Captn SE
Silver Member
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- Apr 1, 2007
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- Southern CA
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- Minelab Explorer SE; X-1 Target Probe; Pro Coil, 6x8 SEF, Coiltek Platypus Elliptical, Sunray X8, Expl. 1050 coils
Hello My Friends!
I'm starting to see more of my Tnet buds starting to get out there and swing their coils for the first time in a while. The weather must be making a change for the better for some of you. That's good news!
Today was one of those days that didn't start out very well, but finished with a bang!! I decided to take a drive to a park that I had only found 3 silver at last year, and 8 silver back in '07. I figured if I could get a couple of silver coins and some wheats, that I'd be coming home happy. This park has been pounded by detector clubs all the way back to the mid 80's. For an hour and a half, all I had was some clad, and was then just hoping to find a couple oldies. I started to walk back down a slope to my car when I got a 4" silver signal. Sure enough, at 4" was a Mercury dime. Yes!! I started to then detect around this area, and to my surprise I ended up finding 3 more Mercs, the deepest being 5". I hadn't even found a wheatie yet. :P After I picked the area clean, I decided to go to walk over to the other side of the hill where I had found 3 silver dimes last year. Finally, I got a wheatie, but just a few minutes later, another Mercury dime. Wow!! 5 Mercs and just 1 wheat. Gotta love that ratio!
Well, the wheaties were finally starting to catch up to the silver when I dug 4 in a row. My next two digs were silver Rosies!! I couldn't believe it. I had 7 silver and only 5 wheats. About 10 minutes later, I got a deeper signal next to a shallow trash target, and at about 7", I dug up a 1917 Merc. 
It was surreal!! 
After that, I ended up digging 6 wheaties in a row, and that was it for my day! For the last 2 hrs of my hunt today, I ended up with 8 silver dimes (6 Mercs, 2 Rosies), and 11 wheats! I believe the combination of detecting this park for the first time with my Pro Coil and the saturated ground led to my success today. It was a lot of fun, and none of the silver in this park are corroded. They had some black marks that were easily removable with a little baking soda paste. The other 2 silver (1 Merc, 1 Rosie), along with a 1903 Injun, an old 3 ring bullet(buffalo killer), and 17 wheats were found a couple days ago while hunting a Barrio park with my hunting buddy, Mike(oknorom).
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
I'm starting to see more of my Tnet buds starting to get out there and swing their coils for the first time in a while. The weather must be making a change for the better for some of you. That's good news!
Today was one of those days that didn't start out very well, but finished with a bang!! I decided to take a drive to a park that I had only found 3 silver at last year, and 8 silver back in '07. I figured if I could get a couple of silver coins and some wheats, that I'd be coming home happy. This park has been pounded by detector clubs all the way back to the mid 80's. For an hour and a half, all I had was some clad, and was then just hoping to find a couple oldies. I started to walk back down a slope to my car when I got a 4" silver signal. Sure enough, at 4" was a Mercury dime. Yes!! I started to then detect around this area, and to my surprise I ended up finding 3 more Mercs, the deepest being 5". I hadn't even found a wheatie yet. :P After I picked the area clean, I decided to go to walk over to the other side of the hill where I had found 3 silver dimes last year. Finally, I got a wheatie, but just a few minutes later, another Mercury dime. Wow!! 5 Mercs and just 1 wheat. Gotta love that ratio!
Well, the wheaties were finally starting to catch up to the silver when I dug 4 in a row. My next two digs were silver Rosies!! I couldn't believe it. I had 7 silver and only 5 wheats. About 10 minutes later, I got a deeper signal next to a shallow trash target, and at about 7", I dug up a 1917 Merc. It was surreal!! After that, I ended up digging 6 wheaties in a row, and that was it for my day! For the last 2 hrs of my hunt today, I ended up with 8 silver dimes (6 Mercs, 2 Rosies), and 11 wheats! I believe the combination of detecting this park for the first time with my Pro Coil and the saturated ground led to my success today. It was a lot of fun, and none of the silver in this park are corroded. They had some black marks that were easily removable with a little baking soda paste. The other 2 silver (1 Merc, 1 Rosie), along with a 1903 Injun, an old 3 ring bullet(buffalo killer), and 17 wheats were found a couple days ago while hunting a Barrio park with my hunting buddy, Mike(oknorom).Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
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