Goldstrike
Well-known member
My permanent home is Southern California and I have a married daughter here in the Pekin area of Illinois, so I'm here with my wife helping out her family due to the birth of our 7th grandchild earlier this week!. I went out metal detecting for the first time since we arrived here and the pickings were very slim! The weather has been hot and very humid so it's no fun to be outdoors....ugh! I guess that's why I'll never leave dry SoCal to live anywhere else!
I was thinking of all the awesome finds posted on this particular forum and it seems like hardly anyone is posting those kind of finds anymore? I'm thinking of the nice/heavy gold rings and yes, some really nice silver rings and jewellery. There has been some awesome coins and relics posted in the past but lately, no one seems to be getting those kinds of finds anymore? Is it the weather? Is it because there is more competition out there?
If you scroll through past posts, you will notice very successful detectorists that no longer post finds and I'm not sure if that's perhaps why we see less fresh posts?
Anyway, your thoughts please!
P.s. I just evicted a tenant for non payment of rent from one of my rental properties here so I'll be fixing and painting a trashed apartment for the next 2 weeks as well as helping with the 4 other grandkids here! So I doubt I'll have much time for detecting myself! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it lol!!!
I was thinking of all the awesome finds posted on this particular forum and it seems like hardly anyone is posting those kind of finds anymore? I'm thinking of the nice/heavy gold rings and yes, some really nice silver rings and jewellery. There has been some awesome coins and relics posted in the past but lately, no one seems to be getting those kinds of finds anymore? Is it the weather? Is it because there is more competition out there?
If you scroll through past posts, you will notice very successful detectorists that no longer post finds and I'm not sure if that's perhaps why we see less fresh posts?
Anyway, your thoughts please! P.s. I just evicted a tenant for non payment of rent from one of my rental properties here so I'll be fixing and painting a trashed apartment for the next 2 weeks as well as helping with the 4 other grandkids here! So I doubt I'll have much time for detecting myself! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it lol!!!
