Brett
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Hi Everybody!
It's been too long I tell ya... this winter has been long, and I've been wrapped up in multiple projects this winter. I've missed getting out and go detecting so when my dad reminded me of a potentially great site he'd researched earlier, I couldn't pass it up. We got out there detecting at first light, and the place was strangely clean signal wise. I would occasionally hit some low thuds like foil, but there wasn't even any surface clad to speak of. I told my dad the day before that I was going to hit outer edges of the park first... and what did I do first? I went to the middle... bah! Nothing there... but as soon as I got back to my plan, BINGO! The wheaties started popping out one after the other. After 3 wheaties I called my dad over from the middle of the park to the edge... we hunted there and I found several more wheaties. Feeling left out my dad decided to switch up his game, and jump into the woods neighboring the park. He immediately scored a wheatie, and then told me he had a great dime signal. I went over and videotaped this:
So with him on the board with his first silver of the year, the pressure was on. I continued diligently detecting at my wheatie location pulling wheatie after wheatie. Then I jumped into the woods with him... we were a little discouraged because we had found fresh shallow uncovered holes everywhere, and I mean literally everywhere. Someone had been here recently digging up all the goodies, or maybe they just did us a favor and cleared away all of the trash... NOPE, the trash was discarded on the surface everywhere. Well this person doesn't know the first rule, take your trash with you! If it's laying on the ground how are you going to properly scan around the hole... argh. So we spent half our time kicking the dirt back in on this person's holes, and picking up their trash for them. Eventually I started to get discouraged in the woods... so I headed back over to the tree line. A good 20 feet from the tree line I waved my coil over a pile of sticks and brush, and got a chirp of a high tone. When I pushed all of the sticks and brush away it was singing! I thought it was a wheatie, but it did sound sweeter... and out popped the 1905-s Barber Dime! My first silver for the year. I made it back to the tree line where I first started finding wheaties, and found two more. Then another, and then the Rosie! I kept heading up the tree line and eventually found the Merc, right out in the open. Our hole digging friend missed this one, it was a super sweet tone. It was too bad that the 1916 merc didn't have a D mint... but it was a rush uncovering the date on that one!
Right at the end of the hunt I got the 1892 Barber Dime, under a log (up in the air) that my dad had walked past 5 minutes earlier. We were ALL over in the woods... and it really would pay to grid it. I had started griding early on, but you get confused sometimes exactly where you've been and where you haven't searched yet. It's like painting a blank canvas with your detector coil... and every brush stroke is getting snagged up on something, so you come at it from a different angle to fill in the gaps.. but the whole while it's invisible! You could do this for hours and not make much forward progress.
I really look forward to getting back there soon before the new growth comes in. Check out the video for a couple extra finds not pictured...
FYI: you'll notice the FVRR.org reference in the video. That's a site my dad and I started last year to direct people to for more information about us and what we do. I just recently fixed it up so we could start uploading content.
Happy hunting everyone!
It's been too long I tell ya... this winter has been long, and I've been wrapped up in multiple projects this winter. I've missed getting out and go detecting so when my dad reminded me of a potentially great site he'd researched earlier, I couldn't pass it up. We got out there detecting at first light, and the place was strangely clean signal wise. I would occasionally hit some low thuds like foil, but there wasn't even any surface clad to speak of. I told my dad the day before that I was going to hit outer edges of the park first... and what did I do first? I went to the middle... bah! Nothing there... but as soon as I got back to my plan, BINGO! The wheaties started popping out one after the other. After 3 wheaties I called my dad over from the middle of the park to the edge... we hunted there and I found several more wheaties. Feeling left out my dad decided to switch up his game, and jump into the woods neighboring the park. He immediately scored a wheatie, and then told me he had a great dime signal. I went over and videotaped this:
So with him on the board with his first silver of the year, the pressure was on. I continued diligently detecting at my wheatie location pulling wheatie after wheatie. Then I jumped into the woods with him... we were a little discouraged because we had found fresh shallow uncovered holes everywhere, and I mean literally everywhere. Someone had been here recently digging up all the goodies, or maybe they just did us a favor and cleared away all of the trash... NOPE, the trash was discarded on the surface everywhere. Well this person doesn't know the first rule, take your trash with you! If it's laying on the ground how are you going to properly scan around the hole... argh. So we spent half our time kicking the dirt back in on this person's holes, and picking up their trash for them. Eventually I started to get discouraged in the woods... so I headed back over to the tree line. A good 20 feet from the tree line I waved my coil over a pile of sticks and brush, and got a chirp of a high tone. When I pushed all of the sticks and brush away it was singing! I thought it was a wheatie, but it did sound sweeter... and out popped the 1905-s Barber Dime! My first silver for the year. I made it back to the tree line where I first started finding wheaties, and found two more. Then another, and then the Rosie! I kept heading up the tree line and eventually found the Merc, right out in the open. Our hole digging friend missed this one, it was a super sweet tone. It was too bad that the 1916 merc didn't have a D mint... but it was a rush uncovering the date on that one!
Right at the end of the hunt I got the 1892 Barber Dime, under a log (up in the air) that my dad had walked past 5 minutes earlier. We were ALL over in the woods... and it really would pay to grid it. I had started griding early on, but you get confused sometimes exactly where you've been and where you haven't searched yet. It's like painting a blank canvas with your detector coil... and every brush stroke is getting snagged up on something, so you come at it from a different angle to fill in the gaps.. but the whole while it's invisible! You could do this for hours and not make much forward progress.I really look forward to getting back there soon before the new growth comes in. Check out the video for a couple extra finds not pictured...
FYI: you'll notice the FVRR.org reference in the video. That's a site my dad and I started last year to direct people to for more information about us and what we do. I just recently fixed it up so we could start uploading content.
Happy hunting everyone!
... and waiting... it was really making me nervous, so I was trying to keep that hole small, just in case he walked out to talk to us. It was a pain in the ass too because there was a 2" dia root right in the middle of the hole, and the coins were under it, 8" or more down. It was very difficult... sorta like digging to China would be ;-)
