Johnny Cache Hunter
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- Joined
- Oct 16, 2006
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- Location
- North America
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Equinox, White's Spectra V3, Minelab Excalibur
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
A Wise MD'er once said TRY TRY AGAIN, so I did...
Hello Everyone,
I knew I was going to have an opportunity to get out and hunt for a few hours today and therefore I had a decision to make, I could go for the easy stuff and search out some clad at the school yards, or instead, I could go for what likely would be a far less financially fruitfull hunt but one with a significantly higher prospect of finding some silver. I decided to take a shot at the little park where I had previously been successful in finding a Mercury dime. I knew that if I was going to have any chance of success with this spot today I was going to have to take it slow, keep my ears open and stay focused. The reason why I say this is because this spot, a small park positioned above the upstream basins along the infamous Charles River, has been hunted silly by others over the years and would probably be considered one of those "hunted out" spots by most detectorist's. However, if I've learned anything here on Tnet it's that no place is every really completely hunted out. The site is a small park that has some picnic tables, old benches, a couple of old fire Bar-B-Que pits and what looks like a large stone tower from a midevil castle. Well I spent the better part of two hours hunting this area hitting a few good Wheaties here and there before luck would come my way and I came up with a nice 1939 Mercury dime. I ended the day with the Mercury dime, 1 clad dime, 5 Wheaties ('27, '39, '48, '49 & '51), 3 memorials and a small pile of trash.
Lets move on to new old news. There are some woods nearby where I live, in which I have hunted previously. I hadn't really found anything of significance here, I think a couple of bullets were about the best of what I had found. In anycase, I decided to try the woods again last weekend, this was primarily because the area is closeby, I didn't really have great deal of time available to go detecting, and I didn't want to have to drive very far and waste what little detecting time I did have. Detecting time is too valuable to waste with winter on our heels! When I arrived at the woods I decided to head off into an area of the reservation that I had not previously been in. The woods comprise roughly 2500 acres, so it's a good sized chunk of wilderness considering I live in what otherwise is a very urbanized area, just outside of Boston. I always use my garmin 60csx gps when I go hiking and so I brought it with me here too. I find that despite the proximity to civilization you can still get a little disoriented in these woods, plus if I hit a hot spot I'd want the ability to capture it's exact location for future visits. I initially detected along the dirt trails but quickly began meandering into the thick of the trees going off the path. I wish I had a picture of the spot I was in but I hadn't brought my camera that day. I was for all intent, litterally in the middle of nowhere, far off of the main trails when I got a real solid penny hit. I dug for it but not with what I would call enthusiasm. I had figured the signal was just another false hit. You see, I was getting a lot of ghostly low tone iron hits on the meter and my detector was continuously hitting a false signal of a $1.00 coin, seemed to happen whenever I was near any of the rocks. The rock formations must have had something in them because the detector was just going nuts, to the point were I just had to discriminate out both the first and the last few notches on the meter. Well anyway back to the penny signal, I ended up digging the signal but couldn't see anything, I was however now armed with my new vibra-probe pinpointer and was therefore able to pinpoint the hit fairly quickly and easily once I swept the pinpointer in and around the hole and over the dug soil. To my surprise it was in fact a penny, plopped right down in the middle of nowhere. As I picked up the very dark coin and brought it closer to view I was surprised to make out the image of an Indian chief. It was my very first Indian Head penny. I have to say it really made my day. Not only was it my first IH but it was now also my oldest find to date going back to 1897. Sweet. Thanks for taking the time to read my post. Hope your all doing well.
Happy Hunting,
Johnny
PS
Does everybody's car look like this? Since I started MDing the hobby gear has taken over my vehicle. I would have never had that much junk in my car before MDing.
Hello Everyone,
I knew I was going to have an opportunity to get out and hunt for a few hours today and therefore I had a decision to make, I could go for the easy stuff and search out some clad at the school yards, or instead, I could go for what likely would be a far less financially fruitfull hunt but one with a significantly higher prospect of finding some silver. I decided to take a shot at the little park where I had previously been successful in finding a Mercury dime. I knew that if I was going to have any chance of success with this spot today I was going to have to take it slow, keep my ears open and stay focused. The reason why I say this is because this spot, a small park positioned above the upstream basins along the infamous Charles River, has been hunted silly by others over the years and would probably be considered one of those "hunted out" spots by most detectorist's. However, if I've learned anything here on Tnet it's that no place is every really completely hunted out. The site is a small park that has some picnic tables, old benches, a couple of old fire Bar-B-Que pits and what looks like a large stone tower from a midevil castle. Well I spent the better part of two hours hunting this area hitting a few good Wheaties here and there before luck would come my way and I came up with a nice 1939 Mercury dime. I ended the day with the Mercury dime, 1 clad dime, 5 Wheaties ('27, '39, '48, '49 & '51), 3 memorials and a small pile of trash.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT....
Lets move on to new old news. There are some woods nearby where I live, in which I have hunted previously. I hadn't really found anything of significance here, I think a couple of bullets were about the best of what I had found. In anycase, I decided to try the woods again last weekend, this was primarily because the area is closeby, I didn't really have great deal of time available to go detecting, and I didn't want to have to drive very far and waste what little detecting time I did have. Detecting time is too valuable to waste with winter on our heels! When I arrived at the woods I decided to head off into an area of the reservation that I had not previously been in. The woods comprise roughly 2500 acres, so it's a good sized chunk of wilderness considering I live in what otherwise is a very urbanized area, just outside of Boston. I always use my garmin 60csx gps when I go hiking and so I brought it with me here too. I find that despite the proximity to civilization you can still get a little disoriented in these woods, plus if I hit a hot spot I'd want the ability to capture it's exact location for future visits. I initially detected along the dirt trails but quickly began meandering into the thick of the trees going off the path. I wish I had a picture of the spot I was in but I hadn't brought my camera that day. I was for all intent, litterally in the middle of nowhere, far off of the main trails when I got a real solid penny hit. I dug for it but not with what I would call enthusiasm. I had figured the signal was just another false hit. You see, I was getting a lot of ghostly low tone iron hits on the meter and my detector was continuously hitting a false signal of a $1.00 coin, seemed to happen whenever I was near any of the rocks. The rock formations must have had something in them because the detector was just going nuts, to the point were I just had to discriminate out both the first and the last few notches on the meter. Well anyway back to the penny signal, I ended up digging the signal but couldn't see anything, I was however now armed with my new vibra-probe pinpointer and was therefore able to pinpoint the hit fairly quickly and easily once I swept the pinpointer in and around the hole and over the dug soil. To my surprise it was in fact a penny, plopped right down in the middle of nowhere. As I picked up the very dark coin and brought it closer to view I was surprised to make out the image of an Indian chief. It was my very first Indian Head penny. I have to say it really made my day. Not only was it my first IH but it was now also my oldest find to date going back to 1897. Sweet. Thanks for taking the time to read my post. Hope your all doing well.
Happy Hunting,
Johnny
PS
Does everybody's car look like this? Since I started MDing the hobby gear has taken over my vehicle. I would have never had that much junk in my car before MDing.
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