Old West Silver dug and LOTS OF IT!

[Cal_Cobra]

I was able to pull off a last minute trip with Tom, so while everyone is waiting for their Equinox to arrive, here's something to keep you entertained:


SPOILER ALERT: LOTS OF OLD WEST SILVER WAS FOUND

HHJ,
Brian

 

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[Cal_Cobra]

No comments, but thanks for all the views

 

[GB1]

cool finds

 

[Cal_Cobra]

cool finds

Thanks for looking!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Brian, thanx for the fun play-by-play.

 

[Aureus]

Awesome finds! Great Shilling!

 

[Obsessive]

Nice finds! I liked and subscribed, so can I come hunt with you now?

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Awesome finds! Great Shilling!

Thanks, the Shilling was a real mystery for a bit

Nice finds! I liked and subscribed, so can I come hunt with you now?

Thanks for watching. We'll get back to you on the hunt invite

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Brian, thanx for the fun play-by-play.

Thanks Tom. Did you figure out that trigger guard that you found on the trip?

 

[Kurios1]

I love seeing your buddies tried and true old Minelab Explorer II sucking out Seated silver. Great "old" machine for silver. Awesome scores on some wonderful old coinage. Question? I see you run a pretty nice set of various machines. How do you rate the Nokta Impact's performance compared to your other metal detectors? I probably just need to quit him hawing and purchase one for myself. Thanks for the excellent hunt and sharing it with us.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I love seeing your buddies tried and true old Minelab Explorer II sucking out Seated silver. Great "old" machine for silver. Awesome scores on some wonderful old coinage. Question? I see you run a pretty nice set of various machines. How do you rate the Nokta Impact's performance compared to your other metal detectors? I probably just need to quit him hawing and purchase one for myself. Thanks for the excellent hunt and sharing it with us.

He's like a Jedi Master with his Explorer2, he's probably one of the best detectorists I've had the pleasure to detect with, and he knows that detector inside and out, and it shows in his finds.

I need to update my machine list, I no longer have the Omega, AT-Pro or Etrac. Now I have the Red Racer, Racer 2, Impact, F75 LTD2, CZ70, and a Tesoro Mojave that hasn't left the box yet I like the Impact quite a bit BUT for some of these sites that're highly mineralized, a multi-frequency machine really opens the site up. Hoping that the coming Minelab Equinox will be a winner. I would say of the machines I currently have, the Racer 2 is my favorite. It's light, feature packed, yet very simple to operate, and it does a darn good job. The Impact is nice because I can change the frequency, and it has lots of modes (although I find myself using the DI3 mode 90% of the time), and I find that these highly mineralized sites hunt pretty well with the 20 kHz setting, but the mineralization still handicaps a VLF machine IMHO. I sold off my AT-Pro, it was great in iron, but I never really got very good depth with it. Same thing with the Omega, although it was great at demolition sites, just had a knack for plucking silver out of the junk, and the Etrac was too heavy, and once I moved from mostly turf hunting to mostly relic hunting, it didn't seem to do too well in the iron infested sites. The F75 is still a good machine, at the right location. I found a lot of great stuff with the F75, but I also feel that it missed a lot of stuff.

How do you like the DFX? I always wanted to try a DFX and a V3i (although the V3i looks to be a bit too complicated).

HH,
Brian

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Thanks Tom. Did you figure out that trigger guard that you found on the trip?

Yes. Mid 1800s. "Long Rifle". Fits right in with the dates of our coins.

In the meantime: Here's the final results of one of the coins of our trip (after ezest persuasion) :

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

That is an awesome old quarter! Congrats!!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Yes. Mid 1800s. "Long Rifle". Fits right in with the dates of our coins.

In the meantime: Here's the final results of one of the coins of our trip (after ezest persuasion) :

That cleaned up nicely

 

[against the wind]

Sweet Seated Silver.
Congrats