Sooper Dave
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I have mainly focused on researching and hunting for Civil War relics over the last year or so and I've had pretty good luck doing that. This past week I've had the itch to get on an old school hunt for coins, so I flipped back through my notes and decided to make the drive out to an old school I've been wanting to try. On the way down I was going through my head of whether this place has been cleaned out but dreaming of big silver and just hoping I would luck up on a Merc at least. This place has a big field behind it that looks perfect for kids to play and tumble and lose their old coins. As soon as I get there I geared up and headed to the field, I made about three swings with the Etrac when I got a decent signal. I think the numbers were around a 12-46 12-47 and was showing it to be shallow. I cut the plug and my pinpointer was telling me it was still in the plug. So I go busting up the clod and out pops Big Silver! I just sat in disbelief and laughed about how crazy it is that I had a Walker within 30 seconds of turning on my machine. I took some pics, fill the hole, stand up and get another high tone 4" over and pull out a Rosie. I am now thinking I'm on untouched ground and start to slowly grid the area when I get another great signal and it's a 64 Washington. I now start to think I'm going to dig a dozen silver coins out of this field but my luck was not going to be that good as I hunted for two hours without anything else. It was well worth the drive and I was happy that I was lucky enough to scratch my silver itch in between all this rain we are getting. The group picture includes some Civil War lead, an Indian Head and a Rosie I dug last weekend. It has been another mild winter here and the Buttercups are even blooming now about a month early. I'm sure we will get rocked with some winter weather before Spring gets here. HH-David
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