mastereagle22
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Baldingboy and I had been eagerly awaiting the chance to return to the yard we hunted last week where we both found silver, wheats, gold and his cool lead soldier. We had freezing temps one day then 70 degree temps the next with a monsoon and then Tornadic activity (as the weather guy likes to say). So last night we went back, the ground was mushy but not so bad you couldn't dig in it.
Right off the bat I hit my real TREASURE, first signal too!!! It says AAA on it and it is my first zipper pull in three months!!! What a beauty. Then as usual BB says to me "hey look what I found" and pulls out a 2 dollar token from the local arcade
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Well I tried not to be too bad a sport but I did stomp and pout for a few minutes. I wondered off behind the house where BB wouldn't see me having a good cry.
We both got back to hunting and found some odd coins and junk, er I mean relics. BB then says hey Larry (that's me ME22) come here and look at what I found. Walk over look down and he had found himself a Merc! His first! I was really happy for him and proud of him because this was the second hunt in a row that he has found silver. I found a few more coins, a wristwatch, pocket knife and some other crap but no silver 
We decided to move to the back yard and I found the ambulance and two pieces of the jeep BB had found last week. Good thing I found the Ambulance because I was sure BB was going to need it if I didn't find silver.
Made my way around the back yard and found the buckle and the nails and the scrap aluminum and then got a high tone almost silver but not quite and really weird because it was hard to get it to reproduce. So I started digging and out popped what I thought at first was play money, then silver. Turned out to be a 1942 French 50 Centimes coin made of aluminum. Darn French haven't they heard of silver? Anyway we messed around in the back yard a while longer detecting and didn't find much. The home owner kept coming out to see how we were doing and we offered him the use of the Deleon several times but it was too cold for him to hunt. Come on 35 degrees is not too cold!!!
We decided after showing all our stuff to the owner and his wife to head for the car. As we were walking out I got a good signal and dug a wheat penny. Just then as I was making my plans to hit BB on the head with his landshark digger, I got a sweet signal and out popped the 40 Merc! I was turning to show it to BB and he holds up a Silver Religious medal...
Can you believe the nerve of this guy 
Anyway I patted him on the back and congratulated him all the while just wanting to step on his toe! And then he turns around and pulls out a 1960 Rosie!!! I was about to blow a gasket then I remembered our last hunt and I had found some great stuff and heck tonight wasn't too bad either of course I didn't find the really cool lead soldier either last hunt. Anyway that is when it occurred to me, anybody else would've come to a place I found and dug the stuff BB had tonight and I would have NEVER thought about letting them come back and hunt the place. But I was actually happy that BB and I have both gotten a lot better with our machines and the good finds are coming to both of us.
In a way this is indicative of a problem I have had on the forum as well, trying to compete with all of you to find equal or better finds as each of you have but I realize now all of us here on this forum are a family of sorts. We should all be happy when one of our brothers or sisters finds the good stuff whether that be clad or silver or gold! Or in my case ZIPPER PULLS!!!!!!!!!!
So thanks for reading and I honestly hope that all of you have success in your hunts and find happiness in your heart the next time you dig a pulltab or nail because that's what this hobby is all about finding metal...
Right off the bat I hit my real TREASURE, first signal too!!! It says AAA on it and it is my first zipper pull in three months!!! What a beauty. Then as usual BB says to me "hey look what I found" and pulls out a 2 dollar token from the local arcade
Well I tried not to be too bad a sport but I did stomp and pout for a few minutes. I wondered off behind the house where BB wouldn't see me having a good cry.
We both got back to hunting and found some odd coins and junk, er I mean relics. BB then says hey Larry (that's me ME22) come here and look at what I found. Walk over look down and he had found himself a Merc! His first! I was really happy for him and proud of him because this was the second hunt in a row that he has found silver. I found a few more coins, a wristwatch, pocket knife and some other crap but no silver We decided to move to the back yard and I found the ambulance and two pieces of the jeep BB had found last week. Good thing I found the Ambulance because I was sure BB was going to need it if I didn't find silver. Made my way around the back yard and found the buckle and the nails and the scrap aluminum and then got a high tone almost silver but not quite and really weird because it was hard to get it to reproduce. So I started digging and out popped what I thought at first was play money, then silver. Turned out to be a 1942 French 50 Centimes coin made of aluminum.
Darn French haven't they heard of silver? Anyway we messed around in the back yard a while longer detecting and didn't find much. The home owner kept coming out to see how we were doing and we offered him the use of the Deleon several times but it was too cold for him to hunt. Come on 35 degrees is not too cold!!!We decided after showing all our stuff to the owner and his wife to head for the car. As we were walking out I got a good signal and dug a wheat penny. Just then as I was making my plans to hit BB on the head with his landshark digger, I got a sweet signal and out popped the 40 Merc! I was turning to show it to BB and he holds up a Silver Religious medal...
Can you believe the nerve of this guy Anyway I patted him on the back and congratulated him all the while just wanting to step on his toe! And then he turns around and pulls out a 1960 Rosie!!! I was about to blow a gasket then I remembered our last hunt and I had found some great stuff and heck tonight wasn't too bad either of course I didn't find the really cool lead soldier either last hunt. Anyway that is when it occurred to me, anybody else would've come to a place I found and dug the stuff BB had tonight and I would have NEVER thought about letting them come back and hunt the place. But I was actually happy that BB and I have both gotten a lot better with our machines and the good finds are coming to both of us.In a way this is indicative of a problem I have had on the forum as well, trying to compete with all of you to find equal or better finds as each of you have but I realize now all of us here on this forum are a family of sorts. We should all be happy when one of our brothers or sisters finds the good stuff whether that be clad or silver or gold! Or in my case ZIPPER PULLS!!!!!!!!!!
So thanks for reading and I honestly hope that all of you have success in your hunts and find happiness in your heart the next time you dig a pulltab or nail because that's what this hobby is all about finding metal...
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