16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

[Captn SE]

16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

I've been waiting to dig just 12 more silver coins since early last week to reach a new milestone from my "Silver Park". Today was the day. I managed to find 2 Mercs, and 1 Rosie in a short 2 hr hunt today to bring my silver coin count from the "Silver Park" to 252 since Jan. '08. It has taken many long hours of patience and physical exertion to find all of these coins, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. Since I have about a 5 wheat to 1 silver ratio, I'm guessing I've dug over 1000 wheaties from this park also. Sometimes I have hunted solo, while many times I have enjoyed the company of my hunting buddies. The park is really thinning out now for the oldies, so I'm not going to make any more goals from there. It's a place you can get easily silver skunked, and also tired out from digging deep clad coinage. Because of its popularity, the park has been getting more pressure from other skilled hunters as of late. Last week, I managed to find two pieces of the same Rosie, which marks the third time I have ever accomplished this. The lawnmower chopped pieces were about 5-6 ft. apart from each other. I tried for a little while, but couldn't find the remaining pieces. Last week at my local park, I found a chopped piece of silver, which was verified to be that of a B-17 Bomber. It's marked sterling....WWII era, I'm guessing.

The Silver Park has totally surpassed my expectations. I've said this before, and I'll say it again, "I don't think I will ever find another park like the Silver Park".

Thanks for looking.
Keep The Passion High!

CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[PA]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

hi captain se,

you did very awesome. great hunting sir. go get more now.

henry

 

[allen]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

that mustve been an awesome day of detecting !!!

 

[plumloko]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

That would be so unreal to have a spot like that all to yourself.
If you see a spot on Friday around here by Saturday everyone and their Ex Wives will be on it.
Congrats!

 

[Jerry1NJ]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Great finds!!!!

 

[t-bucket]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Congrats on the silver Dan !!!! That is awesome on the finds you have found in that park. I don't think you will have any problem finding 300. 44 wheats is cool too, That is a lot of digging !!!! Have a Good one and Good luck on your next hunt !!!

 

[Detectingfreak]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

nice job on the silver captain SE! Now once you get down to finding no silver. I think you will feel the pain of Washington Hunters everywhere. lol jk. Research is the only way to find older coins! Keep on hunting! Love your posts!

 

[Butler]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Congrats on meeting your goal! No doubt in my mind that you would succeed!

I am wondering, Do you have any idea what the total $ amount is that you have dug in this park? And... how many holes? Hmmm, that might be scary to think about huh?

 

[bazinga]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Sounds like a lot of fun to be out there hunting near-virgin parks!

 

[Jack(IN)]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Amazing day!! Those Parks are just filled with silver and its still not hunted out, just the easy stuff is gone and the somewhat hard to find are disappearing!! I have a feeling 300 is not impossible from "silver park!! Congrats!!

 

[camperlee]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

WTG I would sure like to find a silver park like that.

 

[Captn SE]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

hi captain se,

you did very awesome. great hunting sir. go get more now.

henry

Thanks, Henry. I will!

that mustve been an awesome day of detecting !!!

Thanks Allen. It was 4 awesome days of detecting!

That would be so unreal to have a spot like that all to yourself.
If you see a spot on Friday around here by Saturday everyone and their Ex Wives will be on it.
Congrats!

Thanks, plumloko. Where did you get that idea? All to myself? Hahahahaaaaa......this is the most heavily hunted park in all of Los Angeles. The top Explorer hunters in all of Southern California hunt this park. It's LOADED with trash, and many give up hunting the park....I'm persistent and patient, and have more time invested in the park than the average md'er, and it has paid off for me.

Great finds!!!!

Thanks, Jerry! Good luck to you!

Congrats on the silver Dan !!!! That is awesome on the finds you have found in that park. I don't think you will have any problem finding 300. 44 wheats is cool too, That is a lot of digging !!!! Have a Good one and Good luck on your next hunt !!!

Thanks, Gary! Yes, I will have a problem finding 300 in that park. Unless I start digging all the shallower trash targets and hope there is a deeper silver coin underneath it, I'm not going to get there. Not sure if I'm willing to dig the millions of trash targets yet. However, digging some of the shallower clad has helped me find deeper wheats/silver I would have never found.

nice job on the silver captain SE! Now once you get down to finding no silver. I think you will feel the pain of Washington Hunters everywhere. lol jk. Research is the only way to find older coins! Keep on hunting! Love your posts!

Thanks, DF. Hey, there's plenty of S. Cal hunters not finding silver at these parks I hunt. They're just not laying on top of the ground for you to grab. In my area, the only research required to find silver in a park it's age. It's not rocket science.

Congrats on meeting your goal! No doubt in my mind that you would succeed!

I am wondering, Do you have any idea what the total $ amount is that you have dug in this park? And... how many holes? Hmmm, that might be scary to think about huh?

Thanks, Butler. I would not even try guessing the total $ amount, but I know it's over $500 in clad. And the plugs are in the thousands...and that's just me. There's plenty of other md'ers hunting the park also.

Sounds like a lot of fun to be out there hunting near-virgin parks!

Bscofield, you couldn't be more wrong. This park is the most heavily hunted park in all of Los Angeles. It's also one of the oldest. This park is hunted by the best Explorer hunters in S. Cal., and I know most of them for the past few years. The park has a plethora of deep clad and trash, and is noisy(underground sprinklers and EMI). Many give up hunting the park because of this. Only the patient and persistent with a capable machine will find the good stuff there. I have invested well over 300 hours at this park the past 14 months. I detect the park on average 2-3 times a week. Nobody in all of S. Cal has put more time detecting that park than me. There are no virgin parks in urban Los Angeles. They have all been hunted for the past 25 years by VLF machines.

 

[Captn SE]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Amazing day!! Those Parks are just filled with silver and its still not hunted out, just the easy stuff is gone and the somewhat hard to find are disappearing!! I have a feeling 300 is not impossible from "silver park!! Congrats!!

Thanks, Jack! Yes, it was filled with silver, but now it's mostly filled with TRASH and clad!! Lots of it!! I usually find 16-25 quarters each time I hunt the park. The clad and trash get refilled every week by hundreds of picnic'ers, but the silver/wheats are not. What's left in the ground is all that's left, and it's getting very thin. I'm really glad to have put so much time hunting this park. It has paid off for me tremendously.

WTG I would sure like to find a silver park like that.

Thanks, camperlee! Most who would even happen to find a park like this will want to keep it a big secret. You know how treasure hunters are. Can't give away their greatest producing sites.

 

[Slipperyjack47]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Awesome finds from the king of silver! I did notice the 42 merc date looks funny? maybe a 42/1 strike? maybe worth a closer look or could be just the angle that the pic is at but still worth a look!



HH
Slipperyjack47

 

[plumloko]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

That would be so unreal to have a spot like that all to yourself.
If you see a spot on Friday around here by Saturday everyone and their Ex Wives will be on it.
Congrats!

Thanks, plumloko. Where did you get that idea? All to myself? Hahahahaaaaa......this is the most heavily hunted park in all of Los Angeles. The top Explorer hunters in all of Southern California hunt this park. It's LOADED with trash, and many give up hunting the park....I'm persistent and patient, and have more time invested in the park than the average md'er, and it has paid off for me.

I guess Explorer has nothing to do with it then.
It comes down to, as you say "persistence and patience".
I think instead of a "Captain" you should be promoted to "Colonel"
Nice finds!

 

[Finman]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

WTG!!! Very nice haul !!!!!!

HH Joe

 

[Captn SE]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Awesome finds from the king of silver! I did notice the 42 merc date looks funny? maybe a 42/1 strike? maybe worth a closer look or could be just the angle that the pic is at but still worth a look!

HH
Slipperyjack47

Thanks, Jack. Actually, the 42 merc you see is really a '43 merc. Just a bad angle. Keep working that awesome park of yours!!

WTG!!! Very nice haul !!!!!! thumbsup

HH Joe

Thanks, Joe! Good luck to you!

I guess Explorer has nothing to do with it then.

My 6000 Di has a nice place in my closet since my Explorer purchase back in '07.

 

[Mike from MI]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Awesome! Do you have a list of all the silver coins from there? It would be neat to see it.
Pretty sure that the cut coin was from snips, not a mower. mowers usually mangle them, not clean cuts. very cool to find the matched pieces though! Great hunt, congrats!

 

[beetle662]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Outstanding! You really cleaned up at The Silver Park! Hopefully you will run across another place like this soon... but they are getting tougher to find.

Congrats again! Job well done!

 

[Mike Moutray]

Re: 16 Silver, 44 Wheats!! Dug My 252nd Silver Coin from the "Silver Park"

Wow!!! The Silver Machine just keeps on rolling! Excellent finds as usual! HH, Mike.