This is a post I did today on my club forum
Training day on Saturday was fun. Unfortunately, the finds were not as plentiful as I had hoped. That is a tough park with lots of masked signals, but if you are patient, they are there.
I went almost until noon until I found my first keeper. I was ready to call it a day and go home to get some sleep since I was up all night working before. On the way to the truck I FINALLY got a signal that I was waiting for...a nice coin signal that I was sure was a wheatie. I would have hated to hunt for 3 hours and not even have a wheatie to show for it.
Unfortunately, there was not any one left to let listen to this signal with their machine. The only one nearby was Jimmy and he sure does not need any help. So I figured I would just dig it up alone. Stuck my Raptor digger in the ground only a little way and hit a large tree root. Move over a little and hit a large rock
Gee whiz, I'm tired, why can't this be an easy hole. Oh well. So I work on getting the rock out and tunnelling under the root all the while beating the heck out of the smaller rocks under it. I wasn't too worried about scratching a wheatie. I would rather have a beat up coin than no coin i figure at this point ( I did think about giving up at one point).
Finally after a few minutes, I probe the dirt I just brought up and hear the signal . I move the dirt a little and see a silver rim. Wow, a silver dime, not a wheatie, how cool. I was fully expecting to see a Mercury dime at this point because that is all I have ever found in that area so needless to say I was surprised to see a wreath when I cleaned off the dirt.
Here is the beauty I found. My first Barber dime from that park in all her glory and scratches where I beat her up
[size=x-large]So what did I learn at this training event????? Not all wheatie signals are wheaties. Some turn out to be Barber dimes so be careful digging them out
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Training day on Saturday was fun. Unfortunately, the finds were not as plentiful as I had hoped. That is a tough park with lots of masked signals, but if you are patient, they are there.
I went almost until noon until I found my first keeper. I was ready to call it a day and go home to get some sleep since I was up all night working before. On the way to the truck I FINALLY got a signal that I was waiting for...a nice coin signal that I was sure was a wheatie. I would have hated to hunt for 3 hours and not even have a wheatie to show for it.
Unfortunately, there was not any one left to let listen to this signal with their machine. The only one nearby was Jimmy and he sure does not need any help. So I figured I would just dig it up alone. Stuck my Raptor digger in the ground only a little way and hit a large tree root. Move over a little and hit a large rock
Gee whiz, I'm tired, why can't this be an easy hole. Oh well. So I work on getting the rock out and tunnelling under the root all the while beating the heck out of the smaller rocks under it. I wasn't too worried about scratching a wheatie. I would rather have a beat up coin than no coin i figure at this point ( I did think about giving up at one point).Finally after a few minutes, I probe the dirt I just brought up and hear the signal . I move the dirt a little and see a silver rim. Wow, a silver dime, not a wheatie, how cool. I was fully expecting to see a Mercury dime at this point because that is all I have ever found in that area so needless to say I was surprised to see a wreath when I cleaned off the dirt.
Here is the beauty I found. My first Barber dime from that park in all her glory and scratches where I beat her up
[size=x-large]So what did I learn at this training event????? Not all wheatie signals are wheaties. Some turn out to be Barber dimes so be careful digging them out
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