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    Seven silver hunt and my first half dollar spill !

    I haven't posted in a while - actually I've been laying low for a while. I started a new job in Oct and haven't been on line much. I went from being self employed to being an employee. I'm liking it so far but I have less potential time to hunt. I've been hitting my go to spot (IH park) once and...
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    A Little More Silver and Stuff

    I had been aware of an old house in the area that had been unoccupied for a few years. Driving by Saturday on my way to my girlfriend's house I noticed blue tarp over part of the roof and constriction being done to the house. Naturally, I stopped to talk to the contractor. It's worth a shot...
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    Four Silver Friday Mix

    I stopped at a house demo Friday. House was gone and the contractor is going to build a new one. I asked permission to detect and got a "go ahead". It was a fairly small yard and some of it was covered with dirt piles. I found about 30 pennies - mostly wheats, a religious medal and a tiny spoon...
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    I found Grandpa George !

    Friday I got permission to hunt a small farm field area that is being developed for housing. The contractor really gouged it out to put in an access road. I thought maybe the residual dirt would produce. Well, it didn't - lol ! He really went deep! There was a small grass area with a large tree...
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    Return to IH Park - it didn't fail me!

    I did a quick hunt at an old park I worked pretty well a couple years ago. I dubbed it "IH Park" because I always found at least one IH every time I went there - usually multiples. It became my "go to" place. I hadn't been there for a couple years and decided to give it a quick shot. I turned...
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    My 3 Cents Worth - Vicky meets the Indian.

    Sunday I tried a small wooded patch behind some new construction (got permission from the contractor). This spot was farm field up to the 1930's. Started slow with only shot shell brass and a piece of spoon handle. First good target was an 1874 British LC. Then about 10 feet away I popped an...
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    A little more silver from my old spot

    I had to go back to the old wooded spot I've been revisiting for the past few weeks. It's a lot of swinging for few targets but paying off. I pounded this area a few years ago but the area is large. Lots of colonial period coins and artifacts. A couple weeks ago, the seated dime. Last week the...
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    Illinois State Button & Connecticut Copper

    I went back to the wooded area where I found the seated dime 2 weeks ago. This spot has produced well in the past couple years re colonial coins & artifacts. This time I turned up a CT copper and an Illinois State button. The button has the Illinois state seal and is brass with an iron backing...
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    First Seated of the season - woods find

    I was bummed because I had to miss a big hunt yesterday. I was frustrated and HAD to get out for the couple hours I had left for the day. I headed for a wooded spot I had worked a couple years ago. Previously I had found a 2 Reales, a 1 reale, and misc coppers. Targets were few but I caught a...
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    Bullet display ideas

    Question for the pros - what is a good way to display bullets and musket balls so they are visible but secure. I'm thinking also in a way that the display could be moved or transported. I'm in CT and I dig quite a few balls of different sizes. (not so many 3 ringer types though) Thanks, Bruce...
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    Finally - silver !!

    I haven't been able to get out much this year yet (weather, work) and I've been itching for at least some silver. I was finally able to get to a house where I've had standing permission since the winter. Funny, the place is well taken care of re grass, landscaping etc and here I was, detecting...
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    Odds & Ends

    A friend of mine is selling her aunt's home for her. Old farmhouse built around 1917 and has a building lot size yard on each side of the house. The rest of the farmland has been developed over the years. She gave me permission to check the whole area. Wouldn't you know it - not a silver to be...
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    Last hunt (?) at BEST SPOT IN A WHILE. Plus summary

    I got back to the house where all the sod had been skimmed off. I had found a nice variety of coins etc. Well, house is GONE now and the place has been bulldozed to heck for a construction project. I still managed to find a few more. This round produced a beautiful Draped LC 1802. Also another...
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    Farm Field Silver

    I spent some time in a farm field Sunday. I got permission in the summer to hunt when the planting & harvest were over in the fall. My best find was an 1857 Seated Dime. Also found a 1910 wheat, a 1920 Canadian cent, a couple buckles and a small button. The other small disk is a mystery. It's...
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    Sticky Cursor ? Feedback requested

    Seems sometimes the cursor on my SE will stick in a location and then as I continue to wave over a target it will move to another location. For instance: the cursor might be in the upper left as I'm swinging ( re the last target ). I get a higher pitch, repeatable next target signal but the...
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    A Merc kind of day & round 3 for another spot

    Sunday I decided to hit a spot I've been putting off for a few weeks because of other priority opportune spots.( Feast or famine situation. lol ) This was a Victorian house with a fairly small back yard and a small front yard. I pulled 8 wheats and three mercs (1927, 1935, 1942). Also found part...
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    Round 2 - for two recent locations. Success !!

    I did well at two different locations over the past couple weeks. Location #1 was a 1700's house scheduled for demolition. Before the house came down I found four silvers and an IH (place had been hit hard already). Location #2 was a 1700's house where all the sod had been skimmed off and piled...
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    Cleaned & ID'd - From "Best detecting day in a while" posted 10/6/14

    Last Sunday I happened across an older home where all the sod had been skimmed off a large area around the house (I think the house will be demolished soon). I posted uncleaned finds and photo of the house on 10/6/14 "Best detecting day in a while - by accident". I had a chance to clean and id...
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    Best detecting day in a while - by accident !!

    I was on my way to detect another house which I was given permission to detect a few weeks ago (haven't been able to get to it yet re the other 1700's demo house I went to last week ("Visions of capped silver" post). By chance I took a different exit off the highway for a change of view and...
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    Visions of capped silver - but any silver is good !

    I got permission from the owner of a late 1700s house that was scheduled for demolition. It had to be on the day that the house was being prepped for demo and while the demo contractor was there (re liability etc.). The demo contractor said that a couple detectors had already been on the...
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