I'd been itchin' to hunt all week. I told the wife that "I'd really like to go hunt sometime this afternoon." After church we came home and ate lunch. Then we did some measurements on where the basement floor is going to go for the new house. Things dragged on and it was almost dark. I told her, "I don't know when I'll be back, but I'm going to go swing."
Pulled into the field of what were soybeans this year. Soybeans are WAY easier to swing in than cornstalks anyday. This field is in 30" rows and is ditched for irrigation. So your swing and stance is more sideways and you use a Zig-Zag pattern. Along one row edge you Zig one way, then Zag back down the center and follow up with a Zig back down the row closest to your feet. This is what works well for me, but is harder on your arm and hips.
Using TTF the high tones are mainly shotgun headstamps, .22 short casings and bits of aluminum. I dig every non-ferrous high tone in these places. Finally I get another high tone that I play around with a while pinpointing it, on the last swing over the target I kind of remember 01-38. I used my trenching spade and dug a wide plug. Nothing in the plug, so I fired up the X-1 and it said it was in the side of the hole. By now its pitch dark with just the backlight on, I finally get the target out. Shake some dirt off and remember thinking. "Well, at least its round".
As I made my way back to the car, I kept thinking. If its a silver half, I hope its seated, as I've pulled 2 seated coins out of this field and have never found a seated half. Finally get to the car and all I had to wash anything off was a little Mountain Dew (the soda....not the other). Rinsed enough off and out peaked "Morgan's" version of lady Liberty. WOW!!!! In 5 years of hunting this is the second one I've found. After the 1878 I found back in 2000, I really never expected to unearth another. This one is an 1897 o mintmark. The coin was in the bottom of the ditch between the rows about 7 inches deep. I could've gouged as it was dark, but I feel most of the marks were from the tillage equipment. [attachment 301909 IMG_5379.jpg] [attachment 301910 IMG_5380.jpg]
This was over an area I'd been through a dozen times. The rest of the hunt went quickly and I did manage the '01 Indian. Thanks for looking and reading a long story.
NebTrac
Pulled into the field of what were soybeans this year. Soybeans are WAY easier to swing in than cornstalks anyday. This field is in 30" rows and is ditched for irrigation. So your swing and stance is more sideways and you use a Zig-Zag pattern. Along one row edge you Zig one way, then Zag back down the center and follow up with a Zig back down the row closest to your feet. This is what works well for me, but is harder on your arm and hips.
Using TTF the high tones are mainly shotgun headstamps, .22 short casings and bits of aluminum. I dig every non-ferrous high tone in these places. Finally I get another high tone that I play around with a while pinpointing it, on the last swing over the target I kind of remember 01-38. I used my trenching spade and dug a wide plug. Nothing in the plug, so I fired up the X-1 and it said it was in the side of the hole. By now its pitch dark with just the backlight on, I finally get the target out. Shake some dirt off and remember thinking. "Well, at least its round".
As I made my way back to the car, I kept thinking. If its a silver half, I hope its seated, as I've pulled 2 seated coins out of this field and have never found a seated half. Finally get to the car and all I had to wash anything off was a little Mountain Dew (the soda....not the other). Rinsed enough off and out peaked "Morgan's" version of lady Liberty. WOW!!!! In 5 years of hunting this is the second one I've found. After the 1878 I found back in 2000, I really never expected to unearth another. This one is an 1897 o mintmark. The coin was in the bottom of the ditch between the rows about 7 inches deep. I could've gouged as it was dark, but I feel most of the marks were from the tillage equipment. [attachment 301909 IMG_5379.jpg] [attachment 301910 IMG_5380.jpg]
This was over an area I'd been through a dozen times. The rest of the hunt went quickly and I did manage the '01 Indian. Thanks for looking and reading a long story.
NebTrac
