why I did 2 hunts on a workday

[larbear]

Short answer is--to take advantage of an opportunity. I left for work early so I could do a hunt at a middle school where I have been finding a decent amount of clad and a little bit of bling. Hunting for about an hour yielded $2.42 in clad. The coins here get discolored, kind of a rust like appearance. Maybe fertilizer and lots of water, sometimes the ground is really saturated. I was using my F70 with the 11" coil.

On the drive to work, I have been passing by a residential lot that is evidently being prepped for a new house. The old garage and house has been torn down, the lot is empty except for a couple of large trees and some dried up grass. I have been hoping to find someone there to ask permission to hunt, and yesterday I found them. A man and a woman were in the lot doing some measuring. I stopped and asked if they were the owners and could I search the lot with my detector. They were the owners and they said yes, go ahead. So I did and found a silver George quarter and 2 wheats, 45 and 35.

Thanks for looking, HH & GL

 

[still looking 52]

Larbear, nice silver quarter you got there. That was nice of those folks to let you hunt the area, a lot of times if you ask nicely people will let you hunt. I've only got one silver quarter this year, they are definitely getting harder to find.

 

[larbear]

Thanks SL52, yes that was nice of them to let me hunt. I don't do much door knocking, but if I see someone out in their yard, I might stop and ask. And you are right, the quarters are getting harder to find. Any silver coin is getting harder to find. Only 4 silver coins for me so far this year, one was an eyeball find--a silver quarter laying in the gutter. No gold for me so far this year. Good luck on your future hunts !