64 degrees on Saturday...then 34 and snow flurries today
I'm glad Sheryl let me hunt Saturday afternoon instead of making me fight the Christmas shopping crowds.
I started out the day using the 10 x 12 SEF coil at the field I've been pulling the seated coins from the last few weeks.
I think Herky found more goodies than I did.
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I hunted nearly 2 hours and only got one coin...but is was a good one....a 1914 Barber quarter.
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This was a very deep one and came from at least 10". I don't know the exact depth because of all the clods and stubble
...but it was a good 10" for sure.
I know a lot of guys wonder how much junk I actually dig since I never post the pics of it with my finds. Well the truth is...I don't dig much junk...and that's just the way it is.
Sure at the end of a 3 hour hunt I might have a few pieces of iron or wire in my pouch
from chasing some deep, iffy silver and injun' hits...but that's about it.
In most of my sites which are parks and school sites I simply don't have the time to chase lower conductor hits (hence my low trash finds)...and would rather better concentrate on deep or masked silver and injun' hits.
After getting tired of fighting the stalk stubble and my shoulder getting sore
...I decided to head in town to the old football field area.
I decided to concentrate on the area where the crowd stands along the sidelines...and have done so since the late 1920's.
It is one of the nastiest "junky" sites I have...and it is literally a carpet of trash down to the 7" level.
For this reason I opted for the 5" Sunray coil because I feel it is an absolute "sniper" for the most extreme trash dense sites...and I go back and forth between it and the 4.5" x 7" Excelerator coil
It gets respectable depth and as I stated in my field test in Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine last year..."It cuts through the trash like a laser beam".
I have found some decent little gold items here over the years...so this was one area that I always decide to chase lower tone hits.
Well I dug a ton of low conductor stuff but unfortunately up to this point it was all junk.
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Another hour or so went by and I was absolutely creeping with the Sunray X-5.... and it sounded like a pinball machine through the headphones.
There was literally a piece of junk of some type every 3" to 5" of my swing and I don't think I covered more than a 20 foot area in 3 hours.
I bent down to dig what seemed like my 50th plug...and I was not thrilled with the lower tone hit I had gotten.
It sounded just like the other 49 or so that I had already dug...and they had all ended up being crap.
This hit had a more "round", solid (for lack of better words) sound to it though...then an even lower sound about 2" away from it.
With the X-5 I was clearly able to distinguish two separate signals there.
I dug a good sized plug down to about 5" and pulled out a piece of a pulltab.
I then ran the probe...and right next to where the tab was...I got another hit which sounded between what a pulltab and indian head tone is.
I nearly needed a change of underwear when this beauty popped out...
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I knew it wasn't silver because of the low sound it made... and it had some nice baguette stones surrounding a sweet center stone.
I really expected it to be some kind of plated metal but I went back to the car to get my glasses to make sure.
I was shocked to see 14K stamped on the back.
I'm not sure if I've ever found a piece of white gold before...and now I got excited about whether or not the diamonds were real.
I took it to a jeweler today to see if the stones were real and was stoked to find out they are genuine diamonds.
The center stone is 1/3 carat and the baguettes total 2/3 carat for a total weight of 1 full carat...and it weighs 3.2 grams.
This beauty was only about 5" deep too...but had been masked by trash for quite some time.
I wonder who's neck this is gonna' end up hangin' from?
I'm glad Sheryl let me hunt Saturday afternoon instead of making me fight the Christmas shopping crowds.
I started out the day using the 10 x 12 SEF coil at the field I've been pulling the seated coins from the last few weeks.
I think Herky found more goodies than I did.
[attachment 216679 sherylhuntrings2.jpg]
I hunted nearly 2 hours and only got one coin...but is was a good one....a 1914 Barber quarter.
[attachment 216670 barberquarterclod.jpg] [attachment 216671 barberquarterclod2.jpg] [attachment 216672 barberquarterclod3.jpg]
This was a very deep one and came from at least 10". I don't know the exact depth because of all the clods and stubble
...but it was a good 10" for sure.I know a lot of guys wonder how much junk I actually dig since I never post the pics of it with my finds. Well the truth is...I don't dig much junk...and that's just the way it is.
Sure at the end of a 3 hour hunt I might have a few pieces of iron or wire in my pouch
from chasing some deep, iffy silver and injun' hits...but that's about it.In most of my sites which are parks and school sites I simply don't have the time to chase lower conductor hits (hence my low trash finds)...and would rather better concentrate on deep or masked silver and injun' hits.
After getting tired of fighting the stalk stubble and my shoulder getting sore
...I decided to head in town to the old football field area.I decided to concentrate on the area where the crowd stands along the sidelines...and have done so since the late 1920's.
It is one of the nastiest "junky" sites I have...and it is literally a carpet of trash down to the 7" level.
For this reason I opted for the 5" Sunray coil because I feel it is an absolute "sniper" for the most extreme trash dense sites...and I go back and forth between it and the 4.5" x 7" Excelerator coil
It gets respectable depth and as I stated in my field test in Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine last year..."It cuts through the trash like a laser beam".
I have found some decent little gold items here over the years...so this was one area that I always decide to chase lower tone hits.
Well I dug a ton of low conductor stuff but unfortunately up to this point it was all junk.
[attachment 216675 crap2.jpg]
Another hour or so went by and I was absolutely creeping with the Sunray X-5.... and it sounded like a pinball machine through the headphones.
There was literally a piece of junk of some type every 3" to 5" of my swing and I don't think I covered more than a 20 foot area in 3 hours.
I bent down to dig what seemed like my 50th plug
...and I was not thrilled with the lower tone hit I had gotten.It sounded just like the other 49 or so that I had already dug...and they had all ended up being crap.
This hit had a more "round", solid (for lack of better words) sound to it though...then an even lower sound about 2" away from it.
With the X-5 I was clearly able to distinguish two separate signals there.
I dug a good sized plug down to about 5" and pulled out a piece of a pulltab.
I then ran the probe...and right next to where the tab was...I got another hit which sounded between what a pulltab and indian head tone is.
I nearly needed a change of underwear when this beauty popped out...
[attachment 216676 crossseptember2.jpg] [attachment 216677 crossseptember.jpg] [attachment 216678 crosseptemberclean.jpg]
I knew it wasn't silver because of the low sound it made... and it had some nice baguette stones surrounding a sweet center stone.
I really expected it to be some kind of plated metal but I went back to the car to get my glasses to make sure.
I was shocked to see 14K stamped on the back.
I'm not sure if I've ever found a piece of white gold before...and now I got excited about whether or not the diamonds were real.
I took it to a jeweler today to see if the stones were real and was stoked to find out they are genuine diamonds.
The center stone is 1/3 carat and the baguettes total 2/3 carat for a total weight of 1 full carat...and it weighs 3.2 grams.
This beauty was only about 5" deep too...but had been masked by trash for quite some time.
I wonder who's neck this is gonna' end up hangin' from?
You've been getting some good gold lately.