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| November 2025 | The Newsletter of the Shore Seekers Artifact & Recovery Club | Vol. 35, No. 9 |
The weather has turned to Fall at last and I saw combines in action clearing away the soybeans, so it's definitely time to turn toward land until summer. We had a wonderful hunt last month and I am hoping some new sites turn up so we can have a club hunt. Tony came up with some great ones last year, so keeping my fingers crossed we can find more this land season. We will be finalizing plans for our holiday dinner at the meeting, so if you have not indicated to Julie whether you will be bringing a dish or giving a cash donation, please do it by this meeting!
In other news, Nokta has announced the Legend II, which is lighter, simpler and supposedly goes deeper than its predecessor. Minelab has announced a new gold-hunting machine, but they seem to be the only ones coming out with new models.
For most hunters the urge to keep everything we find is strong, but sometimes giving back can keep a relationship with the landowner strong. This time last year I encountered a landowner who had a small but colonial-era tract in Worcester County. I went down to check it out and later returned with a couple of friends. While the finds were meager and the fields full of chicken house debris, I did find (which I presented as a Find of the Month) a thumb plate from a Brown Bess Musket. The property owner was a gun enthusiast with his own shooting range on his land, so I put the plate in a small case and when I saw him this year at the same event, I presented it to him and he was overjoyed to have it. He told me I was always welcome on his property. I am always hopeful we will stumble on the hot spot on his property.
Well, it's been a quiet month, so nothing else really significant to report. So, if I don't see you at the meeting, maybe I will see you in the field.
Your President,
Andy Nunez
The last meeting of the SHORE SEEKERS Artifact and Recovery Club was held on Thursday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m. at Christ Church.
OLD BUSINESS
Extra copies of THE SEEKER were available.
Minutes were approved as distributed.
The Treasurer gave his report.
We had a re-cap of the big hunt. Congrats to everyone and thanks to all who helped; everyone had a great time. Thanks to the hunt committee for a fun hunt and lots of interesting finds and prizes. Several proposed setting a budget for next year's hunt but it was not an official motion per se.
There was more talk of our Christmas party. Please sign up to bring something and please let us know how many plan to attend.
Scott talked about the recent South Mountain Club raffle. He and the president of that club sold 1/3 of all the tickets but none of theirs won anything. Scott still has about 128 tickets left of the 1000 ESTC raffle tickets for the month-long cash raffle; he also has about 20 raffle tickets good for the Kent County FOP month long outdoorsman/outdoorswoman raffle @ $20 per ticket.
NEW BUSINESS
Andy and others talked about new detectors.
Kristin, Chris, John P., Henry, John R., Craig and Phil K. shared beach reports. They and others reminded members not to overlook the beach during the off-season as good things can turn up at any time.
John R. showed off a display case of finds from a recent "point hunt" in Alabama. There was a Native American habitation on the property.
Penny to a Dollar winners: John Peregoy, John Rebman, Phil McCutcheon, Chris Gudikunst, Scott MacLane, Dan Foltz, Julie Pryor and Tony Brown.
Thanks to Dan Foltz and Scott MacLane for bringing in this month's snacks. No one has committed to bringing in refreshments for November as of this writing.
Our raffle winners were Chris Gudikunst (50/50), Phil McCutcheon (silver half dollar) and Andy Nunez (attendance).
Julie Pryor,
Secretary