The Eight Silver Day Photo.........And Video.

Ricardo_NY1 · Feb 19, 2008

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The day included a barber dime and quarter. Enjoy.

Ricardo

lockman209 · Feb 19, 2008

way to go & I enjoyed the video

bookfisher · Feb 19, 2008

Excellent coins! Excellent video! WTG!

harpp · Feb 19, 2008

WAY TO GO!!

luv the video.... dont leave, STAY! where ever you are.... thats a good spot! i'd make camp....

H.H. - Harpp

silverfreak · Feb 19, 2008

Great job Ricardo.

Jack(IN) · Feb 20, 2008

Great day, great video!! Sweet finds and love those kind of days, looks like that Explorer is a silver magnant!!

Johnny Ringo Silver · Feb 20, 2008

Ricardo, well done on the silver buddy. Looks like you made the right decision to bag the machine and get out. Barber quarter even......how did you feel when you figured out what it was? Sweet finds and another great video. 8)

dgaughan · Feb 20, 2008

wtg ricardo congrats and continued good luck

Leon · Feb 20, 2008

Very nice group of finds, Congrats!!!
I like the way you edit your videos as well... keep up the good work...
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~

crocop · Feb 20, 2008

Video of the year!!! Excellent, great job. That's what I'm talking about.....East Coast......Yea....

Way to Go Ricardo

silverfinder · Feb 20, 2008

Enjoyable video - it made me feel like I was doing the digging. Experience taught me that when you find quality coins at a site like this one, you return repeatedly and hunt it to death...I'm sure you'll find more there with perseverance - and it doesn't hurt to have a Minelab as a tool, to get those older, deeper silvers that elude my DFX (sorry, White's, but if I had to do it all over again, the Explorer would be my choice). It appears that you're hunting in a wooded area of a NYC park, an area probably largely ignored by other detectorists, which is why you found what you did. There's more there; I have no doubt of that.

muleskinner · Feb 20, 2008

Well done Ricardo. Your a detecting superstar.

Michiganne · Feb 20, 2008

Another sweet video Ricardo. Can't imagine an eight silver day. You are an inspiration. Keep digging!

p.s. Don't you guys get any snow out there?

HH

Johnny Ringo Silver · Feb 21, 2008

silverfinder said:
Enjoyable video - it made me feel like I was doing the digging. Experience taught me that when you find quality coins at a site like this one, you return repeatedly and hunt it to death...I'm sure you'll find more there with perseverance - and it doesn't hurt to have a Minelab as a tool, to get those older, deeper silvers that elude my DFX (sorry, White's, but if I had to do it all over again, the Explorer would be my choice). It appears that you're hunting in a wooded area of a NYC park, an area probably largely ignored by other detectorists, which is why you found what you did. There's more there; I have no doubt of that.

OOOOHHHH MAN!! Why do you got to bring the DFX into it?

I have been very successful with mine!!
I agree that some machines are better than others in certain circumstances, but to give up on such a quality
machine would be a crying shame. I have seen the videos and will guarantee my DFX has dug silver at the same depth!! Its all in the settings and the knowledge of the user!! Good luck in the future. 8) 8)

CRUSADER · Feb 21, 2008

Johnny Ringo Silver said:
silverfinder said:

Enjoyable video - it made me feel like I was doing the digging. Experience taught me that when you find quality coins at a site like this one, you return repeatedly and hunt it to death...I'm sure you'll find more there with perseverance - and it doesn't hurt to have a Minelab as a tool, to get those older, deeper silvers that elude my DFX (sorry, White's, but if I had to do it all over again, the Explorer would be my choice). It appears that you're hunting in a wooded area of a NYC park, an area probably largely ignored by other detectorists, which is why you found what you did. There's more there; I have no doubt of that.

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OOOOHHHH MAN!! Why do you got to bring the DFX into it? I have been very successful with mine!!
I agree that some machines are better than others in certain circumstances, but to give up on such a quality
machine would be a crying shame. I have seen the videos and will guarantee my DFX has dug silver at the same depth!! Its all in the settings and the knowledge of the user!! Good luck in the future. 8) 8)

Not this old chestnut

silverfinder · Feb 21, 2008

Without trying to start a firestorm in this thread, I nevertheless stick to my guns about the DFX vs. the Explorer. I've had the DFX for a long time, have futzed with it every which way to get it to go deeper, even buying Jeff Foster's book and following his recommendations as well as trying the late Dave Z's suggestions over on the DFX Classroom, and still...dimes elude the DFX if they are deeper than 4" or so. Once, for some reason, I found a silver dime at about 7", but that was it. All of my old silver coins were found at relatively shallow depths, whether at the beach or inland. I bought a large Jimmy Sierra aftermarket coil which was supposed to increase depth, but found that it actually wouldn't go as deep as the stock coil. What a waste of $250.00. Acquaintances of mine who own Minelab Explorers routinely find deep, deep old silver and copper coins in areas I've searched with much less success. Look, I'm not saying I haven't found good stuff with my DFX. As one poster put it some time ago elsewhere on TreasureNet, the DFX is designed to suck up good targets quickly and easily, but time and time again I have witnessed that the Minelab just goes deeper and, moreover, "sees" more of the ground than the DFX at greater depths. Perhaps in other areas, in other soils, the DFX may perform differently than it does in my neighborhood. But I know what I know. No one who has purchased a DFX, or any other machine for that matter, need rankle at my expressed preference for the Minelab. Maybe the Minelab is a pain to use. Maybe the learning curve is ridiculously complicated. I don't know. I've never used one. All I know is what others who own one have found over the years, such as seated liberty half dollars at a foot down, and dimes at nine or ten inches. Seeing is believing, and I've seen, and I believe.