DirtFlipper
New member
Howdy,
I fought some late afternoon traffic and early evening mosquitoes to get another shot at the place I've been hunting last few outings. We've had some rain, which made the ground really cooperative, but also woke the bugs back up.
I started out where I last found a Barber dime and just continued from that spot. It was slow going at first, and I wasn't getting any decent signals for quite awhile. Just couldn't seem to get into the groove. As I made my way along, I came upon a spot that gave a screaming high signal. At first I thought I'd got a high coin hit, but then realized quickly that the signal was much too large for that. I could swing back and forth while moving forward, and the hit just kept continuing. So I figured I'd found a buried pipe or edging or something. I started to move away from it, thinking that was going to be annoying, but then my brain kicked in and I thought maybe I could use this. Since it sounded like a high coin hit, and was so large, maybe it had scared off other hunters, or maybe masked stuff near it. I had the 8x6 SEF on, so I tried to align myself parallel to this large signal, such that when I swung, it wound sound off at the end of my left swing (with me standing on the right of it). As I moved forward slowly, I'd swing right, come back left - "ping", then swing back right.
The idea was to try searching right up next to this long large buried item (whatever it is). It went on for probably 50-60 yards, and of course there were both sides to try. I only managed part of it, and I haven't tried searching perpendicular to it yet, but so far it paid off. The first good hit was a Barber Quarter. That got my attention! The second hit was a Washington Quarter. Now I was thinking maybe I could pull a quarter trifecta! Yeah, well, not this time. I then got two Wheats, followed by an Indian Head. Then finally a Merc (shoulda been the SLQ!).
Next hunt, I'll try riding right along whatever this underground thingy is, and see what else is hiding in its shadow.
That now brings the finds from this one site to 50 Wheats; 8 Indian Heads; 10 silver (four of them Barber). One each of an 1898 dime and now quarter - maybe the half is there too...
Thanks for looking!
HH,
DirtFlipper
I fought some late afternoon traffic and early evening mosquitoes to get another shot at the place I've been hunting last few outings. We've had some rain, which made the ground really cooperative, but also woke the bugs back up.
I started out where I last found a Barber dime and just continued from that spot. It was slow going at first, and I wasn't getting any decent signals for quite awhile. Just couldn't seem to get into the groove. As I made my way along, I came upon a spot that gave a screaming high signal. At first I thought I'd got a high coin hit, but then realized quickly that the signal was much too large for that. I could swing back and forth while moving forward, and the hit just kept continuing. So I figured I'd found a buried pipe or edging or something. I started to move away from it, thinking that was going to be annoying, but then my brain kicked in and I thought maybe I could use this. Since it sounded like a high coin hit, and was so large, maybe it had scared off other hunters, or maybe masked stuff near it. I had the 8x6 SEF on, so I tried to align myself parallel to this large signal, such that when I swung, it wound sound off at the end of my left swing (with me standing on the right of it). As I moved forward slowly, I'd swing right, come back left - "ping", then swing back right.
The idea was to try searching right up next to this long large buried item (whatever it is). It went on for probably 50-60 yards, and of course there were both sides to try. I only managed part of it, and I haven't tried searching perpendicular to it yet, but so far it paid off. The first good hit was a Barber Quarter. That got my attention! The second hit was a Washington Quarter. Now I was thinking maybe I could pull a quarter trifecta! Yeah, well, not this time. I then got two Wheats, followed by an Indian Head. Then finally a Merc (shoulda been the SLQ!).
Next hunt, I'll try riding right along whatever this underground thingy is, and see what else is hiding in its shadow.
That now brings the finds from this one site to 50 Wheats; 8 Indian Heads; 10 silver (four of them Barber). One each of an 1898 dime and now quarter - maybe the half is there too...
Thanks for looking!
HH,
DirtFlipper
WTG DF Nice bunch of silver Congrats