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So I Have been loving the new soil in Kansas, the weather has been cooperating, nicely, and I have been digging up plenty of clad and silver Jewelry.
Come spring I will start hitting some older sites or knock on some doors of older homes to start looking for silver coins, but still a jewelry hunter at heart.
Found a nice 10k class ring last December, but that has been it for my gold finds so far in KC., and none since Jan 1 of this year.
Not saying I am obsessed, but it is getting really important that I find some kind of piece of golden goodness so I can relax, already.
The kind of sites and parks I do hunt should give up the yellow, but nothing till today came up out of mother earth for me.
It was worth the wait.
Started the day at another new tot-lot in a small park I found, not much in the chips and I wandered around the grass a little looking for some precious metal.
Picked up some clad and that toy, but I just wasn't feeling the love from this place, if you know what I mean.
Besides, this was just a quick stop because my goal was to get back to another park I hunted last week where I found an area where I picked up a 5 pence British coin, some charms and a nice silver ring.
I figured this would be my best bet to find some gold on this beautiful, warm but super windy, day.
I drove to that second site and took out my Vaquero with the 10X12 dd coil.
I tend to pick up more pop tops with this set up, but this site is not too trashy and I didn't want to miss anything good so with this coil I had a chance.
Well, the wind was blowing pretty good, gusts up to 45 mph, but I was on a mission and I went over the area where I found all that stuff on my previous visit when I used my Compadre.
I did find some more clad I had missed last time, some of those lovely sounding pop tops too, but the only cool thing I came across was another 5 pence coin.
I was getting blown around pretty good and I was getting hungry because I had no breakfast, and fighting that wind was getting to be a drag so I decided to just wander around the larger grass area with the big coil for a bit and then get out of there.
This area is not set up for any kind of sports from what I could tell, I believe it is mostly used for dog walking but it is not fenced off.
Pretty big, too, but last time I was here I walked around and found a few coins but not much else to speak of, even trash.
I rubbed the four leaf clover taped to the side of my control box, took a deep breath and started walking out toward the middle of this grassy part, intending to dig all signals out and then on the way back to the truck before I called it a day.
I kept walking, swinging that coil in as large an arc as I could manage, but only found few more zincolns, some more trash and then I turned around and headed back to the parking lot.
Got a pretty solid tone, but my knob was below zinc so I figured another piece of can slaw or maybe a pull tab because in this park in this dirt some of those come in that high.
I'm digging it anyway, and zeroed in with my Propointer and opened a small hole.
About 3 inches down I see and pulled out a beaver tail, rats...but I scanned the hole again before I closed it up and now I had a nice clear signal still discing out below zinc.
Hmmm...another tab or can slaw, I guessed, but when I put my Propointer in the hole I got a signal about one half inch down in the side wall mixed in with the grass.
I started to pull the grass apart and that is when I saw it...a nice golden curve of part a ring, and I got excited.
I kept saying to myself out loud...be gold...be gold...be gold...luckily nobody was near me at the time to hear the crazy man babble.
I pulled it out of the grass, stood up and poked the dirt clod and grass out from the middle but by this time I knew before looking for a mark...Gold Baby!
A nice one, it was just too clean and clear and shiny not to be real.
The old eyes aren't as good as they used to be but I carry a cheap magnifying glass around for just such occasions and zeroed in on that lovely number, 14K, and those faded but still beautiful words, "Circle of Love"
I should say so!...And I did the dance!
A nice, woman's, double accented 14K wedding band.
5.6 grams.
A great day for me, the gold dam is broken and I hope much more to come!
HH
Come spring I will start hitting some older sites or knock on some doors of older homes to start looking for silver coins, but still a jewelry hunter at heart.
Found a nice 10k class ring last December, but that has been it for my gold finds so far in KC., and none since Jan 1 of this year.
Not saying I am obsessed, but it is getting really important that I find some kind of piece of golden goodness so I can relax, already.
The kind of sites and parks I do hunt should give up the yellow, but nothing till today came up out of mother earth for me.
It was worth the wait.
Started the day at another new tot-lot in a small park I found, not much in the chips and I wandered around the grass a little looking for some precious metal.
Picked up some clad and that toy, but I just wasn't feeling the love from this place, if you know what I mean.
Besides, this was just a quick stop because my goal was to get back to another park I hunted last week where I found an area where I picked up a 5 pence British coin, some charms and a nice silver ring.
I figured this would be my best bet to find some gold on this beautiful, warm but super windy, day.
I drove to that second site and took out my Vaquero with the 10X12 dd coil.
I tend to pick up more pop tops with this set up, but this site is not too trashy and I didn't want to miss anything good so with this coil I had a chance.
Well, the wind was blowing pretty good, gusts up to 45 mph, but I was on a mission and I went over the area where I found all that stuff on my previous visit when I used my Compadre.
I did find some more clad I had missed last time, some of those lovely sounding pop tops too, but the only cool thing I came across was another 5 pence coin.
I was getting blown around pretty good and I was getting hungry because I had no breakfast, and fighting that wind was getting to be a drag so I decided to just wander around the larger grass area with the big coil for a bit and then get out of there.
This area is not set up for any kind of sports from what I could tell, I believe it is mostly used for dog walking but it is not fenced off.
Pretty big, too, but last time I was here I walked around and found a few coins but not much else to speak of, even trash.
I rubbed the four leaf clover taped to the side of my control box, took a deep breath and started walking out toward the middle of this grassy part, intending to dig all signals out and then on the way back to the truck before I called it a day.
I kept walking, swinging that coil in as large an arc as I could manage, but only found few more zincolns, some more trash and then I turned around and headed back to the parking lot.
Got a pretty solid tone, but my knob was below zinc so I figured another piece of can slaw or maybe a pull tab because in this park in this dirt some of those come in that high.
I'm digging it anyway, and zeroed in with my Propointer and opened a small hole.
About 3 inches down I see and pulled out a beaver tail, rats...but I scanned the hole again before I closed it up and now I had a nice clear signal still discing out below zinc.
Hmmm...another tab or can slaw, I guessed, but when I put my Propointer in the hole I got a signal about one half inch down in the side wall mixed in with the grass.
I started to pull the grass apart and that is when I saw it...a nice golden curve of part a ring, and I got excited.
I kept saying to myself out loud...be gold...be gold...be gold...luckily nobody was near me at the time to hear the crazy man babble.
I pulled it out of the grass, stood up and poked the dirt clod and grass out from the middle but by this time I knew before looking for a mark...Gold Baby!
A nice one, it was just too clean and clear and shiny not to be real.
The old eyes aren't as good as they used to be but I carry a cheap magnifying glass around for just such occasions and zeroed in on that lovely number, 14K, and those faded but still beautiful words, "Circle of Love"
I should say so!...And I did the dance!
A nice, woman's, double accented 14K wedding band.
5.6 grams.
A great day for me, the gold dam is broken and I hope much more to come!
HH
The Vaquero is one sweet machine.
great job