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

 

[John Deere Digger]

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

Nice digging Dan. You smashed through 250, now to 300. HH
JDD

 

[Michigan Fats]

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

Boy you got yourself one heck of a hunting site.
Very nice silver.
MF

 

[Captn SE]

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

Just awesome dan! congrats on all that silver! keep it up, best of luck and HH

Thanks, coltdavis! Good luck to you too!!

Nice Finds WTG

Thanks, Bob. Good luck at the beach!

Congratulations man! Nice work as always.

Steve

Thanks, Goldiver!! Appreciate it! \

DUDE!!!
Way to go Big D. The state of Calif may have to come to YOU for a loan.
Congrats,
MM

Thanks, Doug! I'm waiting for your next big find. What will it be?

 

[dewcon4414]

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

I dont think Brian was being scartastic.... its just unreal what you and bryce find. Like he said these parks in Indy are just void sometimes like there were tons of fill dirt. It does take some skill to hunt EMI and real trashy areas. You are a way better "fisherman" than me. I tip my hat to your finds.... the only way id make finds like that is at a coin shop haha.

Dew

 

[Big E]

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

That's a lot of silver there Dan. Congrats on your success at the Silver Park. I have a feeling we'll keep seeing plenty of silver from you. Great job!

Big E
Emil

 

[Captn SE]

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

The silver farm officially acknowledges that the silver park rules!

Thanks Henry. I wish I had a silver farm too. Can never get enough!

Big Congrats Dan! That is a REAL Accomplishment.

I'm still laughing at that "virgin park" comment. They sure don't know Southern California. I think we have more detectorists here per park than anywhere else in the country. I've seen you hunt and I know you have the skill, persistence and proper detector to make these kind of finds. These are NOT normal finds in any sense.

You are very appreciated by us all!

HH Joe

Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it! See you soon!

Dan,

Way to go to top the 250 mark, just imagine what that number might have been in the 80's if you had the skills and equipment you have now. It's post like your that made me go out and buy a detector and get into this hobby. I just hope you have left a few coins for the rest of us to find.

Keep up the great posts,


HH,
Dave

Thanks, Dave. In the 80's, this place was a "Silver Mine". I'm glad you got inspired to go detecting! Good luck to you!

Nice digging Dan. You smashed through 250, now to 300. HH
JDD

Thanks, JDD. Nothing is certain now. My good buddy, who's an excellent hunter, got silver skunked there today.

Boy you got yourself one heck of a hunting site.
Very nice silver.
MF

Thanks, Michigan Fats. It's my best site.

I dont think Brian was being sarcastic.... its just unreal what you and bryce find. Like he said these parks in Indy are just void sometimes like there were tons of fill dirt. It does take some skill to hunt EMI and real trashy areas. You are a way better "fisherman" than me. I tip my hat to your finds.... the only way id make finds like that is at a coin shop haha.

Dew

Thanks, Dew. Yeah, it's cool. It's a whole different type of detecting at a park like this. For every swing of your coil, there's so many targets, the majority are trash/shallow clad. I've been to parks where theres long stretches of just threshold hum. Easy on the ears, but not so great for finds. Best of luck to you out there!

That's a lot of silver there Dan. Congrats on your success at the Silver Park. I have a feeling we'll keep seeing plenty of silver from you. Great job! thumbsup

Big E
Emil

Thanks, Big E. I'm gonna have to find some new spots, or just start digging all the trash/shallow clad at the silver park to expose new targets previously masked. I did this a couple of days ago, and was rewarded with two Mercs. You could not hear those two silvers before I removed a quarter and memorial penny under the surface.

 

[The Buzzard King]

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

Man, that's alot of silver. I'm amazed with how much DEEP silver you and Bryce can still pull out of those parks.

Congrats!

 

[STH69]

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

Really nice congrats

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

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

Not fair Dan. You found a cut piece of silver before me.
Chris

 

[crazyjarhead]

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

Words alone cannot say enough, Dan. That is one for the history books. That is just incredible. I wonder how many people have visited tis park?? Outstanding

 

[RONC(OR)]

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

Hard to keep up with your posts Man you find allot of Silver Congrats

 

[litefire56]

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

Dan,
What a awesome accomplishment to find 250+ silver from one heavily pounded park!
I nominate this thread to the Banner...do I hear a second??

 

[Dana Point Val]

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

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.

I was just wondering if its the man or the machine,
If the "top" Explorer hunters in SoCal hunt that park and give up trying and your pulling 200+ silver, your the man.
If its just "persistence and patience" your 6000 Di would do the same.
Congrats again "Colonel SE".

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.

You won't be considered less of a man to admit that you have some amazing parks to detect. If you want to come see heavily hunted parks, come to the midwest or most other states. I can take you to parks that are 120+ years old where you can go all day and dig fewer than 5 old coins.. And not because of trash, but because there is absolutely nothing to dig. That's heavily hunted. Yours sound more like poorly hunted.

Just be a man and admit that you have incredible sites that have lots of old coins left in them. Heck, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit that. I would be proud of it and loving every minute of it.

The first time I met Dan, me and "Staydetuned" met him at a park in Long Beach with our Exp2's. I can't remember if he PM'd me or I PM'd him, but when we got there he was swinging his 6000 Di. After a while we got a couple of silvers and wheats and we started comparing signals with Dan and that's when to his suprise, no matter what he did, he couldn't hear most of the really deep ones (and let me tell you, Dan has an unbelievable set of ears and the logic to go with them) Since then he came over to the "DarkSide" and never looked back. "persistence and patience" is great and will get you the big quantities, but that has nothing to do with these two machines. The Exp XS,2,SE, SE Pro, any of them flat out, will go deeper then the 6000Di and will get you more silver everytime. Yes, I know they are heavy, yes I know they make all kind of sounds that would drive a normal man crazy, yes I know they're too expensive, etc, etc. The difference between these two machines is, if you want the deep coins (7-10 inches) for the dirt out west here, you need to hunt wide open with hardly any discrimination, and with any of the Exp's you can hear the difference between silver and trash or anything else in the ground most of the time, where with the 6000 Di you simple can't and would have to dig everything. I'm not knocking the 6000 Di, I have one myself and yes you might find as many silver with it, but I don't have that much time, I 'll be dead and gone by then. The "Silver park" is, like Dan Say's, probably the most hunted park around here and one of the oldest around here. Dan is not only "persistant and patient" and puts many, many hours into hunting, he is also using a detector that is capable of hunting wide open and still tell him on a consistent basis whether or not to dig, and that is why he produces the numbers he does. There's no such thing as a "virgin park" around here. Give the man some credit, he deserves it.

Just MHO

 

[bazinga]

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

The first time I met Dan, me and "Staydetuned" met him at a park in Long Beach with our Exp2's. I can't remember if he PM'd me or I PM'd him, but when we got there he was swinging his 6000 Di. After a while we got a couple of silvers and wheats and we started comparing signals with Dan and that's when to his suprise, no matter what he did, he couldn't hear most of the really deep ones (and let me tell you, Dan has an unbelievable set of ears and the logic to go with them) Since then he came over to the "DarkSide" and never looked back. "persistance and patience" is great and will get you the big quantities, but that has nothing to do with these two machines. The Exp XS,2,SE, SE Pro, any of them flat out, will go deeper then the 6000Di and will get you more silver everytime. Yes, I know they are heavy, yes I know they make all kind of sounds that would drive a normal man crazy, yes I know they're too expensive, etc, etc. The difference between these two machines is, if you want the deep coins (7-10 inches) for the dirt out west here, you need to hunt wide open with hardly any discrimination, and with any of the Exp's you can hear the difference between silver and trash or anything else in the ground most of the time, where with the 6000 Di you simple can't and would have to dig everything. I'm not knocking the 6000 Di, I have one myself and yes you might find as many silver with it, but I don't have that much time, I 'll be dead and gone by then. The "Silver park" is, like Dan say's, probably the most hunted park around here and one of the oldest around here. Dan is not only "persistant and patient" and puts many, many hours into hunting, he is also using a detector that is capable of hunting wide open and still tell him on a consistent basis whether or not to dig, and that is why he produces the numbers he does. There's no such thing as a "virgin park" around here. Give the man some credit, he deserves it.

Just MHO

He digs what he digs because you guys have too much in the ground over there. You guys can say how great he is all you want, but then he goes and says his hunting buddy doesn't hit this park and already has over 100 silver coins THIS YEAR ALONE! When everybody is finding silver like that, that is a product of just plain awesome locations to hunt, not just 'patience and persistence.'

Just face it, you guys are in what appears to be a truly unique area for detecting. Your parks are still LOADED with old coins. And I honestly don't see how you can argue that with me or anyone else at all.

Just because a park is "the most hunted" doesn't mean squat. Apparently the previous guys detecting didn't know how to truly hunt a park. Come out here to the midwest. I can take you to parks that don't even have trash to dig (outside of a random pull-tab). What we have here (and I'm assuming most of the rest of the country) is what you can call heavily hunted. I can put you in areas where you might go an hour without hearing an old coin signal to dig. And no, I'm not using some rinky dink 6000di, I'm using an Explorer.

I'm not doubting that he is good with the explorer. I'm doubting his talk of how 'heavily hunted' all of his parks are.

 

[history hunter]

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

Hey, you blinded me with all that silver!! Very nice and congrats on your 252 coin from silver park!! HH!!!

 

[Dana Point Val]

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

The first time I met Dan, me and "Staydetuned" met him at a park in Long Beach with our Exp2's. I can't remember if he PM'd me or I PM'd him, but when we got there he was swinging his 6000 Di. After a while we got a couple of silvers and wheats and we started comparing signals with Dan and that's when to his suprise, no matter what he did, he couldn't hear most of the really deep ones (and let me tell you, Dan has an unbelievable set of ears and the logic to go with them) Since then he came over to the "DarkSide" and never looked back. "persistence and patience" is great and will get you the big quantities, but that has nothing to do with these two machines. The Exp XS,2,SE, SE Pro, any of them flat out, will go deeper then the 6000Di and will get you more silver everytime. Yes, I know they are heavy, yes I know they make all kind of sounds that would drive a normal man crazy, yes I know they're too expensive, etc, etc. The difference between these two machines is, if you want the deep coins (7-10 inches) for the dirt out west here, you need to hunt wide open with hardly any discrimination, and with any of the Exp's you can hear the difference between silver and trash or anything else in the ground most of the time, where with the 6000 Di you simple can't and would have to dig everything. I'm not knocking the 6000 Di, I have one myself and yes you might find as many silver with it, but I don't have that much time, I 'll be dead and gone by then. The "Silver park" is, like Dan Say's, probably the most hunted park around here and one of the oldest around here. Dan is not only "persistant and patient" and puts many, many hours into hunting, he is also using a detector that is capable of hunting wide open and still tell him on a consistent basis whether or not to dig, and that is why he produces the numbers he does. There's no such thing as a "virgin park" around here. Give the man some credit, he deserves it.

Just MHO

He digs what he digs because you guys have too much in the ground over there. You guys can say how great he is all you want, but then he goes and says his hunting buddy doesn't hit this park and already has over 100 silver coins THIS YEAR ALONE! When everybody is finding silver like that, that is a product of just plain awesome locations to hunt, not just 'patience and persistence.'

Just face it, you guys are in what appears to be a truly unique area for detecting. Your parks are still LOADED with old coins. And I honestly don't see how you can argue that with me or anyone else at all.

Just because a park is "the most hunted" doesn't mean squat. Apparently the previous guys detecting didn't know how to truly hunt a park. Come out here to the midwest. I can take you to parks that don't even have trash to dig (outside of a random pull-tab). What we have here (and I'm assuming most of the rest of the country) is what you can call heavily hunted. I can put you in areas where you might go an hour without hearing an old coin signal to dig. And no, I'm not using some rinky dink 6000di, I'm using an Explorer.

I'm not doubting that he is good with the explorer. I'm doubting his talk of how 'heavily hunted' all of his parks are.

Well we did go to the midwest for a little hunt, about as mid west as it gets! Sioux City Iowa! in a pounded park and your right the first six inches are void of signals cause it's been pounded by Whites mostly, notice the ratio of rosies and wheaties verses oldies in the ground, typically its alot higher out here. Now there may be alot more more coins in the ground in our park then your parks, but not cause yours is hunted more, but because ours are under a denser layer of trash. But, I think its just as heavily hunted as yours if not more, because of the shear amount of people surrounding this park. Check out my post from 2007, the post only shows the stuff I found though. Staydetuned hit the same spot for a few days a couple of months before we went there. Dan got about the same amount as I did (and he was just getting used to his Exp too) and the same with Staydetuned, maybe they can post theirs coins from there later.

So if your calling midwest parks tough, take a trip out here and we'll show you tough! Not only has it been pounded by many detectorist the amount of trash is unbelievable, remember you have 3.4 million people living around this park.

All kidding aside bsco, anytime your out this way, we'd love to take you out.
Again this is only the coins I found.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,117120.0.html

 

[bazinga]

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

If your argument is Iowa, I've never hunted there. But I know some guys, and several others that I haven't met personally that would take weekend trips there with their explorers because the spots were so rich in finds at the time. One guy mentioned finding 25-50 silver in a weekend out there (multiple times). They basically kept doing this until maybe a year or two ago because the finds sort of petered out after that. The smart guys never posted their results from these trips and I only know because I was sent private messages at the time.

I only know about Indiana hunting, and some in Illinois. And I've hit spots here that have produced 10+ silver in a day. But then after going back, there really isn't a whole lot left.

I would be thankful to have parks with surface trash, as that means that there are still targets to found underneath it all. I'm not saying your finds come easy, but when someone is finding 20 old coins every time he steps out the door to go hunt, it must not be all that difficult either.