diggin jimmy hoffa
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Got out Sunday with my detecting buddy and made our way across not 1, but 2 county lines.
Our goal for the day was to check out a couple of parks that I had recalled from my younger years. The first one was infested with can slaw and mosquitos. So many mosquitos in fact that we ended up smacking ourselves more so than swinging the detector. (ok a bit of exageration) I only pulled 1 coin out of this park that was established in 1920, and it ended up being a memorial penny. (gotta make the hunt count)
Onto the second park for the day.
This park was established in the mid 1800's and is probably 150 yards square. Directly across the street sits a 2 story school house with a date marker saying erected in 1885. I seen a guy walking towards the school house and asked if he was the owner and he replied no, but that the owner was probably awake and would most likely let us detect the property.
More on that part of the story later.
So anyways, we go on detecting this little park and I get a couple pieces of clad coins and then pop out a 1919 Wheatie (yeah I scalped it). That there's a good sign as there should be silver hiding somwhere nearby. My buddy was hitting the field area and I was making my way across the park towards some trees and met up with him in that area. Started making our way around when I got a quarter VDI that was jumping around and finally made the decision to dig. Got me a nice plug opened up and stuck my Propointer in and nothing. Swung the coil over the opened hole and again nothing. Ran my pinpointer across my ground cloth and Wham-o, it
Our goal for the day was to check out a couple of parks that I had recalled from my younger years. The first one was infested with can slaw and mosquitos. So many mosquitos in fact that we ended up smacking ourselves more so than swinging the detector. (ok a bit of exageration) I only pulled 1 coin out of this park that was established in 1920, and it ended up being a memorial penny. (gotta make the hunt count)
Onto the second park for the day.
This park was established in the mid 1800's and is probably 150 yards square. Directly across the street sits a 2 story school house with a date marker saying erected in 1885. I seen a guy walking towards the school house and asked if he was the owner and he replied no, but that the owner was probably awake and would most likely let us detect the property.
More on that part of the story later.
So anyways, we go on detecting this little park and I get a couple pieces of clad coins and then pop out a 1919 Wheatie (yeah I scalped it). That there's a good sign as there should be silver hiding somwhere nearby. My buddy was hitting the field area and I was making my way across the park towards some trees and met up with him in that area. Started making our way around when I got a quarter VDI that was jumping around and finally made the decision to dig. Got me a nice plug opened up and stuck my Propointer in and nothing. Swung the coil over the opened hole and again nothing. Ran my pinpointer across my ground cloth and Wham-o, it
