Big Silver with the new AT PRO!!!

[BigWaveDave]

I have lost count how many times I have hunted this particular lawn, it is still my honey hole, with all the goodies still coming to me... But this is getting silly.

I found another tootsie car, spoon, a brass buckle, and a key fob from a auto parts dealer out of Miami. Also pulled a 1920 Buffalo, my oldest readable date of that type. Also found a baggage name tag that belonged to the lady of the house from the 1940's.


So up along the front-side yard, beneath a tree, I was beeping along, I get this very faint, high pitched tone, a quick little chirp, with no reading on the VDI, the whole screen was basically blank. Over and over I scanned, sometimes I heard it, other times I didn't. I changed position swinging, and lost the signal. I remained persistent in regaining the signal, couldn't really pinpoint the target, as the scale would only read half-way at the most. I got down and started digging, I get 6 inches down, re-scan and get the same iffy chirp. My gut feeling is this could be a goody, but I am dog-tired after 5 hours. I commit to making this my last target of the day, then nap time. Back to getting deeper with my diggy tool, now my tector is telling me 87-88-89-87-90-88, bouncing around, but louder, and still deep. Finally the prointer hits on the target, still not quite on it. More digging....I'm on it...I gotta be a foot deep with this,... A reeded edge!!! Gotta be a quar...HOLY CRAP!!!! 1937 Walker!

I love this machine!!!




Thanks for looking!

 

[Scrappy]

That's a beautiful thing Dave. Nice way I go on a hinch

 

[retire05]

Your persistence was well paid off!...Brad

 

[Ahab8]

Good job buddy! That's a great feeling right there

 

[Old Dude]

That's a big ole piece of silver right there! I like signals like that to be in a field so I can dig a big hole, lol.

 

[cjon455]

Great job dave! Persistence paid off!

 

[SGT Claddy]

Nice find got a cleaned up pic ?

 

[Higgy]

Grats on the new ATP, Dave, and grats on the big silver! WOW!

Were you using the 5x8 coil?

 

[pepperdawg]

Did you end up getting the nap?

 

[jewelerguy]

great walker and really cool finds. what's the pin with the wings?

 

[NWMP]

Beauty coin, she's a bigin', it must have blown your ears off !

 

[BigWaveDave]

Nice find got a cleaned up pic ?

I think I will leave it as is....never found a silver with such dark patina.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Grats on the new ATP, Dave, and grats on the big silver! WOW!

Were you using the 5x8 coil?

No, haven't plugged that one in yet, I am used to the biggie that came with the 350. the 5x8 I am saving for a smaller hunt, if necessary. My honey hole is half an acre, so swinging a small coil kinda intimidates me.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Did you end up getting the nap?

yes I did..2 hours .. a Saturday tradition.

aslo a Sunday tradition (in case you were wondering)

 

[BigWaveDave]

great walker and really cool finds. what's the pin with the wings?

Hey there, thanks for asking, I forgot about that, and turns out its cool as all get up.

The pin with wings is a Captain Franks Air Hawks pin.

In 1936, a kid could send in a box top from Post 40% Bran Flakes, and become a member of Frank's Air Hawks!!! This Captain Frank was quite a rock star back in the day, he was a WW1 pilot, then was a barnstormer in the 20' and 30's. He was akin to Chuck Yeager, with speed records, and experimental aircraft. Died in a plane crash in 1938...imagine that.

 

[cambria09]

Hello BWD. That is a really nice set of finds. Big silver, tootsie, Wheaties, a buff, and misc relics...'ya gotta love a hunt like that one. The Captain Frank's item is especially cool. Good luck and may the finds be with you. C9