kleinerschmitter
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- Joined
- Aug 21, 2010
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- 438
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- Location
- Birmingham, AL
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac, Excalibur II, Teknetics G2+
- Primary Interest:
- Other
Hello guys and gals, I've been a Tnet fan for awhile, but just now went the extra step and became a member. My Garrett Ace 250 came in on Wednesday and I couldn't wait for the weekend to go on my very first MD trip.
I had a rough day today as the spots I wanted to hunt were all plagued by tall grass, one of them is a cattle ranch of ours that used to have an old bar on it beside a creek bed. This bar burned down in 1922 and when I went camping as a kid we would check all of the gopher mounds because they would dig down and throw up old coins, and I have a couple of nice IHs and some V-nickels just from gopher holes. My uncle has a Barber dime and some other silver from the gopher mounds. I'm hoping there's big silver down there, as I am quite certain they are a bit too heavy for a gopher. Alas, I couldn't hunt there because the grass is literally 3ft high and thick enough to where your foot will never hit dirt. It's literally killing me that I cannot hunt there right now, I mean, where else can you go hunt old coins where people get inebriated?
I decided to hunt a Catholic church that isn't very old, but every year they have sort of a Homecoming celebration where you pay quarters to play games, etc. I swung the detector for a couple of hours and ended up with all clad (13 quarters, 6 dimes, and 7 pennies.) There were so many pull tabs around the area that I didn't even bother to dig nickel pings. It was a lot of fun, and I'm very happy to have started the hobby. I almost broke into silver with a 1965 Roosevelt dime and hopefully I'll have better luck tomorrow as the place I am hunting is many decades older.
Tomorrow I am going to hunt a small town Community center that has a couple of buildings on it from the WW2 era. Best part? It's all dirt, no grass to be seen! I'll keep everyone posted on what I find. I am absolutely certain there is silver out there, and it's been lonely for a long time now.
Oh yeah, one more thing, can anyone who has experience with an Ace 250 tell me what I can expect to see on the reader as far as when I come across old coins? I'm very much used to the tell-tale signs of clad dimes and quarters after today. Can mercury dimes, IH's, etc be expected to produce similar results to modern coins about their size? This is all done on sandy soil, with occasionally some black, loamy sediment present.
I had a rough day today as the spots I wanted to hunt were all plagued by tall grass, one of them is a cattle ranch of ours that used to have an old bar on it beside a creek bed. This bar burned down in 1922 and when I went camping as a kid we would check all of the gopher mounds because they would dig down and throw up old coins, and I have a couple of nice IHs and some V-nickels just from gopher holes. My uncle has a Barber dime and some other silver from the gopher mounds. I'm hoping there's big silver down there, as I am quite certain they are a bit too heavy for a gopher. Alas, I couldn't hunt there because the grass is literally 3ft high and thick enough to where your foot will never hit dirt. It's literally killing me that I cannot hunt there right now, I mean, where else can you go hunt old coins where people get inebriated?
I decided to hunt a Catholic church that isn't very old, but every year they have sort of a Homecoming celebration where you pay quarters to play games, etc. I swung the detector for a couple of hours and ended up with all clad (13 quarters, 6 dimes, and 7 pennies.) There were so many pull tabs around the area that I didn't even bother to dig nickel pings. It was a lot of fun, and I'm very happy to have started the hobby. I almost broke into silver with a 1965 Roosevelt dime and hopefully I'll have better luck tomorrow as the place I am hunting is many decades older.
Tomorrow I am going to hunt a small town Community center that has a couple of buildings on it from the WW2 era. Best part? It's all dirt, no grass to be seen! I'll keep everyone posted on what I find. I am absolutely certain there is silver out there, and it's been lonely for a long time now.
Oh yeah, one more thing, can anyone who has experience with an Ace 250 tell me what I can expect to see on the reader as far as when I come across old coins? I'm very much used to the tell-tale signs of clad dimes and quarters after today. Can mercury dimes, IH's, etc be expected to produce similar results to modern coins about their size? This is all done on sandy soil, with occasionally some black, loamy sediment present.
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The old burn down bar sounds like it could be awesome!!!!!
