Saturday hunt at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

[akelley]

Hi All,
Sorry for my gap in posting, but frankly I kept hoping to find a silver coin or something worthwhile to post. Alas no silver but this past Saturday turned into a 7-hour detecting marathon at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I recovered 133 coins, including one Canadian penny, 1 wheat cent (1944 D), a copper ring, and one very heavy dog tag. I went to GGP again for a quick hunt and found my oldest coin to date, a 1924 S wheat cent. Fortunately I've found at least one wheat cent during my last 5-hunts and that's all the motivation I need to keep trying.

-Alex

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

Some days, if I find a Wheat Cent, that is a good day digging. Keep at it, the silver and older coins will come. HH...Jesse.

 

[moseng]

"Sounds like a fun time! Looks like you got some good stuff! What's that "SCK" thing? Anyway, GGP is old and freakin huge!! There must still be silver there for you to find, just gotta keep swingin! HH

 

[akelley]

"Whats that SCK thing" - well I think its a dog tag, and a very big, heavy one at that. The inscription reads "The Sak".

By the way - I've had some good feedback on how to improve my oldies count. One suggestion I'm going to try this weekend is to ignore signals below 6" in loose turf, and 3" in hardpan soil. After an hour or so my ears become biased toward the shallow, loud signals, and digging all them leaves less time and ground to recover the deep ones. Its hard to give up on clad, but I definitely want to find more silver and oldies than I'm currently finding. The proof in this idea will be in how many more oldies I post. I'll let you know.

-Alex

 

[sharpshooter]

FYI = "The Sak" is a brand of ladies hand bags.

 

[akelley]

FYI = "The Sak" is a brand of ladies hand bags.

Thanks! Did a quick search on their website, but didn't find anything as large as the one I found. Perhaps off of an older handbag that's no longer selling

-Alex