Since I retired a number of years ago my practice has been to hunt early mornings, with a hunting buddy usually, for 3-4 hours. And, I have stayed the course, mainly hunting for old coins and with pleasure, take any gold or silver jewelry that might come along. Like for many many years hunters like myself, the typical spots that for years and decades we've hunted have gotten to the point that finding a wheat cent is a good outing. And with the pandemic, little is being re-seeded, if one enjoys hunting clad, and door knocking is pretty much a no, no.
A couple days ago I had been re-hunting the curb strips along a very old, but highly visible spot with my F 75 and 5" DD coil. This length of blvd is a literal blanket of trash as it is on one of the streets that leads into a heavily used facility. As fate would have it, I did sniff out a 1912 wheat cent and 2 50's era Rosie dimes, along with a few modern, more recent dropped coins. For those of you that hunt in trash, if you don't have, you need to at least give Fisher's or Teknetics 5" DD coil a try. It is truly a laser.
Anyway, as I was leaving the site, I was glancing across a large, fenced, pristine field set up with several soccer goals and recalled when that area of barren ground fifteen or so years ago, including where I was now parked, was bulldozed and new sod brought in, streets, lighting and parking area's installed. In the middle of the area where some lighted parking is available is a fairly wide and a fairly long piece of ground that goes towards another part of the site.. I thought to myself, JUST FOR KICKS, why not hunt that stretch of ground.
Some of you are probably saying to yourself, why haven't you already? Well, mainly because it looks like a new modern area. The original ground was bulldozed and sand and new sod brought in and installed. Although not totally pristine, it is one of the few areas in our city that is regularly maintained. But, I thought, it might at least contain a few pieces of clad and maybe even, a chunk of jewelry. So, I made mental plans to give it a shot the next morning.
The next morning found me on the spot with my trusty ole Omega 8000 and its stock 10" concentric coil. I began a meandering, zig zag hunting pattern, just trying to get a feel for the spot and was recovering enough clad and cent coins to keep it interesting. About a hour into the hunt I recovered my first crusty green coin from about a 4" depth. A later determined 1906 IH. Shortly thereafter a wheat back shows up. Then, my highlight of the outing, from about 4" came a well worn 1907s Barber quarter. These older coins and all the clad and cents had all come from depths of 4" or less. All, from either in the sod, sod roots or the layer of sand. My last older target of the outing, however, came from down in the older ground, ground beneath the sod and sand layer. It turned out to be a nice 1914d Barber dime from all of 6" deep.
Just for kicks, we shouldn't judge a book by its cover. HH jim tn
A couple days ago I had been re-hunting the curb strips along a very old, but highly visible spot with my F 75 and 5" DD coil. This length of blvd is a literal blanket of trash as it is on one of the streets that leads into a heavily used facility. As fate would have it, I did sniff out a 1912 wheat cent and 2 50's era Rosie dimes, along with a few modern, more recent dropped coins. For those of you that hunt in trash, if you don't have, you need to at least give Fisher's or Teknetics 5" DD coil a try. It is truly a laser.
Anyway, as I was leaving the site, I was glancing across a large, fenced, pristine field set up with several soccer goals and recalled when that area of barren ground fifteen or so years ago, including where I was now parked, was bulldozed and new sod brought in, streets, lighting and parking area's installed. In the middle of the area where some lighted parking is available is a fairly wide and a fairly long piece of ground that goes towards another part of the site.. I thought to myself, JUST FOR KICKS, why not hunt that stretch of ground.
Some of you are probably saying to yourself, why haven't you already? Well, mainly because it looks like a new modern area. The original ground was bulldozed and sand and new sod brought in and installed. Although not totally pristine, it is one of the few areas in our city that is regularly maintained. But, I thought, it might at least contain a few pieces of clad and maybe even, a chunk of jewelry. So, I made mental plans to give it a shot the next morning.
The next morning found me on the spot with my trusty ole Omega 8000 and its stock 10" concentric coil. I began a meandering, zig zag hunting pattern, just trying to get a feel for the spot and was recovering enough clad and cent coins to keep it interesting. About a hour into the hunt I recovered my first crusty green coin from about a 4" depth. A later determined 1906 IH. Shortly thereafter a wheat back shows up. Then, my highlight of the outing, from about 4" came a well worn 1907s Barber quarter. These older coins and all the clad and cents had all come from depths of 4" or less. All, from either in the sod, sod roots or the layer of sand. My last older target of the outing, however, came from down in the older ground, ground beneath the sod and sand layer. It turned out to be a nice 1914d Barber dime from all of 6" deep.
Just for kicks, we shouldn't judge a book by its cover. HH jim tn