Thursday and Saturday (Nuthin' Special.)

[cwilk]

Here is how my Thursday started. I drove by my regular gas station and noted the price of gas. $3.31. I did about 1 hour of errands and drove by again $3.24. I gassed up and went detecting and when I drove by again 1 1/2 hours later it was $3.17. I went out later and detected for an hour and the price was still $3.17. Of note from hunt number two was my third roll of pennies for the year. Yes they were lost as a roll and using my trusty Pro-Pointer I got them all in record time. There were many stuck together. Latest date is 1999. Also a compass, big sinker, junk ring.

Onto today. Drove by the gas station and it was down to $3.10. Went detecting for 2 1/2 hours and it was down again when I drove by to $3.04. I had only driven 32 miles on that tank of gas so I couldn't gas up. Of note today was the lip bracelet which might be silver but it isn't marked so probably not. Bullet and shells. 1953 wheat. Arcade token. Check out the quarter and dime that were glued together. I bent my knife prying them apart. YAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNN..................................... I'm bored too.

I'm going down to Philadelphia to visit a favorite Aunt of mine a bit later in the week and of course I'm bring my GTI 2500. It will be my her first trip out of the state. Also going to the theatre, to visit the Mint and, and of course eat about a dozen cheesesteaks.

Final thought on the Pro-Pointer. I will take it on every hunt until it breaks or until I lose it or leave it laying on the ground some day. It is really a great help on at least 1/4 - 1/3 of my targets. Makes short work of coin spills and deep targets. Well worth the price, so if you haven't gotten one yet, start saving your clad.

Chris

 

[awhitster]

Nice finds. I was in Philly earlier this year. no time to hunt but saw some promising sites. I did visit the mint. You can't go in with a camera or camera phone so leave them in the car. If you can, got to Fort Mifflin by the airport. Lot of cool historic stuff to see. Leave the detector in the car

 

[cwilk]

I remember you going and our long discussion about cheesesteaks. I'm going mostly to go to the theatre and to the mint. My Aunt will probably want to go to the casino which I am no longer all that fond of but I can manage a couple of hours. I imagine my detecting will be the type of sites I am used to. Parks and schools. She has some ideas about sites too. One was an old gun club and I told her to think again. Imagine the thousands of shells and bullets. I hope the weather is good and that's about it. I am a few hundred coins from doubling my 2007 total. That is probably where I'll end 2008.

Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Lots of clad that you found..
A good hunt...

 

[lazyaussie]

looks like some good hunting Chris

 

[trueblue]

wide flucuations in the fuel price in a short period be hard done timin that for special looks like ya had a good time

 

[Graw]

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[thecrawford2008]

When you go to Philly - You have to stop by Geno's (Joey Ventos Place) -
Kicks the daylights outta Pats

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Just look at a real South Philly Cheesesteak

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[Uncle Willy]

Keep that PP in the holster. Passed a station today on the way to visit a friend outside of town and gas was $2.59. With the price of oil where it is gas should be $2.00 a gallon or less but the greedy guts ain't going to turn loose of that fat profit. OPEC is talking of cutting production to drive the price back up. That's all we need to drive the final nail into our economic coffin and drive this country into a depression.

Bill

 

[John-Edmonton]

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