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First Silver of the year with Ace 250

R

rifleman

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Living in Idaho at 6300', there is still a lot of snow and frozen ground. My step son just rented an old farm house on a very small piece of property in Twin Falls, ID. We went to visit him and as luck would have it, there was no snow and the ground was not frozen. I broke out my Ace 250 and right away started finding a lot of junk and some clad coins. My first good find was a 1945 Penney in VG condition in the front yard. I took a short break and then went to a small strip of ground along the driveway. Within 10 minutes I got a strong $1.00 signal that about knocked my headphones off. Down just 2" I pulled out a 1900 "O" Morgan silver dollar in VG condition. I was rather thrilled!. I checked the rest of the dirt strip and made no more good finds there. I went back to the small front yard and found a 1918 Merc in worn but readable condition. The next and last silver was a 1942 Merc in VG condition. There was quite a bit of trash. I ordered the 4.5" sniper coil and it came today. I can't wait to go back and cherry pick around the junk. I was pretty darn happy with my first hunt of the year. I only had about 2.5 hours. It was quite cold with a strong wind blowing, but was well worth the cold runny nose. None of the coins found are high dollar coins, but any time I find a silver dollar, I get a thrill down my leg that Obama only wished he could give me.

Best Regards, John K
 
Both of the dimes were San Francisco mints. Further checking have the Morgan dollar and 42 Merc in VF 30+ condition.

John K
 
Great Finds !!!!!! :clapping:

WHy is it that at 6300 NO SNOW

Hers in Pittsburgh its covered LOL

Good job hope you have many more
hunts just like it

Ron
Rangers Lead The Way
 
6300 feet has the snow, Twin Falls is at a much lower elevation. I wish there was no snow here. The ground is like one big ice cube. I can't wait to get back there with my sniper coil. I know there is more waiting. There is also an old farmhouse just down the road that is abandon. My step son is going to see if he can get me permission to search it. It has much more property and out buildings. I moved to Idaho from Arizona. There were far fewer old places to hunt where I lived in Arizona, not much grass for items to fall into and the ground was so hard that nothing seemed to go into it when dropped, so a lot was picked up by people just walking by. I dropped a couple of pennies in front of my home and they stayed on top of the dirt through rain storms and all else. They were there 6 months after I dropped them. I'm pretty excited to be in a much older area where things go into the ground to be found by some lucky person with a detector (hopefully me). I've been using the winter to do research on the area so I can hit the ground running once things thaw out a little.

Best Regards, John K
 
IT IS RARE TO FIND SILVER THESE DAYS. I REMEMBER HAVING COFFEE CANS OF FOUND SILVER. YOU PROVED IT'S STILL POSSIBLE. NICE FIND
 
1945 wheaty=nice, 1942 merc=sweet, 1918 merc=awesome, 1900 Morgan Silver Dollar =Totally awesome dude!!!:yo:Oh yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about!:please:That Ace 250 is a coin magnet!:garrett::detecting:Congrats on the great finds!:cheers:Thanks for sharing!:biggrin:Happy Hunting!:)
 
The Ace is an amazing detector for its price. The Morgan was only 2" down, the Penney about 4", one merc at close to 6", the other at about 4.5". The Ace gave great signals on the deeper coins. The silver all registered in the silver range and gave repeatable signals. I think the trick is to find areas that are old enough and have not been hunted to death. I'm pretty sure that no one hunted the old farm house property before. If they had, they would have found the Morgan. It was in the middle of a short and not very wide piece of dirt between the driveway and an old fence. It about knocked the earphones off me. There are exceptions, but most coins are at 6" or less. I have found deeper coins with high priced detectors, but very few. Most are under 6". I may miss a few with the Ace, but as simple as it is to use, I really don't mind. To me detecting is a relaxing thing. I hate having to worry about getting 6 dials or buttons right, looking at scales and/or numbers to check to see what a target is. My ears are not the best so listening for those faint tones is a pain also.
As most, I would like to find every coin in the area that I am coin shooting. Even with the best detectors, chances are you will leave one or two for the next person. To me detecting is about the fun, history and time spent researching. I'm not an old hat at detecting. I had a Garrett BFO years ago. I started detecting again about one year ago. I bought the Ace. I thought that my finds might be much better with a more expensive detector, so I bought an X-Terra 70 and a couple of coils. My finds were not really any better with the Minelab so I sold it. I just bought a large and small coil for the Ace. With the 3 coils, I should be able to do most of what I want to do. A Garrrett 2500 might be in my future with the depth multiplier coil, but I'm in no hurry. No matter what, I will not sell the Ace 250.

Best Regards, John K

P.S. It took more than a few hours to wipe the smile off my face after finding the Morgan. The 1918 Merc only added to it.
 
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