DrDetector
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- Jan 20, 2007
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- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Detector(s) used
- White's Spectrum XLT
Well folks, it had been a VERY long time since I had last found a Walker...roughly 7 years actually, nearly 8. But today I finally turned up my 2nd Walker, it's my 5th half overall. I had been somewhat discouraged after searching around an older park pavilion that was fairly deteriorated, and coming up with about 100 (literally) pop tabs, and a clad dime, nickel and penny. (Oh, and a 1990 One Penny, I think from Britain). So I headed back to my girlfriend's mom's house and figured I'd look around her yard a little more, since I had turned up about 15 wheats and a 1945 quarter there in the last few times I'd searched.
I decided to start at the far back of the yard and work around some larger oak trees. I hadn't really hit that spot yet so I figured it was as good as any of a place to start. After digging some trash signals, I got a nice, somewhat soft +91 on my XLT. I was thinking it'd be a piece of copper piping or some other type of junk since I'd been pulling up a lot of that around that yard that had been coming in at that VDI number. I dug out my plug, looked around in the hole and didn't see anything. I ran the detector over it again and it was a good signal still. I peered down into the hole and on the edge of the hole was the front of a Walker, quite dirty but easily identifiable, nearly completely vertical in the ground (I think that's why it was a softer signal originally). I was happy I'd finally found my 2nd walker, but before plucking it out, measured the depth at 4 inches to the top of the coin (and about 5 to the bottom of it). Too bad I didn't have my camera with me, as it was a really cool image! I went in and washed it with soap and water so as not to scratch it and it is a nice 1943 Walker with some moderate wear. That find really made my day after all those blasted pop tabs at the park!
I decided to start at the far back of the yard and work around some larger oak trees. I hadn't really hit that spot yet so I figured it was as good as any of a place to start. After digging some trash signals, I got a nice, somewhat soft +91 on my XLT. I was thinking it'd be a piece of copper piping or some other type of junk since I'd been pulling up a lot of that around that yard that had been coming in at that VDI number. I dug out my plug, looked around in the hole and didn't see anything. I ran the detector over it again and it was a good signal still. I peered down into the hole and on the edge of the hole was the front of a Walker, quite dirty but easily identifiable, nearly completely vertical in the ground (I think that's why it was a softer signal originally). I was happy I'd finally found my 2nd walker, but before plucking it out, measured the depth at 4 inches to the top of the coin (and about 5 to the bottom of it). Too bad I didn't have my camera with me, as it was a really cool image! I went in and washed it with soap and water so as not to scratch it and it is a nice 1943 Walker with some moderate wear. That find really made my day after all those blasted pop tabs at the park!
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