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Silver Member
- Feb 3, 2007
- 4,112
- 1,351
- Detector(s) used
- V3i, MXT-All Pro and Equinox 800
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
It's been a long week. . .
Last Friday my 'puter died
. . . the logic board and power. . . luckily, they could save all my
info on the old HD and transfer it to a spanking new computer. (what a deal $$
)
But on the bright side before this major set-back, I got out with Lowbatts & Mayo to the "tear-ups"
across the Fox and found a couple of goodies. . . a "no-date" SLQ (hey, it's silver
), a
genuine Elgin Pocket Watch face-plate (that definitely, has seen better days
.) and a Shell
Presidents token.
One evening last week after dinner, I hit a local park on a whim (fairly modern) for about 50-minutes
and lucked out with 3 Rosie's. . . one was solo and the other two were in the same hole about 15-feet
away. I went back there the next evening to see what else was around and was totally skunked.
On Saturday, I got a call from D-Dub (Dan) (who was having "Great Success") at a SW park that
was currently being torn up (see TreasureFiend's cool video). I finally got out there on Sunday morning
and it was literally, a "free-for-all". Lowbatts, Clad the Impaler, Mr.Senior, D-Dub and Kimsdad were
out there along with three other hunters who I had never met. . . Nice folks.
It was like the "gold-rush" days in '49 when word of a strike would spread like wild fire.
During the first hour, it was cool to watch fellow hunters digging up IH's, Shields, and silver 3-cent pieces
but agonizing to only be digging Memorial's and pop-tops. It had to be done though because because a lot of
good targets were literally, "on edge" which skewed a lot of your VDI signal readings.
After the second hour, I struck copper. . . my first "two-center" (1864) and my oldest IH. . . a "fat" 1860.
My last find of the day was a "modern" 1923 Merc
. It was fun. . . I met some new MD'ers and was able
to hunt with a contingent of the "Illinois bunch".
Thanks for looking!
Last Friday my 'puter died
. . . the logic board and power. . . luckily, they could save all my info on the old HD and transfer it to a spanking new computer. (what a deal $$
)But on the bright side before this major set-back, I got out with Lowbatts & Mayo to the "tear-ups"
across the Fox and found a couple of goodies. . . a "no-date" SLQ (hey, it's silver
), agenuine Elgin Pocket Watch face-plate (that definitely, has seen better days
.) and a Shell Presidents token.
One evening last week after dinner, I hit a local park on a whim (fairly modern) for about 50-minutes
and lucked out with 3 Rosie's. . . one was solo and the other two were in the same hole about 15-feet
away. I went back there the next evening to see what else was around and was totally skunked.
On Saturday, I got a call from D-Dub (Dan) (who was having "Great Success") at a SW park that
was currently being torn up (see TreasureFiend's cool video). I finally got out there on Sunday morning
and it was literally, a "free-for-all". Lowbatts, Clad the Impaler, Mr.Senior, D-Dub and Kimsdad were
out there along with three other hunters who I had never met. . . Nice folks
.It was like the "gold-rush" days in '49 when word of a strike would spread like wild fire.
During the first hour, it was cool to watch fellow hunters digging up IH's, Shields, and silver 3-cent pieces
but agonizing to only be digging Memorial's and pop-tops. It had to be done though because because a lot of
good targets were literally, "on edge" which skewed a lot of your VDI signal readings.
After the second hour, I struck copper. . . my first "two-center" (1864) and my oldest IH. . . a "fat" 1860.
My last find of the day was a "modern" 1923 Merc
. It was fun. . . I met some new MD'ers and was able to hunt with a contingent of the "Illinois bunch".
Thanks for looking!
for sure!
(your 3-cent silver was THE find of the day 
