bertmaster2000
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Yesterday, my metal detecting buddy reported to me he had gone detecting without me over the weekend and found a silver half and two silver dimes. He knows I have been detecting for over a year now, and I have not found a silver coin. He told me where he went to find the silver half and silver dimes, but I don't like to poach spots, so on my way home from work I decided to hit a spot he and I had detected together in the past.
I had always felt this spot would eventually yield my first silver coin because it was heavily used for recreation by GI's during WWII. The best thing I had found at this spot to-date was a 1952 license plate buried about 5-inches. Meanwhile, my detecting buddy had found about 5 silver dimes at this location
. I know, I know, I must be either really unlucky, or a very poor detectorist. I like to think of myself as really unlucky
. I parked my car, readied my gear, and headed to the spot. I had been working this area in a grid pattern I had committed to memory, so I started in the next part of the grid.
I use a Minelab 705 with a 7.5 KHz concentric coil set on all-metal, and I dig almost every target. After only 5 minutes I got a jumpy 38-42 signal, but my detector then went nuts and started giving false detections and acted crazy. I powered it off and on twice, then ground balanced it again, and it started working normally. I've found this happens about one time for every 4 hours of detecting, but I am not worried about it as long as I can easily correct the problem.
Back to my story, I swung over my target again and kept getting a 38 in one direction, and a 38-42 in the perpendicular direction, with a depth of about 4-inches indicated in both directions. I knew this was a very good signal, but I had seen this before and then found rounded pieces of aluminum...I carefully dug the target, and out popped my first silver coin, a 1944 liberty (merc) dime. Needless to say I was stoked!
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I keep a metal detecting log and I totaled the time I spent at this location before I found this silver dime...14.5 hours! I found $4.74 in clad, including a handful of wheat cents from the 40's and 50's, before finally finding the silver dime, so my effort wasn't a complete waste of time, but almost
Happy Swinging everyone...Don't give up, eventually even a blind squirrel finds a nut!
I had always felt this spot would eventually yield my first silver coin because it was heavily used for recreation by GI's during WWII. The best thing I had found at this spot to-date was a 1952 license plate buried about 5-inches. Meanwhile, my detecting buddy had found about 5 silver dimes at this location
. I know, I know, I must be either really unlucky, or a very poor detectorist. I like to think of myself as really unlucky. I parked my car, readied my gear, and headed to the spot. I had been working this area in a grid pattern I had committed to memory, so I started in the next part of the grid. I use a Minelab 705 with a 7.5 KHz concentric coil set on all-metal, and I dig almost every target. After only 5 minutes I got a jumpy 38-42 signal, but my detector then went nuts and started giving false detections and acted crazy. I powered it off and on twice, then ground balanced it again, and it started working normally. I've found this happens about one time for every 4 hours of detecting, but I am not worried about it as long as I can easily correct the problem.
Back to my story, I swung over my target again and kept getting a 38 in one direction, and a 38-42 in the perpendicular direction, with a depth of about 4-inches indicated in both directions. I knew this was a very good signal, but I had seen this before and then found rounded pieces of aluminum...I carefully dug the target, and out popped my first silver coin, a 1944 liberty (merc) dime. Needless to say I was stoked!
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I keep a metal detecting log and I totaled the time I spent at this location before I found this silver dime...14.5 hours! I found $4.74 in clad, including a handful of wheat cents from the 40's and 50's, before finally finding the silver dime, so my effort wasn't a complete waste of time, but almost
Happy Swinging everyone...Don't give up, eventually even a blind squirrel finds a nut!
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