A little hunt and a little silver...

[roseon3rd]

Yesterday, I made a trip over to a spot where I've been having some descent success with finding some silver coins. The weather was excellent and I had the day off from work so I hooked up with Shane and went for an afternoon hunt. We hadn't been there long when I saw Shane pulling a target from a hole and he smiled at me giving the familiar "Thumbs Up" signal. He had pulled a Merc dime from the hole so I was hoping that would be a sign that we'd have a good afternoon of hunting. (In reality, I was hoping that I wasn't going to get skunked on a beautiful afternoon by my ole huntin buddy!) Anyway, I hit several coin type signals and dug some junk and some clad pennies then hit a signal that said Dime at 5 inches. The signal crossed both ways and was solid and pure. I sunk the shovel in about 4 inches and pulled the dirt plug and found a dog-gone old style pull tab at about 4 inches. Now for the most part my old Garrett doesn't say a pull tab is a dime, so I was thinking it must be time to send it in for a tune up. Then I thought, well maybe, just maybe there is a dime in the hole somewhere. I prodded the bottom of the hole with my Pro-Pointer and son-of-a-gun if it didn't start screaming at me. Then I saw the edge of the coin. I tell you, there is no mistake that a coin is silver when you first see it in the hole. I reached in and pulled it out and eased some dirt from it to see the winged head of a 1940 Merc. Yahoo! No skunkin today! I went on to dig some miscellaneous items such as modern bullets and casings, a pocket knife, clad pennies, some sort of metal button and a 1965 close-but-no-cigar quarter. We hunted for a few hours total and I d ended up pulling a

 

[sccpdc]

Well Done never think its over till the pro pin-pointer is silent. lol

 

[metalhead]

Alright!Congrats on the silver!WTG!Happy Hunting!

 

[flash5153]

Very nice Not 1 but 2 silvers.

 

[Roscue2]

n/t

 

[big john]

COOL FIND

 

[dahut]

What detector were you using?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Nice haul.

Bill

 

[roseon3rd]

The Garrett GTI 2500 is the only machine I have at the moment and pretty much all I care to hunt with. I am looking for a cheap back-up machine but I'm not in any hurry. I also have the 12.5 inches imaging coil but where I've been hunting the coins aren't that deep so I just use the stock coil. I had and sold a Fisher CZ-70 Pro which I enjoyed using and a GTI 1500 which sorta trained me for using the GTI 2500. I've found more with the 2500 than I have all the other machines I've ever owned combined. That includes musket balls, 3- ringers, belt buckles, silver & clad coins and jewelry items both silver & gold. Of-course, hunt location has alot to do with it also and I'm getting better at finding spots and securing permission.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Love the silver

 

[dahut]

- I've found more with the 2500 than I have all the other machines I've ever owned combined. That includes musket balls, 3- ringers, belt buckles, silver & clad coins and jewelry items both silver & gold.
- Of course, hunt location has a lot to do with it also and I'm getting better at finding spots and securing permission.

You have spoken a mouthful with those words, Curt. Well done!

 

[born2hunt]

Nice Score on the silvers I believe 1946 was the first year for the Roosevelts.

 

[michaelnc]

Listen folks Curt never gets skunked. He usually beats me (I've got a habit of buying new machines and while he's using his trusty 2500 I'm trying to figure out what my new machine is trying to tell me lol). He's a great hunting buddy and he's great with the 2500.

HH,

Shane

 

[deepseeker442]

silver is good wtg