Made it to my goal today!

[Mason Jarr]

I started this year with a goal of 50 pieces of silver and 200 Wheat cents. A few weeks ago, I got to my goal with the cents. I've been looking at this great older house in my town and knew it would probably have a few goodies, but I never could catch the owner when he was home. Yesterday I finally saw a truck there and stopped to knock on the door. He was a great guy and told me to go ahead and hunt all I wanted to. So this morning I went there around 9:00 before it started getting too hot. I had 47 silver coins when I began. After carefully gridding the medium sized yard, I ended up pulling exactly three silvers from there. So I made my goal of 50. I hope I'll get a few more this season, but I don't really have a new goal. I have some other interests that start kicking in around mid-September and keep me busy through the late winter, so my metal detecting time will get less...even though our ground is huntable into December most years. I sure feel satisfied with these 50 coins. This is my second full year of detecting and the first year I've found any silver. I used an E-trac for most of these finds, but upgraded to a CTX a couple of months ago (but I still have the E-trac and use it from time to time). I also picked up a bonus 25S buffalo and some more Wheats. My goal for the rest of this year is to try for a Standing Liberty quarter and/or my first Indian Head cent. Not that hard for some locales, but around my sites they're pretty hard to come by. Here's some pics:

Group shot of the keepers
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0720.jpg

The buffalo. That scratch was not from me!
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0721.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0723.jpg

Silver!
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0724.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0725.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0726.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/Mason_Jarr/DSC_0727.jpg

Thanks for looking and I hope you were successful if you got out today! Man, this heat is making it tough.

 

[runninnavaho]

Beautiful coins

 

[mudpuppy]

Congratulations! Man, that's some great photography you do on the coins...Are you sure you want to hang it up for the year? You know the best time to hunt is the Fall! I bet a dollar you can get 100 silvers and that would be very cool ...you evidently got silver coin hunting all figured out, you are on a roll, and like Capt Phil used to say, "stay on the crab!" Theres so many styles and ways to detect, this sport can keep a fellow busy!
Mud

 

[Dancer]

n/t

 

[Mason Jarr]

Congratulations! Man, that's some great photography you do on the coins...Are you sure you want to hang it up for the year? You know the best time to hunt is the Fall! I bet a dollar you can get 100 silvers and that would be very cool ...you evidently got silver coin hunting all figured out, you are on a roll, and like Capt Phil used to say, "stay on the crab!" Theres so many styles and ways to detect, this sport can keep a fellow busy!
Mud

Thanks. I bought a macro lens just for taking close-up photos. I also build custom predator hunting calls and sell them, so I needed the lens for that as well. I won't completely quit for the year, but I'm an avid big game hunter and will be busy with hunts from Sep 10th through late October. I also trap and that keeps me busy from November through February, so my time will definitely be less for MDing. I'd love to get to 100, but I'm the kind of person that, if I set a goal, I can't be at ease until I get to it. So, I'll just MD as I have the time and hopefully there'll be some more coins this year.

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[mtwolf2270]

Congrats awesome 50 silvers man wtg