Snagged my 3rd Walker today!

[Corben]

The day was sunny and in the high sixties! Perfect for detecting. I got off work at 12:30 this afternoon and grabbed my trusty ol' Tesoro B2µ
and just drove off in my Ranger. I had no idea which park to hit when I left but settled on a nice little park not too far from home.
I been there once before with my Explorer 2 about a year or so ago and found a Franklin Half near one of the baseball fields dugouts. Looking around the houses built near the park I decided by the size of the trees the homes must have been built around the late 50's or 60's.
So anyway I'm detecting today w/my B2µ and it's really quiet. Hardly any trash at all. Lots of old iron around there though. But the regular trash finds were far and few. Is my Bandido broke? I wonder. But it tested fine. Then i get the signal for a 1945 Walker. course I don't it's a Walker. I pin point and with my cheap ol Cen-tec Pin pointer and I'm able to detect it from the surface. Just a recent lost item. So I unearthed the half and I'm looking at it and I think....Not here. Someone just lost this. This was way too shallow to have been lost years go.
Then I got to thinking with the park so clean and me finding a silver half last time I was here, perhaps this park is where the local club has competition hunts and a few targets got lrft behind. Or maybe I'm just one heck of a good detectorist.

 

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[Old River]

Very nice coin. Go for more. HH......

 

[mikewaz]

Nice going!
I think when some people get a signal like that they write it off to a can top or big trash. I found 2 of them myself last year and though one was extremely deep, the other one hit really hard and was only around 6" or 7" and just about blew my phones off. It was in an area that got pounded pretty hard but yet there it was... VDI was perfect and a beautiful sweet tone that I knew was a keeper.

I also hit a park a few years ago that had also had a lot of pressure, but the ones I saw were swinging like they were in a competition hunt. I ended up digging close to a 100.00 in clad, a few silver dimes and 5 huge football and soccer referee coins. How they missed those I'll never know, but I bet it has something to do with ignoring great signals and that's great for us.

HH

 

[Knightwalker]

Very nice find. You can say that lady just walked into you hands.
HH in 2010

 

[rogues71]

nice find

 

[dfx willy]

hmm you said one heck of a detectorist!!! what about the scratches? just kidding awesome coin! congrats. willy

 

[Deepdiger60]

Wow nice half this must be Silver half week i need to get out there but i gotta wait is that green grass i see lucky you

 

[crazyjarhead]

Sweet finds, Corben. Haven't seen you post for a long time. Looks like you found a sweet "honey Hole"

 

[Bell-Two]

It goes to show you can't tell by depth alone. Depending on soil conditions, usage of the area good things can be not so deep. I have seen large cents dug at a homesite at just a few inches down and have dug memorials at 6" so I dig any coin signal even if shallow. If its just clad it adds up if it is something better then do the happy dance!

 

[Hunter]

Nice half!

 

[Corben]

hmm you said one heck of a detectorist!!! what about the scratches? just kidding awesome coin! congrats. willy

Not sure if I did that or not. Those scratches weren't real bright like others I have scratched in the past. But I wasn't careful to dig it up cause it was so close to the surface! I really think it was a forgotten coin from a club hunt. Scratched or not she'll look good in the collection!

 

[desert dog]

COOL

 

[Mr Tuff]

sweet walker MR TUFF

 

[kimsdad]

Congrats on the great find!!!

Just goes to show, you never know until you dig it...