3 hours at the Fairgrounds.....

[Digger]

Hit the local Fair grounds yesterday evening. As G4E said, it is too dry to be digging in private yards. But after a half inch of rain yesterday afternoon, I thought I'd give it a shot. Anyway, using the E-TRAC in a modified Coin mode I managed to pull a 48 silver Rosey and a 1907 IH cent (along with a few other older Wheats) from the trash and clad. LOTS of clad! I always end up with quite a few broken tabs from this site as I saw a $5 gold Indian come out of here. Darnest thing was, the guy didn't even have a metal detector! He found it laying on top of the ground as they were preparing for some concrete work. HH Randy

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[CT Todd]

thats how you find a gold coin.By accident

 

[LabradorBob]

Wow that looks like a good days diggin.
Congrats on the nice finds.
LabradorBob

 

[Bilko]

heck of alot of silver well done! What was your average retrieval time?

 

[Digger]

Only one "silver" coin, the 48 rosey. The rest of the shiny stuff were quarters and dimes that hadn't been in the dirt long enough to turn ugly. Average retrieval time, I suppose 60 seconds or less, once I had it pinpointed. The tough part of hunting his fair grounds is that I can't determine the age of a coin by the depth. So you end up digging everything that even sounds like a coin. I've dug IH cents at 3 inches, and a few steps away, a clad quarter at 7 inches. Too much "dirt shuffling" over the years while in the process of building new roads, sidewalks, livestock pavillions and bleachers at the show grounds. The dirt is all still there, for the most part. It's just that it has all been so rearranged it makes for a long day of digging clad, hoping for an old coins. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it don't. Here lately, it's been paying off pretty well. HH Randy

 

[Digger]

Thanks. The temps were only in the low 80's. But the darn humidity matched the temp. Sweat kept running into my sunglasses evertime I bent down to dig! By the way, the 1907 IH cent was the lowest ferrous reading I've had on a coin. Hit a solid 5 / 34 repeatedly. HH Randy

 

[Digger]

So that's my problem??? I've been hunting for one of those critters for over 38 years. Had a lot of accidents. But never a gold coin....... yet! Still holding out hope! HH Randy

 

[Goes4ever]

wow that is a lot of digging, you'd have to hunt 8 hours to find that much clad at my fairgrounds! My fairgrounds is pounded so hard that even a coin signal of any kind is rare. And I am not joking you! What you found would be a FABULOUS hunt at mine. You did well getting a silver and an indian, congrats

 

[Digger]

Thanks. I've been hitting this area a couple times a year for the better part of 20 years. It never seems to run out of coins. The old silver is getting harder to find. But I'd bet I could spend a week there, and average 20 coins an hour, if I dug all the targets that read coins. No joke.... I bet I passed up 50 pennies as I stopped digging all the 12/37 - 12/42 after the first 90 minutes or so. Lots of dimes and quarters in this pile.

As you well know, we choose the sites we hunt based on what we like to hunt for and our success of the past. For me, all those sites are full of corn and beans right now. So for the 90 days of summer, I hunt yards when it's wet and go where I can get a lot of signals when it gets dry. Then I'm better prepared for the "after harvest" hunts. HH Randy

 

[NebTrac]

Thanks Digger! Nice finds and appreciate the picture!!!

NebTrac