Been hunting a school in my ID hometown that will kick out a silver or old nickle about every 10 hours of hunting. It's nice because I can just relax and not have to deal with homeowners and their neighbors wonder what I'm up to. I've hammered the place, but every time I go back I find more stuff: clad, nails, 30-40 Krag brass, etc.
The soil is always moist, so when I get a silver signal, I immediately discount it, as zinc pennies in this soil often give a CO reading of 46/47 on my Etrac. So when I got two iffy silver signals within 3' of each other, I almost passed them by. After three years of hunting, I have more than $150 in clad and only 8 silvers to my name, so you can see how I don't always believe what my machine is telling me. For Etrac users: the dime was reading 8 40; the quarter 17 46. Both were between 8-10".
Anyway, a seated was at the top of my list, and the silver Canadian was quite a surprise. My town wasn't settled until the 1870's, so such an old coin is very rare.
The soil is always moist, so when I get a silver signal, I immediately discount it, as zinc pennies in this soil often give a CO reading of 46/47 on my Etrac. So when I got two iffy silver signals within 3' of each other, I almost passed them by. After three years of hunting, I have more than $150 in clad and only 8 silvers to my name, so you can see how I don't always believe what my machine is telling me. For Etrac users: the dime was reading 8 40; the quarter 17 46. Both were between 8-10".
Anyway, a seated was at the top of my list, and the silver Canadian was quite a surprise. My town wasn't settled until the 1870's, so such an old coin is very rare.