washingtonian
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Hi everyone,
Wow, what a journey this year has been. My brother and I set out to have our best year yet but we had no idea what was in store. Our original goal was to find a combined 36 silver coins this year (which would bring us to 100 total lifetime), but we blew past that in March. We found a lot early in the year thanks in large part to my brother. I sent an article to him last fall about an old private site that was about to become public for the first time. He scoped it out and quickly found it was full of silver.
We made a new friend at that site (Jordan/Goat88) who was really helpful. Thanks again Jordan for all your recommendations about gear and especially for turning me onto the CTX and sharing your settings. Being able to hunt in the rain has been a game changer.
Around March/April I started to realize I might be able to find 100 silver coins on my own this year. I started to turn on the jets and get a lot of permissions. That worked for a while. Things started to slow down because we had a really dry spring and that's when Mike/Echoplex jumped in.
Mike is a class act. He invited me to join him on a beach site he had found and that was a real game changer as well. It allowed me to keep finding silver even when I couldn't hunt in the turf.
Well, one things leads to another and here we are today. I needed one more silver coin to hit one hundred and this old 1919 Merc was the one. Nice to let her see the light of day just a week shy of her 100th birthday as well. Before I found the Merc I also found a sterling St. Christopher medal.
Thanks again for all of your encouragement too. Truth, bass, PoE, Metal Headz, DirtLooter, CarolinaTom, 8 Reales, Brendan75, A2Coins, and all the rest of you lot that have been with me the whole journey. There are way too many of you to name but seeing your finds and reading your comments/encouragement have helped spur me on too.
Thanks so much for looking. I may still get a couple last hunts in this year and will definitely be doing a year end post come early January.
As always, good luck in the hunt my friends.
-W (Eric)
Wow, what a journey this year has been. My brother and I set out to have our best year yet but we had no idea what was in store. Our original goal was to find a combined 36 silver coins this year (which would bring us to 100 total lifetime), but we blew past that in March. We found a lot early in the year thanks in large part to my brother. I sent an article to him last fall about an old private site that was about to become public for the first time. He scoped it out and quickly found it was full of silver.
We made a new friend at that site (Jordan/Goat88) who was really helpful. Thanks again Jordan for all your recommendations about gear and especially for turning me onto the CTX and sharing your settings. Being able to hunt in the rain has been a game changer.
Around March/April I started to realize I might be able to find 100 silver coins on my own this year. I started to turn on the jets and get a lot of permissions. That worked for a while. Things started to slow down because we had a really dry spring and that's when Mike/Echoplex jumped in.
Mike is a class act. He invited me to join him on a beach site he had found and that was a real game changer as well. It allowed me to keep finding silver even when I couldn't hunt in the turf.
Well, one things leads to another and here we are today. I needed one more silver coin to hit one hundred and this old 1919 Merc was the one. Nice to let her see the light of day just a week shy of her 100th birthday as well. Before I found the Merc I also found a sterling St. Christopher medal.
Thanks again for all of your encouragement too. Truth, bass, PoE, Metal Headz, DirtLooter, CarolinaTom, 8 Reales, Brendan75, A2Coins, and all the rest of you lot that have been with me the whole journey. There are way too many of you to name but seeing your finds and reading your comments/encouragement have helped spur me on too.
Thanks so much for looking. I may still get a couple last hunts in this year and will definitely be doing a year end post come early January.
As always, good luck in the hunt my friends.
-W (Eric)
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