DirtFlipper
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Howdy,
Crowds or not, I just couldn't resist hitting the place again I was at Friday and had good luck. Since the weather was going to be nice, I just went early and left when it finally got too busy. On Friday's hunt, I recovered 18 Wheats, one Indian, and two silver, for 21 keepers. Total clad/Mems from that hunt was 33, so it was a pretty good keeper/clad ratio (for me). I was really surprised at the lopsided Wheats/silver ratio though - way higher than average for me! Well, it didn't get any better this time... But 18 Wheats was a new record for one hunt, one place for me, so that was fun.
Anyway, I ventured back out there, staying with the 8x6 SEF and conductive tones. I wandered around a bit more, but this time I was only finding Memorials! I made my way back to one tree where I recall having found the Indian Head Friday, and finally picked up my first Wheat for the day. I figured this spot warranted some more detailed searching, so I opted to just hang around the area of this one tree. The Wheats started coming then. I walked a line away from the tree and some distance away I got a deep sounding cent sound, and promptly recovered a 1980 Memorial from over six inches! Back to the tree I went.
Over the course of the next few hours I managed to recover 19 Wheats (hey, another new record!) and two Indian Heads. All from around the area of this one tree! I did finally squeak out one meager Merc that was hiding on edge, but I think that was just before finding the last Wheat of the day, so it was quite a run of no silver.
Another early hit in the day was the 1928 Minneapolis tag. It very tiny letters on the edge on back, it says 'Wendell Co' 'Mpls'. I think that company is still in business (they do stamping and custom minting). But I have no idea what this thing is for. Kinda odd - I know how old is, where it came from, who made, but not what it is! (any help?).
On the way back to my vehicle I also picked up a deeper signal, which turned out to be the Good For token. All it has is "N.T." on the back, so I've no clue where it's from. Should be an oldie though.
A couple targets worth mentioning - one was a three Wheat spill, all still neatly stacked together. Where they were stacked left some copper shine still, which was neat to see.
Another was a signal that had a very odd sound to it. It had some high, fluty tones to it, but had some lower thups mixed in. It repeated at 90 degrees, so I thought I'd investigate it. Got the plug open, and the probe rang out with a low tone. Flipped out the dirt and checked the pile with the probe, only to find the small tip of a beaver tail tab. I figured the size must have allowed it to squeak a bit. But I ran the probe in the ground again, and this time got a sweet sounding cent signal. That one turned out to be one of the Indian heads. Glad I checked it out!
Oh, and then when cleaning the Wheats, my heart stopped when I saw a '1914' through the dirt. But alas, no 'D' this time! Rats.
I figure this place must have been quite the silver producer back in the day. Probably most of that got pulled up with Eagle Spectrums and XLTs back in 80s/90s or so. Still, there's an amazing quantity of signals remaining (from what I'm used to encountering at my other pounded places). But given the number of Wheats, I still like the odds of finding some older silver. And I do want to go back in ferrous audio and see what nickels I might be able to sniff out. That could be fun. But this hunt was all about high conductives. Ended up matching the Wheats with Mems, one for one. And 10 clad coins, so 22 keepers to 29 clad/Mem. Pretty happy with that. But overall 37 Wheats to 3 silver is brutal!
Thanks for looking.
HH,
DirtFlipper
Crowds or not, I just couldn't resist hitting the place again I was at Friday and had good luck. Since the weather was going to be nice, I just went early and left when it finally got too busy. On Friday's hunt, I recovered 18 Wheats, one Indian, and two silver, for 21 keepers. Total clad/Mems from that hunt was 33, so it was a pretty good keeper/clad ratio (for me). I was really surprised at the lopsided Wheats/silver ratio though - way higher than average for me! Well, it didn't get any better this time... But 18 Wheats was a new record for one hunt, one place for me, so that was fun.
Anyway, I ventured back out there, staying with the 8x6 SEF and conductive tones. I wandered around a bit more, but this time I was only finding Memorials! I made my way back to one tree where I recall having found the Indian Head Friday, and finally picked up my first Wheat for the day. I figured this spot warranted some more detailed searching, so I opted to just hang around the area of this one tree. The Wheats started coming then. I walked a line away from the tree and some distance away I got a deep sounding cent sound, and promptly recovered a 1980 Memorial from over six inches! Back to the tree I went.
Over the course of the next few hours I managed to recover 19 Wheats (hey, another new record!) and two Indian Heads. All from around the area of this one tree! I did finally squeak out one meager Merc that was hiding on edge, but I think that was just before finding the last Wheat of the day, so it was quite a run of no silver.
Another early hit in the day was the 1928 Minneapolis tag. It very tiny letters on the edge on back, it says 'Wendell Co' 'Mpls'. I think that company is still in business (they do stamping and custom minting). But I have no idea what this thing is for. Kinda odd - I know how old is, where it came from, who made, but not what it is! (any help?).
On the way back to my vehicle I also picked up a deeper signal, which turned out to be the Good For token. All it has is "N.T." on the back, so I've no clue where it's from. Should be an oldie though.
A couple targets worth mentioning - one was a three Wheat spill, all still neatly stacked together. Where they were stacked left some copper shine still, which was neat to see.
Another was a signal that had a very odd sound to it. It had some high, fluty tones to it, but had some lower thups mixed in. It repeated at 90 degrees, so I thought I'd investigate it. Got the plug open, and the probe rang out with a low tone. Flipped out the dirt and checked the pile with the probe, only to find the small tip of a beaver tail tab. I figured the size must have allowed it to squeak a bit. But I ran the probe in the ground again, and this time got a sweet sounding cent signal. That one turned out to be one of the Indian heads. Glad I checked it out!
Oh, and then when cleaning the Wheats, my heart stopped when I saw a '1914' through the dirt. But alas, no 'D' this time! Rats.
I figure this place must have been quite the silver producer back in the day. Probably most of that got pulled up with Eagle Spectrums and XLTs back in 80s/90s or so. Still, there's an amazing quantity of signals remaining (from what I'm used to encountering at my other pounded places). But given the number of Wheats, I still like the odds of finding some older silver. And I do want to go back in ferrous audio and see what nickels I might be able to sniff out. That could be fun. But this hunt was all about high conductives. Ended up matching the Wheats with Mems, one for one. And 10 clad coins, so 22 keepers to 29 clad/Mem. Pretty happy with that. But overall 37 Wheats to 3 silver is brutal!
Thanks for looking.
HH,
DirtFlipper
But in the end, after three years of hunting, my totals ratio is around 5 wheats/1 silver coin. You've got a great spot, and it does sound like that area has been hunted by other md'ers years ago. Heck, all my spots I've been detecting have been hammered since the 80's by md'ers. They sure left a lot of goodies for me to find!! 
Looks like they left a lot for you too. Your spot is definitely going to require numerous trips....I like places like that!!! And with those injuns in the mix, I think barbers/V's are hiding there too.