Video from Tuesday hunt - digging silver from under roots

[time4me]

I got out yesterday for a nice long hunt with Brian, a.k.a. Cal-Cobra, a.k.a. Frodo the Ring Bearer (I'll let him post about that).

We started on the beach, but after a few hours we moved to a turf spot. Once again I found myself listening to the E-Trac orchestra on just about every swing of the coil Do I dig countless copper pennies and zincs hoping for that elusive gold item, and hopefully pocket some always welcome wheaties, or do I listen carefully for those sweet flutey high tones and try to eek out a silver or two? Well, I'm a sucker for silver, and unfortunately sniping for silver is becoming too much of a habit for me, but that's what I chose to do.

So the following video, while a bit long, demonstrates my patience for digging around and under roots to pull a few silvers from their hidey holes.

I always learn something on every hunt, no matter if it is the beach or the turf. Usually I learn a lot from each hunt. My lesson learned on this particular hunt is that when you've got that definitive sweet high flutey silver sound, don't get careless if faced with troublesome roots. I put a nice mark on the first silver I dug by careless digging around the roots.

On with the show...

 

[seger98]

Nothing better then serving up some surf & turf. Congratulations on the silvers!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Unreal !!

Great finds, I dig targets like that and they are trash or I give up and never find them....

Keep @ It and HH !!

 

[gold nuggets]

Anytime you find a target under roots, you
run the risk of scratching/nicking it no matter
how carefully you try to dig. We have all done
it and will probably scratch one again in the future.
Congratulations on the silver dimes and thanks
for sharing the video. Gold Nuggets

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Congrats on the finds, nice silver dime haul........good video too

 

[Danimal]

Buy yourself a Craftsman folding saw. They include a small sheath for your belt. That root would have been gone in 10 seconds.

 

[Deepdiger60]

Those little dimes love roots nice finds i think i dug 5 mercs from under roots always not easy, there's 1 hole where as you put it a screamer !! i still cant find it 3 times and no success its still there what ever it is under or between really big maple tree roots .Good hunt Jim

 

[LabradorBob (Missouri)]

Where's the fire? Slow that coil down about a third. lol

 

[skelly9131]

What kind of pin pointer are you using?

 

[crazyjarhead]

WTG, Jim on the 3 silver digs under the roots. Nicely done

 

[Hunter]

Real nice silver and video!

 

[treasurefiend]

Gotta love diggin in and under roots!!!

 

[Golden1]

Great video and some real sweet finds

Grats

G1

 

[John (Ma)]

Very cool video, thanks for sharing.

 

[p2c]

Thanks for the video ... we're under way too much snow and ground is frozen here in chi-town, so videos like this is the closest to a silver thrill I am getting.
Sorry about the scratch, but at least you don't field clean coins by rubbing them, which is a plus in my book.

 

[Bell-Two]

Great finds, and a nice video. I was wondering why you do not have commentary on it?

 

[jeff741972]

Oh that is nice Its almost like being there watching it in fullscreen, except the one part where the camera went sideways, made me dizzy

 

[Detectingfreak]

Gotta love the silver!!!!

 

[kimsdad]

Green grass, birds singing, soft dirt...

I thought I was in Heaven for about nine minutes!

WTG on the silvers, Jim!!!

Thanks for taking us along on the hunt!

 

[time4me]

Green grass, birds singing, soft dirt...

I thought I was in Heaven for about nine minutes!

WTG on the silvers, Jim!!!

Thanks for taking us along on the hunt!

You are very welcome Neil! Love your new avatar