Dancin' Dave
New member
Hi Guys,
I made another trip to my unexpected silver spot (It's hard to stay away
). After 45 minutes, all I could find was a wheat penny and was about ready to quit. So I gave up on my normal disciplined grid search pattern and started wandering around aimlessly. I got a really nasty one-way "iron" hit and decided to dig it out of boredom and popped a Rosie out of the ground. A few more similar hits yielded a few more coins. The Washington quarter was also an odd hit and was in the same hole as a V-nickel. Another shallow target, sounding like a clad quarter, ended up be a battered 1844 Canadian bank token (wonder how that got there?). After that, things started to slow down so I decided to begin the slow walk back to the truck (you know the kind .... takes 30 minutes to travel 10 yards). I found a SLQ last time during this trip so maybe lighting would strike twice. Sure enough .. it did. I got a slamming silver hit and popped another one out of the ground.
So far, I managed to find 26 silver coins in a spot that I pounded last year. My last visit in the fall only yielded two wheat pennies and a buffalo nickel after four hour of detecting. So I had declared this spot "hunted out". My only explanation is that the change in ground conditions. Last year the soil was dry, now it's wet. I've also cut down on the quantity of beer that I'm drinking so maybe that's helped some.
I appreciate the comments on my earlier posts!
DD
I made another trip to my unexpected silver spot (It's hard to stay away
). After 45 minutes, all I could find was a wheat penny and was about ready to quit. So I gave up on my normal disciplined grid search pattern and started wandering around aimlessly. I got a really nasty one-way "iron" hit and decided to dig it out of boredom and popped a Rosie out of the ground. A few more similar hits yielded a few more coins. The Washington quarter was also an odd hit and was in the same hole as a V-nickel. Another shallow target, sounding like a clad quarter, ended up be a battered 1844 Canadian bank token (wonder how that got there?). After that, things started to slow down so I decided to begin the slow walk back to the truck (you know the kind .... takes 30 minutes to travel 10 yards). I found a SLQ last time during this trip so maybe lighting would strike twice. Sure enough .. it did. I got a slamming silver hit and popped another one out of the ground.So far, I managed to find 26 silver coins in a spot that I pounded last year. My last visit in the fall only yielded two wheat pennies and a buffalo nickel after four hour of detecting. So I had declared this spot "hunted out". My only explanation is that the change in ground conditions. Last year the soil was dry, now it's wet. I've also cut down on the quantity of beer that I'm drinking so maybe that's helped some.
I appreciate the comments on my earlier posts!
DD
TC, JJ