It’s hard not to love the Pickers, and if you were around for our previous coverage of American Pickers the Complete First Season, you’ll be happy to see another go-round with our favorite crew of antique hunters. The folks at the History Channel sent over a copy of American Pickers Volume Two, and it’s time to hit the road with an admittedly slightly disappointing voyage, and you can catch this one just today.

American Pickers Volume Two gives us another run out–several of them, really–with Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, the American Pickers, (backed up, as always, by intrepid office manager  as they go forth to the barns and basements and decommissioned amusement parks of America, looking for their favorite thing: rusty gold. And the things they’ll find here will impress you, make you laugh, and sometimes, just plain old blow your mind.

American Pickers Volume Two isn’t the entire second season, sadly, but rather  eight episodes from season two. And admittedly, this is some really good stuff in a bid to get you interested in the full second season release, which will likely take a while, but still. You’re still going to see some stuff that will amaze you (for instance, when Frank finds himself coming face to face with a rotten ham hanging from a ceiling in a barn, and then follow that up by discovering a rusty old Studebaker), and they’ll both show you the values of some of the items, as well as have one big ticket item appraised.

I’m always a bit disappointed by this; we don’t see actual values so much as we see what Mike and Frank “figure” they “can get for it”. It doesn’t matter to me so much what they think they can get so much as what they actually do get, and I’d prefer to hear that than their valuations. But still, it’s not so much about the money as it is about the stuff itself, and the stuff itself is so wildly varied that it’s well worth the look. Of course, Frank still loves signage, and Mike still goes gaga for bicycles, and Danielle barely keeps the multi-state mayhem under control, but the threesome that comprises Antique Archaeology will still put on a great show.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives American Pickers Volume Two an eight out of ten–it’s not the second season I was hoping for, but it’s still a great shot of Pickers fun that’s well worth your time to watch. Unless, of course, you’d rather wait for the complete second season, which makes perfect sense, but if you can’t wait or didn’t run your DVR, this is a great opportunity to get caught up.