Weekend of Friday the 13th produces

Mirage · Mar 18, 2009

Nate started his spring break last Friday. Instead of going down to Daytonna beach and chasing girls he wisely went detecting with me. :wink:

Friday the 13th
Friday we went to an old park that has produced well for us but is really getting harder to find keepers. I went in a part of the park that doesn’t have a lot of targets but we haven’t hunted much. Was rewarded with this Merc:

After some cleaning:

Saturday the 14th
Saturday we had a little more time. There is a park I have been meaning to hunt for some time. There was some construction near the park and as we were making our detour we noticed an old school. Couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

The site was a little tricky due to the obvious rework that had been done, the trash and the mineralization. I did manage to pull a silver quarter.

The young kid following Nate around told Nate that the area use to be a graveyard.

We hunted the school until we both got hungry. After we had some lunch we headed to the park. We didn’t spend a lot of time at the park (about 40 minutes) but it has potential. Nate and I each found a few wheats which is a good sign.

Sunday the 15th
Nate had some luck at the site we call the Iceberg last weekend when I was in North Carolina. So we went back there today. It was warm and we didn’t bring enough water but the silver was popping up regularly so we were happy. :icon_sunny:

Also found a 1903 Indian Head in with my wheat pennies when I started cleaning them.

HH all,

Bob

allen · Mar 18, 2009

way to go on that sweet silver and all of those wheaties...

Captn SE · Mar 18, 2009

Very nice, Bob!!

I haven't seen you dig that many oldies in a long time! I know you've been real busy lately. Must have felt real good to dig all of those keepers!! :thumbsup:

Great pics!!

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

PS - Did you and Nate dig any holes with a shovel at the Berg then detect over the dirt piles? Nate told me he was doing that last time he was there and was finding deeper targets. :icon_scratch:

Mirage · Mar 18, 2009

Captn_SE said:
Very nice, Bob!!

I haven't seen you dig that many oldies in a long time! I know you've been real busy lately. Must have felt real good to dig all of those keepers!!

Great pics!!

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

PS - Did you and Nate dig any holes with a shovel at the Berg then detect over the dirt piles? Nate told me he was doing that last time he was there and was finding deeper targets.

Thanks Dan. It's always nice to dig silver but these days I'm happier digging a variety. Also, after you have your "silver fix" the silver rosies don't do much for me. Most of the time when I go to a site and I go with the goal of getting at least one keeper. If I find one I'm like "ok, I can go home now". Of coarse if I find the keeper in the first five minutes then I still want to enjoy being out for a while so I will keep searching for more. :wink:

Nate admitted that he kind of got lucky last time with his "random diggin experiment". I did the tried and true method of getting a signal before digging a hole. I do notice that if you clear all the sticks and leaves you can get signals where you couldn't before.

Michigan Badger · Mar 18, 2009

Oaky finds I guess but did you have to show the Q-Tips after cleaning your ears? :P

Must be nice having good places to hunt :thumbsup:

Badger

halfdime · Mar 18, 2009

Dang, Badger! I wanted to use that line, or one similar!

In the old days, at work, we called it a case of excessive cerumen. Bob, looks like you're hitting the silver sauce again. I know, Roseys don't do much for me, either, but they do fetch some nice $ in trade if you get enough of them. Lately, finding a Rosey is like finding 60 or 70 cents.

3RINGER · Mar 18, 2009

Great post! like the story line with PIC's

WTG :thumbsup:

jgas · Mar 18, 2009

Yep...those are some good finds right there. Gotta love the surprise Injun :thumbsup:

jgas

gilgar · Mar 18, 2009

Michigan Badger said:
Oaky finds I guess but did you have to show the Q-Tips after cleaning your ears? :P

Must be nice having good places to hunt

Badger

I didn't know ear wax worked so good on silver and to think I've been wasting my money on silver polish. :thumbsup:

seger98 · Mar 18, 2009

Sure did dig a nice group of silver, wheaties & the IH. Cleaned up nice too. Congratulations to you both.

Detectingfreak · Mar 18, 2009

Looks like you got some good old coinage there dude! Nice job on the indian head penny!

Schrecky · Mar 18, 2009

Way to go Bob, nice little pile of silver. I got out for the first time today to a new site, looks promising. Will post after I get a couple of pictures.

B|lker · Mar 18, 2009

Bob and Nate// Great finds // I`m always happy to see silver were ever i go.
I`m not so happy with those q-tips when i find them though. :icon_sunny:

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Keep on finding and posting, everyone loves those great pics.
Bill

JimBeHuntin' · Mar 18, 2009

Nice pile of coins from those hunts and mighty fine storyline and photos in the post!

Baldingboy · Mar 18, 2009

Mirage said:
Nate started his spring break last Friday. Instead of going down to Daytonna beach and chasing girls he wisely went detecting with me.

And the boy becomes a man........................

What a great bunch of finds. You guys have been busy. Good job.

Baldingboy

treasures4me2find · Mar 18, 2009

Looks like you guys had a couple of great days hunting, congrats on your finds. :thumbsup:

kas

rwsnc · Mar 18, 2009

Way to go. Really nice bunch of silver.

bigrig40 · Mar 18, 2009

congrats on all the finds and nice pics also. bigrig

JerV3 · Mar 18, 2009

Nice pyle of silver Mirage.

It's been very mild here 75 today. Hoping to get out here this weekend and explore for some sites. That burgh will be giving up silver for yrs.

HH Jer

silverfreak · Mar 18, 2009

Nice finds Bob. That is a lot of silver you found buddy. Somethin' about seeing that shiny stuff comeout of the dirt. Man i love this hobby :thumbsup: