There ain't much detecting time left in 2008. Had a few nice days in a row so here are the past four hunts. Nothing spectacular but a lot of fun and a lot of clad and very little else.
Thursday. Site less than 1 mile from home. Heavily hunted by everybody within 50 miles. Best finds: Beat up metal baseball merit badge.
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Friday. Site about 10 miles from home. Heavily hunted by me and as far as I can tell nobody else. Best find was two 10 cent coins from East Caribbean whatever. A foreign coin spill of sorts. Why anybody was carrying around a pocketful of these coins around here is beyond me.
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Saturday. New site. 15 miles from home. Decided to detect until I got soaked with rain. It was exactly 2 hours. Check out the huge percentage of quarters. New site so I cherry picked it after a while. Most everything was deeper than 4 inches. Wet clay ground. I'll return soon or early next year. Best finds Cracker Jack ring and 41 quarters.
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Today. Headed out to try to find someplace to site in my new rifle for deer season. Shot all morning. Finally got her tuned up. I love shooting almost as much as detecting. I rarely shoot a deer but if I get a shot at something good I take it. Stopped on the way home back to the site from Thursday. Tried a new corner of the park. Right toward the end of the hunt I hit a silver dime and 3 wheats back to back to back to back. As I said this site is extremely heavily hunted so this was very surprising to me. In fact it is my first ever silver coin there! The dime was down around 7 inches. Indicated size B and 5 inches which is fairly normal for deeper coins. 1950. The wheats were 44, 45, 53D.
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Total is 251 coins. $26.02.
Trying to get to Philadelphia again later this week. Hopefully I'll detect a time or two down there.
Chris
Thursday. Site less than 1 mile from home. Heavily hunted by everybody within 50 miles. Best finds: Beat up metal baseball merit badge.
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Friday. Site about 10 miles from home. Heavily hunted by me and as far as I can tell nobody else. Best find was two 10 cent coins from East Caribbean whatever. A foreign coin spill of sorts. Why anybody was carrying around a pocketful of these coins around here is beyond me.
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Saturday. New site. 15 miles from home. Decided to detect until I got soaked with rain. It was exactly 2 hours. Check out the huge percentage of quarters. New site so I cherry picked it after a while. Most everything was deeper than 4 inches. Wet clay ground. I'll return soon or early next year. Best finds Cracker Jack ring and 41 quarters.
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Today. Headed out to try to find someplace to site in my new rifle for deer season. Shot all morning. Finally got her tuned up. I love shooting almost as much as detecting. I rarely shoot a deer but if I get a shot at something good I take it. Stopped on the way home back to the site from Thursday. Tried a new corner of the park. Right toward the end of the hunt I hit a silver dime and 3 wheats back to back to back to back. As I said this site is extremely heavily hunted so this was very surprising to me. In fact it is my first ever silver coin there! The dime was down around 7 inches. Indicated size B and 5 inches which is fairly normal for deeper coins. 1950. The wheats were 44, 45, 53D.
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Total is 251 coins. $26.02.
Trying to get to Philadelphia again later this week. Hopefully I'll detect a time or two down there.
Chris
