Hey all
The hunt today started with me taking my new M6 out for a stroll.
I went to the same place I've pulled a 1899 Barber half, 1854 with arrows
Seated Half dime, 1906 Barber Dime, 1917 Mercury Dime and a few Indians.
Me being the proud new owner of a M6 I just had to try it out.
Well....After one and a half hours of sheer frustration because of the ground conditions. I just had to admit defeat as the M6 could not maintain a usable ground balance no matter what I tried with it. As a matter of fact I was pretty darned insane and out of patients. I'll be the first to concede that it may be my utter lack of experience with this detector that was the problem and not the detector itself. Seeing my frustration my lady felt bad for me and asked me if I wanted to use my Vaquero. She wasn't having much luck and was taking more and more cig and water breaks so I said sure.
Taking the Vaquero from her felt like saying hi to a long lost friend. "Hi" I told my long time Pal...and the Vaquero said...."shut up dork and dig here"...I said okey dokey and upon getting down to about 4" and hitting about a 5" pine tree root ...There on top of the root sat a coin all dirty and nasty. I could see it was an Indian but being so covered in filth there was no date to be seen.
I told the woman to pack everything up I was done for the day. I had promised her that we would leave if I found one good coin and was keeping my promise. We came back to the house and I decided to find out what I had so I gave it a few minute bath and OMG will you look at this coin.
Tell me that isn't a Fancy 5...
They are still out there....Sometimes ya just need an old friend to help point you in the right direction.
HH
Gary
The hunt today started with me taking my new M6 out for a stroll.
I went to the same place I've pulled a 1899 Barber half, 1854 with arrows
Seated Half dime, 1906 Barber Dime, 1917 Mercury Dime and a few Indians.
Me being the proud new owner of a M6 I just had to try it out.
Well....After one and a half hours of sheer frustration because of the ground conditions. I just had to admit defeat as the M6 could not maintain a usable ground balance no matter what I tried with it. As a matter of fact I was pretty darned insane and out of patients. I'll be the first to concede that it may be my utter lack of experience with this detector that was the problem and not the detector itself. Seeing my frustration my lady felt bad for me and asked me if I wanted to use my Vaquero. She wasn't having much luck and was taking more and more cig and water breaks so I said sure.
Taking the Vaquero from her felt like saying hi to a long lost friend. "Hi" I told my long time Pal...and the Vaquero said...."shut up dork and dig here"...I said okey dokey and upon getting down to about 4" and hitting about a 5" pine tree root ...There on top of the root sat a coin all dirty and nasty. I could see it was an Indian but being so covered in filth there was no date to be seen.
I told the woman to pack everything up I was done for the day. I had promised her that we would leave if I found one good coin and was keeping my promise. We came back to the house and I decided to find out what I had so I gave it a few minute bath and OMG will you look at this coin.
Tell me that isn't a Fancy 5...
They are still out there....Sometimes ya just need an old friend to help point you in the right direction.
HH
Gary
Wow, what a find! Look at that beauty. Congrats! - Sorry about the 6.
