SMS88
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Happy day after Halloween everybody! I decided to do some treasure 'haunting' in the woods last night. Before that, I decided to do a short 'warm-up behind Angell hall. I focused on all non-iron signals, which produced about 88 cents in clad: 1Q, 4D, 2N, 13C, and about 15 pull tabs in an hour.
. Warm up hunts are good because they can improve speed in competiton and can help you determine good signals. One spot produced a zincoln, then a nickel, and a dime almost in the same hole but slightly seperate. The signal was like a broken pulltab, which bounced around. Not something you'd want to dig, but broken signals mean either multiple targets or something unknown. Always dig a signal like this. As darkness fell, I walked to my car, picked up the detector and headlight, and headed into the woods. Night detecting can be safer if you wear a light around your head, especcially since the terrain is hilly and rocky. The first thing I found was a CIA corkscrew, just under the leaves near a condom wrapper 
, somebody must've had som fun in the woods.
Even more surprising was that when I turned it in, the safety officer says it's from American Bounty restaurant on campus. I walk a little more, dig up some broken copper cable and wire, don't you hate discovering them. At least it's 40x more valuable than iron scrap. I pass by a low teens broken signal that was small. At first i think shotgun or other bullet shell and pass by, but a little voice pops into my head "If you've dug up signals like this all over, why pass this one up? Don't be a hypocrite..." I went back, only would take a minute to dig up, havent found any other coins nearby, who knows? I nearly scratched it, but it was an 1899 liberty-v nickel.
OMG! I finally did it! There ARE nickles at this site. I was going crazy, tossing leaves all over the place. I calmed down, but couldn't find anything else except more copper wire. I did notice more clam shells around, there's most certainly more coins. Maybe I'll bring a rake and clear the leaves from the path for some depth. I return to an area that produed dimes and got an overload signal. It turns out to be a small sheet of iron the size of an appetizer plate. I remove it, pick up a broken pulltab signal and out comes a 1904 barber dime and 1903 v nickel about 4 inches from each other.
Dig those overloads, people. Your detector can't see through sheets of iron. In a few more minutes, I discover a 1900 and 1901 barber dime around and decide to call it a night. Total for the night was 2 v nickles and 3 barbers for a total of 17 indians, 2 v nickles, 15 dimes(10 barber, 3 seated, 2 victorian) I've dug up so much, but I haven't covered every area slowly and carefully. I'm still digging up large plates and chunks of iron, and I lost a digging tool sometime in june there. I'm going to hunt the area only at night. There's got to be a silver quarter somewhere, considering all the dimes. You can learn a lot from digging various signals and even hunting for clad. I might still be relatively new, but i'm learning and doing great.
. Warm up hunts are good because they can improve speed in competiton and can help you determine good signals. One spot produced a zincoln, then a nickel, and a dime almost in the same hole but slightly seperate. The signal was like a broken pulltab, which bounced around. Not something you'd want to dig, but broken signals mean either multiple targets or something unknown. Always dig a signal like this. As darkness fell, I walked to my car, picked up the detector and headlight, and headed into the woods. Night detecting can be safer if you wear a light around your head, especcially since the terrain is hilly and rocky. The first thing I found was a CIA corkscrew, just under the leaves near a condom wrapper , somebody must've had som fun in the woods. Even more surprising was that when I turned it in, the safety officer says it's from American Bounty restaurant on campus. I walk a little more, dig up some broken copper cable and wire, don't you hate discovering them. At least it's 40x more valuable than iron scrap. I pass by a low teens broken signal that was small. At first i think shotgun or other bullet shell and pass by, but a little voice pops into my head "If you've dug up signals like this all over, why pass this one up? Don't be a hypocrite..." I went back, only would take a minute to dig up, havent found any other coins nearby, who knows? I nearly scratched it, but it was an 1899 liberty-v nickel. OMG! I finally did it! There ARE nickles at this site. I was going crazy, tossing leaves all over the place. I calmed down, but couldn't find anything else except more copper wire. I did notice more clam shells around, there's most certainly more coins. Maybe I'll bring a rake and clear the leaves from the path for some depth. I return to an area that produed dimes and got an overload signal. It turns out to be a small sheet of iron the size of an appetizer plate. I remove it, pick up a broken pulltab signal and out comes a 1904 barber dime and 1903 v nickel about 4 inches from each other. Dig those overloads, people. Your detector can't see through sheets of iron. In a few more minutes, I discover a 1900 and 1901 barber dime around and decide to call it a night. Total for the night was 2 v nickles and 3 barbers for a total of 17 indians, 2 v nickles, 15 dimes(10 barber, 3 seated, 2 victorian) I've dug up so much, but I haven't covered every area slowly and carefully. I'm still digging up large plates and chunks of iron, and I lost a digging tool sometime in june there. I'm going to hunt the area only at night. There's got to be a silver quarter somewhere, considering all the dimes. You can learn a lot from digging various signals and even hunting for clad. I might still be relatively new, but i'm learning and doing great.
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