The old wheel has a story to tell too,if we can figure out
what it come off. Thanks Friend and God Bless 🙂.
Thanks friend. That's a mystery for sure. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Great finds! That wheel looks like it flew out of the antique alien spacecraft or maybe not. Maybe it was a gyroscopic thingy wheel, or maybe not. I’m really rusty like that wheel when it comes to telling stories! My stories are full of holes just like that wheel. I have no idea. I hear people get lost in them mountains all the time, you be careful!
Thank you friend for sharing this. Yes you have to be very careful.
Hey Donnie, I love watching your metal detector shows. I’m getting my husband the same tools for metal detecting here in north ga. Can you share what you use to clean your finds? And share any other tips for a newbie in metal detecting. Thanks again! I look forward to all your videos! Carol
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Those links are in the video description under the video
My 1st gun was a 410 from sears and roebuck. I was 10 1979
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Your find resembles a child's toy top. It is heavily weighted around the stem so that it performs like a gyroscope.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Drinking my coffee and watching Donnie in shotgun shell heaven! Virgin territory producing well for you Donnie. A beautiful day to detect! God bless Donnie.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Enjoy watching, Got me a metal detector, But all the places I was wanting to look at are now on private property. Lots of Old home places.
That's the way it goes my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow those leaves were deep! It seems like the firing pin indents on those old ones were bigger than the more modern ones you find, do you think?
Seems like it don't it my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Wheel looks like the old twirly wheel toy. The wheel would run up and down a wire when you move your wrist back and forth.
Could be my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Looks like a spigot handle. You ever find those old brass case shotgun shells? Made before 1870. Side Note: sitting at the bar, something happened on TV, I commented "shotgun shell", guy down the bar echoed it. You got friends up here.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Good Morning Donnie. Wow what a great hunt! I don't know how easy the access is back there, but I've come to find hunters don't want to go to deep in the woods these days, not like it used to be. I betcha the king of bucks is back there on that ridge. Thanks for the great video and have a great weekend!
Morning friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I was thinking about that wheel looking thing you found and I think it might have been a training wheel on a little bicycle or something like that. Like I said I may not right but it sure looks like one. Sorry for commenting so much sir GOD BLESS
Thanks my friend. I think it's something to do with logging.
I'm very much like you Mr Laws. I am always thinking about how something got there. Who used it. Why is it there and that wheel is a real thinker! What in the world was it on up on that rocky top? Why is there not stuff all around it? Its obviously fairly old from all that rust. The questions we will never find answers to i reckon.
Thanks my friend. That was a strange find. You never know what is laying there. Thanks for sharing this.
Not much gravy in that little grey squirrel...lol...we have big fat fox squirrels up here in Indiana. Good eating for sure!
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Bill, in the fall of 1911, is operating a steam powered donkey engine for the logging company he worked for. The logging company is just getting started on this new ridge owned by an older feller, with a stipulation that they hire his grandson Clifford. During the mid afternoon break time his young, new coworker Clifford comes over to chat. Clifford pulls out a tin of snuff, the top of the can slips from Clifford cold hands and lands right in the middle of Bill's still idling belt system. The tin can lid causes a leather belt to slip off and knock a small idler pulley clean off. It sails 20ft over Bills and Clifford's head and onto the leaf and sawdust covered ground. Bill curses Clifford and both spend the next 30 minutes looking for the pulley, but to no avail. The foreman Mr. Jack, notices the lack of work and comes over to see the damage. Mr. Jack gives them both a tongue lashing and goes to look for a spare pulley. He finds no spare pulley today but a spare part is known to be back at the main camp. Well, Mr. Jack looks at his pocket watch and sees that it is 4:11pm and decides to shut down the work for the rest of the day.
Clifford offers to take Bill squirrel hunting to make up for the lost partial days wage. Clifford tells Bill that his grand pappy's land is the best for squirrel hunting. Bill and Clifford spend the last couple hours of daylight hunting on the ridge. Bill had his 16ga Parker Brothers side by side with some new Peter's HV shells that he wanted to try out. Clifford used his old single shot 20ga with some Sear & Roebuck shells. Clifford apologized again for the accident before they parted ways, Bill said "that pulley would never be found and no one would think about ever again after a few days".
Bill and Clifford became good friend after that day and went hunting as much as possible together. Bill went on to become a foreman and worked for years as a lumberman. Clifford joined the army a few years later and never returned home from the Great War. Every time Bill went squirrel hunting as an old man, he thought of his good friend Clifford.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you. Thanks for the story.
Hello Donnie thinking things over a shell that may have been dropped in 1864 ...158 years old. The history left to our imagination who what why. Did they find there dinner that day. Where they hunting for a friend who was laid up? . Have a great day.
Morning friend. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. God bless.
What will you do with them? Display them, embed in resin?
That's the plan my friend.
We had a pet squirrel when I was about 6 or 7 years old and I been trying to remember it's name but I'm in my 50's and I can't remember
Thanks for sharing this my friend. It will come back to you.
Mister Chips, mebbe?
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Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky
@@richardbonner2354 naw but I really got a good laugh at that name.. thank ya
Awesome my friend
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From the look of the first two shells that you found, I'd say those are from the 1920s. The wheel looks like an old caster wheel used on furniture (like tables) back in the day. I don't know what else it could possibly be if not that.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
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Equinox 600...and what's the other little thing your using called
A Garett pointer.
Could you be so kind as to list your equipment, for us novice/ beginners in case if we decided to take up the hobby
I use a Equinox 600 by Minelab and a Garett pointer my friend. Thanks for asking.
@@donnielaws7020 You're welcome, Sir
Mr. Donnie, I'd pay you $5 to send me a dozen good chestnut acorns. We used to have a few of those around here, but they either died or got cut down. I miss having them.
Sorry my friend I don't have any myself.
Hey Donnie sir
Hello friend.
I tried googling that Romex shell couldn’t find anything about it that’s odd but i don’t know sir.
You can find them in the link I provided under the video description. Below more. You can't find it on a TV. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I’ve got a black oak standing probably give or take a little but around 20 yards in front of my stand. Squirrels have raised in a whole just big enough they can get in it. My stands been fastened to the same white oak since I started hunting there probably 12-13 years now. There was two that came out of their den and they were probably 10-12 inches long tail and all. Now the farm is fixing to be sold and houses put on it. I’ve killed several wall hanger deer over there. All good things come to an end don’t they sir????? Sorry for the long message sir GOD BLESS
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Hello Brother Donnie, I was just thinking about you. Time to start doing small circles with your fingertips up and down your suchure. You long leg scar. It will heal faster and also aloe vera gel!❤🫂
God bless you and your beautiful wife!❤
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Hey Donnie are you on national forest land ? You're friend from Cullman Alabama Joshua Early God bless
No private farm land my friend.
UFO landing gear lost a wheel .
Awesome my friend.
One man's trash is another man's Treasure. ----- Now where's the Gold ?
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Yeah the guy that was hunting those ridges 100 years or more ago has probably been gone a long time…. Sad… thanks buddy…
So true my friend. It's been logged out way back. Thanks for sharing this Tommy.
it looks like a wheel that come on atoy that rolled on a little wire and it had magnet and rolled back and forth on wire handle
It does don't it my friend, but I'm not sure. Thanks for sharing this my friend.