Eric in RI
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Greetings all, managed to get out again to the campground on fathers day with my buddy. We first stopped by this field that dates back to the 1700's. There is a very old small cemetery across the street so we figured there might be an old copper in this field. Mind you, I hate hunting fields. I hate gridding, I hate the "silence" between signals and the grass was pretty high. Managed to score only about 16 cents in clad and a couple pieces of older junk. Out of the corner of my eye I seen a pick-up truck stop near the 1st entrance and saw us detecting. About 5 minutes later I see them at the 2nd entrance where we parked and were hunting the other side of the field. I told my buddy we should leave now because we could "compromise" our campground spot. He agreed and we left. The campground is literally about a half mile down the street so we hoped and prayed the other "hunters" wouldn't spot my buddies truck and hit the camp ground also.
We arrived at the camp ground and immediately the mosquitos were all over us. My buddy found a tick on him the first 10 minutes there. I hate those suckers! We literally took a bath in the Off "deep woods" bug spray. That seemed to do the trick for about an hour, but after swinging and sweating my b@lls off, the repellent wore off. Anyways, I started off continuing down the path that I found my silver quarter at the last time we were there. Got a wheat penny about 30 minutes into the hunt. I was on the board first with a goodie. Sweet! Managed to find 2 more wheaties along the path. Met up with my buddy who proceeded to tell me he found 2 silver quarters and a silver roosie all within 5 minutes. At that point, I was hot, sweating, dying of thirst and said "I need to get my other gatorade" and made the trek down to the truck to grab it. All the time my buddy was gloating and saying "oh he's pissed!" Not that I was pissed, I was just frustrated that my buddy keeps pulling silver with his cheap bounty hunter and I get skunked all the time at this place. But then I said, well its fathers day, he is a father himself while i am not. So I said F' it, its his day, not mine and kept a positive attitude.
My buddy finds more silver because he ventures into the deep woods off the paths. I am highly allergic of poison ivy and need steroids to get rid of it because it gets out of control. So far I haven't gotten it yet so I risked it and went into the woods with him. Managed to find a single tick crawling on my leg and said the hell with this. We wandered off in our own directions. I then continued again down the path I was working. Decided to hit the "edges" as the actual path didn't have much for signals. Scored a nice 81 / 82 vdi on the XLT. And about a half inch under the layers of decomposing leaves, I scored a 1962 Roosie. Finally on board with silver. Didn't find much more after that except clad and pulltabs. I was about ready to go. I had to go to my parents for dinner and I was looking for my buddy. After 30 minutes of looking around for him, I decided I may as well detect until we bump into each other. I was walking down one of the paths that leads to the truck. I hit an older 60's memorial down the path and said it could be promising. As I was walking my machine made a low grunt while I was swinging. I look down and see this wedding ring on the path. I swung the detector over it and the vdi was a constant 14 occasionally jumping to 16. Could it be? Picked up the tiny sucker, looked in the band and sure enough, 14k. Sweet! First gold of the year! I eventually caught up with my buddy. I told him I found a silver roosie. He then said, hey at least you didn't get skunked. I said nope, I didn't get skunked when I found the silver or the gold ring. He was like, "you found a gold ring?" I said "yup" its worth at least 4 silver quarters, compared to you 60 cents face of silver. He agreed, we did a quick fist pound, celebrated with a little cigarette and puff break. Went home, showered up. Weighed the ring on my scale, a measly 1.4 grams, but whatever, I'll take it. If the ring was melted and all the impurities were removed from it, I anticipate I would have about 0.8 grams of pure gold. Worth around $40.00 by todays gold prices.
All in all, a great exhausting hunt.
HH!
We arrived at the camp ground and immediately the mosquitos were all over us. My buddy found a tick on him the first 10 minutes there. I hate those suckers! We literally took a bath in the Off "deep woods" bug spray. That seemed to do the trick for about an hour, but after swinging and sweating my b@lls off, the repellent wore off. Anyways, I started off continuing down the path that I found my silver quarter at the last time we were there. Got a wheat penny about 30 minutes into the hunt. I was on the board first with a goodie. Sweet! Managed to find 2 more wheaties along the path. Met up with my buddy who proceeded to tell me he found 2 silver quarters and a silver roosie all within 5 minutes. At that point, I was hot, sweating, dying of thirst and said "I need to get my other gatorade" and made the trek down to the truck to grab it. All the time my buddy was gloating and saying "oh he's pissed!" Not that I was pissed, I was just frustrated that my buddy keeps pulling silver with his cheap bounty hunter and I get skunked all the time at this place. But then I said, well its fathers day, he is a father himself while i am not. So I said F' it, its his day, not mine and kept a positive attitude.
My buddy finds more silver because he ventures into the deep woods off the paths. I am highly allergic of poison ivy and need steroids to get rid of it because it gets out of control. So far I haven't gotten it yet so I risked it and went into the woods with him. Managed to find a single tick crawling on my leg and said the hell with this. We wandered off in our own directions. I then continued again down the path I was working. Decided to hit the "edges" as the actual path didn't have much for signals. Scored a nice 81 / 82 vdi on the XLT. And about a half inch under the layers of decomposing leaves, I scored a 1962 Roosie. Finally on board with silver. Didn't find much more after that except clad and pulltabs. I was about ready to go. I had to go to my parents for dinner and I was looking for my buddy. After 30 minutes of looking around for him, I decided I may as well detect until we bump into each other. I was walking down one of the paths that leads to the truck. I hit an older 60's memorial down the path and said it could be promising. As I was walking my machine made a low grunt while I was swinging. I look down and see this wedding ring on the path. I swung the detector over it and the vdi was a constant 14 occasionally jumping to 16. Could it be? Picked up the tiny sucker, looked in the band and sure enough, 14k. Sweet! First gold of the year! I eventually caught up with my buddy. I told him I found a silver roosie. He then said, hey at least you didn't get skunked. I said nope, I didn't get skunked when I found the silver or the gold ring. He was like, "you found a gold ring?" I said "yup" its worth at least 4 silver quarters, compared to you 60 cents face of silver. He agreed, we did a quick fist pound, celebrated with a little cigarette and puff break. Went home, showered up. Weighed the ring on my scale, a measly 1.4 grams, but whatever, I'll take it. If the ring was melted and all the impurities were removed from it, I anticipate I would have about 0.8 grams of pure gold. Worth around $40.00 by todays gold prices.
All in all, a great exhausting hunt.
HH!