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- Dec 3, 2014
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- Location
- Central Texas
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- Detector(s) used
- Equinox 800
Modified Explorer 2
Raptor c-31 digger
31" Lesche Sampson
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Finding silver at the zoo parking lot has been like catching fish out of a barrel. I've been hitting silver 6 outta 6 hunts at this place and today turned into another great hunt. I started off driving 2 hours to site early this morning only to have to leave after 45 minutes due to high winds and rain. I did find the 2 US collar buttons before heading back home.
Since the weather was cloudy and cool, I had the zoo parking lot to myself today. I grabbed the CTX and started swinging, not expecting to find much
First pass I get a real iffy signal 7-34 5-36 and was thinking pulltab all the way. Hack my way thru the thin layer of asphalt and packed gravel and dig a shovel full of dirt out and find a nickle
Check the hole and turns out Mr Jefferson had some company, a Merc 
Next good target is another funky, but repeatable signal, low and behold a Rosies comes out. I swing about a foot away from the rosie, over one of my old dig holes and get a 12-44 11-46.....What Turns out I reburied a Merc in the hole Duh lol
I made a couple more passes and pulled out a couple of wheats, when I get a sweet 12-46 that's repeatable...this is usually something good, and it was. I dig up a black round disc the size of a quarter, it's completely covered in a crust that makes it impossible to ID. I was able to scrape the edge and spied a shiny reeded edge, it's a silver something I dug a couple more wheats and decided to call it a day. Turns out the quarter is a SLQ that's wore almost slick, but, that's ok with me.
Today's silver count puts me at 24 for the 6 hunts within the last 8 days and 44 YTD My next hunts will be looking for the lower conductive hits from 11 and up on the CTX and the Equinox.
Since the weather was cloudy and cool, I had the zoo parking lot to myself today. I grabbed the CTX and started swinging, not expecting to find much
First pass I get a real iffy signal 7-34 5-36 and was thinking pulltab all the way. Hack my way thru the thin layer of asphalt and packed gravel and dig a shovel full of dirt out and find a nickle
Check the hole and turns out Mr Jefferson had some company, a Merc Next good target is another funky, but repeatable signal, low and behold a Rosies comes out. I swing about a foot away from the rosie, over one of my old dig holes and get a 12-44 11-46.....What Turns out I reburied a Merc in the hole Duh lol I made a couple more passes and pulled out a couple of wheats, when I get a sweet 12-46 that's repeatable...this is usually something good, and it was. I dig up a black round disc the size of a quarter, it's completely covered in a crust that makes it impossible to ID. I was able to scrape the edge and spied a shiny reeded edge, it's a silver something
I dug a couple more wheats and decided to call it a day. Turns out the quarter is a SLQ that's wore almost slick, but, that's ok with me. Today's silver count puts me at 24 for the 6 hunts within the last 8 days and 44 YTD My next hunts will be looking for the lower conductive hits from 11 and up on the CTX and the Equinox.
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. I wish I would have kept everything separate that came from the zoo. I started doing that this year and also photograph each hunt.
