C&RHunter
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Being in my third week of retirement, I had not hunted during the week yet. A buddy and I have been going on the week-ends, but I've been doing other things during the week. This morning was different. For some reason, I had this feeling that I needed to go back to where we have hunted on the Saturdays of the last two week ends. It is a bean field now but reportedly was a fairground and picnic area in the past. Not to deny a gut feeling, I loaded up and away I went. 45 minutes later I arrived at the field. There was a 2 or 3 inch rain last night, but this field is sandy and drains real well in the area I "needed" to go to. I recovered a memorial cent on the way across the field, and for the next 45 minutes or so, nothing...I was beginning to think what a waste of time..I was getting hits on old shotgun casing butts, and pieces of crushed aluminum cans. This field floods at times and people must have came out here and shot skeet. I had been covering two rows at a time with no luck, so I had decided to go to another area of the field, after I worked a few more rows of beans. When all of a sudden I got a sweet sound in my headphones. The numbers were bouncing around a LOT, but were in the 1/38-40 area in one direction. I decided to dig, but figured it was the remains of a crushed can. After pin pointing I cut a 6-8 inch plug and flipped put the dirt. Nothing, after enlarging the hole another couple of inches the SunRay pinpointer sounded off on the side of the hole. I checked and there about 5 inches deep, and in the side of the hole and perfectly in the vertical position was the 1892 silver dollar!!! Now I'm not bummed out any longer!! Nothing else in the hole, so I continued down the row another 100 feet or so, then moved over and started heading back. After going 8-10 feet past where I got the silver dollar, I got a very solid and repeatable 1/40 signal. I thought no way...but carefully cut a 10 inch or so plug. removed the dirt and used the pinpointer in the hole. Nothing. I'm getting excited, because there are no aluminum chunks visible in the dirt from the hole. I used my hand to level out the dirt, and scanned the dirt with the coil. Still 1/40 and it's in the loose dirt!!! I rolled over a clump and I could see the thick rim of what turned out to be a 1896 silver dollar!!!...I had found these two silver dollars in about 10-15 minutes. I spent the next half hour going over this area from two different directions, but no other coins...I hunted for another couple of hours, and decided to head home. In that time I recovered a brass sleigh bell, a 1959 Rosie, an 1897 Indian (in very good shape, dark green patina all over and full Liberty in the headband), 3 wheaties, two clad quarters and 1 clad dime, along with an old steel "church key". WHAT AN EXCELLENT DAY!!!! I have always been a firm believer in going with "Gut Feelings" with this hobby. We had been over this area twice in the last two weeks, but somehow had missed these coins....I would rather be LUCKY than good, any day...
BTW, happy retirement!
