Last year I was on a quest for gold and found 12 gold targets...maybe 13, in the dirt.
This year I am not even going to try to replicate that, but finding a little gold every so often is still important because gold fever is always with me on every hunt.
It has been 2 months since I l last saw some shiny yellow in a hole, this find made it worth the wait.
I dug 3 signals in a row at a park, my favorite signals to dig which is low zinc and exactly where the other 4 class rings I found came in.
Those first 3 were all larger pieces of can slaw, normal for this type of signal, the 4th one was the same...solid in tone and didn't jump more than 2-3 numbers on the F70 and showed up as a 47-49 as I moved the coil around this thing trying to dial it in.
I bent over to dig another piece of can slaw but when I opened a whole something much better was sitting about 2" deep in the sidewall.
8.8 grams of 10k yellow goodness.
Gold find #4 for the 2014 season.
Later on at the end of the hunt on the way back to the truck I got a similar signal in the mid 50's.
Probably another piece of can slaw but solid in tone and not much jumping in the numbers so like all solid signals I come across it had to be dug.
This was my second surprise for the day and another very odd but neat target.
Turned out to be a 1954 brass British farthing coin with plastic discs covering each side of the coin and all held together in a fancy silver pendant.
Brass plus silver gave me that weird signal, but one of my basic rules is dig all solid signals and even some that aren't so solid if they sound too good to pass up, little ol' jewelry hunter that I am.
Thanks to that rule I rescued this beauty from it's dirt nap.
Cool silver and big gold on one hunt...can life get any better?
This year I am not even going to try to replicate that, but finding a little gold every so often is still important because gold fever is always with me on every hunt.
It has been 2 months since I l last saw some shiny yellow in a hole, this find made it worth the wait.
I dug 3 signals in a row at a park, my favorite signals to dig which is low zinc and exactly where the other 4 class rings I found came in.
Those first 3 were all larger pieces of can slaw, normal for this type of signal, the 4th one was the same...solid in tone and didn't jump more than 2-3 numbers on the F70 and showed up as a 47-49 as I moved the coil around this thing trying to dial it in.
I bent over to dig another piece of can slaw but when I opened a whole something much better was sitting about 2" deep in the sidewall.
8.8 grams of 10k yellow goodness.
Gold find #4 for the 2014 season.
Later on at the end of the hunt on the way back to the truck I got a similar signal in the mid 50's.
Probably another piece of can slaw but solid in tone and not much jumping in the numbers so like all solid signals I come across it had to be dug.
This was my second surprise for the day and another very odd but neat target.
Turned out to be a 1954 brass British farthing coin with plastic discs covering each side of the coin and all held together in a fancy silver pendant.
Brass plus silver gave me that weird signal, but one of my basic rules is dig all solid signals and even some that aren't so solid if they sound too good to pass up, little ol' jewelry hunter that I am.
Thanks to that rule I rescued this beauty from it's dirt nap.
Cool silver and big gold on one hunt...can life get any better?
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