Johnny Cache Hunter
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- North America
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- Minelab Equinox, White's Spectra V3, Minelab Excalibur
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Finally got out today, mostly junk with a bit O'Silver
Well, after being mercilessly teased by this New England weather, were one day it looks like spring is on our door step and the next it's snowing to beat the band, I was finally able to get out for a bit of detecting.
I was hunting alone today as my usual partner in crime had decided to try his luck by going into the woods, namely Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. Although I was welcome to join him, I passed up on the opportunity to donate to the reservation and took off on my own to find a somewhat more modest kind of treasure.
I turned on the Nuvi navigation unit and headed north to go park hopping. As I've stated in prior posts, I like to let the navigation take me to places that I haven't been to before. I just type "PARK" or "PLAYGROUND" into the Where to? field for a new adventure every time. I have to say that I enjoy a touch of randomness every once in a while, as opposed to the usual well planned hunt.
I ended up bouncing around a few parks in Danvers before heading into Beverly, an area on the north coast of Massachusetts. The navigation unit showed several parks near the area where I was driving and so, picking one off the list that had an interesting name, I tapped on the screen and let the Nuvi take me to my new destination.
As it turned out, the spot wasn't so much a park as it was a section of woods that were donated to the City of Beverly back in the 1800's. Having already spent a couple of hours hunting parks and managing only to find a few bucks in clad, I thought, what the heck, I'll try my hand at detecting in the woods. I found a small turn off where I was able to park my vehicle and I headed in.
There were numerous stone walls that ran through these woods and the location looked like it could be real promising, however it was rather hard trekking through these woods due to the dense vegetation, which was thick with sharp thorns. I swung the coil for 20 minutes or so, picking up a few pennies here and there along with a bunch of shotgun shells and other assorted trash items, then I came across the unmistakable solid tone of a quarter.
At the time it hadn't even crossed my mind that the signal I was getting could be silver, but low and behold that's exactly what it was. I pulled the coin up out of the hole, brushed off a little of the dirt and was very pleased to see a 1940 Washington Quarter staring back at me.
I'll tell ya' last year I was beginning to think I'd never find a silver quarter, I'm happy to say that the dry spell is finally broken!
That's pretty much the extent of my day out detecting. There really isn't anything else of significance to talk about from this hunt, other than I enjoyed myself fully. All in all, I picked up a dollar coin, a few dollars in clad, a couple of wheat pennies, a lot of junk and the 1940 silver quarter. Thanks for looking!
Happy Hunting All
Johnny Cache Hunter
Well, after being mercilessly teased by this New England weather, were one day it looks like spring is on our door step and the next it's snowing to beat the band, I was finally able to get out for a bit of detecting.
I was hunting alone today as my usual partner in crime had decided to try his luck by going into the woods, namely Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. Although I was welcome to join him, I passed up on the opportunity to donate to the reservation and took off on my own to find a somewhat more modest kind of treasure.
I turned on the Nuvi navigation unit and headed north to go park hopping. As I've stated in prior posts, I like to let the navigation take me to places that I haven't been to before. I just type "PARK" or "PLAYGROUND" into the Where to? field for a new adventure every time. I have to say that I enjoy a touch of randomness every once in a while, as opposed to the usual well planned hunt.
I ended up bouncing around a few parks in Danvers before heading into Beverly, an area on the north coast of Massachusetts. The navigation unit showed several parks near the area where I was driving and so, picking one off the list that had an interesting name, I tapped on the screen and let the Nuvi take me to my new destination.
As it turned out, the spot wasn't so much a park as it was a section of woods that were donated to the City of Beverly back in the 1800's. Having already spent a couple of hours hunting parks and managing only to find a few bucks in clad, I thought, what the heck, I'll try my hand at detecting in the woods. I found a small turn off where I was able to park my vehicle and I headed in.
There were numerous stone walls that ran through these woods and the location looked like it could be real promising, however it was rather hard trekking through these woods due to the dense vegetation, which was thick with sharp thorns. I swung the coil for 20 minutes or so, picking up a few pennies here and there along with a bunch of shotgun shells and other assorted trash items, then I came across the unmistakable solid tone of a quarter.
At the time it hadn't even crossed my mind that the signal I was getting could be silver, but low and behold that's exactly what it was. I pulled the coin up out of the hole, brushed off a little of the dirt and was very pleased to see a 1940 Washington Quarter staring back at me.
I'll tell ya' last year I was beginning to think I'd never find a silver quarter, I'm happy to say that the dry spell is finally broken!
That's pretty much the extent of my day out detecting. There really isn't anything else of significance to talk about from this hunt, other than I enjoyed myself fully. All in all, I picked up a dollar coin, a few dollars in clad, a couple of wheat pennies, a lot of junk and the 1940 silver quarter. Thanks for looking!
Happy Hunting All
Johnny Cache Hunter
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