Best day in a long time! Gold and silver.

birdman · Sep 25, 2007

I have been eyeballing this old house that's not to far from me .I talked to the neighbors on both sides and they told me they know the owners and they live out of state . They said go ahead an hunt it ,they care nothing about the place . I decided I would give it a try and could not believe the amount of finds I had in two and a half hours of hunting I found 4 Mercuries,two buffalo's,two "good for 5 cent in trade tokens",a thimble, two war nickles ,an 1891 Indian head and best of all my 2ND gold ring ever! When I dug the ring I thought it was gold plated because it looked like it was real dull. When I got home I washed it off and was very surprised to see the ring came to life and start looking like gold. I then looked at the inside of the ring and saw 14k. I am pretty stoked . As I was out hunting and on cloud nine I smelled something and noticed I stepped in a pile of dog crap but being that I was making some good digs it did not even bother me.LOL I also got excited when I found a pocket spill but alas ,it was from the early 70s. It was a grand short hunt and I can't wait to hit it again tomarrow .

Thanks for looking and HH.

karib2517 · Sep 28, 2007

i would say you made out real good,very nice.

Ocean7 · Sep 29, 2007

nice haul birdman ! Real nice ring too! That IH would probably clean up well with baking soda and a toothbrush.

birdman · Sep 30, 2007

Ocean7,I never tried baking soda.I will give it a shot . Thanks much.

Admiral de Salee · Sep 30, 2007

All that great stuff in 2 and a half hours?!? I took a Physics 101 class once, and I'm not sure you can cram that much fun into that span of time w/o defying the laws of time & space.

Great hunt! I hope the place yields some more.