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At least I got a Barber Dime............:thumbup:

M

Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO

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Work has been awfully slow lately and last Thursday I was spending most of the morning leaning on a broom and TRYING to look busy....At lunch time the boss lets me go for an "extended lunch break"... I told him to call me if anything comes in. Off to the local park I go!

No matter this place has been hunted real bad, just to get the detector out and do something enjoyable was all that was required. :detecting:

I walked about 20 paces out into the lawn, dropped the coil to the ground and immediately got a deep quarter hit! It turned out to be a piece of aluminum junk. 3 more sweeps and I get a deep silver hit - the kind it takes all day of swinging in a trashy park to hear! I dug down about 6 inches and find a 1908-D Barber Dime! :clapping: I'm off to a good start! I started getting good signals everywhere, and the digging was on. A half dozen wheats later, the targets started to become deep clad.... REALLY deep clad. I moved around to find better ground, but never did. I dig a junk ring, then that sound of horror -
my cell phone ringing. The Boss calls me back into work! :blowup: :veryangry:

So at least I got in an hour of digging with something silver to show for it. I had to drive back to work.... just to work on the Boss's own car doing something that could have waited for another day. Gee, Thanks........:ranting:

The pic shows a plumb-bob that I dug out at Forest Park a couple weekends ago on the site of a 1904 World's Fair building - the German Pavillion. You can still dig various items of interest from the World's Fair out there, if you know where to hunt.


Take care and HH, Mike.
 
Mike you got out of work... You dug 6 wheat's and a Barber dime... sounds like you had a nice little hunt. :thumbup:
 
IT IS ALWAY NICE WHEN A BARBER COME OUT OF THE HOLE.
 
An hour or so per hunt is about average for me lately. I feel pretty lucky to turn up something good in that short amount of time, barely get a chance to get 'tuned' in mentally and then it is dark. Funny how a good target will pop up quickly early into the hunt and then . . . . . . . . the good targets seem to evaporate.

Cool looking old plumb bob. Is it painted cast iron?

thanks for sharing.


Rich -
 
Nice finds Mike.......I read your article on the Explorer in Andy's S. Book. It was helpful to me choosing various ways to hunt with the SE Pro..

John in Va..
 
Looks like a PLUM good hunt to me. Likely the plum bob is worth more than the silver on freebay.

Dew
 
Nice finds-especially in such a short time. Some surveyor must have lost that plumb bob-don't know how else it could end up in a park. HH
 
Thanks for the great story and the pictures Mike! I'm glad you got out of work for an hour...just to be able to make us a post and pictures of your finds! Thanks!

NebTrac
 
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