Bill D. (VA)
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In my last post I mentioned that yesterday my partner and I opted to not hunt in this field in favor of another site, so today we went back to the original plan. My partner had found a cut piece last week in a remote corner of this field quite a distance away from the house site. We went straight to that spot, but after 30 min we didn't find a thing. We ended up roaming around for a bit with no luck either, so I decided to get closer to the iron patch and work it slow. Since cotton stubs were in our way last year, and likely preventing us from covering at least 20% of the ground, I figured that the very low cut soybeans this year would offer an opportunity to maybe pick up a few things we missed earlier. And I was right. I also noticed that almost every signal was coming from the higher ground in the rows. This made good sense as that would be the exact area that our coils did not pass over before. So to cover more of the "new" ground and not waste time in the pounded "valleys" I just held the coil over each row and walked at a leisurely pace holding my F75 steady and not swinging it at all. That may sound a little strange, but it paid off as I was able to hear quite a few targets sound off that were missed before and cover a lot of ground at the same time. I dug some of the usual colonial relics, but ended up being surprised with 2 nice cut pieces of silver showing up only 2 rows apart. And I also found this interesting silver item that I can't seem to ID. It seems period, and at first I thought it might be part of a watch winder, but I could be way off. Any ideas?? I also dug a cool tallio cuff link with the image of a fox or a dog. Guess after having a unexpectedly good day at this site I need to make another visit to make sure I'm not leaving anything else behind.
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