Digger_O'Dell
New member
HI all,
Today I had the day to myself so of course I elected to go detecting (what else! LOL). Had plans to drive down to Illinois to do some beach and lake hunting, but I checked the surf report and the waves were just too rough. So i went with plan B, which was a new park that's about an hour drive away. It was an old farm on the 1901 plat, and still has the barn and silo there. The house was just recently removed. The back yard has a small river with a swimming hole too!
As it turns out the place was pretty much devoid of targets other than one old looking arrowhead pendant and a junker earring. Water detecting turned up only a new penny and a shot gun headstamp. The swimming hole itself was too deep to get all of it detected though.
Next I tried another river below the dam. That didn't turn out well either. Because of all the rain lately, the current was too fast and i couldn't hardly move the detector around without extreme effort and i was worried about breaking the shaft.
For the next 6 hours I went to a very old park I've had some luck at in the past, though it's been pounded over the years. This time it was even worse, with recent plugs in the areas I hadn't hit before. For the day I only found one silver rosie and a 1947 S wheatie plus just over $7 in clad.
Today I had the day to myself so of course I elected to go detecting (what else! LOL). Had plans to drive down to Illinois to do some beach and lake hunting, but I checked the surf report and the waves were just too rough. So i went with plan B, which was a new park that's about an hour drive away. It was an old farm on the 1901 plat, and still has the barn and silo there. The house was just recently removed. The back yard has a small river with a swimming hole too!
As it turns out the place was pretty much devoid of targets other than one old looking arrowhead pendant and a junker earring. Water detecting turned up only a new penny and a shot gun headstamp. The swimming hole itself was too deep to get all of it detected though.
Next I tried another river below the dam. That didn't turn out well either. Because of all the rain lately, the current was too fast and i couldn't hardly move the detector around without extreme effort and i was worried about breaking the shaft.
For the next 6 hours I went to a very old park I've had some luck at in the past, though it's been pounded over the years. This time it was even worse, with recent plugs in the areas I hadn't hit before. For the day I only found one silver rosie and a 1947 S wheatie plus just over $7 in clad.
