Carolina Tom
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Bolstered by my success yesterday, I set off into the 20 degree morning to treasure hunt at the Honey Hole.
Half way through my hunt, a truck rides by slowly, and the people are looking at me. They pull over about 100 meters away and get out. DANG! The dude has a detector, uh oh. I bee line to “greet” him, and see what’s up with this. The place is semi-public, and I have no authority there, but it doesn’t stop me from acting like I do. As I get close, I recognize Garrett hat model and poster boy, Nugget Noggin. He lives around here. I couldn’t help but take a Cheesey, fan boy selfie him. Mock away.
I have been trying to dig all targets, especially mid tones. I have dug a ton of trash, sacks full of foil, can slaw and pull tabs. It has also been yielding keepers.
I was able to locate a buffalo and an Indian today. Neither gave a good signal I would usually dig.
A couple of silver Rosies showed up. I like dirty coin pics.
This clump of dirt had a little silver chain hanging out of it. When I smashed it, this silver tag, with nothing on it, popped out.
This chunk had a darkly tarnished ring in it, too smooth not to be silver.
All three of these silver items came from this little patch of grass, 10’ x 10’. There were several holes present in this small area. The signals were NOT good, but the targets were.
Both piece are marked, I cleaned them a bit, but they have hard tarnish of them.
I got really excited when I flipped this plug. I found my first CW bullet at this site, two weeks ago, so I instantly knew what I had just uncovered. A Minie ball.
In 4 years I’ve found only 4 pieces of gold, including the one I found yesterday. The site is huge. I went right back to the place I found the gold ring, which I searched thoroughly yesterday. When I heard this repeatable, but below a nickel signal, I dug it. It appeared that a little gold ring was in the sidewall of the hole. Sure enough, two days, two gold rings. No Vino comments Brad.
Here is what came out of the pouch, and the 9 keepers. It was a very good day for me.
Thanks for looking and good luck on your hunts!
Half way through my hunt, a truck rides by slowly, and the people are looking at me. They pull over about 100 meters away and get out. DANG! The dude has a detector, uh oh. I bee line to “greet” him, and see what’s up with this. The place is semi-public, and I have no authority there, but it doesn’t stop me from acting like I do. As I get close, I recognize Garrett hat model and poster boy, Nugget Noggin. He lives around here. I couldn’t help but take a Cheesey, fan boy selfie him. Mock away.
I have been trying to dig all targets, especially mid tones. I have dug a ton of trash, sacks full of foil, can slaw and pull tabs. It has also been yielding keepers.
I was able to locate a buffalo and an Indian today. Neither gave a good signal I would usually dig.
A couple of silver Rosies showed up. I like dirty coin pics.
This clump of dirt had a little silver chain hanging out of it. When I smashed it, this silver tag, with nothing on it, popped out.
This chunk had a darkly tarnished ring in it, too smooth not to be silver.
All three of these silver items came from this little patch of grass, 10’ x 10’. There were several holes present in this small area. The signals were NOT good, but the targets were.
Both piece are marked, I cleaned them a bit, but they have hard tarnish of them.
I got really excited when I flipped this plug. I found my first CW bullet at this site, two weeks ago, so I instantly knew what I had just uncovered. A Minie ball.
In 4 years I’ve found only 4 pieces of gold, including the one I found yesterday. The site is huge. I went right back to the place I found the gold ring, which I searched thoroughly yesterday. When I heard this repeatable, but below a nickel signal, I dug it. It appeared that a little gold ring was in the sidewall of the hole. Sure enough, two days, two gold rings. No Vino comments Brad.
Here is what came out of the pouch, and the 9 keepers. It was a very good day for me.
Thanks for looking and good luck on your hunts!
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