Texasgopher
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I must say first of all that I thank Tom_of_CA and Iron patch for this find. It didn't quite happen the way I thought it would. It's not even what we were really talking about BUT I still feel that if I hadn't been thinking about some of the advise I received from these two great guys who took the time to talk to me that this hunt wouldn't have turned out the way it did.
They say this park is hunted out......they say anyone that owns a MD within 50 miles has hunted this park since the 1960s and there is nothing left to find.....
...that's why I keep going back!
Well it was more than I could have hoped for. I started the day with one goal. To dig everything deep no matter what it sounded like and hopefully come across something someone missed. I had my big 12 inch coil on and was having a blast but not finding much. I think I dug a total of 7 zinc Penny's the whole day (gave iffy signals) Then I was wrapping up. I knew I only had about a half hour left. So I debated with myself.
Me 1: Just start cherry picking and see if you can just get something before you leave.
Me 2: No, you came here with a goal to hunt the whole time in all-metal and dig everything deep.
Me 1: I know...I should stick to that. I said I would and Patience is the key with these things.
Me 2: That's right. You said you were going to try this so stick to it.
Me 1: Sigh.....but I don't want to get skunked.
Me 2: .....well me neither but that was also part of the deal remember? To try even if we found nothing.
Me 1: I know...but I probably won't find anything either way. I did what I said I was going to. I learned a lot! But know I want to go easy for the next half hour.
Me 2: Fine...but you won't find anything and then you will wonder if you would have if you had kept at it.
(I'm not really crazy...but all this did happen in my mind and I just thought I would share my "Smeagol" moment.
)
So I switched over to my custom setting and was only listening to the good signals. While at the same time convincing myself that I had completed the exercise that I had set out to do.
THEN.....it happend. I was headed towards some trees that I had hunted time and time again. And there it was. A signal that would make an Angel cry. Kept bouncing between 50 cents and a dollar. My GTI said coin size 4-5 inches deep. I wondered for a moment if it could really be that good. It wasn't really that deep (for this park) but it just sounded like silver.
So I dug.
The dirt literally seemed to open up and spill silver coins. I half-panicked. Started looking over my shoulders. No one was around. Am I really seeing this. How has nobody found this? I started taking pictures. My hands were shaking as I pulled them out of the whole. Four coins total. And maybe some of you wouldn't be as excited as I was/am but this is so rare for me. I very carefully put them in a separate holder in my pouch and called it a day. I took them home dirt and all to clean very carefully. After a careful soap/warm water bath the dirt came off but they had left a strange stain on each other where they had been laying one on top the other. I think they look better that way and didn't clean them anymore.
Before I left I rescaned the hole and got nothing but Iron signals. I dug everything in a 5 foot square and nothing but trash. This had to be the reason that nobody had found it yet and I must have hit it just right to get the good signal next to the 2 nails and 2 pop tops that were only an inch away from it. I went and bought a plastic holder that they all fit in together. It might seem silly but I just couldn't separate them knowing that they have been together for 60 years. The spill obviously happend around the time of the Roosevelt dime and the person just had some good old change mixed in there to. That also explains why the quarter and the merc are so beat up. They both have old scratches that you can see but they were not done by me.
Thanks for looking.
Super Excited!! TG
They say this park is hunted out......they say anyone that owns a MD within 50 miles has hunted this park since the 1960s and there is nothing left to find.....
...that's why I keep going back!
Well it was more than I could have hoped for. I started the day with one goal. To dig everything deep no matter what it sounded like and hopefully come across something someone missed. I had my big 12 inch coil on and was having a blast but not finding much. I think I dug a total of 7 zinc Penny's the whole day (gave iffy signals) Then I was wrapping up. I knew I only had about a half hour left. So I debated with myself.
Me 1: Just start cherry picking and see if you can just get something before you leave.
Me 2: No, you came here with a goal to hunt the whole time in all-metal and dig everything deep.
Me 1: I know...I should stick to that. I said I would and Patience is the key with these things.
Me 2: That's right. You said you were going to try this so stick to it.
Me 1: Sigh.....but I don't want to get skunked.
Me 2: .....well me neither but that was also part of the deal remember? To try even if we found nothing.
Me 1: I know...but I probably won't find anything either way. I did what I said I was going to. I learned a lot! But know I want to go easy for the next half hour.
Me 2: Fine...but you won't find anything and then you will wonder if you would have if you had kept at it.
(I'm not really crazy...but all this did happen in my mind and I just thought I would share my "Smeagol" moment.
)So I switched over to my custom setting and was only listening to the good signals. While at the same time convincing myself that I had completed the exercise that I had set out to do.
THEN.....it happend. I was headed towards some trees that I had hunted time and time again. And there it was. A signal that would make an Angel cry. Kept bouncing between 50 cents and a dollar. My GTI said coin size 4-5 inches deep. I wondered for a moment if it could really be that good. It wasn't really that deep (for this park) but it just sounded like silver.
So I dug.
The dirt literally seemed to open up and spill silver coins. I half-panicked. Started looking over my shoulders. No one was around. Am I really seeing this. How has nobody found this? I started taking pictures. My hands were shaking as I pulled them out of the whole. Four coins total. And maybe some of you wouldn't be as excited as I was/am but this is so rare for me. I very carefully put them in a separate holder in my pouch and called it a day. I took them home dirt and all to clean very carefully. After a careful soap/warm water bath the dirt came off but they had left a strange stain on each other where they had been laying one on top the other. I think they look better that way and didn't clean them anymore.
Before I left I rescaned the hole and got nothing but Iron signals. I dug everything in a 5 foot square and nothing but trash. This had to be the reason that nobody had found it yet and I must have hit it just right to get the good signal next to the 2 nails and 2 pop tops that were only an inch away from it. I went and bought a plastic holder that they all fit in together. It might seem silly but I just couldn't separate them knowing that they have been together for 60 years. The spill obviously happend around the time of the Roosevelt dime and the person just had some good old change mixed in there to. That also explains why the quarter and the merc are so beat up. They both have old scratches that you can see but they were not done by me.
Thanks for looking.
Super Excited!! TG
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I have also had those "conversations" in my head and even out load to myself.....they usually consist of me telling myself...."There's nothing to be found here!" and me answering back "How many times have you said that and then BAM!?" 
