Captn SE
Silver Member
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2007
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- Location
- 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!!
This past week I've detected 3 different parks and really gave the turf a good silver/wheatie pillaging.
Most of my silver coins came from my good old "silver park", which I now have recovered 210 silver coins from in the past 14 months. The silver park is awesome, but you've got to be willing to dig a lot of deep clad to get the silver...there's no way around it. 
One day there last week, I found my first musket ball, which is my first one I've ever found from an LA park. Yesterday, I found the girl scout ring underneath an old oak tree. She cleaned up real nice. I also found the aluminum token medal, which has a flag in the middle of the star, and says "Heres Ten Inches For You K....". I can't make out the last word due to corrosion, but the token was bent in half like a taco shell at 11" in the ground. My most memorable day came early this week at an old park I've never detected before. One of my hunting buddies said the park has been worked over by many detectorists over the years, including himself, and is real stingy on giving up the silver coinage. I was anxious to give a different park a go, just to break the monotony of my local parks. After about 45 minutes, I had only 1 wheat to show for my time, and it looked like the park really did get a thorough pillaging many times over. About 15 minutes later, as I was swinging my coil near the end of turf at the front of the park, I started to find wheaties at around 6-8". One after an other, sometimes 2-3 in one hole. 
I couldn't believe it...It wasn't more than 15-20 seconds after digging one wheat that I would find another. The area was only about 30' x 25' in size. After digging 18 wheaties, I finally found a silver Rosie, then a '42 Washington, then a sterling ring. After about 45 minutes, I had found 30 wheats, and 3 silver in this small area. I just scratched my head 
and couldn't figure out how an area like this got overlooked. I finished off the day there with a Merc, and headed home. Before I did, I moved to a couple different areas of the park, and came up empty. So in retrospect, never give up on a park even though you've detected areas and came up empty, until you can say you've detected every square inch of it or else you could miss one of these "hot pockets". And then once you've covered every square inch, go over it again and again. You'd be surprised what you have missed! 
Thanks for Looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
This past week I've detected 3 different parks and really gave the turf a good silver/wheatie pillaging.
Most of my silver coins came from my good old "silver park", which I now have recovered 210 silver coins from in the past 14 months. The silver park is awesome, but you've got to be willing to dig a lot of deep clad to get the silver...there's no way around it. One day there last week, I found my first musket ball, which is my first one I've ever found from an LA park. Yesterday, I found the girl scout ring underneath an old oak tree. She cleaned up real nice. I also found the aluminum token medal, which has a flag in the middle of the star, and says "Heres Ten Inches For You K....". I can't make out the last word due to corrosion, but the token was bent in half like a taco shell at 11" in the ground. My most memorable day came early this week at an old park I've never detected before. One of my hunting buddies said the park has been worked over by many detectorists over the years, including himself, and is real stingy on giving up the silver coinage. I was anxious to give a different park a go, just to break the monotony of my local parks. After about 45 minutes, I had only 1 wheat to show for my time, and it looked like the park really did get a thorough pillaging many times over. About 15 minutes later, as I was swinging my coil near the end of turf at the front of the park, I started to find wheaties at around 6-8". One after an other, sometimes 2-3 in one hole. I couldn't believe it...It wasn't more than 15-20 seconds after digging one wheat that I would find another. The area was only about 30' x 25' in size. After digging 18 wheaties, I finally found a silver Rosie, then a '42 Washington, then a sterling ring. After about 45 minutes, I had found 30 wheats, and 3 silver in this small area. I just scratched my head and couldn't figure out how an area like this got overlooked. I finished off the day there with a Merc, and headed home. Before I did, I moved to a couple different areas of the park, and came up empty. So in retrospect, never give up on a park even though you've detected areas and came up empty, until you can say you've detected every square inch of it or else you could miss one of these "hot pockets". And then once you've covered every square inch, go over it again and again. You'd be surprised what you have missed! Thanks for Looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
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Way to go on all that silver & your first musket ball. That has to be a pretty rare find I would think. 
Another spectacular display!
