JunkShopFiddler
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- Joined
- Feb 15, 2013
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- Location
- SW Indiana
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett GTP 1350
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hey all,
This morning I had been up all night caring for my Wife who had a strong migraine. She ask me to follow her to work in case it came back and she couldn't drive. She says, "then you should take the day off and go detecting". Been up for 24 hours but went anyway. I go hunting in a ballpark so she will think I'm having a good time. It's hot, it's sunny, it's nasty humid, these Ohio River gnats are landing in my eyes and flying up my nose, and the ground is hard as a rock. My batteries are just about dead, (and so are the detectors, hee hee). This is hideous.
I decided to give up and on the way back to the car thought I would try the tot lot, easy diggin' in the wood chips! I got an unusual signal between half and dollar and dug it just out of curiosity expecting big junk. It was a '72 clad half. On the back was a round quarter size clean spot, and in the hole was the edge of a silver quarter, 1957! The signal was between half and dollar...perfect...75 cents! So I scanned the hole before cleaning it up and ding! Another "75 cent" signal and reached in and pulled out another clad Half with a clad quarter stuck to the back! Rescanned the hole again, and truly, another 75 cent signal and another clad Half with a clad quarter stuck to the back! So yet again I rescanned the hole and ding ding ding, the sound of a pocket spill but all half signals this time. Two more clad Halves and that was it. Man! You truly never know what's in the next dig! This was fun!
And you know, it was my Wife talked me into goin' for helping with her with the migraine, and the silver quarter was 1957...the year she was born...Thanks Honey, but now that I've had all the gnats I can eat, I be goin' for a nap.
This morning I had been up all night caring for my Wife who had a strong migraine. She ask me to follow her to work in case it came back and she couldn't drive. She says, "then you should take the day off and go detecting". Been up for 24 hours but went anyway. I go hunting in a ballpark so she will think I'm having a good time. It's hot, it's sunny, it's nasty humid, these Ohio River gnats are landing in my eyes and flying up my nose, and the ground is hard as a rock. My batteries are just about dead, (and so are the detectors, hee hee). This is hideous.
I decided to give up and on the way back to the car thought I would try the tot lot, easy diggin' in the wood chips! I got an unusual signal between half and dollar and dug it just out of curiosity expecting big junk. It was a '72 clad half. On the back was a round quarter size clean spot, and in the hole was the edge of a silver quarter, 1957! The signal was between half and dollar...perfect...75 cents! So I scanned the hole before cleaning it up and ding! Another "75 cent" signal and reached in and pulled out another clad Half with a clad quarter stuck to the back! Rescanned the hole again, and truly, another 75 cent signal and another clad Half with a clad quarter stuck to the back! So yet again I rescanned the hole and ding ding ding, the sound of a pocket spill but all half signals this time. Two more clad Halves and that was it. Man! You truly never know what's in the next dig! This was fun!
And you know, it was my Wife talked me into goin' for helping with her with the migraine, and the silver quarter was 1957...the year she was born...Thanks Honey, but now that I've had all the gnats I can eat, I be goin' for a nap.
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