Weekend Stuff

[cwilk]

My trip to Philadelphia was postponed. It also rained for two days straight here so I got into a new video game. Also had a chance to get out four times for around 1 1/2 - 2 hours each time. Got the silver 1948 dime on Thursday which was two hunts in a row with a silver US coin. The silver Saint Mary medallion yesterday. The dime weighs .03 grams more than the medal and both rang up as silver dimes would. There are 4 or 5 wheals in there including one that rang up very low on the scale that I thought was either a very early date or an IH. It was a 1940. A mess of coins plus the usual flotsam and jetsam. One .22 bullet had been hit with a lawn mower but remains intact. Also note the bracelet pieces in pic 1 above the silver dime. It is costume and when I put them in my pocket almost all the stones fell out.

Looks like October will be my first month with less than 100 bucks in clad found since March. If Friday is nice I could do. I think I'm around 11 bucks short.

I don't know why I wasn't visiting the forum over the weekend. I read the last few dozen topics and enjoyed all of your posts, as usual.

Chris

 

[awhitster]

Nice finds there. I am still looking for the elusive silver.

 

[cwilk]

I think in my first 1000 coins this year I found 9 or 10 silvers. Found three in one day once and two in one day twice. In my second 10,000 coins I found 8 or 9 silver coins. I 'm glad I don't try to figure out the whys anymore. My silver jewelry total for that period is good. A little under 200 grams of sterling silver.

Chris

 

[lazyaussie]

nice finds Chris love the silver

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....nothing shabby aboutthose finds. Wet weather is made for detecting!

 

[valinux]

i found some keys today too

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Lots of great finds Congrats !!!

 

[Bernie]

Nice finds Chris. You always seem to be able to come up with good stuff on a consistent basis. Do you, or other forum members in the Northeast, give up for the winter or find some way to keep on swinging?

 

[david764]

Nice finds! Lot of digging but you sure are finding alot of stuff.

 

[cwilk]

Last year my last day was on Thanksgiving. I went to a site I had been kicked out of earlier figuring who would be there that day to boot me. Had a nice day. Found my first bugle mouthpiece. Here is a neat tidbit. This site is a high school and about 1/2 mile from my house . I decided I would go to the school board and try to get permission early this year. The guy who booted me was at that meeting and had no recollection, or so he said, of asking me to leave and I got official permission to detect. Here is what I've learned. If you are detecting in a public park, or in my jurisdiction a school after 4 pm, you can be asked to stop an activity that an official feels violates a rule or law but you can NOT be thrown off. Smoking or dog walking are biggies up here. Nether are allowed at schools. I saw a guy who was drinking a beer at a ball game and was asked to leave the park. He put his can of beer in a trash can and sat down to continue watching the game and refused to leave the park. The police were called. In the end he stayed and watched. He was not drunk or rude and the cop did the right thing in this case. I suppose had the cop wanted to he could have written him a ticket for something but he did not have the right to toss him out of the park. If you read my posts about my incident I was thrown out of a park and I fought back and was later vindicated and asked to please detect there anytime I wanted to. Public land is public land and cops exist to protect and to serve.

Wow what a tangent. I stop when the ground freezes. If it unfreezes I start up again until it becomes impossible to recover coins and jewelry. John in Edmonton is the King of Winter detecting!

Chris

 

[GOLD&OLDIES]

Nice finds Chris W.T.G. Kevin