Still in disbelief. And I think it is a cob not "cobb". My bad. Details....
At around 1:30 pm this afternoon I loaded my Minelab SovGT battery pack with fresh batteries. I must admit, I "mixed" with 4 energizers and 4 duracell red jobbers. The clips on the battery pack were broken but my back-up pack was at home. I slammed the battery pack into the machine and placed my ghetto headphones over my ears. Mosquitos swarmed and attacked me through the deet barrier that greased my body. Within 5 minutes I dug a target that sounded like a modern .22 caliber bullet. It was not. It was a shotgun shell. A few minutes later, a shell from a modern deer round.
My mind wandered as I adjusted my expectations from treasures to "just a great day outside".
The next target sounded like copper. Six inches later I held gold roundness in my hand. I remember thinking "wow, this is heavy". I looked down and saw those pillars. I had found silver before, but never gold. I knew.
I looked at both of my digging partners and said "oh s...". I said that several times.
We gathered around and hugged it out. All 3 of us happily married (to our wives). But one of those moments...
I never put the headphones back on, for that would be greedy. I walked around the woods digesting the event. Walking around in a state of excitement as well as a state of some sort of survivor's guilt. I got over that really quickly.
