Silver dime trifecta with an international flavor.

[LDC]

Set out saturday morning to meet up with Sooper Dave for a marathon hunt. When I arrived at our meet up spot after a 40 min drive, I realized I left my Etrac battery on it's charger......again. I figured this may be a bad omen, but luckily I had my backup sled and purchased a Y2K supply of AAs at Dollar General. Went to an abandon home that has been hunted many many times, but as legand has it, Sooper Dave once, (earlier that week) pulled a 1839 Half dime from the premises. Lot's of trash and very few good signals, after an hour I got a 7"-8" jumpy wheat-like signal but with a higher tone, turned out to be my best find of the day a 1886 Silver Canadian dime. We spent another hour and a half hunting without much luck, I decided to move to the driveway area which had lots of gravel around it and digging was tough. I was just a couple feet away from Dave's truck when I got borderline wheat/dime type signal, packed around a bunch of gravel was a silver rim! It turned out to be a real nice 1914 Barber dime, (probably the best condtion BD I've found) I was surprised it stayed that clean around all that gravel. I didn't have much luck in the afternoon besides a couple wheats and an in field minnie ball, Dave got a nice CW button. At our last house in the evening I managed an Indian and a Merc, to round out a nice day of detecting.

Thanks for looking

HH

 

[AJ in PA]

Wow, you had a great day! Congrats on the Trifecta and that Barber dime is NICE. Happy Hunting

 

[Sooper Dave]

Big Congrats on that well deserved trifecta! You hunted hard to get those dimes. That Barber is in Awesome shape, and the Candian dime is an oldie far from home. I had a blast and hope we both get time to go out again soon.

 

[Goes4ever]

Amazing Finds! You dug more silver in a day than I have gotten in over a month. This has been a horrible yr for me

 

[NebTrac]

Awesome finds! Thanks for the story and the pictures.

NebTrac

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on some very nice finds - thanks for posting the story and the photo's !

 

[moonshine]

cool stuff! congrats on a fun hunt and thanks for the pics.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Wow talk about a great hunt! Congrats!

 

[Tenspeed]

What a nice group of finds. The barber is in great shape, and it looks like the Canadian isn't in too bad shape either.

I haven't had a three silver day in a while and only have twenty or so for the entire year. I did get two Friday when I took four friends to hunt an old fairgrounds I have permission to hunt in our town (four ETracs, one Safari/Sovereign). Four of the five of us ended up with silver (the fifth person is learning her new ETrac and found wheaties, but couldn't get her coil over silver), so it was a great day.

The ETrac is great at sniffing out silver in difficult areas.