Snakes In The Hole And Silver Too :detecting:

[tabman]

I thought I'd get out and do some detecting this morning in this beautiful mid 50 degree weather since I took yesterday off to get ready to go to a football game. I started out with the F75SE with the Sharpshooter coil (tones 4H, 85 on sensitivity, 7 on discrimination, boost mode). Right off I found a chunky silver ring near a hedge row. It sounded good and give a ID number in the high 80's. The next target that I found was a 1964 Washington Quarter. It didn't give off a good tone and the VDI numbers where bouncing from silver to zinc. I was really surprised when I popped it out the ground. My ProPointer ran out of juice and when I went to the car to change the battery I also switched detectors. I grabbed my trusty, modded Cibola. My first couple of targets that I popped out of the ground were a couple of snakes. They was slow moving since they were in hibernation. My next target turned out to be a 1964 Rosie. It give off a sweet soft audio tone in the discrimination mode and give a real soft modulated 'woo' audio in the all metal mode when I checked the target. I knew that it was a good chance of it being silver from those two responses. My next find was a locket. It wasn't all that deep and it gave a good audio response. Along the way today I also found a few wheat pennies (1929, 1939, 1926, 1942, 1928, 1942, 1944). Wheat pennies keep me motivated to keep digging and looking. I figure if they're there, there must be silver there as well.

tabman

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Great silver day Gerald! I remember earlier this year pissing off a snake in midtown while chasing an early Wheat - You've never seen a white man jump backwards so fast! He was just a garter snake, so I was able to pick him up out of the hole to retrieve the Wheat, but that initial wriggling and once you find out it's not an earthworm...

Looks like you found a couple of rat snakes, no big deal...

Got a hunt lined up for tomorrow, but I will be in Knoxville for it - the park dates back to the 1830s so anything is possible!!! Monday is looking like a slogfest so have to get swing time in whenever possible this time of year!

 

[basstrackerman]

Nice hunt! Silver looks so good coming out of the ground!!

 

[D&P-OR]

Boy, those are HUGE night crawlers tab!-----Congrats on the finds.

 

[Fisher F75 Iowa]

Nice ring and charm, cool finds.

 

[Lakota]

Boys I would have been inclined to take the snakes home too But I am a big fan of reptiles and have had them as pets long then I have dirt hunted.

Big congrats on the silver Tab. Seems we have both been having a good go at it. Need to post mine up. Been lazy lately heh


Good luck out there boys,

Lakota

 

[tabman]

I don't know what kind of snakes they are, but when I was around 5 or 6 years old, a friend of mine and I used to catch ones like these by the coffee can full. When I got the measles my friend came to visit me at my house and asked my mom if it was OK for him to come in and play with me. My mom let him in and he went straight to my room where I was with a full coffee can of snakes for us to play with. We dump them out on my bed and we were having grand ole time until my mother and aunt opened the door and started screaming their heads off. After me and my friend got all of the snakes rounded up and he was shown the front door, they tore the room apart still looking for any snakes that we might have missed. Heck they even washed the bed linens and blanket.

tabman

 

[hershey1]

Nice finds Tab. It has been nice weather to detect in although I have not been in a while. We always called those ground snakes that were in the ground. HH

 

[tabman]

Nice finds Tab. It has been nice weather to detect in although I have not been in a while. We always called those ground snakes that were in the ground. HH

Thanks. I finally looked it up, it's a Rough Earth Snake. They primarily dine on Earthworms.

tabman