beez0404
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2014
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- Location
- Newton, NC
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
A couple weeks ago a friend of mine (she is a realtor) called me and said I could hunt one of the properties she had just listed. I plugged the address into my gps and headed out the next day. As I approached the house the gps said arriving at destination, on right. I saw the for sale sign and pulled in. I found a silver merc and a Washington quarter.
Yesterday she called me and asked if I had gotten to that house yet and I said I had. She asked if I had found anything and I said I did. She said she thought I might find something on the little hill in the back yard thinking kids could roll down it. I said wait a minute, what small hill? The back yard was flat. A couple minutes later I had a suspicion I might have detected the wrong house.
I drove back there this afternoon and sure enough the house I hunted a couple weeks ago was 3 doors down from the one I was supposed to hit. I just basically drove into a driveway of a house for sale and hunted it....LOL Anyway, the house today had a really small front yard and the back was not much bigger. I found a merc and two Roosevelt dimes in the front yard and 2 mercs in the back yard. First 5 silver day for me.
Here is the strange thing though. I hunt with a Deus. Typically a silver dime will hit at 89 (sometimes) or 90 (usually), but today they were hitting 92-93 which is where a clad quarter or (sometimes) a silver quarter would hit. I can't explain it but the soil was very wet so perhaps that might have caused it. Haven't cleaned the dimes up yet but here are the photos I snapped with my camera when dug.
Happy hunting everyone!
You have to click the photo extra times to get it to open to full size.
Yesterday she called me and asked if I had gotten to that house yet and I said I had. She asked if I had found anything and I said I did. She said she thought I might find something on the little hill in the back yard thinking kids could roll down it. I said wait a minute, what small hill? The back yard was flat. A couple minutes later I had a suspicion I might have detected the wrong house.
I drove back there this afternoon and sure enough the house I hunted a couple weeks ago was 3 doors down from the one I was supposed to hit. I just basically drove into a driveway of a house for sale and hunted it....LOL Anyway, the house today had a really small front yard and the back was not much bigger. I found a merc and two Roosevelt dimes in the front yard and 2 mercs in the back yard. First 5 silver day for me.
Here is the strange thing though. I hunt with a Deus. Typically a silver dime will hit at 89 (sometimes) or 90 (usually), but today they were hitting 92-93 which is where a clad quarter or (sometimes) a silver quarter would hit. I can't explain it but the soil was very wet so perhaps that might have caused it. Haven't cleaned the dimes up yet but here are the photos I snapped with my camera when dug.
Happy hunting everyone!
You have to click the photo extra times to get it to open to full size.
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