Cladiator (OR)
Member
Hi everyone,
I lucked-out again tonight at the local elementary school. The little wood-fiber walking path that produced the three indians, merc, and wheat last week treated me to another prize.
I was about ten minutes into a typical two hour hunt and got a "rough" high pitched tinkle in among all the iron squeals. The "rough" signal was scratchy and a bit intermittent, but I could get it to duplicate its roughness in two directions, so I decided to test my luck. The target signal was displaying a bunch of numbers, but I was able to see a 10-45 to 14-45 on probably 30 to 40 percent of the swings. After working through the 3" of wood fiber, I pulled a 3" plug and checked the hole with the X-1. The target signal was improving, so I knew I had a keeper. Another couple inches of plug revealed Miss Liberty looking at me from the bottom of the plugger...a happy sight to say the least!
The rest of the hunt only produced a couple of memorials-which seems to be the norm for me when I find a nice keeper right off the bat. That's ok though, a nice little Barber always makes for great day in my book (although it would have been even nicer if it had an "S" mint-mark
).
Thanks for looking and good luck on your next hunt!
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I lucked-out again tonight at the local elementary school. The little wood-fiber walking path that produced the three indians, merc, and wheat last week treated me to another prize.
I was about ten minutes into a typical two hour hunt and got a "rough" high pitched tinkle in among all the iron squeals. The "rough" signal was scratchy and a bit intermittent, but I could get it to duplicate its roughness in two directions, so I decided to test my luck. The target signal was displaying a bunch of numbers, but I was able to see a 10-45 to 14-45 on probably 30 to 40 percent of the swings. After working through the 3" of wood fiber, I pulled a 3" plug and checked the hole with the X-1. The target signal was improving, so I knew I had a keeper. Another couple inches of plug revealed Miss Liberty looking at me from the bottom of the plugger...a happy sight to say the least!
The rest of the hunt only produced a couple of memorials-which seems to be the norm for me when I find a nice keeper right off the bat. That's ok though, a nice little Barber always makes for great day in my book (although it would have been even nicer if it had an "S" mint-mark
).Thanks for looking and good luck on your next hunt!
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