Lesson learned.......

[Digginbingo]

I went out to hunt my favorite site yesterday. Learned (or more was reminded of) two important lessons. #1... Dig trashy signals. I decided to dig all bottle cap signals. Anybody who uses the AT pro knows how bottle caps sound. I dug about 20 of them... then another bottle cap signal. I dug it and it was a 1948 rosie. I will dig bottle caps all day if it means silver at the end of the day.
Lesson #2.... Always rescan your hole. Got another jumpy signal about 10 feet from the last one. Dug it and got a wheatie... Filled in the hole and was about to walk away when I turned around and rescanned the hole. Another rosie, this time a 1947. All this from a area where my father, my wife, and myself have hit hard for a while now. The site just keeps giving. Here is a bad cell phone pic of the rosies, 2 wheats, and a cool old key.
Some quick history on the site. Sometime in the 1940's a local church bought the land and held sunday picnics there. there were also church fairs and jubilees. there was a pavillian and a beach. The beach are seems to produce best. In the past month the three of us pulled out 3 mercury dimes, 6 silver rosies, and countless wheaties. A few years ago my father hunted it when it was virgin territory (I was not hunting then) and absoltely killed it. He got 20 mercury dimes in a few hours the first day. Several buffalo nickles, a walking liberty half, and various other finds.
Sorry for the bad pic but my camera is on the fritz.'
thanks for looking...

 

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[bclark]

Nice finds. I always dig everything myself. No telling what might be under there. I have dug plenty of crushed cans that show silver and find that I got a can. As much as I hate it I know that when I throw that can in the trash I wont find it at my site again so I am slowly clearing the trash out of my area. Someone in another thread mentioned that it is numbers and sooner or later you will find something good. I have only found one merc out of the coins I found. I have found horseshoes, an axe head, other misc relics that I liked and even an old pocket watch but no silver or gold yet. I keep getting reminded from friends that Kentucky was a poor state and if someone dropped a coin they searched until they found it lol. I would keep digging that area for a while. Happy hunting.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Interesting story and some nice finds! Thanks for posting!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I can't say that I've never gotten lazy and not dug all, but the thought of what I may not have dug gnaws at me. It's the bending down and retrieving that can get to me.
Carl

 

[liftloop]

I went out to hunt my favorite site yesterday. Learned (or more was reminded of) two important lessons. #1... Dig trashy signals. I decided to dig all bottle cap signals. Anybody who uses the AT pro knows how bottle caps sound. I dug about 20 of them... then another bottle cap signal. I dug it and it was a 1948 rosie. I will dig bottle caps all day if it means silver at the end of the day.
Lesson #2.... Always rescan your hole. Got another jumpy signal about 10 feet from the last one. Dug it and got a wheatie... Filled in the hole and was about to walk away when I turned around and rescanned the hole. Another rosie, this time a 1947. All this from a area where my father, my wife, and myself have hit hard for a while now. The site just keeps giving. Here is a bad cell phone pic of the rosies, 2 wheats, and a cool old key.
Some quick history on the site. Sometime in the 1940's a local church bought the land and held sunday picnics there. there were also church fairs and jubilees. there was a pavillian and a beach. The beach are seems to produce best. In the past month the three of us pulled out 3 mercury dimes, 6 silver rosies, and countless wheaties. A few years ago my father hunted it when it was virgin territory (I was not hunting then) and absoltely killed it. He got 20 mercury dimes in a few hours the first day. Several buffalo nickles, a walking liberty half, and various other finds.
Sorry for the bad pic but my camera is on the fritz.'
thanks for looking...

...that's why the at pro suck for a garret Owner, just think of the money still lost because an At pro with their "tone audio roll over give me a break"said don't dig" I rather have the dam thing lie to me just to get me to look and see for sure......

all ways rescan...

Atpro


What a bunch of malarkey.

 

[justanotherpulltab]

Very nice finds, nice lessons.

 

[Digginbingo]

I really like my at pro. Its a pretty good machine. I guess they all have good and bad points....
Thanks for the kind words