Cq Detectorists INC Metal Detecting Club

Last weekend the club held an overnight camping weekend at the Bouldercombe sports facility. A great time was had by all that attended.
It was unfortunate that less than 30 of us were only able to attend due to the Covid restrictions placed upon us earlier in the week, but these are difficult times and some of us getting out is better than none at all.
We are well aware that these grounds have been heavily detected for several years, so it is no surprise that pickings were slim. Some highlights that came from the grounds were. 1918 Half Penny, 1936 Penny, a couple of Roo pennies and an 1891 Threepence. There were a few old metal buttons and brass saddle rivets picked up along the way. A quantity of rubbish was recovered and disposed of, and we had a 10 minute challenge with members scrambling to find as many ring pulls as they could in that time frame.
Some of the guys went under the old royal hotel and pulled out well over $100 of coins and several pre decimals with 1 member finding 9 silver threepence. A beautiful florin was recovered and another member broke her curse of never being able to find a Ram’s head shilling. She also recovered an 1862 One Centime from under the community hall. We named that coin the find of the hunt.
We also had a visit from local MP Barry O’Rourke and Rockhampton Regional Council’s Drew Wickerson who both stopped by to catch up with the club members and to see what we were finding.
A big thank you goes to Marie who opened the facilities for us on the day so we could stop and have a cup of tea with a biscuit and a comfort break. The ladies in the group appreciated this the most.
Len at the campgrounds certainly looked after us as well with fire wood and allowing us to detect the grounds on that side. He had a genuine interest in what we do and happily went through the relics we had on display.
If anyone requires a great function facility, please get in contact with the Bouldercombe Progress Association. They hire the grounds at a very reasonable rate with everything you could possibly need.

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Was a nice day at the beach last Sunday the 26th July, perfect weather, good company and lots of detecting. We welcomed a few new members to our club, was good to meet you all and we look forward to further outings. We were hunting near an old WW2 training ground, we all got our fair share of bullet casings, a few old style pewter buttons, the normal pocket change, keys, old time locks and other nick-nacks.

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It was a good club detecting day we had on Saturday, the weather was perfect and we had a big park to find some goodies. At first the finds were hard to come by, just the usual aluminium can slaw and bottle tops… but late in the afternoon we found a patch that gave up some really nice old relics. Some of the finds include, military buttons, an apostle spoon, printing plates, pennys, buckles, suspender clips dating back many years in history. Thank you to the members for coming along on Saturday and I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Here is a few pics from the day out.

After a long lock down from the covid 19 pandemic, we conducted a token hunt over 4 different towns this weekend, Rocky, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Mackay.

We did a test run a few weeks ago when the first restrictions were lifted and it seemed like a great idea. This weekend we had a cryptic clue to solve to find the name of the parks in each town, a very clever concept. It’s not all about detecting but having to solve the puzzle first was a new one for us. It was quite challenging, but enjoyable.

We certainly done some cleaning up of the parks by the rubbish that was found and posted on our facebook members page. The token’s were quite elusive to find, many of us spent a lot of time out chasing the array of different tokens placed in the local parks.

However, Leeann found the Silver Stunner, as Marvin called it, in Rockhampton just a few hours before the hunt was ending. Congratulations to Leeann on the win, great detecting. She found it using her new XP ORX that she had purchased recently.

Thanks everyone for the fun weekend. Enjoy the pictures guys.

The Leichhardt Hotel in Mt Morgan was the venue for our AGM this year, great place to stop in for a beer if your up that way.

As a result of  the AGM, this year’s committee is as follows.

Club President – Andrew Mason.

Vice President – Marvin Curnuck.

Secretary – Beth Fillod.

Treasurer – Graham Ward.

Congratulations to the Members of the Committee.

Okay after the business side of things were finished we headed out to a location near by for some detecting. Boy was there targets everywhere, pull tabs mixed with aluminium can slaw. But as they say, amongst the trash is the treasure. We found quite a haul of coins, some lovely pre-decimals, a few pieces of jewellery and Andrew found an old toy spitfire aeroplane, what a beauty. Taking the find of the day though was Graham’s 1860 Penny, what a ripper…160 years old.

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Club Vice President Marvin Curnuck came to the rescue to retrieve a lost heritage ring in Yeppoon recently. The ring that belonged to Glen’s grandmother is not something that can be replaced, so Marvin investigated every signal in the quest to find it. To Glen and Anita’s relief, the ring was located undamaged. Great work Marvin!!

Nice little get together at Thomson’s Point on Saturday the 21^st January, it wasn’t an official meeting just an outing organised by club members. Quite a few finds were made, I would expect another club hunt will be taking place there again later in the year. I will leave some pictures for you all to take a look at, Happy Hunting.

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We had our break up at the Calliope River camp area, a nice place to stay overnight if your ever down that way. Anthony cooked up dinner for all on Saturday Night, it was roast and veges all done on the BBQ. I would like to thank all our members for a wonderful year and I hope you all have a very merry Xmas and we will catch you all in 2020… Happy Hunting Guys.

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It was only a small meeting on Sunday the 17^th of November, as many of our members were unable to attend. Due to the small numbers we postponed the Token Master GPS series event to a later date. We decided to test out the concept of the game, which will be a hit with the members I am sure.

Our Xmas breakup will be our next event in December. There is a poll on Facebook for the members to choose what we will be doing for this event.

Couple of pics from the day.

 

 

There was a big interest in our hobby on the weekend, this was shown by the amount or people that turned out to try their hand at detecting. Everyone, especially the kids, were very interested and loved finding those old coins and silver tokens. There was also 30 prize tokens buried but only 11 were found, they seemed to be an elusive target, as they were made to sound a lot different to the everyday ‘dig me’ sounds that us detectorists are used to. The token finders were all very happy with their prizes.

The Relic, Coin, Gold, Gem and Bottle Displays were very popular with the visitors. Some awesome displays were on show again, it just keeps getting better. Leeann, with her relic and bottle collection is just outstanding, Anthony and his massive collection of world war 2 relics, uniforms, ammunition is great, you name it he has it. Trevor, from Relic and Treasure Recovery CQ, had a recirculating gold sluice set up and was quite a busy lad tending to all the people wanting to see it in action. There was also a gold panning station near by, where the kids were excited to see gold for the first time. Donnie, Justin and the guys were looking after them teaching the correct methods for panning. We also had stalls there from Justin at XP Metal Detectors the Aussie Detectorist, Minelab from Leading Edge Electronics Gladstone, Andrew from RAT, Relic and Treasure Hunters Australia, Gladstone Gem Rock and Mineral Club. Also, Donnie Pascoe gave a very informative talk on gold detecting and prospecting. He had everyone glued to their seats with his valuable information for newbies and old hands alike. To help feed all the crowds, we had a coffee van on hand and some wonderful burgers and beverages from the Calliope Rodeo Association.

We had a very successful raffle with 4 great prizes being donated by various Businesses, who we would like to thank very much…Leading Edge Electronics Gladstone, ‘Minelab’, XP Dues Australia the Aussie Detectorist and one of our club members Brett Phillips for his kind donations.

I would like to say a big thank you to Andrew Mason for his tireless work that he put into this event, it was such an outstanding success. I would also like to thank our members who displayed their relics and helped out throughout the day and a big thank you to the Calliope Rodeo Association for allowing us to use their grounds.

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