Jason in ID
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My uncle stopped in to where I work the other day and I showed him my etrac. He was interested in how it works, especially how deep I've been finding coins. He detected a lot in the 80s and 90s and we planned a hunt for last Wednesday. Our goal for the day was to hit an old campground that I researched last winter. We started early in the morning at a local park. I went under some trees by a picnic shelter. There was quite a bit of trash but not enough to try a smaller coil. Right off the bat I found five wheats and the 1918 buffalo. A lady was walking by and told us on the other side of the park there was a spot where food vendors used to sell their goods. We started in that direction and I got a silver signal. I got the target out of the hole and couldn't see silver anywhere, but there was this piece of garbage that looked like the end of a balloon that made my probe go off. I examined it and saw a silver rim in the middle of the balloon. I broke a piece of the balloon off and identified the dime as a rosie. I left it as it was until I could take a picture because I thought it was really neat.
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It turned out to be a '46-s. We tried the vendor spot but it had been re-landscaped so it was a bust.
We then headed up to the campground. After securing permission from the owner, we hit a part of the campground that is no longer in use, thinking this would be the best place because they stopped using it in the 40s. That was the most disappointing place I've ever hunted. It looked like the perfect place to hunt because there was a lot going on there for 35 years but there weren't any metal objects in the ground. Not a single one! I'm dumbfounded as to why that was. It didn't look like they had added any dirt, but there is a chance they removed some. Maybe someday I'll figure it out but I was absolutely disgusted that nothing was there.
We went to the newer part and the ground was plastered with good targets. After digging several coins, I stopped digging anything shallower than 3". I found two wheats in the same hole and the merc about 5' away. Then I found another wheat and then the silver started showing up. I dug two rosies and then got a solid 12-47 target. I told my uncle that I'd bet anything it was a silver quarter. Sure enough, it was a '52-s. Twenty minutes later, I got a blip of a high signal so I went over the target again and got a solid null. I opened my screen up and it bounced between 1-44 to 1-47 with almost every pass of my coil. I dug my plug and the target was right in the middle of the hole. I brushed back some dirt and saw big silver in the hole. I called my uncle over to show him before I pulled it out. It was a '45-s walker.
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I was really excited to pull that one out. I guess I didn't have that area open on my screen and was lucky enough to have checked it. A few minutes later I got a 12-46 signal at 3" and dug a hole to get the clad quarter out. It turned out to be a rosie. In the two hours that we hunted there, I pulled three wheats and six silvers. We tried a couple of other places but neither of them worked out so we came home. After seeing the etrac perform in the field, my uncle decided it was time to retire his 80s model detector and get an etrac.
My total take for the day was a '45-s walker, a '52-s quarter, a '35-d merc, '46-s, '52-s, '53-d, and 53-s rosies, an '18 buffalo, and 8 wheats, the oldest being a '37 from the park. I still can't believe that I found that much silver in one day. I guess researching new places to detect pays off. Thanks for reading.
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It turned out to be a '46-s. We tried the vendor spot but it had been re-landscaped so it was a bust.
We then headed up to the campground. After securing permission from the owner, we hit a part of the campground that is no longer in use, thinking this would be the best place because they stopped using it in the 40s. That was the most disappointing place I've ever hunted. It looked like the perfect place to hunt because there was a lot going on there for 35 years but there weren't any metal objects in the ground. Not a single one! I'm dumbfounded as to why that was. It didn't look like they had added any dirt, but there is a chance they removed some. Maybe someday I'll figure it out but I was absolutely disgusted that nothing was there.
We went to the newer part and the ground was plastered with good targets. After digging several coins, I stopped digging anything shallower than 3". I found two wheats in the same hole and the merc about 5' away. Then I found another wheat and then the silver started showing up. I dug two rosies and then got a solid 12-47 target. I told my uncle that I'd bet anything it was a silver quarter. Sure enough, it was a '52-s. Twenty minutes later, I got a blip of a high signal so I went over the target again and got a solid null. I opened my screen up and it bounced between 1-44 to 1-47 with almost every pass of my coil. I dug my plug and the target was right in the middle of the hole. I brushed back some dirt and saw big silver in the hole. I called my uncle over to show him before I pulled it out. It was a '45-s walker.
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I was really excited to pull that one out. I guess I didn't have that area open on my screen and was lucky enough to have checked it. A few minutes later I got a 12-46 signal at 3" and dug a hole to get the clad quarter out. It turned out to be a rosie. In the two hours that we hunted there, I pulled three wheats and six silvers. We tried a couple of other places but neither of them worked out so we came home. After seeing the etrac perform in the field, my uncle decided it was time to retire his 80s model detector and get an etrac.
My total take for the day was a '45-s walker, a '52-s quarter, a '35-d merc, '46-s, '52-s, '53-d, and 53-s rosies, an '18 buffalo, and 8 wheats, the oldest being a '37 from the park. I still can't believe that I found that much silver in one day. I guess researching new places to detect pays off. Thanks for reading.
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