James N.D.
New member
It was as always an excellent time and a lot of fun to be with the guys once again. We got the Hunt started off with the Half Dollar/Dollar Hunt which consisted of Sacagawea Dollars,Susan B. Anthony Dollars, a few Eisenhower Dollars and Kennedy Halves. No silver just clad in this warm-up hunt. I found 2 Eisenhower Dollars, 1 Susan B. Anthony Dollar, 9 Sacagawea Dollars, and 10 Kennedy Halves. Then we had lunch with Sausage, Hotdogs, Burgers, Chips, and you all kinds of other goodies. We then started with the 2nd Hunt which consisted with over I believe 1,700 Clad Quarters and I believe a few real Silver Dollars. This Hunt was a bit different. You couldn't cheat because Jeff had spray painted all the edges of the Quarters blue and no one knew this but him. The first ranked guy was paired with the last place guy and it went so on, so forth. The rankings were used from the Spring Hunt totals finds per person and used for this Hunt. I was the first ranked so got the last place person. I didn't care about who I really got, all I knew was I was going out there and no matter what, I was going to give it my best shot. There were cash prizes up for grabs and first place was I believe $60 which would have been $30 a piece. I noticed right before the Hunt was to get started that I had cracked my black arm cup on my Explorer. I was going to have Jeff wait until I put a new one on but I thought that it would hold up during this hunt and I could fix it after. WRONG!!! Half way thru it I snapped one side of the arm cup off. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to swing the detector without a arm cup. I finally found a way by putting the detector in my left hand (I am right handed) and grab the back of the machine with my right hand and do a swathing motion. There was a lot of people laughing because it looked like I was trying to cut hay but it worked. In fact, I could swing my detector just as fast as having an arm cup on my detector which was kind of shocking. Anyways, the figures were about 80 Quarters per person and I found 98 while my partner Mark found 42. Good hussle Mark! There was a tie for 3rd and 4th so we ended up getting 5th place out of 11th. Not bad considering I had a broken machine half way thru that hunt. Me and my partner got $13 a piece and it was a lot of fun. Then we waited a bit and had the last Hunt of the day. The Silver Hunt. I thought there was going to be more silver in it but look at the price of silver coins. It consisted of Halves, Quarters, and Dimes. I found 1 Walking Liberty Half, 1 Standing Liberty Quarter, 2 Washington Quarters, and 20 Roosevelt Dimes making a total of 24 Silver. Wish there would have been more Silver but look at all the Clad and the Cash Prize so it was a good Hunt once again. Then we had Finds of the Month. I got 3 1st place and received 3 Silver Roosevelt Dimes, a 2nd or 2, and a couple 3rd's I believe. I also got an extra 5 Points for my Morgan Dollar. We also had a raffle and I won a Silver Kennedy Half. I also won a Camper's Trail Kit as a membership prize with 5 being given out. Pic's are below.[attachment 33435 HuntHalves-Dollars.jpg][attachment 33439 HuntQuarters.jpg][attachment 33433 HuntSilver.jpg][attachment 33438 HuntPrizes.jpg]
I like those seeded hunts also, but I haven't been to very many. Fifth place ain't nothing to sneeze at and you did okay on the other prizes. Sorry to hear about your arm cup busting on you. I thought the black ones were suppose to be stronger than the older ones. Good luck on your next for real hunt and HH.
