Clad the Impaler
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- Jan 11, 2010
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Hi everyone. After hunting for nearly 12 hours yesterday, and coming away with nothing more than $6.14 in clad (including 15 clad quarters), I was a little discouraged, especially with Pats awesome finds. My oldest coin yesterday was a '60 memorial penny. I headed out to NW Indiana early this morning for a group hunt. MUCH better day today. Found my 4th silver of the year, a '46 Roosie on edge about 4 inches down. She was right at the edge of where I cut my plug, and was ever so slightly nicked by my Lesche, but is still a sweet coin. One of the other hunters found a mens 14k gold ring, everyone else found only clad. On the way home, I decided to hit a large tot lot that I believed hadn't been hit before. Man was I right!! 3 hrs of solid hunting netted me just over $3 in clad (including a whopping 22 dimes!!), and a small earring with a pink stone in it that I think is just kids junk jewelry (it rang up as a nickel). Todays totals: '46 Roosie, small silver(y) earring w/ pink stone, $4.82 in clad (8 quarters, 24 dimes, 4 clad Jefferson nickels, and 22 memorial pennies (21 copper and a lone crumbly, crusty '85 zincer). I guess I shouldn't complain about things being slow for me on the silver front, what with me digging $10.96 in clad in only 2 days...Thoughts and observations on yesterdays and todays hunts: I have come to the conclusion that the Ace is a clad MAGNET, and totally tears up the tot lots; however, I will STILL be buying an E-Trac as soon as I can afford one. Coins on edge ring up solid (such as todays '46 Roosie), which is a good thing. I will need to worry less about grass/lawn appearance, and start digging bigger plugs to avoid scraping silver. That's about it for now....pics below. Enjoy!! 
You might want to consider this model instead, yours for only 20 GBP, (maybe 34 USD?) 
