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I went out again both days last weekend & made a few good finds but not as many as the weekend before. Saturday morning I ended up at the ballfield where I found the barber dime & two mercs the Sunday before. Started hunting in the outfield. The field was really wet, almost too wet to detect & I figured too wet to play on. Searched about an hour & a half or so. Not a lot of targets, but did manage to get a 1939 Merc, a 1937 Buffalo and a 1929 Wheat. I probably could have gotten a few more oldies out of there & certainly intended to stay longer but that outing got cut short by some b.s. that I won't go into here (at least not right now). :angry: I'm sure there have to be a few more silver coins left to be found here so I'll give it another try again maybe this winter or at least into November. I left & drove around for a while & went to an old school where I had found several silver coins in the past and spent a couple hours there but only found a no date buffalo & some clad. Left & went around & looked at a couple more places but they were either too wet or the grass was too high.
Sunday I went to a park by a lake where I had had some success before, including finding a barber half there last summer. Wondered around some hills near the lake & didn't get too much so I gradually worked my way back toward the front of the park. In 4-5 hours or so I managed to get 6 wheats, a 1902 Indian Head, a small sterling ring, and another ring that looks to been made out of a piece of silverware. Left to get something to eat & then decided to try the neighborhood playground park where I found the '01 Barber Dime the week before. The grass had been mowed so I could search just about anywhere in the park. Went a long time just finding clad & didn't have any promising signals until I got a screaming one maybe 10ft outside of the entrance to the tennis courts. That turned out to be a 1935 Washington Quarter that is probably the most worn Washington I have ever found. Especially on the back. After a couple of hours, (and tired of kids coming up & surrounding me every time I knelt down to dig) I decided to go back to the lake park & stay until dark. There had been ballgames going on on the diamond on the other side of the parking area & I didn't want to get to close to where everybody was in case the wrong person saw me & decided to harass me. Thought by 5 or 6 in the evening maybe they'd be gone but there were still games going on so I though I'd just go for it & hunt up closer to the parking area. I wasn't getting much up there either but did manage to get a couple more wheats & finally got a silver coin - a '51d Roosevelt right up near the edge of the parking lot. Did have a few people walk by going to & from the restroom & a few stopped by to talk for a bit & I was lucky this time since they all seemed friendly.
Stayed until it was pretty dark & left when I could tell the mosquitoes were really starting to get active.
Sunday I went to a park by a lake where I had had some success before, including finding a barber half there last summer. Wondered around some hills near the lake & didn't get too much so I gradually worked my way back toward the front of the park. In 4-5 hours or so I managed to get 6 wheats, a 1902 Indian Head, a small sterling ring, and another ring that looks to been made out of a piece of silverware. Left to get something to eat & then decided to try the neighborhood playground park where I found the '01 Barber Dime the week before. The grass had been mowed so I could search just about anywhere in the park. Went a long time just finding clad & didn't have any promising signals until I got a screaming one maybe 10ft outside of the entrance to the tennis courts. That turned out to be a 1935 Washington Quarter that is probably the most worn Washington I have ever found. Especially on the back. After a couple of hours, (and tired of kids coming up & surrounding me every time I knelt down to dig) I decided to go back to the lake park & stay until dark. There had been ballgames going on on the diamond on the other side of the parking area & I didn't want to get to close to where everybody was in case the wrong person saw me & decided to harass me. Thought by 5 or 6 in the evening maybe they'd be gone but there were still games going on so I though I'd just go for it & hunt up closer to the parking area. I wasn't getting much up there either but did manage to get a couple more wheats & finally got a silver coin - a '51d Roosevelt right up near the edge of the parking lot. Did have a few people walk by going to & from the restroom & a few stopped by to talk for a bit & I was lucky this time since they all seemed friendly.
Stayed until it was pretty dark & left when I could tell the mosquitoes were really starting to get active.