Great trip to lexington kentucky

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My hunting buddy Arthur and I took a trip to Lexington Kentucky from Toronto Canada over the weekend.
We met up with a terrific host Jamie (1320)who lives near Lexington, to do some detecting.
we had a great time doing some churches a couple schools and a civil war site
and a few city parks.
we had good success at this one church and school.
we got skunked at the civil war site.
but it was still fun having the chance to detect such a site.
I managed at the church 3 mercs 1 lg cent 1811-17 1 Indian head 1905 and a whack of Wheaties. and a nice 14k yellow gold wedding ring.
the coins in that part of Kentucky seem to go real deep. most of the oldies were 6- 10" I got the Indian at 9.5" and many Wheaties were 8".
the clad was deep as-well 0-8" at most locations.
the parks in Lexington seem to have been hunted pretty Good. we only managed newer clad, It was raining the day we hit the parks in Lexington and we only detected for a few hours, so I'm sure we would have found some oldies eventually.
we will be making this a yearly thing.
we have made a new good friend.
Thanks Jamie for the great time.
 

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some finds
 

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our arsenal for the weekend
 

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the church we found the most at its from 1848
 

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Awesome trip and good hunt too! ?Can you list that "arsenal" for us? ?Looks pretty impressive from the pic!
 

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Arthur and Jamie pigging out
Jamie was nice enough to pic up the lg tab.
 

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me pigging out on the largest shrimp I ever layed eyes on.
 

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I have to agree with Lowbatts, ALL great Detectors there. not a Slouch in the bunch ?:) Glad to hear & see Yous had a Great time, ; jeff
 

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from left to right Compass, whites, minelab sov, torsoro compadre, minelab ex. fisher cz7a
 

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we were surprised only to find a few Wheaties at this church
Jamie lives near hear and cleaned up the yard of all the long brush and weeds
ether the coins are deep or someone has gotten there a long time ago. ( it is on a busy road )
Jamie did a great job clearing the land.
 

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this is the site of the civil war activity
no luck there
Jamie did manage a Merc dime.
 

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this was the weather on the last 250 miles on the way home. very slow going lucky we had all wheel drive.
 

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the pic
 

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hey don it really sounds like you guys had a great time i have a question about the 6th MD in you arsenal pic could you take a pic. of the MD. i have something similar and I'd like to see if they are the same and if they are i have some questions about its operation
any help you can give me i would appreciate greatly.

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Steve
 

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Man you guys did well. Gold, old coins, and jumbo shrimp. Winning combination! I can see why the coins were deep from the pictures of the driveway in Jamies post. HH ;D Envious in Colorado~CO2
 

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the detector on the far left is a compass
its Arthurs not mine mne I will find out the mod#
 

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