Full Metal Digger
07-02-2017, 01:40 PM
Hey Diggers,
We haven't had any rain for the last 4 weeks here in southern Illinois but it's been raining a lot up north. I successfully convinced my wife and kids I needed to drive up to Chicago to do a day of detecting! I drove up Friday afternoon and met Don from some door knocking. We detected 3 different homes and my best find was an Indian Head Cent. He also got an Indian Head Cent... plus 3 silvers.
Saturday we met up with Noah at a park that he frequents. This park has produced seated coins in the past but is now down to few and far between good finds. Don and I each found a mercury dime and a wheat cent or two. After 2 hours I was ready to go door knocking. We started the morning door knocking in town but our luck was not so good. At this point we decided to go driving in the country and look for old farm houses. We found two old farms and got yesses at both of them. The bulk of our good finds (or should I say MY good finds...tee hee) came at these farms.
Without a doubt my best find of the day was a 7-silver coin spill! This beat my old record of 6 silvers in a spill. The coins just kept coming out of the ground! Don came over to watch me as I pulled one silver after another out of the ground.
It was a great day and I enjoyed meeting and detecting with Noah. He seems pretty good at getting yesses from the home owners. But we did get kicked off one of his permissions! The gentleman of the house gave us permission but then his husband came out and kicked us off (yes, you read that right).
Here is some pics, thanks for looking!
We haven't had any rain for the last 4 weeks here in southern Illinois but it's been raining a lot up north. I successfully convinced my wife and kids I needed to drive up to Chicago to do a day of detecting! I drove up Friday afternoon and met Don from some door knocking. We detected 3 different homes and my best find was an Indian Head Cent. He also got an Indian Head Cent... plus 3 silvers.
Saturday we met up with Noah at a park that he frequents. This park has produced seated coins in the past but is now down to few and far between good finds. Don and I each found a mercury dime and a wheat cent or two. After 2 hours I was ready to go door knocking. We started the morning door knocking in town but our luck was not so good. At this point we decided to go driving in the country and look for old farm houses. We found two old farms and got yesses at both of them. The bulk of our good finds (or should I say MY good finds...tee hee) came at these farms.
Without a doubt my best find of the day was a 7-silver coin spill! This beat my old record of 6 silvers in a spill. The coins just kept coming out of the ground! Don came over to watch me as I pulled one silver after another out of the ground.
It was a great day and I enjoyed meeting and detecting with Noah. He seems pretty good at getting yesses from the home owners. But we did get kicked off one of his permissions! The gentleman of the house gave us permission but then his husband came out and kicked us off (yes, you read that right).
Here is some pics, thanks for looking!