I took the day off so I decided to go detecting in a local river. I had hoped for some old Spanish silver since this is the area of el camino real. The silver eluded me today, but I did find 1 quarter(1997). What I did find was a bunch of bullets and bird shot. 832 bullets ranging from .177 cal to .45 cal. There were some rifle bullets but mostly .22 long rifle. 1 homemade "cornbread" fishing weight and a pocket knife. Total weight for lead including the gold pans is 11 lbs, so I guess it's about 10 lbs of lead. Oh, all this was dug with my hands and small digging tool. I located the cracks that held the lead wih my ATPro. I didn't have any pans so I just threw it in my pouch by the handful. I dug several handfulls that had 10 plus bullets in the sand as well as lots of birshot. I cleaned it up and counted at home.
The sad news is that my AT Pro may need some work done. It seemed like every time I changed swing direction or bumped the bottom it would false(86-98 readout). That got pretty annoying after a few hours. All in all a good day. I'll melt the lead down and make new bullets for my black powder revolver.
