Still No Silver, but Im Getting Close...

[kleinerschmitter]

Still No Silver, but I'm Getting Close...

Hello Everyone, I posted a couple of days ago talking about a church I had been hunting that showed promise, well I got the chance to go out again this morning, but still haven't found silver yet. I'm positive silver is there, as the church dates to the early 1900s, I think my Ace 250 is just clearing all of the clad out of the way
My finds so far are $1.39 in clad (2Q, 7D, 2N, and 9P), and 3 Wheat Pennies (1926D, 1953D, and 1955). I also found a couple of pins and what I think is a little chunk of copper, and of course many pull tabs and other junk. As you will see from the pictures below, the 1955 Wheatie suffered a horrific .22caliber injury.

 

[HISPAN]

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interesting Wheatie ... congrats!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

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Love the condition of those coins kleinerschmitter!
Bet when you do find silver, the shine'll be so bright it'll hurt your eyes!

 

[dirtfishing]

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I like the Mount Lincoln!

 

[CRUSADER]

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its seems a popular passtime shooting coins, anyone know how they were held when being aimed at?

 

[kleinerschmitter]

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@Antiquarian: Yes, I think the fact that we have a lot of sand around here and little rainfall keeps the old coins in good shape.

@CRUSADER: Being kind of a country boy myself and owning a variety of guns, I do remember when I was a young lad we used to shoot pennies as well, I'm pretty sure we would just set them partway into cracks on top of cut logs and shoot them, but I also know people who have used the lip of a nail to hold coins against trees after they hammered the nail in...

 

[RJH02]

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Maybe we cheated when we did that as a kid but we would pump up our bbguns 10 times or more, balance the penny on the end of the barrel almost straight up and pull the trigger, they came out almost exactly like these did if we were lucky enough to find them afterwards. Don't ask what we did with our compound bows

 

[kleinerschmitter]

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@RJH02: Haha, I'm curious about the bow now, but yeah, if I'd found a BB stuck in the penny I may have pointed a finger at you, I'm pretty positive it's a .22 caliber though and I think it's really neat that the bullet is still stuck in the penny, the oddest thing is that I almost didn't even dig the signal because the signal was bouncing between junk and a penny signal, guess the detector got it just right.

 

[RJH02]

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We would tape a sparkler or two to the arrows and shoot them across the fields at a 45 deg. angle at each other at night.They would soar an easy200- 300 yds ,after a few close calls with the sparklers falling off the arrows we had to put an end to that . Thankful to be here today

 

[Michiganne]

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Nice digs. Yes, the silver will come!

We would tape a sparkler or two to the arrows and shoot them across the fields at a 45 deg. angle at each other at night.
Too funny, RJH02. (Don't let my 10YO son read this idea!)

HH

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

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Nice digs. Yes, the silver will come!

We would tape a sparkler or two to the arrows and shoot them across the fields at a 45 deg. angle at each other at night.
Too funny, RJH02. (Don't let my 10YO son read this idea!)

HH

What a great idea! I'm surprised I never thought of doing that with my bow.

I used to go into the middle of my backyard, draw the bow back and fire the arrow straight up into the sky and then run like heck for the cover of a tree!

My Dad told me he dropped me on my head too many times as a kid!

 

[CRUSADER]

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Nice digs. Yes, the silver will come!

We would tape a sparkler or two to the arrows and shoot them across the fields at a 45 deg. angle at each other at night.
Too funny, RJH02. (Don't let my 10YO son read this idea!)

HH

I made bow & arrows which the nail attached to the arrow would go right through a garden fence. We would fire them as high in the air as we could, look up at the dot coming down towards us & try & get our foot nearest the place that the arrow stuck into the ground (just before it hit).

PS. thats for the insight into penny shooting, I always wondered.