Was out on our church garden site last Sat morning and a fellow gardner decided to relieve my Ford Edge of its front bumper. And by golly he did. Ultimately, dealing with his insurance co, body shops and car rental, my digging time had been somewhat curtailed. With everything taken care of so far and pretty hassle free over all, I finally got the chance this morning to get in a good four hour hunt.....out on the military housing site. Got out there and the housing areas were roped off and realized the nearby Naval base was having a big air show this weekend, including the Blue Angles. They had roped off the turf area and side roads for parking. Drove around to one side and found that not roped off, so said to myself, "shoot," I'll just hunt this area.
I started off beside a big oak tree and spotted the key ring with 12 keys on it. That is a powerful lot of keys to loose. A little later beside another tree I eyeballed the big ear ring hoop, which, has no markings on it. Shortly there after I got on a track that was yielding the occasional Memorial cent, so slowed down and tried to carefully work through the heavy mowed grass that was laying on the cut grass. Finally dug a wheat cent and then a 5 Memorial cent coin spill. Not long after got a nice sounding hit, but bouncy. That turned out to be the 44d Merc in the same clod as a nickel. A few pieces of clad, a couple more nickels and a couple more Memorials, I got a small somewhat faint high tone that just stuck on the 90-92 mark. Dug out about a 6" deep plug and after checking the plug and hole, checked the hole with the pin pointer and got a good jolt off on the side of the hole about 5" deep. Probed with my fingers and found a half dollar straight up and down. Took a shot of it on edge in the hole and then again out on the pile of dirt. A fairly well traveled 1942 Walker. Been a while since I recovered one of those rascals. Did manage 1 more wheat cent after that and then called it a wrap. The oldest wheat was a 39. We do need rain, but that spot is always alright to dig on.
Did have on the small 5" coil and set up in DST 90, 0 disc., 90 sen., de and bp, I never use notch and was in 3h tones. HH jim tn
I started off beside a big oak tree and spotted the key ring with 12 keys on it. That is a powerful lot of keys to loose. A little later beside another tree I eyeballed the big ear ring hoop, which, has no markings on it. Shortly there after I got on a track that was yielding the occasional Memorial cent, so slowed down and tried to carefully work through the heavy mowed grass that was laying on the cut grass. Finally dug a wheat cent and then a 5 Memorial cent coin spill. Not long after got a nice sounding hit, but bouncy. That turned out to be the 44d Merc in the same clod as a nickel. A few pieces of clad, a couple more nickels and a couple more Memorials, I got a small somewhat faint high tone that just stuck on the 90-92 mark. Dug out about a 6" deep plug and after checking the plug and hole, checked the hole with the pin pointer and got a good jolt off on the side of the hole about 5" deep. Probed with my fingers and found a half dollar straight up and down. Took a shot of it on edge in the hole and then again out on the pile of dirt. A fairly well traveled 1942 Walker. Been a while since I recovered one of those rascals. Did manage 1 more wheat cent after that and then called it a wrap. The oldest wheat was a 39. We do need rain, but that spot is always alright to dig on.
Did have on the small 5" coil and set up in DST 90, 0 disc., 90 sen., de and bp, I never use notch and was in 3h tones. HH jim tn
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