Mirage
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Here's my write up from last weekend.
Nate and I discussed our plans for the weekend on Friday night. We decided that the plan was this – sleep in and go detecting somewhere. I got up sometime around 8ish. Had my coffee and breakfast and thought about where to detect. I decided to do a quick “google earth” type of research. The lazy man's way to find sites that are not that old but will still produce silver.
Within 5 minutes I had Plan A, B and C. Turns out we only needed plan A & B.
The first site had a lot of trash. Patience paid off as we found some wheat pennies by these older homes:
I found a silver dime and Nate got a silver ring and it was on to Plan B. Plan B (a school built in 1929) turned out to be better. We started in the back but Nate was getting constant overload signals. My Explorer was behaving better and I was finding coins so I kept hunting. Nate went out front. I found a nice 1920's wheat, some quarters and such and then I get the call. Nate tells me he found silver out front.
So I make my way out front. What was interesting was someone had detected this place fairly recently because we could see the brown plugs. Not that many (maybe a half dozen or so). We proceed to hunt and find lots of stuff. Really made us wonder about who detected here, what they were using and why they only dug 6-10 plugs. We proceeded to find wheats and silver along with the standard clad. All in all it was a sweet hunt as the ground was soft, the temps were perfect (70's) and it was sunny with a breeze.
We found 5 silver coins at this site before we called it a day.
The most interesting part of the hunt came toward the end when a young kid (maybe 8-9) on a bike rode past me and stopped to talk to Nate (why do they always want to talk to the youngin'). They talked for a while and later Nate filled me in on the details of the conversation. This is how I remember the story. You will have to see how Nate writes it up.... Turns out the kid said he always see's guys up here metal detecting. He was asking Nate “very intelligent questions”. The kid says that one time he saw a guy with a pickaxe and he breaks through some wood and there is this gold down there. The guy told the kid it was worth “a thousand dollars”.
Lastly the kid tells Nate that someone burried a cache in their yard and can't find it so we should come over and detect it. He turned down the offer because Nate noticed he came from the house where we saw all kind of people coming and going as well as heard yelling and screaming. 
The rest of the Junk – lot's of lighters!
The last find came with the quick ½ hour hunt after work on the way home hunt. Found about 4 targets . One was a wheat penny and the other was this old Post Toasties “fob”. Pretty cool.
Bob
Nate and I discussed our plans for the weekend on Friday night. We decided that the plan was this – sleep in and go detecting somewhere. I got up sometime around 8ish. Had my coffee and breakfast and thought about where to detect. I decided to do a quick “google earth” type of research. The lazy man's way to find sites that are not that old but will still produce silver.
Within 5 minutes I had Plan A, B and C. Turns out we only needed plan A & B.The first site had a lot of trash. Patience paid off as we found some wheat pennies by these older homes:
I found a silver dime and Nate got a silver ring and it was on to Plan B. Plan B (a school built in 1929) turned out to be better. We started in the back but Nate was getting constant overload signals. My Explorer was behaving better and I was finding coins so I kept hunting. Nate went out front. I found a nice 1920's wheat, some quarters and such and then I get the call. Nate tells me he found silver out front.
So I make my way out front. What was interesting was someone had detected this place fairly recently because we could see the brown plugs. Not that many (maybe a half dozen or so). We proceed to hunt and find lots of stuff. Really made us wonder about who detected here, what they were using and why they only dug 6-10 plugs. We proceeded to find wheats and silver along with the standard clad. All in all it was a sweet hunt as the ground was soft, the temps were perfect (70's) and it was sunny with a breeze.
We found 5 silver coins at this site before we called it a day.
The most interesting part of the hunt came toward the end when a young kid (maybe 8-9) on a bike rode past me and stopped to talk to Nate (why do they always want to talk to the youngin'). They talked for a while and later Nate filled me in on the details of the conversation. This is how I remember the story. You will have to see how Nate writes it up.... Turns out the kid said he always see's guys up here metal detecting. He was asking Nate “very intelligent questions”. The kid says that one time he saw a guy with a pickaxe and he breaks through some wood and there is this gold down there. The guy told the kid it was worth “a thousand dollars”.
Lastly the kid tells Nate that someone burried a cache in their yard and can't find it so we should come over and detect it. He turned down the offer because Nate noticed he came from the house where we saw all kind of people coming and going as well as heard yelling and screaming. The rest of the Junk – lot's of lighters!
The last find came with the quick ½ hour hunt after work on the way home hunt. Found about 4 targets . One was a wheat penny and the other was this old Post Toasties “fob”. Pretty cool.
Bob
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