Critterhunter
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Saturday weather was treating me right, so headed out for the first long hunt in a long span of time. Hunted for about 8 hours with GT using my 12x10. Didn't want to take the 8" Tornado on it's first decent hunt because the area I was hunting was large expanses of ground with low amounts of trash or iron. Coverage and depth was primary in this situation, so even though I'm itching to take the 8" Tornado on it's first decent hunt, with only having used it for an hour so far at a high iron laden sight, I resisted the urge to use it and instead used the right tool (12x10) for the right job.
Ended up with around 7 wheats or so, and then the silver started popping out. First dug was a silver 36 Washington quarter laying flat in the hole. Got up to re-sweep the plug and heard another sweet silver tone still in there. I love it when that happens. Carefully removed a bit more dirt at the bottom of the plug and at about 7 to 7.5" I see the silver edge of another quarter sticking straight up on edge. That sight of that always gets me. Plucked it out and here it was a standing liberty, with of course the date worn off like usual.
That makes around 8 or 9 of those coins for me over the years, with only 2 or so having readable dates, one of which was a 1921 in F12 condition and worth a good chunk of change.
The rest of the day was capped off with two mercs and a rosie. I took several pictures but every one of them had the coins showing only as a white image with no detail. I suspect the black background did something funky to the camera, so I've got nothing to post on those.
Yesterday I headed out for another hunt and got my second treatment of silver to fix the winter blues. Those pics I don't have uploaded to my computer at the moment but will try to get them up within a day or two here. Also got a few other interesting finds yesterday that I'll also post for show and tell too.
Ended up with around 7 wheats or so, and then the silver started popping out. First dug was a silver 36 Washington quarter laying flat in the hole. Got up to re-sweep the plug and heard another sweet silver tone still in there. I love it when that happens. Carefully removed a bit more dirt at the bottom of the plug and at about 7 to 7.5" I see the silver edge of another quarter sticking straight up on edge. That sight of that always gets me. Plucked it out and here it was a standing liberty, with of course the date worn off like usual.
That makes around 8 or 9 of those coins for me over the years, with only 2 or so having readable dates, one of which was a 1921 in F12 condition and worth a good chunk of change.
The rest of the day was capped off with two mercs and a rosie. I took several pictures but every one of them had the coins showing only as a white image with no detail. I suspect the black background did something funky to the camera, so I've got nothing to post on those.
Yesterday I headed out for another hunt and got my second treatment of silver to fix the winter blues. Those pics I don't have uploaded to my computer at the moment but will try to get them up within a day or two here. Also got a few other interesting finds yesterday that I'll also post for show and tell too.
