They say 13 is an unlucky number but not today

tmanfromtexas · Mar 14, 2010

Hey everybody!!! The snow has melted and the rain let up for a while here in Chicago Land so Dirtfishing Dave and I hit a spot that I had researched over the winter. I got there about 8 and started detecting while waiting on Dave to reset his clocks since he forgot last night. Heheh. I had found 2 mercs by the time he rolled in. We visited for a few minutes and then we got down to business. He dug a rosie and while he was filming it I got another merc. A few minutes later I got another than another and another, they were singing on the etrac and they couldnt hide from it today. I got a 1/46 and figured I had a dime on edge until I opened the hole. I broke the clod open and out popped a Franklin half. I was stoked. I hadnt found a silver half in over a year and this was my first Franklin. Well I was ready for lunch and Dave wanted to keep hunting so I went and picked up some lunch for us since he was having a hard time finding anything good. After lunch I got a silver Washington. Dave decided to move to another spot and I was about to move too until I got a 10/47 at 5 inches. I popped the hole and out popped another Washington and 2 more mercs. I went over to where Dave was hunting and told him my good fortune. His look told me he hadnt had much luck either in the new spot. I found one more Washington and a few more wheaties. After digging over 125 coins I was done. I showed my finds to Dave which ended up being 1 half, 3 quarters and 9 mercs along with 23 wheaties and assorted clad. This was my best day hunting ever with 13 silvers and 128 coins total. Dave started finding some good stuff. He was at 5 silvers when I left. I am sure he still there in the dark digging. LOL Thanks for reading. HH. TMAN...

mainer · Mar 14, 2010

If only everyday was like that. Congrats. :thumbsup:

extractor · Mar 14, 2010

Wtg!

Toby1858 · Mar 14, 2010

Thats crazy! Needless to say that had to be a virgin spot. Is it a big area with lots more hunting? Congrats on a VERY good day!!! :icon_thumright:

RiverRat3 · Mar 14, 2010

You definately had a great day. The Ben Franklin would definately get me stoked.

NGE · Mar 14, 2010

Excellent hunt, and nice coins. But to answer a question posed by someone else, "wish it could be this good every day" Well, it used to be. If anyone in our little group came home with that few silver, we called it a bad day :laughing9:

. The best I ever done in one day was 45 silver dollars, 123 silver quarters, about 200 silver dimes, no pennies or nickels. Most of the dollars were 1922's and in mint condition, the rest of the silver was culled from circulation and buried in cans, sauce pans, by an eccentric old man that died and his property was sold to a developer, others in my group found much more than me. Now there is a buncha condo's with 12 feet of fill over the area. But if any of the current owners ever need a foundation dug for anything, My rates would be cheap!.......NGE

washingtonian · Mar 14, 2010

Thats a solid years worth of silver for me! Wow

Toby1858 · Mar 14, 2010

Well back in ''The day'' I suppose clad was something like pull tabs depending on location, if only I could have had my m6 and known better in say...oh, 64' or 5'!!!!

MaineRelic · Mar 14, 2010

Sounds Like you went back to the good ole days !! !! MaineRelic.

TejasDigger · Mar 14, 2010

You had an awesome day! I thought I did good but after seeing what you found I'm jealous. :thumbsup:

BandB1 · Mar 14, 2010

Thats some great hunting, a real dream hunt for sure, Wow! Congrats :thumbsup:

Good luck,
HH.

Pentico · Mar 14, 2010

I can only dream of a day like that.....
Congrats!

ChrisP

treasurefiend · Mar 14, 2010

Awesome job buddy, you guys are silver huntin machines!!! :icon_pirat:

Deepdiger60 · Mar 14, 2010

would settle for 3 right now let alone 13 :thumbsup:

Great site and hunt .

River Rat · Mar 14, 2010

Did you have a little green leprechaun following you around today? Talk about luck with some great silver finds :icon_thumleft:

RR

dave-enc · Mar 14, 2010

what a terrific day wtg
hh
dave+bobbie

Mr Tuff · Mar 14, 2010

all that digging was worth it :icon_thumleft:

MR TUFF

texjim · Mar 15, 2010

you got to love those multi silver days..

mobile miner · Mar 15, 2010

Back in the day. Reminds me off xmas day 1971 at the court house in Co. Springs. filled my pockets with silver mostly from pocket spills along the raised sidewalks using the old beep and dig garrett. Also filled my pockets with silver at antlers park in Jackson Hole. Did great till a city maint man ask me to leave. There was no law prohibiting Md`ing but he didn`t like what I was doing. I was getting tired anyway so I didn`t argue with him and left with my pockets full of silver.

tmanfromtexas · Mar 15, 2010

Toby1858 said:
Thats crazy! Needless to say that had to be a virgin spot. Is it a big area with lots more hunting? Congrats on a VERY good day!!!

I dont think this was a "virgin spot". Most of these coins were from a relatively small area with some trash thrown in for good measure. This was the first time we hunted it though. TMAN...