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Hap Hazard Finds? Anyone?

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ironsight

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OK, with cabin fever and all, been thinking of my weirdest silver finds. This one kept coming up which occurred last year.

Decided to hunt that day between the storms at a local pounded park where i've found some silver before.

Got a iffy silver ID on the eTRAC. Conduct bounced around 45 but the ferrous reading bounced from 18 into the 20s but never seemed to hit towards 35.
Got a good 2 way reading so decided to dig.
Since the depth indication was around 9 to 10 inches, i initially dug a good 6 inch deep hole.

Stuck the pin pointer in that 6" hole...absolutely nothing.
Excavating another couple inches produced a %$^ broken whiskey bottle.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/botttle1_zps3bf2e35d.jpg

Dug another couple inches then stuck the pin pointer down at the bottom of the hole. It came alive!
Now i was expecting the bottle cap but to my surprise i dug this up.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/nail2_zps3da341dc.jpg

Just for kicks now, i stuck the pin pointer in the hole again and it detected more metal in the hole.
Has to be that whisky bottle cap.
Wrong,
it was an old corroded .22 spent cartridge case. That coupled with the nail had to be the iffy silver reading i got. No more metal detected in the now foot deep hole so i filled it and neatly replaced the plug back good as new.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/case3_zps146bc324.jpg


Now i always re-sweep an abandoned or junk re-filled hole but the storm clouds were quickly approaching with thunder in the background and it started to drizzle.
So i decided to leave. In fact i started to walk back to my Jeep.

Something compelled me to return and re-sweep the plug, thunder, lightning, rain or no rain.
Holy s__t!: I got a solid 2-way 12-46 near the edge of the plug in the area where i piled the dirt from the hole AND the depth indication was on the surface.

My 5th silver coin of that season laying right on top of the turf.
Only thing i surmise is it came out with the initial dig pile and i missed it somehow with the pin pointer.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/dime4_zps2626def1.jpg

Moral of this here story, re-sweep your re-filled holes.
 
always ... great save
 
if theres something good down there, the etrac will let you know about it, thats for sure. even if its mixed in with junk. thats why it pays to just dig if you think its telling you something good might be down there. i couldnt take it anymore and i went out today. I was dismayed as I got to one of my good sites. The snow was much, much deeper than I expected, shin deep or deeper. Im not exagerating. I cranked up the manual sens. to 28 and gave it a shot and I will say that today I learned two things, one, I need to crank my manual up more, and two, the etrac is a very, very impressive machine. Even with 5" average (no exaggeration) of snow i sniffed out a plated chain, and a cross, and a button. I had to shovel snow out with my feet to get close to the ground to see if I was falsing, or getting a real reading. Really painful, fairly quick hunt ( 2 hr or so) but I learned some things today! My feet were soaked and freezing before I even started swinging.
 
My Etrac likes to suprise me, digging an iffy signal one way but solid another produce's a clad quarter with a nail laying on it. Picnic pavilion with a ton of trash. Amazing machine. Getting to the point I do not second guess it.
 
Great finds! Be careful that broken bottle can cut your finger. I almost hurt myself when I dig hole and a piece of glass there!
 
I sliced the heck out of my hand once on a peice of glass. After that day I always have a glove on my "digging" hand.
 
last summer I was digging at a church with my tesoro and out popped an older style razor blade with the razor still in it. I felt VERY lucky my diggin hand didn't find the razor end but found the handle first.........
 
I have come upon underground electrical wiring that I almost hit with my digging tool.
 
moonshine said:
if theres something good down there, the etrac will let you know about it, thats for sure. even if its mixed in with junk. thats why it pays to just dig if you think its telling you something good might be down there. i couldnt take it anymore and i went out today. I was dismayed as I got to one of my good sites. The snow was much, much deeper than I expected, shin deep or deeper. Im not exagerating. I cranked up the manual sens. to 28 and gave it a shot and I will say that today I learned two things, one, I need to crank my manual up more, and two, the etrac is a very, very impressive machine. Even with 5" average (no exaggeration) of snow i sniffed out a plated chain, and a cross, and a button. I had to shovel snow out with my feet to get close to the ground to see if I was falsing, or getting a real reading. Really painful, fairly quick hunt ( 2 hr or so) but I learned some things today! My feet were soaked and freezing before I even started swinging.
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Yeah, manual sens. is the only way to go, don't leave home without it!
Finding a few keepers in 5 inches of snow is well, just amazing!

Far as glass and other 'slicing' 'stabbing' junk in the hole, i personally never ever dig without gloves! Once bitten, never forgotten.
Then there was this one time i disturbed one of those aggressive bull snakes in some tall grass, dam thing kept attacking the coil.
Better the coil than my hand! :lol:
 
Last summer I dug a solid 12:45 under a big tree at an old park along a river. Usually 12:45 in my area is clad Canadian penny. Depth indicator showed 6". Dug the plug, stuck the pinpointer in the hole and it went off. Dug another two inches or so and out popped a 1960's Canadian penny. Surprise surprise. As I began to fill the hole in, I noticed an odd shaped rock sticking out the side of the hole. Pulled it out....arrowhead!
 
Wow, that is one cool arrow head and in great condition too! :thumbup:

Thanks for reminding me of a 'chance find' i had last Summer. Coming up shortly.

Again, congrats on that arrow head find.
 
~ACE~'s arrow head chance find reminded me of a chance find i had last year in a large school ground area where they have an annual carnival during the Summer.

I got a strong shallow 11-47/48 ID using my Sharpshooter Coil at the time. Was expecting another clad Quarter but what i dug up was a large piece of brass or copper junk.
Was ready to fill in the hole when i saw this embedded at the bottom of the plug. Couldn't miss it, it was glistening in the sun. The way its cut, looks like it fell out of a ring.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/3BlueStone_zps10698e8c.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/2BlueStone_zps9f785fe0.jpg
 
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