Hello My Friends!!
Yesterday was quite a detecting day for me. It felt like old times, that is, park hunting for me 2-3 years ago.
I went back to the park I was at last week, thinking no way I could even come close to last weeks finds: I was happily very wrong. The ground was just as dry as last time, but the 5-8" signals were all over the place, and very near some of my older plugs.
Someone with a medium line detector must have pillaged all the 60's and 70's coinage, along with the easier silver signals out of this park. I haven't dug one Rosie out of 17 different pieces of silver found in two hunts. The ground is not too trashy at this park (I've been to much trashier parks), so the deeper hits are easier to distinguish, and I was able to accomplish something I've only done about 4-5 times before: finding two pieces of the same silver coin in two separate digs!! 
That's what happened when I found the first piece of Merc at around 7". I had a real assurance that I'd find the second piece, and sure enough, within about 2 minutes and 8 feet in front of the first half, I dug the second. I was still digging one wheat after another (all of them are mostly 20's-40's coins), and managed to find more than I did on last week's hunt there. Three wheat penny signals turned out to be something different. One was the '16 S (my heart skipped when I saw there was a mintmark), and the other was the ornate sterling earring. It's amazing how I manage to recover that earring with little damage from very hard ground at around 7". I knew it was silver as soon as I saw it. The third wheatie signal was a piece of a sterling bracelet, which has the owner's initials in script writing.
A first for me that hasn't happened very often in the turf was managing to find two gold rings. I wanted to see if I could find any buffalo nickels, so I started to dig nickel/pulltab signals that were solid sounding. I couldn't believe my first pulltab signal turned out to be the 10K woman's band. It was only 4" deep. After that, I started digging more low conductor signals....no more than a couple minutes had passed when I dug the 14Kt (plumb) ring with 5 diamonds(tested real) about 7' from the previous ring!
I couldn't believe it. Well, after digging about a dozen more pulltabs, I finally got my no-date buffalo, and was starting to tire from the heat and the 70-80+ plugs from the day's hunt. My return trip to this park far exceeded my expectations, and I think I will be digging a few more low conductors from now on.. 
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
Yesterday was quite a detecting day for me. It felt like old times, that is, park hunting for me 2-3 years ago.
I went back to the park I was at last week, thinking no way I could even come close to last weeks finds: I was happily very wrong. The ground was just as dry as last time, but the 5-8" signals were all over the place, and very near some of my older plugs.
Someone with a medium line detector must have pillaged all the 60's and 70's coinage, along with the easier silver signals out of this park. I haven't dug one Rosie out of 17 different pieces of silver found in two hunts. The ground is not too trashy at this park (I've been to much trashier parks), so the deeper hits are easier to distinguish, and I was able to accomplish something I've only done about 4-5 times before: finding two pieces of the same silver coin in two separate digs!! That's what happened when I found the first piece of Merc at around 7". I had a real assurance that I'd find the second piece, and sure enough, within about 2 minutes and 8 feet in front of the first half, I dug the second. I was still digging one wheat after another (all of them are mostly 20's-40's coins), and managed to find more than I did on last week's hunt there. Three wheat penny signals turned out to be something different. One was the '16 S (my heart skipped when I saw there was a mintmark), and the other was the ornate sterling earring. It's amazing how I manage to recover that earring with little damage from very hard ground at around 7". I knew it was silver as soon as I saw it. The third wheatie signal was a piece of a sterling bracelet, which has the owner's initials in script writing.A first for me that hasn't happened very often in the turf was managing to find two gold rings. I wanted to see if I could find any buffalo nickels, so I started to dig nickel/pulltab signals that were solid sounding. I couldn't believe my first pulltab signal turned out to be the 10K woman's band. It was only 4" deep. After that, I started digging more low conductor signals....no more than a couple minutes had passed when I dug the 14Kt (plumb) ring with 5 diamonds(tested real) about 7' from the previous ring!
I couldn't believe it. Well, after digging about a dozen more pulltabs, I finally got my no-date buffalo, and was starting to tire from the heat and the 70-80+ plugs from the day's hunt. My return trip to this park far exceeded my expectations, and I think I will be digging a few more low conductors from now on.. Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
Wow Dan what a fantastic hunt. You the man. Keep it up
