Re: :minelab: Many of my silver finds for the last ten years... Enjoy

[Philo_NY]

How the silver multiplies when you hunt with a ... Had all my silver in a couple of cigar boxes and this is what I spread out on a small table...

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Here are some close ups

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Never thought I had these many Merc

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These are this years digs thanks to the SE Pro/ First Seated Quarter/ One from Michigan, but it's missing in action...

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My finds don't include my near mint state Barbers I've dug including an awesome Standing Liberty, but they are missing in action for now, and when I find them I will post all the very nice choice silver I've dug through the years

My first Gold Coin... 2 1/2 dollar 1911 Indian Head, at about 10" inches deep and lots of iron around it.... Dug using the Explorer II however

 

[Hotcz70]

enjoy I DID

Thanks for sharing...and it truly shows what the Explorers are capable of in the right hands.

Keep up the good work...and keep the posts coming

 

[Bell-Two]

My oh my what a wonderful sight to see. What an array of lovely coins and congratulations on finding them all!

 

[Bobby Moyers]

Great Finds! You spent some time in the field with your detector and it paid off! Your finds for one year alone are amazing! Congratulations!!!

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

n/t

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Very nice collection. Gotta ask how many of your SLQ's have a date on them? I hopw the next ten years are just as good for you. GL & HH.

Eddie

 

[Philo_NY]

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Look and listen to a lot of up loaded videos, read books and mags, listen to suggestions from seasoned hunters like Bryce, Guvner, Chapman, Moutay, and many other friends and fellow hunters.
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BUT... Be patient, there will be days you will find not a thing of interest or of value, but if you look at your finds and try to remember how its signals sounded, your way ahead of the game because you came from that hunt with the experience of a spot that had absolutely nothing in respect of what you were looking for, but you tried, tested, and experimented, and you now know that you need to move on to another site or area.
BUT... Again... There have been times when I have returned to a so call hunted out area I had hunted before and hit big silver, because its in the angle of the swing that is important, why??? Who knows man... a signal is not heard as you go north or north west, and yet, you come by at an eastern position and bang, there's the sweetest sound you ever heard, and you say, how did I missed that, or really how did anyone missed that big round silver sound as Bryce calls it...

When I make a find... I make a circle to the right or left and go for about ten feet either way and return and again in different angles, and have made nice finds this way...

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Keep that coil to the ground and listen carefully, try as many different patterns on your machine, and test and test again, till you get patterns that works for you. Learn your hunting grounds, because what might work at one, might not work at another site,

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This is gold I dug at the beach I think two years ago...

Hope this helps, because all this info from seasoned hunters, that have been out there for years and you guessed it, Research, Trial, Experiment, and Test, repeat... repeat, practice makes perfect...

There's also a thing called luck... You just happen to be at the right spot at the right time and angle... LOL. and there it was under your coil. What is for you, is for you, and no one can take it from you... That's what my mother used to say to me always, in all walks of life... HH...

Philo_NY

 

[Dave-IL]

Thats a good 10 years Philo-NY. Good luck on the next 10.

 

[toprightcorner]

Wow... that is truly impressive.... and inspirational.

Congrats!!

No wonder I haven't been able to find a SLQ... you found them all.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Idaho PRB]

That's truly impressive! Thanks for sharing with us............ Your not helping cabin fever, however.

 

[Great Republic]

Wow! That looks like treasure to me. Nice!

 

[NebTrac]

Fantastic 10 yrs worth. Thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac

 

[Philo_NY]

n/t

 

[Bell-Two]

Philo posted: BUT... Again... There have been times when I have returned to a so call hunted out area I had hunted before and hit big silver, because its in the angle of the swing that is important, why??? Who knows man... a signal is not heard as you go north or north west, and yet, you come by at an eastern position and bang, there's the sweetest sound you ever heard, and you say, how did I missed that, or really how did anyone missed that big round silver sound as Bryce calls it...

This is a lesson I learned too, my wife and I went to a park that I have hunted a few times and had only found clad and when I asked a "seasoned" hunter I was told in a kindly manner "My buddies and I hunted out that park years ago when everything you found was silver" and others attested to the same thing that if you found a wheatie there you were doing good. Well one Sunday afternoon my wife and I wanted to get out a bit so we went there to hunt, she made the first find, a 1908 Barber dime, I then hit a wheatie and then made this find a 1912-D Barber half. So no matter who tells you or what your previous experience has been at a site.....there are probably goodies there to be found.

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[captn_se]

Man, I just love seeing all that silver laid out on the table like that!!!

Very, very impressive display!! And I definitely know all the hard work(but most enjoyable work) you did to find each and every one of those coins!!

If that silver could talk...what would it say? Thank you for allowing me to see the "light" after being buried all these years!!!

Thanks for posting, Philo!!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Philo_NY]

Yep... A park is never hunted out, and those finds prove the angle theory... and now I'll add that erosion and the removal of small trees or if trees and smaller tree topple over and taken away.... goodies could be near or around such areas. It looks to me like there was some erosion there as one can see the down grading occurring. But, that's what I was talking about. I was in an old section of a park and worked my way ever so slowly in a westward path, and did not hear a peep from my detector except for the null of iron... as I went over the mound, I felt like I should try the mound in a different direction, and when I went back over the mound in the opposite direction, that's when I got the nice sweet signal of silver and low and behold it was a Barber Half...

I have spoken with a geologist, and he was explaining to me about how Air Pressure, Barometric Pressure, and how Erosion effects objects in the soil and the sand.. eg; rocks, iron, coins, shells, jewelry and wood, which move around in either direction including up and or deeper in the soil. So every year an area may be different in respect to how coins have moved around, whether it be side to side, or up or down. The same thing happens to gold and other objects at the beach or in the bay. A person lost their wedding ring at one beach and a detectorist hunting about 40 miles away at another beach dug the ring in the water, so it's amazing how stuff floats around the soil and in the sea bed... The hunting grounds and areas we hunt are being stripped of a lot of silver, however, there is so much silver and other targets left in certain places, so with research and a lot diligence one can find sweet spots now and again... HH...

Philo_NY