Went out again Sat morning early as we had a little rain the evening before and temps were down about 10 degrees to 87. There is no shade out there so I left about 3.5 hours later. due to too much sun reflection and plain worn out.
But I had one of the best hunts I've had since last fall.
5 rings...two silver, one ? and a wedding set with diamond. Unbelievable find this wedding set of two rings. They were a complete surprise as they registered 2 inches deep and 3 inches apart. The only thing i've dug here that is only 2 inches deep is aluminum so I was at first bla bla thinking it was can slaw. But the tone was really sharp and the red "eye" dot was very sharp and I could see two nice red shapes. I liked the sound and thought well ill clean this out anyway. The first ring with the diamond rolled out of my blade/ scoop. I was so shocked that I didnt pick it up but instead tested the other signal to see what it could be, with my pin pointer I found the engagement ring. Never found a set before. its probably 60 years old. very nice shape. less than a 1/2K diamond but...hey a diamond. I don't find many of those.
Also pulled a 1942 walker half out of a hole that was not 10 feet from someone else's poorly covered dig. Before I walked off I tested the hole and ....a silver quarter down there too.9 inches, Nice. I still got a signal after the two coins but it was one of those half baked kind that your not sure of and very very deep. Knowing that it could be gold coin with the age of the two other coins I dug like heck for half an hour in all directions and could never find what was making that sound. I tried adjusting the ctx all kinds of ways to see if it could make a better signal but could not get a real nice signal. I still felt like there was a possibility of a gold coin and didn't want to dismiss something like that so I seriously dug the heck out of that hole till about 2 feet wide and 1.5 feet deep. I still have that wonder what that was and normally would have just left it the minute I see it would not pinpoint onto something tight or after I dug the dirt out deep to check and see. I came back to that hole like 3 times and checked...still a half baked signal not pinpointing, very deep. I gave up. but ...knowing me I may go back to that if i get the chance and check again. lol. I should note to you that I have on many occasions had a good signal, dug a bit and lost the signal and dug down again then found the good target. Something about disturbing the top 8 inches in this place will loose your halo and signal of deep object.s I know this and am very careful to keep digging.
two rings came as what I thought were silver dimes in signal. and one of them I was just checking what a 12 2 would be at 7 inches and up came a silver color ring with no mark, very shiny, but only 12 02 not sure what metal that would be.
Also, found 2 more Buffalo, and 5 silver dimes, 3 of them mercs. and a number of wheat cents...no Indians.
A bit of trash too.
I can't wait for the cooler weather to get here and spend more than 4 hours at this area.
I know Im not the only one hunting there cuz I see quite a bit of tracs and holes dug.
Anyway , just trying to liven up the forum, hoping you enjoy reading about the CTX finds.
Shov.
