Digger_O'Dell
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I was able to get out Monday after work for about 6 hours to a site that Jeff (ff43) has worked for a long time and cleaned out quite well. I have found a few items here in the past, but finds are few and far between. About all that's left are hidden in the heaviest of trash and iron.
So that's the areas I worked. Started with the 6 inch coil to try and weed out the good from the bad, but it just couldn't reach deep enough. So I switched back to the 11 inch coil and just worked really slow with heavy overlaps on the swings to try and hear any peeps to zero in on. Yeah, lots of iron falsing, but I did manage a few peeps I could get to repeat that I dug. A lot of bent nails and trash dug, but I also managed a few good keepers!
The first coin I found was a pretty nice 1912 wheatie! Not long after I got another dated 1920. Then I peeped a mostly repeatable 12-43 to 12-45. Had to dig under some big tree roots, but finally saw silver! I found my oldest Merc-a 1917s, and it's in really great condition for the year. It's always seemed the older the merc, the more wiped it would be. Not this time!
Soon after I picked up a 12-32 @ about 7 inches. I had already dug a ton of those false nail signals, but this time I saw green roundness. Wiped off the dirt and saw my first IH from this site-1898!
In all I got 6 wheats, the IH, a merc, a hem weight, and a bunch of clad. Plus the mosquitos almost sucked my dry-nasty buggers this year and a bumper crop to boot!
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So that's the areas I worked. Started with the 6 inch coil to try and weed out the good from the bad, but it just couldn't reach deep enough. So I switched back to the 11 inch coil and just worked really slow with heavy overlaps on the swings to try and hear any peeps to zero in on. Yeah, lots of iron falsing, but I did manage a few peeps I could get to repeat that I dug. A lot of bent nails and trash dug, but I also managed a few good keepers!
The first coin I found was a pretty nice 1912 wheatie! Not long after I got another dated 1920. Then I peeped a mostly repeatable 12-43 to 12-45. Had to dig under some big tree roots, but finally saw silver! I found my oldest Merc-a 1917s, and it's in really great condition for the year. It's always seemed the older the merc, the more wiped it would be. Not this time!
Soon after I picked up a 12-32 @ about 7 inches. I had already dug a ton of those false nail signals, but this time I saw green roundness. Wiped off the dirt and saw my first IH from this site-1898!
In all I got 6 wheats, the IH, a merc, a hem weight, and a bunch of clad. Plus the mosquitos almost sucked my dry-nasty buggers this year and a bumper crop to boot!
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