A day for my record books! Double Large, Little silver & BIGGEST SILVER find so far

Bigmike2334

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A day for my record books! Double Large, Little silver & BIGGEST SILVER find so far

So after taking a massive loss last week due to a rookie mistake of leaving my detector on the back of my truck before taking off to another hunt and arriving and realizing my detector was long gone, I bit the bullet and grabbed a slightly used AT Pro for 500.00 with accessories and a ur left on warranty. I took her out to a beautiful well kept vacant property built in 1840 and gave her the maiden voyage and my god did she put out some mojo!! Also noticed the newer pro was more stable and easier to GB that alone was great news. So I balanced her in and started working the back yard where a cemetary and old barn foundation stand, working the ope yard in grid pattern I came across the typical trash and a few wheats, so I started working a high spot near the cemetary and found a bunch of brass colonial buckles, now I'm getting excited.....took a quick coffee break and started working an area around a beautiful well and got a scratchy 83vdi but consistent so I dug it up and line behold a 1911 Barber dime pops out of some iron nail heads, patched up the hole and scanned in a circular pattern outward from the plug and about 4 ft away got a slamming solid 90vdi pulled the plug and out comes a beautiful scarce variety 1837-P Coronet Plain Braid (Medium Font)Large cent AKA "Head of 1837" and she is beautiful!! Finished the area with a few wheats and relics including a **** ton of brass scrap (it all adds up) in the bank. Last but not least and the best part of the day, I decided to walk and scan the whole property wall, it was mostly quiet until I hit an area around a small opening in the wall and a few small trees that showed some age, my detector hits a screaming silver signal that was so big I thought it's gotta be piece of trash, boy was I wrong and glad I dug the hit along w the secondary hit about 7 inches away, out comes the biggest silver finds of my 5 yrs doing this unbelievable hobby! Out comes a massive Victorian solid sterling silver dresser hand held mirror and a matching, what appears to be a makup case, I almost died, I actually had to sit down and have a smoke in sheer excitement and awe! Total weight 140grams or 4.4 OZ!!!! :headbang:Incredible!! Just when I thought the spot was done around the other side of the trees another solid signal, comming in at 84-86 repeated VDI I thought maybe a silver? Nope to my surprise a thin pretty toasted copper pops out and after cleaning up what I could and staring at it wet n dry I managed to make out the design, it's a 1700s CT copper large cent!:hello2: What a day!! Needless to say the new AT has broken it's cherry w some serious mojo! Enjoy pals and HH!! image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg
 

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SultansOfSwing

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Id be happy with just one of any of those finds. Well done!
 

Davers

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Cool Dig's & a Great Site you got there.
Davers
 

Gridwalker306

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Great hunt, very impressive!
 

Kurios1

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You're an assassin dude. Sorry to hear about loosing your previous machine. I know how excited I get when out chasing treasure. I have to make myself slow down when traveling to a hunt sight and go through my "checklist" just so I know I haven't forgotten anything or left my gear on top of my command vehicle. I have never seen anyone dig as huge a silver target as that awesome mirror. That thing must have blown your ears out. Great digs and the new machine is paying for itself immediately.
 

ltd063

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I am happy for you and the results of your hunt. I can't imagine just how sick you must have felt when you realized you had lost your other machine. Sounds like you had some good karma built up. Congrats and HH!
 

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Bigmike2334

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It Definately wasn't on my list of things to do but I was so excited to hit this new spot we found on an old map that I just hopped in and drove, def won't happen again. But the hunt made it feel better and my ears are still ringing from that silver signal.
 

oldsilver

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Started with a Garrett. I think I've probably tried everything make and model from 1977, all the way to the up to the E-trac and GPX 4800.
Nothing new as for me now, I am pretty much handicapped.
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Dude...woooooah.....
Really nice condition!
 

bill_wabo

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Great hunt! The padlock would have made my day ;)
 

Stretch Da Truth

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Congrats on an awesome day out swinging! :occasion14:
It started sad as you lost your machine but man you killed it at that spot.
Quite a nice pile of finds and a good variety.
Good story and pics! Thanks for posting!
 

Terry Soloman

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Holy Cow, Congratulations!!!!! :headbang:
 

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FreeBirdTim

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Very nice! Looks like you've found a great spot. I checked a half dozen fields in Brooklyn and Sterling, CT with no luck. Not even a wheatie to be found. Time to do more research, I guess...
 

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Bigmike2334

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Contact me Tim, we will get out, there's a few tricks to finding productive spots.
 

Carolina Tom

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Congrats on the finds, shame on losing the detector.

Excellent LC, and nice assortment of other finds.

Well played sir!
 

JeffInMass

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Absolutely great finds- love the mirror- Congrats!!

-- Jeff --
 

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