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What's your WORST silver to wheatie ratio ever on a hunt??? Had mine today:cool: :surprised:

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Hotcz70

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Talk about a HORRIBLE day for silver....this was my WORST EVER:bouncy:

I dug 19 wheaties today and STILL had not found a silver coin. Funny thing was that I decided I was NOT leaving until I had found one...and I meant it.:smoke:

I'm a stubborn feller' when it comes to finding silver...and I promise you...I would have been there ALL night if need be. I was going to find a shiny one...or I was not leaving.:crylol:

FINALLY...still hunting 3 hours after dark...and holding a flashlight to see where the heck I was going...coin #20 turned out to be silver.:thumbup:

I'm just curious....what is your worst silver to wheat ratio that you have ever had on a single hunt?

19 wheaties before finding silver is my WORST ever. :help:

Still glad to share this with everyone...but would like to know if you all have had similar days...and if so...how bad::help:??
 
What date spread were the wheaties? When I am finding wheaties in the 30's and earlier, I can usually count on a good silver to wheat ratio around 5 to 1. When I am only finding newer wheaties the silver seems more scarce and the clad dimes increase.
 
I can't recall lasting long enough on a single hunt to find that many wheats without silver (meaning, I've gotten skunked on silver plenty of times, but still managed a few wheats). But I do know I went like 15-16 wheats in a row across a few hunts before coming up with a silver coin. Overall though, I think the ratio has still worked out to 5:1 or 6:1 in the long run. Funny how that is.
 
I've managed to develop wheatie hunting into an art. I found 33 of 'em in October before digging up one silver Rosie. Sometimes I think someone has put a wheatie whammy on me. :biggrin:

DD
 
WTG Bryce Cool finds !!!!! I have went for 2 or 3 hunt and no silver IH and wheats was all I found . Glad you got out in between the rain and good luck on your next hunt !!!:thumbup:
 
It was that Eagle Spectrum pro back in the day that got your silver Bryce. He walked on the wheaties, dug those 86 vdi's and higher. I've seen quite a few parks like that, lots of wheaties that hit relatively clean, and when you do find a silver coin, it hits strange or is hiding in the trash where the older machines couldn't see or recongnize it.

Since I started using the etrac I've found a new phenomena. Parks that have older nickles, but few if any higher conductive hits. Thoroughly explorered, except for the passed over nickle-curled beaver tails hits. (Etrac can figure them out relatively well)

Brad
 
Bryce, you are one determined fella! Got to admire you
for sticking with it. I would have gone home, relaxed and
hit it again the next day. Rain or shine.
My wheat to silver ratio usually runs about 5:1 or 6:1 as a rule of thumb.
But last week, it climbed to 12:1 for some reason.
Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
Bryce, you are getting spoiled with all the old silver you have found this year. Sunday morning I had a pocket spill of wheat pennies on the side of a steep hill. I found 9 wheats all from the teens and twenties. I found them one at a time. I have found spills before and usually there is a silver or two mixed in. Sunday, they were all wheats. Why couldn't the person who dropped them had a pocket full of silver! I have had streaks of twenty or more wheats before I found any silver. With any luck, you will find a 1909 vdb. R.L.
 
Eagle Spectrum fellers':)...and anything from 79 to 82 VDI was dead on a silver dime. 84 thru 86 were dead on quarters like clockwork.

For all I know...I might have been the schmutz that left myself all those wheaties:crylol:
 
I'm glad to know it wasn't just me:bouncy:

I feel better knowing that others have been punked by a string of wheaties too:cool:
 
n/t
 
Still some cherry pickers out there skipping the non-silver tones. Their loss, as many a time the penny signal has turned into a dime!

My cent-to-silver ratio on average has certainly climbed in the places that have been previously hunted.

But my IH count has soared over the last couple years... :biggrin:

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You're right about that D.F. It always seems to work itself back to a ratio of somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or 6 to 1...thank goodness:crylol:

I have had many hunts this year that I have found no wheaties at all...but did find 2 or 3 silver...so I guess it works itself out.

19 wheaties before finding a silver though.,...is the worst I've ever been punked.:)
 
Same results here friend. I have found a ton of injuns' the last couple of years...and to me...they're just a good as silver. I love finding those things.

Normally I never worry about a wheat to silver ratio because most of my parks have none left.:biggrin: The only signals in most of my parks are deep coins others have missed in the 8" to 10" range...or coins deep and masked by iron or trash.

In fact to be honest...I don't find many wheaties at all as my posts will show. What I usually find at my pounded sites are coins I work very hard for.

This was a site I don't frequent though...so the amount of wheaties shocked me. I found more this hunt than I have in the last 10 combined:bouncy:
 
I have all that large silver and you have all that small copper... :D

G..
 
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