gunsil
Silver Member
- Dec 27, 2012
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- Detector(s) used
- safari, ATPro, infinium, old Garrett BFO, Excal, Nox 800
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My old hunting buddy came by yesterday with his old detecting log from 1974. Here is the head page with total coins for the year 1974. It does not include colonial coins or relics. I hope it is legible, it is faded pencil on paper. I started three years earlier and got my girlfriend a machine, and these totals are what it was like in the good old days here in lower N.Y. state. We all had full time jobs and couldn't hunt in the winter so these totals represent mostly weekend hunting in the summer. Also we were using BFO beep and dig detectors so we had to dig every signal, cherry picking silver was not an option and hunting took much longer due to the time it took to dig all targets. 198 silver dimes in one summer!! The totals seen here were pretty much common for us for about six years. We find hunting tedious these days, thinking a few silvers make a successful hunt, but what a time we had when all sites were virgin! Nobody else around here had detectors, few people knew what we were up to and fewer cared.
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