A few small finds from a short hunt

[Ray in CA]

I headed out to a new site yesterday (new for me, that is) that Ant told me about, which, judging from the dates on the 8 wheats I found (1945-1957), still should hold plenty of silver left. Met a couple other detectorists already out there and chatted with them for a few minutes before I left. I only spent about three hours there but do plan on going back when I get the chance.

I haven't really hunted for nickels with my Silver uMax yet so I figured I had better get some practice in since I knew there also had to be buffs at this site. So I set my disc down below 5 and left it there all day, and came away with a couple 1964 nickels and about 6 more clad nickels, but no buffs. I also got a 1953 Canadian penny and quite a few live bullets like the one pictured!

I also found a really neat Jeep toy car. Thought it was my second Tootsietoy but it didn't have the trademark name underneath. Would you believe that when I found it I actually said to myself, "Oh cool! Another Tootsietoy!" Never thought I'd get excited over these things, hehe.

I was supposed to meet Ant out there but I guess something more important must have come up for him. Oh well, maybe next time Ant!

Stock coil used and depth on targets averaged about 6" in moist soil. Next time I'm breaking out my 10x12!

Ray

 

[goldencoin]

That jeep has seen better days

HH
-GC

 

[bootybay]

Ray,
Ya did great, I havent found that many wheaties in one hunt.. wow that jeep looks like mine..lol just kidding..

 

[Colonial Zoyboy]

Maybe Ant wasn't finding enough gold to pursue it another day. I do remember him stating that his silver finds were incidental to hunting for the gold, so that's my metal detecting conjecture.

Bone Dry Detecting...Levster

 

[Nana40]

Congrats on those finds. I know I like to find the Tootsie cars too.

Nana

 

[teverly]

Could still be a tootsie toy...some of the newer one were not marked....
Looks like a good day of hunting to me........

 

[detectahead]

WTG Ray! Have a Bandido umax 2. I set mine at 1 1/2 and dig everything

 

[tymcmurray]

I always had a hard time differentiating nickel when I used
the tesoro silver max. Great job!

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Maybe Ant wasn't finding enough gold to pursue it another day. I do remember him stating that his silver finds were incidental to hunting for the gold, so that's my metal detecting conjecture.

Bone Dry Detecting...Levster

Yup, he mainly hunts for gold. If it wouldn't be considered indecorous, I would like to decorously state my cultivated assumption now. The great Au hunter, Ant, has many professional duties to conduct, such as Fisher Goldbug presentations to local cub scouts, industrious undertakings that pertain to the proper exacavation of Au, and genteel invitations to local historical societies to view his conservation of historical artifacts. So, these partakings must have been foremost on Ant's daily schedule.

BDD...Kirk

P.S. The assumption was from KirkPA's imagination, so don't take any offence to it. :P

 

[Ray in CA]

Thanks everyone!

Well, Ant was intent on finding a gold ring there, but like I said he must have had something else come up, obviously. Sure wanted to meet him, though. I was gonna take a pic of him and me together for T-Net. Maybe he got camera shy.

detectahead, I'm envious of you! I miss my old Bandido II uMax. Ironically enough, after I bought my Silver a B2uMax comes up on sale in the classifieds!!!

tymcmurray, I've found that nickels tend to give a solid hit but sometimes they give kind of a crackling sound to them as well. That's the best I can describe it. A couple of the nickels were found at around 6" with the stock coil. I'm anxious to see how the 10x12 does there as I've finally learned how to properly pinpoint with it.

I probably have one more hunt left for the year, so I'm gonna spend it at that spot before commencing the new year.

 

[El_Bandido]

WOW!!! great finds and happy christmas