05/27/08 hunt produces silver

sparkymaster · May 27, 2008

I went to a school tonight that I've been wanting to hunt for some time now. I've been waiting for school to get out so I could hunt the hills out behind the school.

I just love hunting hills for some reason. I hunted about half of the grass hill on the right side of the old stairs in about 2 hours.

I found the normal clad, (3 quarters, 1 nickle, 10 dimes and 8 pennies), a 1968 Canadian penny, an aluminum ring, a huge silver ring and a silver Rosie.

The silver dime is a 1961, it was about 8 or 9" deep, well however deep it is from the handle to the tip of my digger. The ring was only about 3" deep. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

HH

sparkymaster

Steeler Fan · May 27, 2008

Beautiful truck and nice finds!

Prober · May 27, 2008

Nice finds, great ring. Hope you find enough to pay for gas for that big Chevy! Congrats. :wink:

Pentico · May 27, 2008

Sweet hunt you had, congrats!
Nice truck too!
Denver Nugget

sparkymaster · May 27, 2008

Thanks everyone!

I had a great time.

It might take all summer to pay for gas in my truck. Diesel is $4.79 a gallon here. It does pretty good though. It gets (if I keep my foot out of it) an honest 20mpg on the freeway and around 17mpg in town. Things change drastically if I go to fast or pull anything though.

sparkymaster

bootybay · May 27, 2008

hey nice finds Sparky... great photos too, if you dont mind me asking, what kind of camera did you use? talk about super clear pictures..

:thumbsup:

twistidd · May 27, 2008

Nice. Which detector were you using for this particular hunt? Thanks!

Joe

sparkymaster · May 27, 2008

Hey Booty,

I went and bought a Sony Cybershot just for detecting. It's an amazing camera for the price (under $200), it's little and as you can see, it takes wonderfull pictures. I have a case for it that goes right on my detecting belt so I can keep it handy at all times while I'm out hunting. I've been threatening to get a detecting camera every since I found that cache of dimes and Finally did it. I love being able to take pictures right there on the spot.

Hey twistidd,

I was using my faithfull DFX tonight, it's my regular. I only use the others once in a while now. I used the M6 & XLT quite a bit after I first got em just to learn the machings. I actually sold the XLT to my little brother and bought a second M6 and don't regret it at all.

sparkymaster

ringfinder · May 28, 2008

Nice post and Thanks for buying American. Love the Ring!

HH,Ringfinder

49r Relics · May 28, 2008

8" - 9" on that dime was very impressive. Was that an iffy signal or was it locked on?

TimC (North Alabama) · May 28, 2008

Nice place to hunt that looks like it could hold lots of finds. Looks like you got a great start, keep going.

Ron B · May 28, 2008

Hello My T-Net Buddy!
I'm proud to see you out and playing; you work too hard! Lol!

Great thread and story too! Great pictures!

I own a 2006 F-250 with the 6.0 diesel engine and I'm lucky to get 15 mpg!
I seldom exceed 60 and only haul water once or twice a week. I did install a BuckBuster front bumper and 16.0 warn winch which added at least 400 lbs to the front end.

GRB

Count Boris · May 28, 2008

Nice going on the silver dime , and ring. You don't have to answer this question if you don't want. I just can't recognize the school from your pictures. Which one is it?
Count Boris

sparkymaster · May 28, 2008

Thanks everyone!

BeachBumm,

The signal was some what iffy and a little broken at first but it seemed to zero in on it pretty good after a few small, short passes. It was strong enough to get my attention as I swept over it the first time. It wasn't registering as strong as it should have for silver but came in as a solid dime signal.

Hey GRB,

I'd like to see a picture of your truck, It sounds nice.

Hey Boris,

I don't mind telling the school name at all, it's not like I'll get to the whole thing by myself anyway. It's Marlon Hills elementry.