vpone
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- Equinox 800, 11" & 15" coils
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- Metal Detecting
hello all,
vp here, haven't had much of a chance to detect for about the last month, the frost and snow have made it real hard to get out but a break in the weather today gave us a nice window to detect so we took it
paco and i first headed to a colonial spot that has paid off well in the past - well to make a long story short, the wind was really strong and just blew right over the open fields - we heard later the wind chill was 8 degrees !!! so anyway we moved to a new spot that was closer to town and had lots of trees - boy did it pay off !
within the first 10 minutes Paco had a mercury dime and a couple wheats - i wasn't getting any good signals - so i moved down to what looked like and old road bed - grassy and overgrown a bit - i started to detect it and got a decent signal that was deep
it was reading an off/on 00 27 on my SE (had my stock coil on) when i took some dirt out it was a solid 00 29 !! so thinking i had silver i dug and dug and dug, by this time paco had wandered over - we both thought - "oh it's huge probably a deep can or something stupid" about 7 inches down i tried my probe again and it finally sounded off - solid high tone - so i dug another 2-3 inches and saw the edge of a silver coin - i showed paco and excitedly said i think i got a silver quarter - "nah it's way too big he yelled, it's a half !!!!"
i threw some dirt back in the hole and covered it up, i said "ok wait" - "i just want to take a moment and think of the possibilities ...." - i had about 1/6th of a silver half dollar showing my FIRST silver half dollar and i wanted to enjoy the moment and remember it - plus i was immediately thinking barber or seated and didn't want to ruin it with a kennedy half (which i still would have have taken !) .... paco tried to dig it out a couple times, but i wouldn't let him - i said just think what it could be - about a full minute went by and i started to dig it all the way out being very careful not to scratch it
when i pulled the half out, Paco screamed BARBER ! and i nearly dropped over ! still can't believe i found it !
thanks for looking !
vp
PS: for those of you interested, the 3D Metal Detecting Game I'm creating is ALMOST done, I will be contacting the people who wanted to test it here in the next few weeks (sorry i deleted the post in the "General Detecting" forum until i got the software copyrighted)
vp here, haven't had much of a chance to detect for about the last month, the frost and snow have made it real hard to get out but a break in the weather today gave us a nice window to detect so we took it
paco and i first headed to a colonial spot that has paid off well in the past - well to make a long story short, the wind was really strong and just blew right over the open fields - we heard later the wind chill was 8 degrees !!! so anyway we moved to a new spot that was closer to town and had lots of trees - boy did it pay off !
within the first 10 minutes Paco had a mercury dime and a couple wheats - i wasn't getting any good signals - so i moved down to what looked like and old road bed - grassy and overgrown a bit - i started to detect it and got a decent signal that was deep
it was reading an off/on 00 27 on my SE (had my stock coil on) when i took some dirt out it was a solid 00 29 !! so thinking i had silver i dug and dug and dug, by this time paco had wandered over - we both thought - "oh it's huge probably a deep can or something stupid" about 7 inches down i tried my probe again and it finally sounded off - solid high tone - so i dug another 2-3 inches and saw the edge of a silver coin - i showed paco and excitedly said i think i got a silver quarter - "nah it's way too big he yelled, it's a half !!!!"
i threw some dirt back in the hole and covered it up, i said "ok wait" - "i just want to take a moment and think of the possibilities ...." - i had about 1/6th of a silver half dollar showing my FIRST silver half dollar and i wanted to enjoy the moment and remember it - plus i was immediately thinking barber or seated and didn't want to ruin it with a kennedy half (which i still would have have taken !) .... paco tried to dig it out a couple times, but i wouldn't let him - i said just think what it could be - about a full minute went by and i started to dig it all the way out being very careful not to scratch it
when i pulled the half out, Paco screamed BARBER ! and i nearly dropped over ! still can't believe i found it !
thanks for looking !
vp
PS: for those of you interested, the 3D Metal Detecting Game I'm creating is ALMOST done, I will be contacting the people who wanted to test it here in the next few weeks (sorry i deleted the post in the "General Detecting" forum until i got the software copyrighted)
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It is good to know that he is still swinging. 
But congratulations, anyway 
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Looks like its in great condition too. Eight degree wind chill is just a little too frigid for me but spring is right around the corner. Another year of laboring for coppers awaits. Congrats to you sir on your first barber half!! 
