Dave Rishar
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We spent a few hours today at a local park that we haven't had much luck with. I went over the back corner (which I'd previously worked over hard with my E-Trac) to see what I'd missed (very little), then followed the walking path up to the basketball court. A month or so back I'd found a $1.50 pocket spill at that very same basketball court with the E-Trac and wasn't expecting to find much left, but I'm running much more open on the current machine and I'm far more willing to dig iffy targets. As it turned out, this paid off today.
First, the loot:
A few bucks in clad (including a few extremely toasted zincolns; all that's left of the one that's nearly rotted away is the date - 1998!), a brass or bronze I Ching coin, what appears to be a brass buckle, a .270 rifle cartridge with an unstruck primer (in an urban park...), a broken pendant of some sort, a key that was encased in a clump of rust that was probably a lock at some point, and one tiny little ring. But hey, it's a ring and I like rings. I'll take it.
And now for the dark side of the hobby, the part that we don't like to talk about but must nevertheless deal with when hunting for jewelry in trashy sites - piles and piles of pull tabs, bottle caps, and can slaw. This site is also notorious for deep iron that rings up better than it should and while I avoided the worst of it, I did get tricked a few times. I also found half of a frame for a pair of glasses for the first time, which rang up surprisingly nicely - I was pretty sure that I was on a coin until that piece of garbage popped out.
Also found but not pictured was a California state ID card. It does have an address on it, so I'll mail it back to its owner on Monday.
First, the loot:
A few bucks in clad (including a few extremely toasted zincolns; all that's left of the one that's nearly rotted away is the date - 1998!), a brass or bronze I Ching coin, what appears to be a brass buckle, a .270 rifle cartridge with an unstruck primer (in an urban park...), a broken pendant of some sort, a key that was encased in a clump of rust that was probably a lock at some point, and one tiny little ring. But hey, it's a ring and I like rings. I'll take it.
And now for the dark side of the hobby, the part that we don't like to talk about but must nevertheless deal with when hunting for jewelry in trashy sites - piles and piles of pull tabs, bottle caps, and can slaw. This site is also notorious for deep iron that rings up better than it should and while I avoided the worst of it, I did get tricked a few times. I also found half of a frame for a pair of glasses for the first time, which rang up surprisingly nicely - I was pretty sure that I was on a coin until that piece of garbage popped out.
Also found but not pictured was a California state ID card. It does have an address on it, so I'll mail it back to its owner on Monday.
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