Captn SE
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- Apr 1, 2007
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- Location
- Southern CA
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Explorer SE; X-1 Target Probe; Pro Coil, 6x8 SEF, Coiltek Platypus Elliptical, Sunray X8, Expl. 1050 coils
Hello Everyone!
I just wanted to share my detecting week with all of you. Weeks like this in the turf don't happen very often anymore. If they did, I'd have over 1200 silver for the year.
I had a stellar week finding old coins from just two parks. I only visited my silver park once this week, but I got a big silver surprise on Tuesday there with my '42 Walker find, along with 2 Mercury dimes. I always find it surprising that a large silver coin always seems to show itself from a heavily pounded area of a park. This area has silver skunked at least 4 different Explorer hunters this week, and I get the feeling that hunting all the obvious spots in the park now will produce minimally in the old coinage arena. It was so much fun for me these past 15 months hunting the silver park...255 silver, over a 1000 wheats....it will always be my favorite park.
Most of my detecting time this week was spent at a park that didn't produce very well for me back in '07. I clearly remember finding just a few silver coins, along with about 10 wheats, and successive returns to this park back in '07 didn't produce anything else for me, so I gave up on it. Since my pleasantly unexpected return to this park on Monday with my two hunting buddies, the two areas of the park I detected before have been producing very well for me. Yes, I was a newbie with my SE back in '07, so that probably had everything to do with it. Most of the old coins I have found this week were choppy sounding signals, somewhat repeatable, and between 6-9" deep, with lots of underground electrical disturbances. If you didn't adapt quickly to the conditions by swinging your coil slow enough, you would just null out from the iron/underground EMI, and walk right over the deepies. By swinging my coil very slowly, I could actually hear the deepies while my machine was losing threshold. They wouldn't be perfect text-book sounding signals, but at least the tone was telling me that I better "dig".
I returned back to this park on Wednesday after recovering 7 silver coins from there on Monday. The oldies were still committing suicide. I managed a silver dime Trifecta, with my first barber dime from this park, a 1913. I ended the day with 6 silver dimes, only 9 wheats, and a large Mexican silver pin just a couple of inches under the surface.
Yesterday, the silver finally started to get a little more stingy, while the wheats started to take over the counts. From one small 40'x40' area, I dug 28 wheats and 2 silver dimes, including a 1929 S Buffalo nickel. I don't dig very many low conductors, but after digging an early teen wheatie from about 9", I got a nice and deep nickel tone right on the edge of my wheatie plug, and from about 8" down, the buffalo nickel finally saw the light of day.
The last picture is all the silver I managed to recover this week since last Saturday. The SLQ was still my favorite find the whole week, while the Walker took second place honors. So a word to the wise...go back and revisit all your long forgotten sites you have hunted in recent years past, because you may never know all the treasure you left behind.
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
CAPTN SE
Dan
I just wanted to share my detecting week with all of you. Weeks like this in the turf don't happen very often anymore. If they did, I'd have over 1200 silver for the year.
I had a stellar week finding old coins from just two parks. I only visited my silver park once this week, but I got a big silver surprise on Tuesday there with my '42 Walker find, along with 2 Mercury dimes. I always find it surprising that a large silver coin always seems to show itself from a heavily pounded area of a park. This area has silver skunked at least 4 different Explorer hunters this week, and I get the feeling that hunting all the obvious spots in the park now will produce minimally in the old coinage arena. It was so much fun for me these past 15 months hunting the silver park...255 silver, over a 1000 wheats....it will always be my favorite park.Most of my detecting time this week was spent at a park that didn't produce very well for me back in '07. I clearly remember finding just a few silver coins, along with about 10 wheats, and successive returns to this park back in '07 didn't produce anything else for me, so I gave up on it. Since my pleasantly unexpected return to this park on Monday with my two hunting buddies, the two areas of the park I detected before have been producing very well for me. Yes, I was a newbie with my SE back in '07, so that probably had everything to do with it. Most of the old coins I have found this week were choppy sounding signals, somewhat repeatable, and between 6-9" deep, with lots of underground electrical disturbances. If you didn't adapt quickly to the conditions by swinging your coil slow enough, you would just null out from the iron/underground EMI, and walk right over the deepies. By swinging my coil very slowly, I could actually hear the deepies while my machine was losing threshold. They wouldn't be perfect text-book sounding signals, but at least the tone was telling me that I better "dig".
I returned back to this park on Wednesday after recovering 7 silver coins from there on Monday. The oldies were still committing suicide. I managed a silver dime Trifecta, with my first barber dime from this park, a 1913. I ended the day with 6 silver dimes, only 9 wheats, and a large Mexican silver pin just a couple of inches under the surface.
Yesterday, the silver finally started to get a little more stingy, while the wheats started to take over the counts. From one small 40'x40' area, I dug 28 wheats and 2 silver dimes, including a 1929 S Buffalo nickel. I don't dig very many low conductors, but after digging an early teen wheatie from about 9", I got a nice and deep nickel tone right on the edge of my wheatie plug, and from about 8" down, the buffalo nickel finally saw the light of day.
The last picture is all the silver I managed to recover this week since last Saturday. The SLQ was still my favorite find the whole week, while the Walker took second place honors. So a word to the wise...go back and revisit all your long forgotten sites you have hunted in recent years past, because you may never know all the treasure you left behind.
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
CAPTN SE
Dan
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You ARE the Calif silver king. Congrats on all your finds buddy, but the Walker and SLQ are the bomb! 
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It's absolutely amazing what you pull from those parks in and around LA. WTG on another pile of silver to add to your collection
