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Garrett AT Pro :garrett: Wheat Pennies Spuring Me On :detecting:

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tabman

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I went back to same site again today and started working the outside edges. That area of the site doesn't get much foot traffic and is not as trashy. Right from the get go I found a bent 1941 Washington Quarter. Then I started digging wheat pennies (23 of them) left and right. I knew if I kept at it I'd find some more silver coins. I was running in the Pro Zero mode and the iron nails sounded like a Gatling Gun going off. I was listening for any part of a high tone to dig, no matter how little. My ears got to hurting. I finally got a clean high tone on a 1961 Rosie that was under a small bush next to the shrub bed. I've been saving the best area of the site that should produce the most silver coins for last. There's no doubt in my mind that there are scores of silver coins in the grassy area between the building and parking area, because it would have gotten the most foot traffic over the years. I also found cut off post of old clotheslines in that same grassy area. I decided to give it a little test action today before I left. Let me put it this way, there are silver coins in there for sure, BUT it's loaded with clad coins and iron nails as well. I got dizzy listening to all those tones in my ears. I dug a bunch of clad before finally corning a 1946 Rosie. When I go back, I'll have another detector. I'll set the discrimination just high enough to discriminate out nails and start to digging my way through all that mess. Tones and ID numbers are useless when it gets that thick with targets and trash. I've pull around 20 pieces of silver from this site in the last few days. I know this trashy area is going to be challenging but rewarding. Also there has to be some gold rings in that grassy area as well. I pumped but I need some rest before diving into the trashy mess.:)

tabman

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Good grief Gerald...Are you going to leave any silver for the rest of us? :rofl:

One thing I've learned about hunting this city is that Wheat pennies are almost everywhere - there must be several million still awaiting discovery in Shelby Co alone! You're in the right area - I think there must be a silver half in there somewhere!!!
 
You are seriously killing the silver at that spot!:surprised::drool: If anyone can work it, its YOU! I can smell the gold all the way up here!:clapping:
Mud
 
mudpuppy said:
You are seriously killing the silver at that spot!:surprised::drool: If anyone can work it, its YOU! I can smell the gold all the way up here!:clapping:
Mud
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Thanks. If you could see the 10 foot wide grassy strip between the parking area and the sidewalk that go to the back doors of numerous apartment units you'd be drooling all over yourself. Top that off that there used to be clotheslines in that grassy strip and it has been there for over seventy years. You just know that people have dropped bunches of good stuff going to and from their cars in that grassy area over a period of seventy years. There are lots of chances for them to lose something good like coming in drunk from a wild party, carrying bags of groceries, reaching into their pockets to pull out their keys, pulling off their gloves etc. Yeah there's gold and silver in that grassy area.:tongue:

tabman
 
CZconnoisseur said:
Good grief Gerald...Are you going to leave any silver for the rest of us? :rofl:

One thing I've learned about hunting this city is that Wheat pennies are almost everywhere - there must be several million still awaiting discovery in Shelby Co alone! You're in the right area - I think there must be a silver half in there somewhere!!!
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I can't believe that I haven't found a silver half there yet! I need to rub my Genie more and wish harder or should I rub my Genie harder and wish more.:)

tabman
 
You are right in your thinking there! In fact, I was thinking of how you hunt when I was stabbing massive quantities of solid Q's just the other day....sort of got mad at myself for passing on deeper crisp targets!...thinking, 'No way would Tab pass on this one!'....But for the essence of speed, I did..:sadwalk:

Maybe someday I'll tote you up into this place and sit back and watch you work..It would sure be a treat to me!...handcarved limestone curbs and the like, full of targets!...a real Tabmans delight! Super nice performance out of you here buddy!:thumbup:
Mud
 
Looks like you are performing some magic with that 5 x 8 coil. Showing your trash dispels the illusion, that metal detectorists go out and always come home with great targets, and newbies dig nothing but trash. The "BEST" hunters always dig a lot of trash!
 
John you're right, that little coil does great in trashy place. It is light to swing and has really good depth as well. I don't use the larger stock coil, because of its weight.

I'm super proud of my trash piles. :)

tabman
 
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