Hello My Friends!!
I went out turf detecting a few times last week, in addition to a short beach hunt. The beach hunt was quite unproductive for me...just a couple bucks in clad. Turf detecting was much more exciting, and why I love detecting in trashy, older parks for those elusive pieces of silver, copper, and gold. I'd rather hear 10 different signals in one sweep in the turf than 1 signal every 20 sweeps at the beach.
Monday's marathon group turf hunt at the famous "silver park" was brutal...
...only 3 silver coins were found, and about 25 wheats amongst 9 total detectorists. Conditions were bone dry, and the weather was hot. I got to meet a few local hunters for the first time, which is always worth the trip. The highlights for my day were 2 silver coins, a '45 Washington at 10+", which sounded like a super faint, but repeatable signal from an area that I have hunted countless times before, a 3" '20 Merc (I got a silver dime signal on this coin, or else I would have passed it up as a shallow clad dime), 16 wheats, and a 10kt gold hoop earring. I was sore and tired driving home. The signals are always plentiful at the "silver park", and I love the challenge it provides the old coin hunter.
My next two short turf hunts were more productive. I went back to a park I last hunted a couple of years ago. My first diggable target was very familiar to me. It was a piece of a lawn mower chopped sterling bracelet, which I had originally found a piece from two years ago. Within the next half hour, I was able to recover 3 more pieces of this bracelet. It was a lot of fun and a challenge to find the chopped links. I tried to search for the remaining pieces, but they were nowhere to be found in that area. My last hunt of the week was a successful silver and gold hunt. The half of a gold ring was initialed and has a date, which is the 31st day of a month, and a year of 1965. The 10kt gold dolphins earring was laying right on the surface of the ground, and gives off a low foil reading. I am digging a few more low conductors when I can in hopes of more turf gold. I have more nickels in my pouch now, but it's so unfortunate how similar a pulltab, a beaver tail, a ring tab, or a wadded up piece of foil can sound to a nice piece of gold jewelry....a lot of luck and a lot of persistence for nabbing the gold!!
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
I went out turf detecting a few times last week, in addition to a short beach hunt. The beach hunt was quite unproductive for me...just a couple bucks in clad. Turf detecting was much more exciting, and why I love detecting in trashy, older parks for those elusive pieces of silver, copper, and gold. I'd rather hear 10 different signals in one sweep in the turf than 1 signal every 20 sweeps at the beach.
Monday's marathon group turf hunt at the famous "silver park" was brutal...
...only 3 silver coins were found, and about 25 wheats amongst 9 total detectorists. Conditions were bone dry, and the weather was hot. I got to meet a few local hunters for the first time, which is always worth the trip. The highlights for my day were 2 silver coins, a '45 Washington at 10+", which sounded like a super faint, but repeatable signal from an area that I have hunted countless times before, a 3" '20 Merc (I got a silver dime signal on this coin, or else I would have passed it up as a shallow clad dime), 16 wheats, and a 10kt gold hoop earring. I was sore and tired driving home. The signals are always plentiful at the "silver park", and I love the challenge it provides the old coin hunter.My next two short turf hunts were more productive. I went back to a park I last hunted a couple of years ago. My first diggable target was very familiar to me. It was a piece of a lawn mower chopped sterling bracelet, which I had originally found a piece from two years ago. Within the next half hour, I was able to recover 3 more pieces of this bracelet. It was a lot of fun and a challenge to find the chopped links. I tried to search for the remaining pieces, but they were nowhere to be found in that area. My last hunt of the week was a successful silver and gold hunt. The half of a gold ring was initialed and has a date, which is the 31st day of a month, and a year of 1965. The 10kt gold dolphins earring was laying right on the surface of the ground, and gives off a low foil reading. I am digging a few more low conductors when I can in hopes of more turf gold. I have more nickels in my pouch now, but it's so unfortunate how similar a pulltab, a beaver tail, a ring tab, or a wadded up piece of foil can sound to a nice piece of gold jewelry....a lot of luck and a lot of persistence for nabbing the gold!!
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!
CAPTN SE
Dan
9 detectorists...3 silver.... 2 in el captain's bag. Way to go and I really enjoyed the read
WTG Dan Nice finds & good post , Keep swinging
.... it's in Andy's latest book. Would be cool if you could piece that one together....I have found some matching pieces to other things as well and one or two dimes that were cut in half. Good job!!