Hello my friends!
I was feeling sore on Wed. from Tuesday's marathon hunt, but when I woke up yesterday, I was feeling much better. I had temporarily set plans with a local detecting buddy last week to go out hunting on Thursday, and that's just what I did. I decided to go back to a park that I had some good hunts back in '07-'08. It was amazing how many oldies I was popping out of the ground in this open turf area nearly the length of a football field. And many of the wheats were only pegging halfway on the depth meter. The classic Explorer silver signal was so easy to tell from the wheats. The crushed Victorian sterling ring was my first silver find, followed by 4 Mercs. The war nickel was a perfect wheat penny signal; it always surprises me when I dig a high-toned, shiny colored nickel from 7". A few minutes later, I unearthed a strange clump of iron, which sounded like a wheat penny. I looked at it carefully with my loupe, and saw a reeded edge in the iron. I knew it was a silver dime encased around a couple of corroded steel wheat pennies. Very cool. I rounded out the day with a sterling earring, and another stack of wheats, knowing I will probably be going back again to see what I missed. It was another great day, and a great hunting week. My hand feels fine; a little achy at times, but I was able to slightly change my digging style with little loss of efficiency.
Thanks again for looking!!
Keep the Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
I was feeling sore on Wed. from Tuesday's marathon hunt, but when I woke up yesterday, I was feeling much better. I had temporarily set plans with a local detecting buddy last week to go out hunting on Thursday, and that's just what I did. I decided to go back to a park that I had some good hunts back in '07-'08. It was amazing how many oldies I was popping out of the ground in this open turf area nearly the length of a football field. And many of the wheats were only pegging halfway on the depth meter. The classic Explorer silver signal was so easy to tell from the wheats. The crushed Victorian sterling ring was my first silver find, followed by 4 Mercs. The war nickel was a perfect wheat penny signal; it always surprises me when I dig a high-toned, shiny colored nickel from 7". A few minutes later, I unearthed a strange clump of iron, which sounded like a wheat penny. I looked at it carefully with my loupe, and saw a reeded edge in the iron. I knew it was a silver dime encased around a couple of corroded steel wheat pennies. Very cool. I rounded out the day with a sterling earring, and another stack of wheats, knowing I will probably be going back again to see what I missed. It was another great day, and a great hunting week. My hand feels fine; a little achy at times, but I was able to slightly change my digging style with little loss of efficiency.
Thanks again for looking!!
Keep the Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
WTG Dan,you're really gettin down to the nitty gritty. Keep it up. HH Butch