"Timed" hunt yields me a nickel day, a couple of em are OOOLLD!!

[cjon455]

Just had to get out today despite being up for 23 consecutive hours from working all night so I went down the road from my house to a nice old guy cutting his grass, gave him my shpeal and he asked that I write a waiver releasing him from any liability to myself and my equipment so I happily obliged. Once done with that riff raff he said I have 30 minutes because he had somewhere to be, WHATS WITH PEOPLE GIVING ME TIME LIMITS LATELY!!!!, my detecting is like art, I need time to make beautiful art, lol JK!! anyhow I took advantage of all 30 minutes and managed 2 wheats, a 1891 indian ,what appears to be 1917 buffalo nickel, 2 clad nickels, a part of a wristwatch and my best of the day a SHIELD NICKEL! I think its 1870 but the date is pretty worn, the coin is toasted but its my 2nd ever shield and ill take er' I put some pre and post cleaning pics up to get an idea of how toasted they are but they'll look good In my collection, thanks for looking and HH!!

 

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[park pirate]

Nice finds..

 

[mariposagold]

Nice short hunt. I'm not much for time limits either. Like to take my time and get in the Zone.


HH
MariposaGold

 

[beez0404]

Well crap, now I know what I'm doing wrong. Instead of sweating for 5 hours I need to set my cell phone timer to 30 minutes and see how I do. THAT is an amazing group of coins especially having found them in such a short window. Congratulations.

 

[Carolina Tom]

That is absolutely awesome for 30 minutes. Congrats on the grat coins. Jealous...

 

[dirtlooter]

yeah, you had to been moving along! but in the good dirt I can easily see it. congrats on the finds

 

[cjon455]

Nice short hunt. I'm not much for time limits either. Like to take my time and get in the Zone.


HH
MariposaGold

I just started to get in the zone when it was quitting time, I'll go back in the fall when it's a.little easier

 

[cjon455]

Well crap, now I know what I'm doing wrong. Instead of sweating for 5 hours I need to set my cell phone timer to 30 minutes and see how I do. THAT is an amazing group of coins especially having found them in such a short window. Congratulations.

Thanks beez! I know this place has the goods so I'm gonna have to go back, seems like barber n seated territory

 

[Old Dude]

Oh man! Too bad you didn't get a war nickel too! At least he let you hunt. I had a lady tell me early in the spring " Too bad my husband isn't here. He could give you permission to hunt the yard." They were renting this old farmhouse. I went back a few weeks ago and asked her again. " No!" Was all I got. Reminding her she had let me hunt the cornfields didn't change her mind at all, lol. Nice finds. I bet you can sleep now, lol.

 

[cjon455]

Oh man! Too bad you didn't get a war nickel too! At least he let you hunt. I had a lady tell me early in the spring " Too bad my husband isn't here. He could give you permission to hunt the yard." They were renting this old farmhouse. I went back a few weeks ago and asked her again. " No!" Was all I got. Reminding her she had let me hunt the cornfields didn't change her mind at all, lol. Nice finds. I bet you can sleep now, lol.

Some people just suck, you'd swear you were asking for campaign donations, or a kidney

 

[Old Dude]

If she had just said no the first time I was there, it wouldn't have been so bad. She even had to tell me the house had been there " forever " before saying she wished the husband was there, lol. Almost like twisting the knife....

 

[cjon455]

Plenty of sites, heck w it.

 

[treblehunter]

Sweet, you guys are doing great on permissions, not bad for thirty minutes!

 

[cjon455]

Sweet, you guys are doing great on permissions, not bad for thirty minutes!

Thanks Treblehunter, after all that effort with waivers and nonsense he gave me 30 minutes and kept saying oh u won't find anything, almost as if he didn't want me there

 

[vpnavy]

Nice! Thanks for sharing...

 

[ModernMiner]

Sweet finds Cjon. Can you just imagine how much more you would have found if you had 31 minutes! I hate being under pressure like that. You just can't concentrate or work the area thoroughly. Sucks.
You found some great stuff though in that short time.
-MM-

 

[WHADIFIND]

None too shabby for a timed hunt of only half an hour! It takes me that long to turn on my machine! LOL

Excellent saves!

 

[dig kzoo]

Killer! 30 min? I would be stoked to find those in 30 hours, Congrats cant wait to see what you can find with no time limit.
HH!!!

 

[cjon455]

Sweet finds Cjon. Can you just imagine how much more you would have found if you had 31 minutes! I hate being under pressure like that. You just can't concentrate or work the area thoroughly. Sucks.
You found some great stuff though in that short time.
-MM-

I picked a very small area of this yard next to the house, 31 minutes would've been nice, 32 would've been stellar lol

 

[cjon455]

None too shabby for a timed hunt of only half an hour! It takes me that long to turn on my machine! LOL

Excellent saves!

You would've been proud, I resembled "zorro" on this hunt, a slashin away I was! lol

and I was a cherry picker as well, Man if he only gave me more time!!!