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Worst day I ever had detecting................. 0 finds.

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Elton

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Sad but true. had permission to hunt a private yard.

House built around 1948.

Not a penny, not even a nail, just a bit of false signal from electric wires.

Oops.Yard completly dug out and replaced in 2008. Neighbor came over and told me...I thought it looked perfect..!!!!

He said former owner had it done for selling purpose. At least 16 full dump Truck loads were hauled in of pure top soil.. LOL
I wasted two hours..LOL

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW UNLESS SOMEONE TELLS YOU !!!!
 
Sunday I had a chance to go with a friend to a co-workers property that supposedly went back to Civil War times. Got there and the burned out "original" house had a cement block (not cinder block or stone) foundation. No big old trees. No old well site that we could find. Tin roof was in small pieces all over the place. Got a couple of modern ball jar lids, not even any older zinc ones. Got the tip of a pool cue, a fired and smashed 22 bullet, an alarm clock bell of undetermined age, and one 1977 penny. That was all that went with pouches full of modern can slaw.

Just one of those days ... it had high hopes before we got there.
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Wow, thank goodness you found out. Can you imagine the second guessing you would be doing tonight? I had a slow day on Sunday, decided I was working way to hard. Went out tonight and took my time. Decided to find what was there and not gripe about what wasn't. Hit a 43 merc just as my buddy texted me to ask how things were going. It was perfect, shot a picture with the phone and replied. Doesn't usually work that way. I think we have to celebrate just getting out and be especially happy when we do find something. This yard might be a nice one to tell your buddies about Elton.

HH, Don
 
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Hey Elton-----That's "the other half of the story"!!---We all like to talk (tell) about our good hunts & sort of "forget" the bad ones. :biggrin: -----I've had (a few) hunts where I "couldn't buy" a good target, the kind of a hunt that I would dig a "stinkin zincoln" just to say I found something! :tongue:------I don't think most (all) of us would ever give up this great hobby for "all the tea in China" though! :thumbup: --------Del
 
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Haven't changed my attitude about detecting since I started.. Loved it the moment my first swing was completed.
 
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm a thought LOL
 
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Oh boy, I've had a few of those days recently, and joked with my hunting buddies about what a dumb hobby this is. By the time I drive home I'm already thinking about the next spot to hit.:biggrin:
Have fun!
Mike
 
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The rest of the story on the hunt I had with a friend on Sunday ... today I talked with the co-worker who's property we hunted. She said she talked to the previous owner later Sunday afternoon after we left. Block foundation was result of lifting the house off stone pillars and re-building the foundation. The original house did go back to mid 1800's. And previous owner's uncle had detected the property for years until the property sold to my co-worker two years ago. Uncle has boxes of goodies. Guess he did a pretty good job.
tvr
 
I remember one of my biggest disappointments came in the summer of '89. My buddys brother bought a 100+ year old fixer upper. He gave me the ok to come over with my detector. I had thought this was it, I was finally going to hit it BIG! So, we drove over a hour to get there, fortunately not that far. We get there and he shows us around the place. It was huge. I remember the glass windows were all original, they were all "wavy", the way old glass windows look. The whole time Im thinking about all the coins I was gonna find. So I got my detector out and started in the front yard and found nothing, maybe a few clad. So I checked the backyard....nothing. After that, Ive learned never to get my hopes on anything. You never know where anyone else has been. I know someone must have been there...had to have been, for as old as the place was.
Aaron
 
A bad day detecting, still beats a good day working.
 
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