silverfreak
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- Wherever Silver's Hidin'
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- Minelab Explorers and E-Trac
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- All Treasure Hunting
There's STILL SILVER and other goodies in my buddy's beat up park.
Haven't been able to hunt for over a week so Phil and I met at his beat up park that never gives up anything. Most of the time we go there because it's convenient for both of us and we never have much time. We noticed they were moving some dirt around so we decided to hit it hard again. The last time there we found ZERO. Two guys with $2500 worth of machines in their hands wandering around for 2 hours and couldn't even scare up a wheatie.
It was very hot and even more humid...but we hunted anyway. I started at a spot that had a few inches of dirt scraped off and started hitting wheaties immediately...so I knew there had to be some silver hidin' there too. I kept looking over at Phil and he wasn't doin' any diggin'..but he WAS doin' a whole lot of sweating.
His stock coil on his xs isn't finding anything and I think it has a short or something. His 8" Minelab coil sounds good on it and so does his 12" Excelerator...but not the stock coil. I find a deep target and say..."deep silver or wheatie"...then call him over. I run my sef or 1050 coil over it and it sounds sweet. He then runs his xs over it and it sounds like a bunch of sick bullfrogs bellowing out 50 different tones and sounds. He was getting frustrated to hear the sweet sharp high pitch sound I was hearing with the 10 x 12 sef and 1050. 
After finding a few wheaties...then my first silver...Phil still had nothing. I popped off my sef coil and let him use it for a while...and I put my 1050 coil on my SE. He has 2 of the pro coils coming...but they have been on back order from Minelab for almost a month...so he is in limbo for a coil. It isn't any fun for me if I'm finding stuff but my buddy isn't.
Phil instantly started finding some wheaties and other goodies with my SEF. After about 45 minutes or so...I said.."okay pal..give my me coil back"..."you've used it enough".
I popped my sef coil back on and Phil used my 1050...and we both started popping out coins. I'll let him tell you about his finds when he gets time.
Almost all the coins I found were 8" or more deep to as deep as 10". Funny thing was that we were both so hot and tired after 2 hours..we both wanted to quit...but neither of us let each other know it. I would glance over at him out of the corner of my eye and he would be standing there leaning on his xs about to melt...but when he saw me looking...he instantly "woke up" and acted like he was swingin' the coil. I have no room to talk 'cause I did the same thing. 
Finally I couldn't take it anymore...but rather than look like a putz...I told Phil I was going to walk to the car and move it around closer to the area we were....when in reality I just wanted to freakin' sit down.
I moved the car then took Phil's ice water to him. When he saw the approaching beverage...you'd have thought he hit the lotto.
All the coins here are deeeeep from a lot of fill dirt. It is very common to find 9" deep memorial cents.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
The neatest find was the quarter I dug at 10" down straight on edge. I called him over to hear the signal and then started digging. I remember saying it had a shot at being silver. It was a very deep, depth gauge buried, chirper hit that repeated so I knew I had a shot at something good. I dug down and then dug down some more...finally popping out a chunk of dirt. I then pinched it and out popped a silver quarter which was completely unexpected. It was the first big silver we have popped out of there in over a year.
After 5 hours I had a pretty full pouch. I had a ton of wheaties...a buffalo nickel...5 silver...and an injun. A great day from a place that's given up nothing to us lately.
Phil's back in business now...his own 1050 coil should be here Monday...and his Minelab pro coils should be here in a few days too.
Haven't been able to hunt for over a week so Phil and I met at his beat up park that never gives up anything. Most of the time we go there because it's convenient for both of us and we never have much time. We noticed they were moving some dirt around so we decided to hit it hard again. The last time there we found ZERO. Two guys with $2500 worth of machines in their hands wandering around for 2 hours and couldn't even scare up a wheatie.
It was very hot and even more humid...but we hunted anyway. I started at a spot that had a few inches of dirt scraped off and started hitting wheaties immediately...so I knew there had to be some silver hidin' there too. I kept looking over at Phil and he wasn't doin' any diggin'..but he WAS doin' a whole lot of sweating.
His stock coil on his xs isn't finding anything and I think it has a short or something. His 8" Minelab coil sounds good on it and so does his 12" Excelerator...but not the stock coil. I find a deep target and say..."deep silver or wheatie"...then call him over. I run my sef or 1050 coil over it and it sounds sweet. He then runs his xs over it and it sounds like a bunch of sick bullfrogs bellowing out 50 different tones and sounds. He was getting frustrated to hear the sweet sharp high pitch sound I was hearing with the 10 x 12 sef and 1050. After finding a few wheaties...then my first silver...Phil still had nothing. I popped off my sef coil and let him use it for a while...and I put my 1050 coil on my SE. He has 2 of the pro coils coming...but they have been on back order from Minelab for almost a month...so he is in limbo for a coil. It isn't any fun for me if I'm finding stuff but my buddy isn't.
Phil instantly started finding some wheaties and other goodies with my SEF. After about 45 minutes or so...I said.."okay pal..give my me coil back"..."you've used it enough".
I popped my sef coil back on and Phil used my 1050...and we both started popping out coins. I'll let him tell you about his finds when he gets time.
Almost all the coins I found were 8" or more deep to as deep as 10". Funny thing was that we were both so hot and tired after 2 hours..we both wanted to quit...but neither of us let each other know it. I would glance over at him out of the corner of my eye and he would be standing there leaning on his xs about to melt...but when he saw me looking...he instantly "woke up" and acted like he was swingin' the coil.
I have no room to talk 'cause I did the same thing. Finally I couldn't take it anymore...but rather than look like a putz...I told Phil I was going to walk to the car and move it around closer to the area we were....when in reality I just wanted to freakin' sit down.
I moved the car then took Phil's ice water to him. When he saw the approaching beverage...you'd have thought he hit the lotto.All the coins here are deeeeep from a lot of fill dirt. It is very common to find 9" deep memorial cents.
The neatest find was the quarter I dug at 10" down straight on edge. I called him over to hear the signal and then started digging. I remember saying it had a shot at being silver. It was a very deep, depth gauge buried, chirper hit that repeated so I knew I had a shot at something good. I dug down and then dug down some more...finally popping out a chunk of dirt. I then pinched it and out popped a silver quarter which was completely unexpected. It was the first big silver we have popped out of there in over a year.
After 5 hours I had a pretty full pouch. I had a ton of wheaties...a buffalo nickel...5 silver...and an injun. A great day from a place that's given up nothing to us lately.
Phil's back in business now...his own 1050 coil should be here Monday...and his Minelab pro coils should be here in a few days too.
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