lurk
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This is going to be a long winded post and for that I am sorry. TL DR scroll for pics.
First I would like give a thanks and shoutout to LocoDigger who helped me get adjusted and get the most out of my F75 through some PMs.
So I have an unoffical rule about no detecting during the heat of summer, because its too hot, its hard on the grass, and its spear fishing season for me, so I took my layoff over summer and have been back detecting now that the weather has cooled.
My first year detecting I was probably overly concerned with finding silver and had convinced myself that my machine wasn't deep enough, not that there just wasn't silver at my sights. Now I have learned to get out of my bubble, do some good research, and most of all talk to people. This has blessed me with quite a few permissions. It seems as I am finishing one spot I catch wind of another and so on and on. Right now on my perms I am running 9 yays for 2 nays. I havnt ventured more than 1 block from my original permission I got where I found the Indians that I posted about in the spring. As far as the silver depth question, I think it is false, as I have now found 2 silvers on the surface, and most of them above 4 inches.
I am writing this post mostly for what I have found today, which when I cleaned it off I about soiled myself, but I am going to combine it with my last few hunts as well.
After I hunted out the original permission I did the neighbors house, which yielded another Indian, his name is Fred he is important to this story. I then got permission on two houses down the street that are unihabited and in disrepair. Those two houses yeilded 2 mercs, 1 rosie, and 12 wheats. It took my about 3 days to clean those houses out and I was lucky enough to get to chat with the nice lady across the street who gave me permission to do her yard, I told her I would return at a later date. I ran into Fred at a Chinese Buffet of all places and he told me that he has spoke with his neighbor across the alley from him and that his neighbor wants me to do his yard. I pulled it up on the county website and the neighbors house was built in 1900, which got me excited. So yesterday after my wife went to work in the evening I decided to go see Fred and get in contact with the neighbor. Well Fred wasn't home so I decided to do some curb strips instead and not waste the day. The curb strips were around a city owned parking lot so I wasn't concerned about POing any home owners. I hit a good patch of nails in one of the curb strips and decided to slow it down and scored my first silver quarter a 1964 but that was just fine with me. I hit a wheat and then popped a 1940 merc that I thought was a penny at about 2 inches, that was a pleasant surprise. So tonight after the wife went to work I decided to go try and get in touch with Fred again, once again, not home. I drove around the block and as luck would have it, the lady across the street from the two delapidated houses was on her porch, so I stopped and asked her if it was still okay if I did her yard and she abliged. So I got to swinging through a little rain and lots of trash, started finding some chunks of lead which is usually a good sign for me and then on the side of the house popped out a Merc from about 3 inches, restrained myself from rubbing it because I could see it was from the 20s. Cool I thought because I was just thinking how I would like to find some earlier Mercs because all I have came up with until this point was 1940s Mercs.
So I just got home and rinsed it off alittle, read the date 1921...cool I'm thinking....wait isn't there some significance to that date? Why does it stick out in my head? Check the mintmark its a D...Look it up....About crap my pants. Text my detecting comrades and then sat down to write this post. I need to rinse it and take some photos which I will do now, just wanted to write this while it was fresh. Besides the Merc I only found 1 wheatie in the rest of yard, but the 21D merc more than makes up for that!
Also still no Fred. Unfortunately its going to be pretty hard for that new permission to top this lol! I am going to try and catch him again tomorrow.
here are the finds from the two run down houses
Heres the finds from yesterdays curb strip hunt
can anyone help ID this thing from the curbstrips yesterday? Its copper with what appears to be silver plating on the embellished edges. Lamp string pull?
And finally what you've been waiting for, the 21D Merc
By my standards I am having a kick ass year with all of these finds. Last year I think I managed something like 4 wheats lol. I am so tickled right now.
Thanks for reading and sorry for any typos.
First I would like give a thanks and shoutout to LocoDigger who helped me get adjusted and get the most out of my F75 through some PMs.
So I have an unoffical rule about no detecting during the heat of summer, because its too hot, its hard on the grass, and its spear fishing season for me, so I took my layoff over summer and have been back detecting now that the weather has cooled.
My first year detecting I was probably overly concerned with finding silver and had convinced myself that my machine wasn't deep enough, not that there just wasn't silver at my sights. Now I have learned to get out of my bubble, do some good research, and most of all talk to people. This has blessed me with quite a few permissions. It seems as I am finishing one spot I catch wind of another and so on and on. Right now on my perms I am running 9 yays for 2 nays. I havnt ventured more than 1 block from my original permission I got where I found the Indians that I posted about in the spring. As far as the silver depth question, I think it is false, as I have now found 2 silvers on the surface, and most of them above 4 inches.
I am writing this post mostly for what I have found today, which when I cleaned it off I about soiled myself, but I am going to combine it with my last few hunts as well.
After I hunted out the original permission I did the neighbors house, which yielded another Indian, his name is Fred he is important to this story. I then got permission on two houses down the street that are unihabited and in disrepair. Those two houses yeilded 2 mercs, 1 rosie, and 12 wheats. It took my about 3 days to clean those houses out and I was lucky enough to get to chat with the nice lady across the street who gave me permission to do her yard, I told her I would return at a later date. I ran into Fred at a Chinese Buffet of all places and he told me that he has spoke with his neighbor across the alley from him and that his neighbor wants me to do his yard. I pulled it up on the county website and the neighbors house was built in 1900, which got me excited. So yesterday after my wife went to work in the evening I decided to go see Fred and get in contact with the neighbor. Well Fred wasn't home so I decided to do some curb strips instead and not waste the day. The curb strips were around a city owned parking lot so I wasn't concerned about POing any home owners. I hit a good patch of nails in one of the curb strips and decided to slow it down and scored my first silver quarter a 1964 but that was just fine with me. I hit a wheat and then popped a 1940 merc that I thought was a penny at about 2 inches, that was a pleasant surprise. So tonight after the wife went to work I decided to go try and get in touch with Fred again, once again, not home. I drove around the block and as luck would have it, the lady across the street from the two delapidated houses was on her porch, so I stopped and asked her if it was still okay if I did her yard and she abliged. So I got to swinging through a little rain and lots of trash, started finding some chunks of lead which is usually a good sign for me and then on the side of the house popped out a Merc from about 3 inches, restrained myself from rubbing it because I could see it was from the 20s. Cool I thought because I was just thinking how I would like to find some earlier Mercs because all I have came up with until this point was 1940s Mercs.
So I just got home and rinsed it off alittle, read the date 1921...cool I'm thinking....wait isn't there some significance to that date? Why does it stick out in my head? Check the mintmark its a D...Look it up....About crap my pants. Text my detecting comrades and then sat down to write this post. I need to rinse it and take some photos which I will do now, just wanted to write this while it was fresh. Besides the Merc I only found 1 wheatie in the rest of yard, but the 21D merc more than makes up for that!
Also still no Fred. Unfortunately its going to be pretty hard for that new permission to top this lol! I am going to try and catch him again tomorrow.
here are the finds from the two run down houses
Heres the finds from yesterdays curb strip hunt
can anyone help ID this thing from the curbstrips yesterday? Its copper with what appears to be silver plating on the embellished edges. Lamp string pull?
And finally what you've been waiting for, the 21D Merc
By my standards I am having a kick ass year with all of these finds. Last year I think I managed something like 4 wheats lol. I am so tickled right now.
Thanks for reading and sorry for any typos.
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