Got up early and made coffee, packed the cooler and the thermos, but decided my trip to my new site was not a good idea. It is too far to drive and if it is lousy detecting I would be wasting about 2 hours driving, not to mention $20.00 in gas. Went to old standby site number 1. Decided that if I find a real keeper within one hour I'd make the drive. Target 3 was the sterling and turquoise ring in the middle pic1. 4.19g. I had only been there for about 5 minutes so I decided to give it an hour, take a coffee break, and make the drive. Exactly 1 hour later I saw a mouse (pic 2), got scared, and left.
The drive was not as long as I thought it would be only 28 miles and I thought it would be closer to 40 so that was a bonus. Up in the mountains where the weather was beautiful and the view was pure dead brilliant! Started out in the bark chips. First target was a cool Chilean 1 Peso coin. Pic 3. Then a nickel, and another, and another, and another. I was beginning to think somebody had been there before and skipped all these nickels. Did all the areas that my stock coil could handle and found about 20 coins of which there was 1 wheat, 12 nickels, 3 quarters, 2 dimes and a few pennies. Took coffee break number two and put on the sniper coil. Got about 10 more nickels and a dozen or so other coins. I kept thinking every time somebody has had this experience they say if the other guy left nickels he left all the gold too. I was just about done with the main playground when I got a nice bright nickel signal under the swinging rings and out popped a cute little 10K ring (pic 1 again) with what I think is a little diamond. Looks like one under a loop. 1.67 grams if you're interested. Now I was quids in.
There were a lot of sports fields with a lot of hills that made very nice viewing areas for soccer, baseball, and football. I started out with the soccer field. My pockets were loaded with coins and I needed a break. Said to myself one more target and I'm going to eat lunch. As it often happens, the next target was a good one. The second 925 and turquoise ring of the day. It has the lighter blue stone and weighs 2.02 grams. Had a sandwich and a soda and counted up what I had so far. Made a quick calculation as to how many quarters I was away from 10 bucks worth and decided that would be my quitting point. It was only 12 coins. My calculations were wrong and I was short 3 quarters anyway. Final totals were 40 pennies, 26 nickels (a personal best!), 44 dimes, 37 quarters. I make it out to be 147 coins for $15.35, plus 3 keeper rings, plus a foreign coin for my book, plus a neato Mickey Mouse pendant. I guess today was even better than Thursday.
If you're interested I spent around 5 1/2 hours detecting.
Finally. I have been harping on everybody to pick up caps from Pepsi and Coke bottles and join their rewards programs. Pic 5 is what I got for 100 points from Coke. It was in my mailbox when I arrived home. I have found over 100 points lying on the ground while MDing since March plus 3 more today. Pepsi's rewards are even better and I just redeemed some points with them too. I'll post what I got when it arrives. FYI, You can redeem Pepsi points for almost anything at Amazon.com.
Long hunt. Long post. Think I'll take a long nap and then go out and get knackered. (OK, Ian?)
Chris
PS This is the first time a picture of me, or any portion of me, has appeared on the internet. Take a look at my fingertips in the picture with the Peso coin. They are raw! I won't be playing guitar for a while.
PPS I could go out tonight and hunt for a hour or so and probably have a 200 coin day but I think I am all detected out for a few days.
The drive was not as long as I thought it would be only 28 miles and I thought it would be closer to 40 so that was a bonus. Up in the mountains where the weather was beautiful and the view was pure dead brilliant! Started out in the bark chips. First target was a cool Chilean 1 Peso coin. Pic 3. Then a nickel, and another, and another, and another. I was beginning to think somebody had been there before and skipped all these nickels. Did all the areas that my stock coil could handle and found about 20 coins of which there was 1 wheat, 12 nickels, 3 quarters, 2 dimes and a few pennies. Took coffee break number two and put on the sniper coil. Got about 10 more nickels and a dozen or so other coins. I kept thinking every time somebody has had this experience they say if the other guy left nickels he left all the gold too. I was just about done with the main playground when I got a nice bright nickel signal under the swinging rings and out popped a cute little 10K ring (pic 1 again) with what I think is a little diamond. Looks like one under a loop. 1.67 grams if you're interested. Now I was quids in.
There were a lot of sports fields with a lot of hills that made very nice viewing areas for soccer, baseball, and football. I started out with the soccer field. My pockets were loaded with coins and I needed a break. Said to myself one more target and I'm going to eat lunch. As it often happens, the next target was a good one. The second 925 and turquoise ring of the day. It has the lighter blue stone and weighs 2.02 grams. Had a sandwich and a soda and counted up what I had so far. Made a quick calculation as to how many quarters I was away from 10 bucks worth and decided that would be my quitting point. It was only 12 coins. My calculations were wrong and I was short 3 quarters anyway. Final totals were 40 pennies, 26 nickels (a personal best!), 44 dimes, 37 quarters. I make it out to be 147 coins for $15.35, plus 3 keeper rings, plus a foreign coin for my book, plus a neato Mickey Mouse pendant. I guess today was even better than Thursday.
If you're interested I spent around 5 1/2 hours detecting.
Finally. I have been harping on everybody to pick up caps from Pepsi and Coke bottles and join their rewards programs. Pic 5 is what I got for 100 points from Coke. It was in my mailbox when I arrived home. I have found over 100 points lying on the ground while MDing since March plus 3 more today. Pepsi's rewards are even better and I just redeemed some points with them too. I'll post what I got when it arrives. FYI, You can redeem Pepsi points for almost anything at Amazon.com.
Long hunt. Long post. Think I'll take a long nap and then go out and get knackered. (OK, Ian?)
Chris
PS This is the first time a picture of me, or any portion of me, has appeared on the internet. Take a look at my fingertips in the picture with the Peso coin. They are raw! I won't be playing guitar for a while.
PPS I could go out tonight and hunt for a hour or so and probably have a 200 coin day but I think I am all detected out for a few days.
