pa-dirt_nc-sand
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- Apr 18, 2016
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- South Western PA
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- Detector(s) used
- ACE 250 with DD coil
Equinox 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Monster bullet, Zippo, Silvers & Gold!
Ok, starting with the silvers. Researched a dot from the 1872 map in the big Park Woods north of the city near where I work. First lunch hunt scouting the area scored just a handful of golf balls, no sign of the homestead. Re-evaluated the map overlays and decided to head 100 yards further down the trail, bingo, cellar holes.
There were not a lot of signals, found a few typical items (grommets, nails) then a really good signal, too shallow, but perfect silver dime near the intersection of 2 old farm paths. Pushed the leaves away to pinpoint and there she was.
Merc Dime, awesome, so decided to sweep around this area, nothing, finally back at the Merc spot and there was another dime signal exactly the same spot, but deep this time.
Another Merc 6” under the first one. Did another walk around and came back to the spot and this time the magic ran out, no more dimes...
Did a quick stop at my favorite old homesite in the Woods last night after work, barreled some more weeds and got a really strange signal. Sounded like a crushed can, but disappeared when I lifted the coil, so I dug it.
Immediately posted this to find out if I had dangerous live ammo, received a bunch of quick IDs, 1944 Frankfurt Armory 50 cal dummy bullet, pretty cool.
Met up with fellow Tnet’ers Louis and John Saturday to hit a decent size park near the city. This park was established in the 1800’s, near an old high school, has a pool area, sport field and wooded areas. Now it is mostly a frisbee golf course so old trees and mowed grass. Seemed like a perfect spot.
There were loads of clad coins, mostly from the 70’s. We all tried to gear our targets to the deeper high tones looking for the cool old coins. I started getting frustrated after a couple dollars in clad and loads of old bottle caps and only a single wheat penny to show. So I decided to walk the trashy fenced perimeter of the sport field.
A decent high tone and my first Zippo.
Looks like it could be operational with a little work.
Met up with the guys at the end of the hunt and John was pulling silvers out of a small hillside. We all took a shot at it, but John was the only one pulling the old stuff. John ended up with 3 Mercs, 1 token, 1 V Nickel and 9 wheats to my single wheat. Total butt whooping! I swung my coil over a couple of his targets and my machine was reading trash target, then he would dig it and it was a wheat or silver. He’s got one of those new coin vacuum detectors everyone is talking about. So, I just ordered one, it’s arriving Friday!!!! Oh, I did eyeball one really nice keeper at this park, partially sticking out of the mud. (Sorry no insitu pic as I thought it was most likely an upside down screw lid cap)
1k men’s gold ring! Obviously the stamp is worn so I tested it and it is 10k.
John is doing great with his detecting, tracking for well over 100 silvers and also doing a great job creating cool YouTube videos through his Wash-Pa-Diggers account. I think he has enough footage to release a video of the park hunt, most likely uploading today or tomorrow.
Good luck out there!!
Ok, starting with the silvers. Researched a dot from the 1872 map in the big Park Woods north of the city near where I work. First lunch hunt scouting the area scored just a handful of golf balls, no sign of the homestead. Re-evaluated the map overlays and decided to head 100 yards further down the trail, bingo, cellar holes.
There were not a lot of signals, found a few typical items (grommets, nails) then a really good signal, too shallow, but perfect silver dime near the intersection of 2 old farm paths. Pushed the leaves away to pinpoint and there she was.
Merc Dime, awesome, so decided to sweep around this area, nothing, finally back at the Merc spot and there was another dime signal exactly the same spot, but deep this time.
Another Merc 6” under the first one. Did another walk around and came back to the spot and this time the magic ran out, no more dimes...
Did a quick stop at my favorite old homesite in the Woods last night after work, barreled some more weeds and got a really strange signal. Sounded like a crushed can, but disappeared when I lifted the coil, so I dug it.
Immediately posted this to find out if I had dangerous live ammo, received a bunch of quick IDs, 1944 Frankfurt Armory 50 cal dummy bullet, pretty cool.
Met up with fellow Tnet’ers Louis and John Saturday to hit a decent size park near the city. This park was established in the 1800’s, near an old high school, has a pool area, sport field and wooded areas. Now it is mostly a frisbee golf course so old trees and mowed grass. Seemed like a perfect spot.
There were loads of clad coins, mostly from the 70’s. We all tried to gear our targets to the deeper high tones looking for the cool old coins. I started getting frustrated after a couple dollars in clad and loads of old bottle caps and only a single wheat penny to show. So I decided to walk the trashy fenced perimeter of the sport field.
A decent high tone and my first Zippo.
Looks like it could be operational with a little work.
Met up with the guys at the end of the hunt and John was pulling silvers out of a small hillside. We all took a shot at it, but John was the only one pulling the old stuff. John ended up with 3 Mercs, 1 token, 1 V Nickel and 9 wheats to my single wheat. Total butt whooping! I swung my coil over a couple of his targets and my machine was reading trash target, then he would dig it and it was a wheat or silver. He’s got one of those new coin vacuum detectors everyone is talking about. So, I just ordered one, it’s arriving Friday!!!! Oh, I did eyeball one really nice keeper at this park, partially sticking out of the mud. (Sorry no insitu pic as I thought it was most likely an upside down screw lid cap)
1k men’s gold ring! Obviously the stamp is worn so I tested it and it is 10k.
John is doing great with his detecting, tracking for well over 100 silvers and also doing a great job creating cool YouTube videos through his Wash-Pa-Diggers account. I think he has enough footage to release a video of the park hunt, most likely uploading today or tomorrow.
Good luck out there!!
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