Treasure Hunting Forum

A friend of mine recently bought 15 acres just behind Confederate lines in north Vicksburg, and was nice enough to invite me along to hunt with him. As of yesterday we have made three sojourns into this exceedingly hilly and vine-ridden jungle with only a few minie balls to show for our efforts. I knew [...]

Unable to hunt a site where I just know I’m going to dig some big artillery shells, I instead cruised one of the older streets in Vicksburg, looking for a vacant lot that might offer up a coin or two. I was lucky. The City of Vicksburg has been condemning and razing old houses in [...]

A while back I was hunting a creek that runs through the old extinct town of Warrenton, Mississippi. So much garbage has been dumped upstream by modern dwellers and driven downstream by the currents, however, that I couldn’t hunt for all the “trash” signals. So I settled for an area near the stream that I [...]