Fast_Dave
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Jim, Tim, Jerry and I all got back to the boat club site from last week today. Things looked pretty good when my first coin was a 1943-P war nickel at about 6 inches. But then the hunt deteriorated into a succession of shotshell bases and .22 lead. After a while, Tim and Jerry had to leave, and Jim and I went to a secondary site which, regretfully also produced zip. We gave it an hour, then jumped in the truck for a quick trip to a third site, a campground, which turned out to have a sign "Closed For The Season" and no way to contact the owner for permission. With our hunt time waning, we stopped at a city park, faced with the bleak alternative of an afternoon digging blasphemously corroded wheats, the only kind of old coin this particular park has ever produced.
It didn't turn out that way.
After digging a clad dime at 4.5 inches, I moved to the section that had given up the wheats before. I cranked the sensitivity on my Explorer to 32 ( the max) and started to hunt. The first hit was a faint repeatable whisper which ID'd at 31 and almost bottomed out the depth meter. I called Jim over and he watched me pull up a 1939 Washington from over 10 inches down. The next hit was almost identical and less than 1 foot away. That coin proved to be a 1956-D Roosevelt from the same extreme depth. At that point it occurred to us that our last hunt had been with our prior detectors and the Minelabs technology was capable of hitting significantly deeper targets.
As the hunt continued, the next target was another whisper, but at a depth that made pinpointing difficult. Up came a 1903 Barber dime. Another whisper at 9.5 inches yielded a 1906 Indianhead. The next whisper was impossible to pinpoint before plugging, and gave up a broken gold plated charm that at one time had held paste jewels. As our hunting time ran out, the final whisper came. Identical with my first hit, the result was a dateless Standing Liberty, demonstrating my uncanny ability to find only the SLQ's without dates.
I should note that this park has been hunted to death by a number of parties, and the "wheat" area has been hit particularly hard. These silver weren't just missed, they were clearly too deep for our old machines to even pick up. It just goes to show how new technology can revitalize our old hunted out sites.
It didn't turn out that way.
After digging a clad dime at 4.5 inches, I moved to the section that had given up the wheats before. I cranked the sensitivity on my Explorer to 32 ( the max) and started to hunt. The first hit was a faint repeatable whisper which ID'd at 31 and almost bottomed out the depth meter. I called Jim over and he watched me pull up a 1939 Washington from over 10 inches down. The next hit was almost identical and less than 1 foot away. That coin proved to be a 1956-D Roosevelt from the same extreme depth. At that point it occurred to us that our last hunt had been with our prior detectors and the Minelabs technology was capable of hitting significantly deeper targets.
As the hunt continued, the next target was another whisper, but at a depth that made pinpointing difficult. Up came a 1903 Barber dime. Another whisper at 9.5 inches yielded a 1906 Indianhead. The next whisper was impossible to pinpoint before plugging, and gave up a broken gold plated charm that at one time had held paste jewels. As our hunting time ran out, the final whisper came. Identical with my first hit, the result was a dateless Standing Liberty, demonstrating my uncanny ability to find only the SLQ's without dates.
I should note that this park has been hunted to death by a number of parties, and the "wheat" area has been hit particularly hard. These silver weren't just missed, they were clearly too deep for our old machines to even pick up. It just goes to show how new technology can revitalize our old hunted out sites.
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