RobW
04-11-2013, 11:41 AM
It was a nice day out, my wife and daughter were off doing their own thing. I shot a PM to AL to see if he would be interested in an evening hunt....what a shock...he was..... lol
I was hoping to hit a spot that we had tried before...but through his recent persistence has proven to actually be worth the time to hit hard. I got to the area before AL, but it was FULL of people, so I drove a bit further to a place we've been to MANY, MANY times before. The only success there for me has been some wheats, and Al has turned up a few modern silver dimes.
But I have not hit it since using the X-5. :thinkingabout: I started working over an area that has produced some wheats in the past. I wasn't getting anything. Finally I get a deep wheat signal...and there was a GREEN wheat. I work the area some more...nothing, wonder around a bit...nothing. I get a signal a few inches deep..12/42, Auto+3. I dig my plug, hits on the tip of the plug, I pull out a chunk of iron. I figure that was it....I almost put the plug back and in and moved on...but that little voice jabbed me :poke:.....I checked the plug again..something else there...I pull it out...1907 Barber Dime :happy:...what a shock! :shocked03:
I call Al...he's at Wal-Mart buying new gloves and detecting jeans..I tell him what I found, he can't believe it either...now he stil has to go home and get his stuff and get to where I am....he set a record time of about 10 min.... lol....I take about 2 steps get a SOLID 12/12 signal at about 2 inches....1905 Liberty Nickel <:......I work my line about 15 feet 12/34 signal about 1 inch deep..I can pinpoint it from the top of the ground....1890 Indian :happydance01:.....I don't even get the hole filled in and I see Al pull up. I run over to him and lay it all out.....he was SHOCKED :shocked03:....of ALL the times we've been here, neither of us has pulled anything like this from here before.
We hit it some more....it starts to sprinkle....I'm still going...it stops...then it starts again......then stops...I manage another wheat....then I get a 12/37 hit at about 2 inches...I'm thinking Zincoln...I dig down and find it...It's so smooth I could figure exactly what it was. I turn it over and the back had some corrosion, I brushed off enough to see ONE CENT and a wreath.. happydance02 another Indian :happydance01: After getting it wet, I got a partial date of 18:eyebrow:...then the bottom dropped out and it poured rain..so we left >:\
After hitting this place many, many times over 2 years and not getting really anything, to find ALL of these in one short hunt completely blew my mind
I was hoping to hit a spot that we had tried before...but through his recent persistence has proven to actually be worth the time to hit hard. I got to the area before AL, but it was FULL of people, so I drove a bit further to a place we've been to MANY, MANY times before. The only success there for me has been some wheats, and Al has turned up a few modern silver dimes.
But I have not hit it since using the X-5. :thinkingabout: I started working over an area that has produced some wheats in the past. I wasn't getting anything. Finally I get a deep wheat signal...and there was a GREEN wheat. I work the area some more...nothing, wonder around a bit...nothing. I get a signal a few inches deep..12/42, Auto+3. I dig my plug, hits on the tip of the plug, I pull out a chunk of iron. I figure that was it....I almost put the plug back and in and moved on...but that little voice jabbed me :poke:.....I checked the plug again..something else there...I pull it out...1907 Barber Dime :happy:...what a shock! :shocked03:
I call Al...he's at Wal-Mart buying new gloves and detecting jeans..I tell him what I found, he can't believe it either...now he stil has to go home and get his stuff and get to where I am....he set a record time of about 10 min.... lol....I take about 2 steps get a SOLID 12/12 signal at about 2 inches....1905 Liberty Nickel <:......I work my line about 15 feet 12/34 signal about 1 inch deep..I can pinpoint it from the top of the ground....1890 Indian :happydance01:.....I don't even get the hole filled in and I see Al pull up. I run over to him and lay it all out.....he was SHOCKED :shocked03:....of ALL the times we've been here, neither of us has pulled anything like this from here before.
We hit it some more....it starts to sprinkle....I'm still going...it stops...then it starts again......then stops...I manage another wheat....then I get a 12/37 hit at about 2 inches...I'm thinking Zincoln...I dig down and find it...It's so smooth I could figure exactly what it was. I turn it over and the back had some corrosion, I brushed off enough to see ONE CENT and a wreath.. happydance02 another Indian :happydance01: After getting it wet, I got a partial date of 18:eyebrow:...then the bottom dropped out and it poured rain..so we left >:\
After hitting this place many, many times over 2 years and not getting really anything, to find ALL of these in one short hunt completely blew my mind